I read most of your posts and it’s heart breaking , I been fighting this addiction on my own for 6 years . I haven’t lost huge amount of money as of yet but I worry one day it might go out of control . This is what I have done to cope .
I shut down all my online banking accounts .
I cut all the credit cards and make sure I reduced all the available to spend amout .
I got a cash card account where my partner send me pocket money and I can only cash out cash I cannot use it online.
My problem is online gambling , no matter how much I self excluded my self with websites new ones a merged . Also these bloody tv adverts are not helping at all.
I personally blame the government for allowing these tv adverts to pop up during the day and night .
I also blame the government for allowing betting shops every two seconds on my street .
I don’t blame my self for being a gambler I blame the government that allows it . Most of European countries donot allow it , most of Middle East countries don’t allow it to be accessible on the internet but our greedy uk government allows it freely everywhere .
These gambling sites pay tons of money to psychologist in order to find out how to get us addicted to gambling. They play with our Minds so we go in to trance when we gamble therefore cannot think logical we are controlled by the casino it’s a form of hypnotising. This is the reason I don’t blame my self but I blame the people who use these techniques to hypnotise people like me and this is all legal .
It’s a scary thought but it’s true they control us over the internet .
I normally gamble in the evening when everyone is asleep as this is when gambling comes to my mind .
It’s very hard to eliminate internet from our life’s as currently everything is run by internet , you can’t even tax your car without internet .
So my strategy is to eliminate money entirely from online access in my case . I have done this many times become clean for a while and than ordered my bank card and than I was at it again so I decided no card for life .
I pay everything by cash now and if I need to by anything on the internet my partner will buy it for me .
We are all intelligent strong people hence why we are easy to hypnotise by these casinos .
We should all get together and get it banned completely .
My dad was a gambler and he still is and now I am I don’t want my child to go through this but he wakes up every mornning to sick gambling adverts.