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Hello everyone. I am 19 years old, getting near 20, and I have been sports betting since I had just turned 18. I have a net loss around 3000 dollars in the hole from gambling, and I am at my wit's end for how to stop this horrible addiction. I have tried everything short of GA, which I don't want to do as it is out of the way for me and also increases the ...

Hi all,

I was browsing the forums and finally decided to register and post. I apologize in advance for the novel but feel like I need to type his out before I give myself a nervous breakdown.
I have been gambling for 5-6 years (I'm in my early 30's) and have gotten myself into a lot of debt due to this problem. Probably to the tune of 30k.
I've used credit cards, loans both in ...

Hello everyone.

I'm new here and thought I'd start off by sharing my story.

4-5 years ago I began playing scratch off lottery tickets. At first it was $5-$10 here $5-$10 there, nothing to be concerned with. After a traumatic event in my life gambling became my go to and progressively got worse. I started out debt free in my early 20's and now I'm almost 30 and owe 5-6 different credit places and am ...

So, I'm closing in on 900 days w/o placing a bet and I just got paid. I knew I was doing well but I was shocked when my pay came through and can't believe that is was literally thousands of dollars more than I expected (bonuses are pretty big). Now I feel like I need to treat myself so I'm going to book a flight for somewhere warm tomorrow and fly back some late on ...

In my adult like, I was never interested in gambling, until I had some really bad luck that negatively impacted my health, my energy level, my earnings and my forward progress. I became vulnerable and tempted by the "Hail Mary pass" to so-called luck, known as gambling. So from age 18 to 50, no interest in gambling. Then my personal bad luck and low energy coincided, time-wise, with the building of a new casino where ...

Hi guys,

Been thinking about the journey to becoming gamble-free and in particular how to avoid relapses recently. I realized that all the avenues of gambling in which I've either had a blocker or "deterrent" from, I've managed to stay away form.

Case in point, since I've self-excluded myself from my city's only land casino, I've stayed away for over 8 months. I've had urges (sometimes strong, especially in my early stages of recovery) but ...

Well I'm 19 from Australia and have a massive gambling problem , as soon as I get paid I spend my pay just an urge I get , I spend 500 in a few hours and it's online gambling I've tried closing my accounts but I just re open them , I was wondering if anyone could give me advice , thanks to anyone that will help me and it's on the horses and greyhounds

Hi guys,

It's been a while since my last update (around 2 months ago), but I have still been lurking around here. So anyway around 2 months ago I had a minor relapse where I actually won around $60, it didn't feel good though since I had made it to 6 months gambling free.

Well 2 weeks ago I had my biggest relapse for ages. It wasn't the biggest financial loss compared to some of ...

Hey guys GF 144 days. But these days having a really hard time. Keep working to take away my thinking from gambling but debts are incredible, i have less than 4 euros a day, i want to drive to GA meeting to feel better, but 15 euros for gas is impossible to get. After that i keep thinking about things that i shouldn't - amount of money when i gambled 5000 thousands lost, 4000 thousands.. ...

I know i have said this before on here. But we think we are gambling because we want money.

The next time you are considering gambling, please realize, you are not doing this for money. Gambling is about wanting to escape, to feel a "high," to zone out. It is a super expensive way to put yourself into an altered state.

We are most prone to gambling when we feel ineffective and down. We are ...