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I have 8 credit cards totaling $30,000+. Most of the debts are cash advances which means the interest rates are much higher.

Has anyone ever done debt consolidation. How does it work?
I want to pay the cards off eventually but I feel the interest and principal will take me a decade.
So my only choices are: debt consolidation or letting the cards go in default.

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can give me a bit of advice as I been a compulsive gambler for about 20 years as I,am 40 now and always loved the bookies! Love horse racing And most sports when I got a bet on it but always chased my losses and ended up with nothing all the time for the last 20 years! Well I give up for about 3 months and then bumped into ...

Apart from my husband, no other person knows about my addiction. I would hate for my children to know nor my five siblings and my extended family. But I am wondering why I feel so much shame, if I was an alcoholic or drug addict would I feel the same? I truly believe that a gambling addiction garners little sympathy from others, and yet out of all addictions it has the highest suicide rate. So ...

Hi, really sorry to be writing on here! But i need to get this off my chest!

I feel like i am addicted to gambling... Now, dont get me wrong, its not massive money but obviously it adds up. My weakness is the slots. I am currently signed up to 7 sites and spending £20 a go (£2 a spin), i know that doesnt sound much but im doing it 7-8 times a night. I ...

Hi im new here after searching for gambling help forums after recent losses. It all started earlier this year with time to kill at work i started using online roulette, i won maybe £15000 + in a couple of weeks i couldnt lose or so it seemed, everytime i deposit a few hundred i came off with thousands. Sometimes i would lose and sometimes it would be a few thousand but id up my stakes ...

And is chasing a rush, or a feeling/way to make yourself feel better. It's a boost to your ego, bank balance, wellbeing, mood etc but is only a temporary thing before you come crashing down. It's essentially a drug and like people that take drugs they go up but then come crashing down to a halt and end up in misery, debt, crime and even worse.

Guys ultimately with gambling and most of the time ...

If you are you need to check out Roberta's pizza in Brooklyn. If I wanted to gamble but was near such a good pie, I'd walk right past the casino.

Get The Original, it is no joke

I thought that I type out motivation quotes as days goes by in my GF journey.

Feel free to add :D

We all need that bit of motivation when we are being GF.

Quote 1:
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending" - Carl Bard

Before I proceed, I would like to share this prayer which was obtained from the booklet for the version of "Gambler Anonymous" held in my city.

You may be a believer or non-believer of God or Jesus. Please proceed if you wish or exit if you think you might be offended/slighted.

Prayer:
Thank you Lord for your precious blood has washed away all my sins. Now I want to declare: "I am a new creation"; ...

One of the threads below was locked before I read it, but I wanted to cast in my two cents to this interesting topic.

A poster was complaining that none of us gave him money to help him get out of debt. It is the fantasy of most gamblers, and it was for me too, that if only I could get back to "even," that I would finally quit gambling. I never got back to ...