Good advice, thank you. Went to step change twice this year and the next step is bankruptcy which my housing association are trying to find a grant for me to do. Not keen on that option but we will see, it affects my work. Gamcare are on my blacklist as they are on many people who go to GA. they never reply to phone calls. Have been there twice and it was ineffective. The counsellor was poor. I rang the boss there three times and he never returned my calls, so not going there. I am in sarf London Geordie. I have been here four or five times which is why it is so exhausting, the difference now is I have the health issues on top of it all.
Vera, Pete and I do not do anything together. He just made me some breakfast and gave me some cigs. That is it. He stays and lives in the front room sleeping on the floor. I am in my bedroom. The relationship even as friends is going west and probably needs to. It all contributed to my gambling. We parted ways as a couple following my surgery six years ago now, taking 2 years to get over it. There is just an old loyalty there as I helped him a lot before I had cancer and, of course, I had loads of money then. Geordie, I am very encouraged by your story. Out of everyone on here, your story is the harshest but the most uplifting. You went through all the gambling trap doors as Vera would say. I am semi protected from the creditors at the moment, they re not hounding me so much. It is almost like the universe knows I cannot deal with that right now, which I can’t, and they are leaving me alone. It may be that going bankrupt is the right thing to do but I have to feel stronger in order to even engage with that.
