Gambling Recovery and COVID job loss

IrishSean

Gamstop.. register on it tonight, it will block you from every UK gambling site.
Cash or credit to a compulsive gambler is like fuel to a racing driver; it keeps you in the seat at 200mph. You just need to stop and get out. 
You must set goals for paying your bills; how would you keep your house if made bankrupt? It would be at risk. You havent properly taken on board Sourcrates advice from DfW thread about letting unsecured debt default until back on your feet.

I spent tens of thousands over the years on gambling; it was Covid that helped me stop for good. Ironic when you think Covid has created more compulsive gamblers than prob last 50 years. I'm on the journey 1 year, a few blips in the summer (several hundred in bookies). Now more than 4 months 100% gamble free and virtually debt free from gambling; life is transformed for me but several times in last 10 years I was on a seriously low ebb...

Buy the book 'how to overcome compulsive gambling', the one with the roulette wheel on the cover; it was my road map out.

Theres a new gambling free life waiting for you; trust me gambling is making you more unhappy than debt, which is just numbers on a soa. 

You can do it, but Gamstop, which is free and all of market is a must: the moment you read this. Post a redacted screenshot when youve signed up💪 everything else will be a breeze by comparison.

Oh and set any bags of 'guilt bricks' down: ppl have died from covid, yours is a fixable problem, guilt isnt an emotion you need to carry once youve committed to the change. 

GL

Elmer_BeFuddled

Nice words IrishSean

lixhul

IrishSean said:

Gamstop.. register on it tonight, it will block you from every UK gambling site.
Cash or credit to a compulsive gambler is like fuel to a racing driver; it keeps you in the seat at 200mph. You just need to stop and get out. 
You must set goals for paying your bills; how would you keep your house if made bankrupt? It would be at risk. You havent properly taken on board Sourcrates advice from DfW thread about letting unsecured debt default until back on your feet.

I spent tens of thousands over the years on gambling; it was Covid that helped me stop for good. Ironic when you think Covid has created more compulsive gamblers than prob last 50 years. I'm on the journey 1 year, a few blips in the summer (several hundred in bookies). Now more than 4 months 100% gamble free and virtually debt free from gambling; life is transformed for me but several times in last 10 years I was on a seriously low ebb...

Buy the book 'how to overcome compulsive gambling', the one with the roulette wheel on the cover; it was my road map out.

Theres a new gambling free life waiting for you; trust me gambling is making you more unhappy than debt, which is just numbers on a soa. 

You can do it, but Gamstop, which is free and all of market is a must: the moment you read this. Post a redacted screenshot when youve signed up💪 everything else will be a breeze by comparison.

Oh and set any bags of 'guilt bricks' down: ppl have died from covid, yours is a fixable problem, guilt isnt an emotion you need to carry once youve committed to the change. 

GL

Thank you I will look. I have unfortunately gone backwards on gambling this month and have lost £1400 during it. When I was winning it made me spend more, then losing it all and more was a double whammy. I will update SOA on 30th as with every month but it's slightly step backwards from last month which hurts because I've been working all the way through it. I don't have much money left now and I am scared.

I need to sort out the debts because it makes me feel good resolving them and I don't want to default incase I do need balance transfers within the next 6 years.

WinterWarrior

Sorry to hear you’ve had bad month. On the plus side it’s less than last time. Maybe you are getting more aware as you go along? It’s bad, but it’s not as bad...next month it will be nothing at all!
would writing daily updates on here keep you more accountable? 

December is often a hard time for everyone, but then in January all the New Years resolutions can kick in. Good luck..I know you’ll get there. 

lixhul

Thank you I write write more often. I sunk another £1000 gambling to chase losses and that puts me -£1500 gambling this month. The problem is I was winning and it made me spend more too so I have had a terrible month, I am nearly out.

It's made me realise I have a major problem and I have purchased an audible book of stop gambling. I get paid in a few days and I will perform an SOA at the end of this month but it's a guarantee it'll probably be as worse as it's ever been and I am nearly out of money.

TheAble

There's not much we can advise you on with the SOA. You don't really have a debt problem, you have a gambling problem. You must get help with it urgently and use gamstop and the like immediately. As in right now. The way you are going you will be ruined in a matter of weeks, if not days.

lixhul

TheAble said:

There's not much we can advise you on with the SOA. You don't really have a debt problem, you have a gambling problem. You must get help with it urgently and use gamstop and the like immediately. As in right now. The way you are going you will be ruined in a matter of weeks, if not days.

I agree. The problem with gambling I've found is that when I win it makes me spend that winnings because it was "won". I then carry on gambling and lose all the winnings and more, while at the same time spent the winnings already.

I have £3K left and £11K debts and I really need to turn this around. I think I'm at the worst point financially ever and I am a home owner and I am considering selling my car.
I have bought a book about gambling and it's helping. I wrote down the last gamble (yesterday) and I need to stick to that.

Barny1979

Is the £120K equity in the house?

Legs21

You need to register with GamStop now or you’ll just keep chasing your losses. You’ll never win them back, only lose more and more. You can’t stop gambling even when you are winning. You seriously have to stop, draw a line under it and tackle the debt. Gambling is not a ‘quick fix’ to get rid of debt, if you don’t know when to stop or can’t control yourself enough to stop then you are just putting yourself further and further into debt. 

I know the above may sound harsh but you really need to understand that you can’t gamble your way out of debt. 

enthusiasticsaver

You don't have a debt problem. The problem is gambling and until you stop you will continue to go through this cycle of winning then losing. You need to register with Gamstop. Remove gambling sites and cards from websites and contact GA.