hello my name is chris, i’m a gamble addict, it started when i was 16 years and continued for 3years, i gambled every day in bars and did everything to finance my addiction, when i was 19 i was given the choice to stop gambling or my girl would leave me, we were 5 years together at the moment and we were making plan’s for the future, i loved her very much, more then gambling so i stoped and didn’t gambled until 6 months ago, i’m 30 years now and i started gambling to kill time, no the gambling is killing me, i gamble online at different casino’s and lost everything what i had, i didn’t keep count but it’s about 45.000 euro in the last 6months, i have nothing left, the last 2months i’ve been doing the same as when i was 16, doing everything to continue my addiction and trying to hide it from everybody, i lied to get my hands on more money and with tears in my eyes i regret what i did, the shame is to much and locked myself in my house, i don’t open the door, i don’t answer the phone, in 2 weeks i have to pay my monthly bills and i didn’t even pay my bills fom last month, letters are piling up but i don’t know what to say.
i realize that i cannot continue like this, but every euro that comes in my account gives me hope that i will win some money back at the casino, but infact every euro that i play i loose, and takes me further away from a way out.
this addiction is a life killer and i don’t know how to stop it :(life is like a box of chocolates.