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Sat here on my night shift & realised it’s been a month since I last placed a bet. Which doesn’t seem like much on the surface but it marks a month since I admitted there was a part of me, however rational I consider myself, that I wasn’t in control of. I realised when over 9...
months I had effectively pissed away £7000 across 3 sites. An equivalent of £777 p/m, the deposit for a mortgage, a new car, a 6 month trip across Asia, the list goes on of things I was fully aware of but still even in this level of awareness couldn’t stop myself doing it. Why?
To which some will go ‘Well, it’s your own fault, nobody made forced you?’ & the answer is probably a lot more complex than a simple issue of self control but on looking further into how/why, regardless of whether you admit to being influenced by aggressive multi platform...
advertising, the shockingly coy attitude towards the gambling culture we readily endorse in this country is almost guaranteed to be a part of why it’s almost normal to have lost £10/20/50/200 of money you can’t afford on any given day but the boys in the group chat just call it
‘Bad luck’ When I actually gave some proper thought to it I just remember periods of prolonged sickening shame throughout however many years & questions of how I’d let it happen brought flashbacks of these mentally irrational things I’d said to justify it to myself all this time
some kind of weird montage of me just flitting about like a maniac convincing myself that sticking £200 on Russian pro league table tennis normal fucking behaviour haha, which is just so sad when I realise just how badly this could’ve ended...
Addiction has always fascinated me anyway, hence studying to be a counsellor but until whatever it is grips you I don’t think anybody can objectively vouch for how consuming things can quickly become. From the disgust I felt to admitting to my closest friends that I...
genuinely have a problem to the frank openness of over sharing on twitter isn’t as far a leap as you think, though, so if you’re reading this & know that you need to make a change, please just do one thing for yourself & make that step!
For me it started with excluding myself for life on all major sites.
You can do that here https://www.gamstop.co.uk"> https://www.gamstop.co.uk
Start with one step.
I don’t have all the answers but if you think that picture above looks like you & don’t know what to do next my inbox is always open
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You can do that here https://www.gamstop.co.uk"> https://www.gamstop.co.uk
Start with one step.
I don’t have all the answers but if you think that picture above looks like you & don’t know what to do next my inbox is always open
Further for anybody that feels that community & seeing how the steps you’re taking is beneficial in the grand scheme of things give @the_bigstep a follow. They’re doing brilliant things to make sure a lot of the things many of us are taking about in this thread don’t continue https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✌🏻" title="Siegeshand (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Siegeshand (heller Hautton)">
