Hi Richv and jrv3419. My story is so similar – the more stressed I feel about life events the more I gamble and get self-destructive. I know I mustn’t spend the money I cant afford anyway to gamble and yet I just cannot stop. I’m helpless. It spirals out of control. No amount of self control is enough. If I limit my gambling and feel controlled it seems to ebb away when ‘life’ comes up to bite me. I know that the only way to stop is to cut out the gambling completely. But I feel powerless and scared to take this decision. Its like taking a step back in time to when I didn’t gamble. Its scaring the crap out of me that I am no so reliant on it.
