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My new habit is reading the new posts on here each day.
Each bit of myself I see in the posts helping me to be very strong.
Looking forward to making first month clean .
Then getting statement free from betting deposits.
Not really feeling the urge to bet at the moment.

It all started about two and a half years ago. I was 22 and made my first trip to the casino. I liked the slots but the casino was too far so I rarely went back. Then the worst possible thing happened... My town passed an ordinance to allow gambling. Since then I have progressively gambled more and more. I found this forum because I needed to vent after this weekends binge. I lost 1700 ...

My story is not different from the rest, I am a gambler with same side effect as rest of you guys or may be worst as I have never met anyone else so far who have spent continuous 97 hours in casino with only 4 hours break. I have seen changing shifts , dealers going home and coming back then going home coming back to work again while I am still there gambling with hope ...

How is it that i can scrimp the whole year and never go on holiday or buy new clothes etc yet can gamble away thousands?

I'm obsessed with money and do everything on the cheap yet will easy hand over £500 a day in gambling stakes, it's unbelievable. When i think of what i could do with the money to give me enjoyment instead of making me skint and depressed all the time it really ...

The last two weeks at the casino have been horrible, I spent the rent money and then put a loan out on my wedding ring to cover the losses. I don't know how to tell my husband, he will leave me for sure he can't put up with this for much longer. Should I spare him the gritty details or just come clean about everything????? How could I stoop so low

The last two weeks at the casino have been horrible, I spent the rent money and then put a loan out on my wedding ring to cover the losses. I don't know how to tell my husband, he will leave me for sure he can't put up with this for much longer. Should I spare him the gritty details or just come clean about everything????? How could I stoop so low

I have been going to the casino since I was 18 and am now 35 with a wife and three kids. I used to spend less than 200 dollars but lately I have been dropping on average about 500 each trip. Slots are what I play and here the payback is hideous and I know it yet can't seem to stay out of the casinos. I make around 90 grand a year yet lately I ...

I'm a 25 year old female who has a horrible gambiling problem. I finally admitted to my parents that I have a gambling addiction, they we're very supportive but I'm so ashamed that I had to tell them. I feel like a complete failure....... Will I ever recover from the shame of this problem???

When I made my last bet I can honestly say that I not only hated gambling, I hated everything that had to do with gambling. I had immersed myself so completely that I didn't even enjoy it anymore. All of the things I loved about it had become sickening. The people and their stupid "bad beat" stories that were all the same made me want to scream. I just wanted to punch the jackasses sitting ...

I'm coming up on 5 months gamble free . Life is better now than it has been for many years .
I haven't had any overwhelming urges in the last 2 months . The few stray gambling thoughts that drift into my head are easily dismissed and forgotten .

I'm no longer nervous about having cash . I can spend money on myself without feeling like I should "save" it to gamble with . I ...