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Hi Monica
Your sore throat sounds could be caused by open mouth breathing during your sleep, often related to sinus issues which maybe caused by the fresh paint in the house.I thought this made interesting reading about the corona virus. Ireland’s government does seem to have handled things much better but time will tell.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/14/coronavirus-uk-ireland-delay
What do you think ?
Ivan,
I suggest you follow Monica’s advice, explain that you have a gambling addiction.
My creditors weren’t very helpful until I told them “you can either set up a plan for me that I can afford or I am about to start bankruptcy proceedings”. They were happy enough to help then because something is better than nothing.
If you feel you will be in any kind of trouble with the recent debt , than I suggest you miss a payment on all others this month and pay the essential one. I have done this also .
There will be many people missing payments at the moment due to the lockdown to it might be a good time to try your creditors.
You can come through this .
Hi Ivan,
Well done on recognising that you have a problem and reaching out for help.
I’m sorry you find yourself in this situation.
Nearly everyone on here has been forced to take actions to control their gambling . We can recognise the desperation, the shame and the disappointment.You won’t get financial help on here . Those of us in recovery know that financial help would not be help at all. You need to painfully work your way through this.
Most of us have gambled for so long we also have debts.
Part of recovery from gambling addicting is to give up on looking for easy answers (like a big win or a bail out) .I would suggest you put a gambling blocker on your internet devices – Gamban works well for me.
You can ring your creditors to see if you can renegotiate the terms of your debts so that you are paying less each month. I have done this several times.Ivan, you will find a way through this. Use his experience as a springboard to stop gambling .
Keep strong – things will get better
Brian
You are right – we don’t reset to day one – we take all the experience and learning of our free time and build on it.THis means looking at the things that allowed us to gamble – in your case the memorised credit card and making sure that can’t happen next time.
You could ring and cancel that by reporting it lost and simply cut up the new one as soon as it arrives. This way you have built a new barrier.
Keep going Brian – you deserve to spend your money on you and you deserve to be free of all the horrible emotions this brings.
Ps I signed up for this week’s group but it was full … maybe next week !
Hi Monica
Firstly I am appalled at Sainsbury’s staff for treating your mum like that. I think a public letter of complaint is in order !I too had to queue for Sainsbury’s yesterday and watched a mum struggle with a grown son with obvious special needs and wondered why the staff didn’t act to make things a little easier for her.
I feel the COVID situation is much worse than we are being told. I notice in Ireland the advice is it kills people of all ages.
It does – in the early days a 16 year old girl who lives quite close to me died – it never made the headlines!I tried it copy you with tour fresh box deliveries but the local companies cannot keep up to the demand and are taking no new orders. So I have little seeds growing (I hope) on my window sill! Hope to have tomatoes and courgettes! Hope !!!!
You are right Monica – living in a tower block right now with small kids or moody teenagers would be the worse. We are lucky to have a garden to sit it. You always find the positives in every situation !
Your cookery sounds great – perhaps you could post some recipes in Charles thread about things to to during lockdown. I will try them out !
I bought a huge can of good quality white paint and of course doubted myself – (I intended doing the whole house white )but hearing about your son’s room I think maybe I will make a start !
Take care Monica and have a lovely Easter xx
Некоторых это может позабавить на минуту или две, lol! Поскольку я никогда не смогу удержать *****, я только начал использовать это, чтобы рассчитать свое свободное время от игры. Я немного зануда (на случай, если вы не заметили)! https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html С включительно: суббота, 7 сентября 2019 г. По, но не включая воскресенье, 12 апреля 2020 г. Результат: 218 дней Это 218 дней от даты начала до даты окончания , но не включая дату окончания. Или 7 месяцев, 5 дней, не считая даты окончания. Альтернативные единицы времени 218 дней могут быть преобразованы в одну из следующих единиц: 18 835 200 секунд 313 920 минут 5232 часа 218 дней 31 неделя и 1 день 59,73% от общего года (365 дней)
This might amuse some people fro a minute or two lol!
Because I can never keep ***** I have just started to use this to calculate my gamble free time. I am a bit nerdy (incase you haven’t noticed)!
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
From and including: Saturday, 7 September 2019
To, but not including Sunday, 12 April 2020
Result: 218 days
It is 218 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date.
Or 7 months, 5 days excluding the end date.
Alternative time units
218 days can be converted to one of these units:
18,835,200 seconds
313,920 minutes
5232 hours
218 days
31 weeks and 1 day
59.73% of a common year (365 days)