Hi Laura,
I expect you have been reading some of the other stories here. You will have seen some of the success stories – what are they doing that you can apply to your own situation?
A lot of peole find barriers useful, for instance you can get a blocker you can instal on your PC that will stop you visiting any gambling site. http://www.betfilter.com is one though of course there are others.
Who could you be accountable to? Who might be able to hold your money? What things can you put in place now so that when you get paid again in 3 weeks time you are less able to gamble?
Barriers are useful but they aren’t the total answer to addiction. You don’t have to do this on your own, there is a lot of help around these days. Start a thread on te My Journal Forum, let us know the positive steps you are starting to take. You will get alot of support and feedback there as well as being able to read many stories similar to your own.
Re your current financial situation talk to anyone you own money to. The finances tend to be sorted out fairly quickly once we stop gambling. The opposite is also true though – carry on gambling and it doesn’t really matter how we get out of one hole – we just dig another one!
If the finances are unmanageable then again there are a lot of free agencies around these days, what country are you in?
Maybe get to a gamblers Anonymous meeting – you would find that useful in helping you stop gamblign and also meet peole who can give you local advice on what to do about the finances.
Keep posting and I look forward to hearing how you are doing.