GAMBLING IS DESTROYING MY LIFE

Get yourself barred from everything.

open up to your family if you havent already is my advice

you ever been to GA Kal?

@ tambhoy5 that's harsh man

Typical tarrier reply tam

did he say it helped then Kal?

If you can conquer Mike Tyson you can conquer gambling addiction.

Get out while you can as it will lead to a sorry ending. Addicts will literally lose everything they have to their name eventually. Exclude yourself and try and find something else to pass your time, take up a sport, join a team etc

personally i think online sites have started a lot more ppl off as addicts, ive been online,3 years now and spent a lot of time and money but the past is the past, only been on the internet 6 years and in all honesty i think the nets pretty boring these days , the betting sites are one of the few things i bother with now, as well as news and one or two other things, as for the problem buster you have of gambling all the time i think a change of thought process is the way, its probably no different than being a pisshead or addicted to drugs , porn etc , there must be a time when the novelty goes,it just a case of when.

thanks for the positive advice guys,it been theripudic just writing about this problem,

i dont feel like harming myself or anything of the like,im just in a rut and finding it impossible to get out of,

i have closed all internet accounts and credit cards buts its so easy to walk into a betting shop when there's so many of them and they're also open late in the summer months,

you cant turn on the tv without hearing something about sport,it's become so big,

thinking about this betting lark i remember my very first bet,i was asked by my local shopkeeper to put a bet on for him in the grand national and gave me an extra 20p he told me to put 10p e.w for myself on rhyme and reason and bloody thing only went and won and here was me with 1 pound odd to my name at 10 years of age delighted with life,

how much you lost overall mate?

must be very hard but good luck

@bob- god only knows over the years mate,definatly a six figure sum

@mikenz- i opened the betfair account but have never registered a card,

Buster, you've closed down yr accounts and accepted that you shdn't try getting back what you've lost. That's a good start. Now you have to keep y/s out of the way of temptation.

You know where the bookies are and I wd make a conscious effort not to go past them.

Imv it's difficult to go cold turkey on anything entirely. Perhaps you need another highly structured activity that keep you mentally occupied but won't eat into your money, time and self-respect in the same way as gambling did. Perhaps this could be something w/ yr family? Is there something you can w/ yr kids, if you have any?

It's exhausting to invest everything in quitting, then fall off the wagon. Look at things in the longest poss. perspective--it's unlikely you've lost much of the wealth you will accumulate over yr life or that much of yr time with yr family. You are winning if you limit yr losses now.

And if you can't give up altogether, you can still fins a way of managing yr addiction. Commit to a trivial bank (something like 100 pounds and bet tiny fractions--like a quid--of that a go in a highly structured, thoroughly pre-planned way).

its tough alright, betweem all the advertising and all people talk about these days in pubs and at work is odds.

Just dont look at any odds,coupons , text, oddschecker etc and when someone starts talking horses or betting just change the subject.

We all know its a mugs game deep down and its hard to walk away from it.

What p i s s e s me off most is that this site and all the rest is that they are throwing roulette and blackjack up in peoples faces as poker has decreased in popularity. These games will draw in people who normally dont bet on these and it all ends in tears. Shame on them.

@askari-appreciate the advice

@ernie-i read a book about how gambling was banned in the uk in the 1800's because it was ruining society and it was less than 20 years ago the lottery was reinstated which seemed to coincide with a boom for legalised gambling,
they banned cigarette sponsership at sporting events only to replace them with bookmakers sponsership
betting is banned in other countries for a reason

nice one jc,

im off to bed now feeling a lot more positive than i was an hour ago,

what betting styles do you guys have?