Hello Sentinel, good to hear from you at this difficult time. It sounds like you have a problem with gambling and need to stop. No more chasing losses, you need to put a line under them and find other ways to pay your debts off. This won’t be easy, you need good financial advice and lots of support. Cut yourself off from credit. Bar yourself from gambling sites and premises – put the time into your recovery that you put into gambling. Look at ways of spending time profitably to help ease the debts and give you less time to gamble with. If you have no time and no access to money then you can’t gamble.

Get good support for yourself. See if there is a group local to your area – GA or similar. Come to groups here. If you feel you can, share your story with a loved one or trusted friend, it will make the journey easier. I wish you well.

I understand that you feel ashamed, i think all of us compulsive gamblers do. How do you think your husband would react if you told him?

Could you maybe ban yourself again to start with to make sure you dont gamble? I know its hard and that there probably are other options to gamble depending in where you live but it could be a start maybe since you didnt gamble before when you had blocked yourself. 30 k is a lot of money but if you have a decent salary im sure you can pay it off and be fine if you stop now. I wish you the best of luck and that you are feeling a little better today.

Jez

Hello and thanks for starting a thread in the Gambling Therapy forums

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