News of Gambling Addiction Forum

This has been the worst month so far this year . The highlights :

1) I have a temporary roommate with an 11 year old child . She's leaving her husband and desperately needed a place to stay . I have been sleeping on my couch for the last month and this is not helping me because...

2) I have developed sciatica , probably due to an old bulging disk . It's not agony , ...

I can't stop. I'm lying about it to the people in my life. I tell myself in the morning that I won't gamble today and I pray about it as I did for drinking and drugs, but every night when I get off work I justify throwing 5 in the machine at the gas station or Dottie's and the balls rolling from there. I've lost almost a thousand dollars in the last 2 weeks. I ...

Hello everybody. My story here might be little different, I don't know as I'm out of my mind these days.
First of all i don't know if i have a problem. I am from Europe, studying at a famous university in a foreign country. It's my first year out of my family and my old life, I'm 19. Out of nowhere, probably because of boredom I put 20 euros on a sports bet. I lost ...

Hi guys,

I'm 19 years old and since 2 weeks I'm starting to think I have gambling issues.
I have always loved to gamble, I started playing online poker when I was 16 and I'm having mild succes in it. Recently I tried another site to play poker, since playing on different sites gets me more action and more money. Now, this site also offered live casino with live dealers. After winning around 1k euro ...

Hi everyone. I'm so happy to have found this board. I used to gamble off and on when I was younger. I'd buy a lotto ticket here and there but that was it. It never felt out of control and when I lost, I'd move on. In the last year, the problem has amplified. I've slowly started escalating with what I do. My sister also loves to gamble and we often go together--- to the ...

I found this site a few months back and have been reading through the post on here, but never wrote a topic of my own. Today is the day that I felt compelled to speak my mind on my addiction. And let me tell you, I've got it pretty bad.

A casual trip to a casino with a friend seven years ago, and a measly $50 win, was the beginning of a terrible self destructive ...

I have been on a business trip for the last four days to the place where I relapsed last year . I had a boatload of urges while I was there and I was able to identify why I slipped up before .

My gambling urges in my hometown are fairly repetitive - " you might be lucky , just play $20 , just go for an hour .." etc. I know it's a pack ...

Hi everyone,

This is my first time talking to anyone about my gambling addiction. I guess thats quite impressive considering it has been over 4 years since it first began.

I was in my first year of university when I took up a sky bet free £5 offer. I turned this money into £100 on slots which signalled the start of my horrible addiction. For the rest of the term I gambled on slots on ...

As the subject title says its a double bank holiday weekend in the uk and for the gambling industry probably there 2nd best week of the year,loads of free time and boredom,loads of people will start to realise this weekend they have a problem and its not fun anymore, i feel sad just thinking about it.
I m going for a quiet family weekend away from it all by the sea,but i will be feeling ...

I am happy I have not gambled in over a month. I am ashamed to say one thing I do think about is how much I have lost over the years to keep things real. I am very fortunate that I have a good job so I am ok financially, but it is disgusting that I willingly gave up money.

Now I am doing tremendous things for my home with my paycheck. I am keeping ...