It is a progressive problem and it gets worse over time. You are young with your whole life ahead of you, plenty of time to leave this addiction well and truly in the past. Personally I would find it nigh on impossible to do controlled gambling. I have tried that and all it does is feed the addiction and keeps the programme running. You haven’t hit rock bottom and have a great job. But say you didn’t, and all that came crashing down, would you still gamble then? All I know is that if we don’t get a grip, over time things have a tendency to fall apart all around us, that is just my own personal experience. I was earning much the same as you and then gambling took it all and I couldn’t get a job for quite a while. When we are in desperate situation, believe me, we can find the strength to just stop as this is what created the problem in the first place. Gambling takes so much more from us than money. Where would you be now if you had never gambled? I hope that you choose to get support and find the strength to put it behind you. Keep posting new your progress.
