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Adam I been reading your post and you are doing great please please keep it up .

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Hi Amanda

I feel your pain I was in exactly same situation I been trying to control it since 6 years .
I felt so depressed as you feel right now but you need to be strong .

Firstly you need someone to control your money for you asap this is the only way to stop gambling in order to recover . The reason I say this is that I tried every method and cold turkey is the only option in my case.

My boyfriend controls my money now and he transfers my monthly spending money to my cash card account to which I can’t use online .

I have decided to use this time I order to recondition my thoughts and work out what triggers me to go back to online casinos .

This is really is like a disease , I used to be a smoker and I quit my smoking habit in a month and now been smoking free for 10 years . However I find gambling much harder to quit as it’s not something we consume it’s all in the mind hence why it’s a dangerous addiction .

I realise I only gamble when I am in debt or when I want something but don’t have the money to so I used to go casinos to get that money and than chase my losses and this is when it went out of control .

I personally believe there is hope we will get over it we just need to keep trying .

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Hi

I haven’t lost huge amounts however after reading your post I think I have few strategies that may help you .

Have you tried meditating. ? . Meditating will help you to relax your mind and focus on positive not negative thoughts .
What’s done is done you keep going back to it don’t do this to your self . The more you think about the past the more depress you will get that’s why you need to focus on changing your thoughts .

Try using affirmations every time you have a bad thought .

You need to reprogram your subconscious mind in order to win this battle . Casinos messed with your mind and hypnotised you only way to get out of this state of mind is to recognise it and work with it .

Us humans have incredible coping mechanism once we know how there is nothing we cannot achieve we just need to know what cusses this . Maybe spend your energy on reconditioning your mind .

I hope this helps .

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I know it’s still midnight but it’s the begging of the 3rd day and I decided that I am going to reward me & my family every week to celebrate my gamble free life .
So instead of feeding the casino , I am going to feed my family
I feel positive

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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.

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