Thanks for your post.
I wasn’t wanting to come across by saying it was easy to stop.
Everyone is different. I have friends who gamble, but they weren’t putting thousands on games of football, as I was. For a period, I was putting bets on first thing in the morning and last thing before going to sleep and anything inbetween. This would happen daily for weeks. I would lose and then be up and the cycle continued. I realised it was an issue, but wasn’t ready to admit I had a problem at that point. My savings are all gone, winnings are all gone and I now have huge debts on credit cards. Maybe this is the wake up call I need. I couldn’t sustain what I was doing on a number of levels, I will hopefully get through this a better person. I think we learn about ourselves continually and this will be another lesson learned.