Pleatfooted
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Well done lads, I had a quid on 1-10 today haha
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Gambling Addiction
- Thread starter buckshot
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That’s the first thing they should do, they are evil things and I dread to think how many lives they ruin. I know lads who blow their wages within hours of getting them on roulette machines, it’s horrible it really is.Well done to you both on dropping the gambling. I myself would bet. I dont bet a lot dont bet every day only bet what i can afford to bet. I find there being no harm in it in my opinion like everything in moderation. I look at those gaming machines my god if anything those crackmachines should be banned from the betting shops its a money earner for bookies and for the punters there big loses out weighs there big win now and again.
leighton
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That’s the first thing they should do, they are evil things and I dread to think how many lives they ruin. I know lads who blow their wages within hours of getting them on roulette machines, it’s horrible it really is.
We are lucky over here. Those Machines aint in the bookies they have the fixed odds betting machines for say the sports rather than casinos on them. Which in a way is a bit better than the 1s over in the UK. In Ireland you go to casinos to play them. I argee totally and i have seen lads in casinos going in with there wages and going home looking for a lend of money to pay there partners there wages of bills.
1961_vintage
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Seriously well done fellas and to anyone who has managed to overcome an addiction.
I used to find any reason possible to go near the bookies just so I could pop in and waste 30 quid, often more in 20 minutes. I realized what I was doing before it truely got me and managed to stop it. Do a bit of online betting on the footy and horses now, but it’s very limited now. What it showed me is how easy it is to end up in that hole and I really feel for people who do. Gambling advertising should be banned as well, any sport these days and it’s like kids tv adverts at xmas for toys, just tempting people in.We are lucky over here. Those Machines aint in the bookies they have the fixed odds betting machines for say the sports rather than casinos on them. Which in a way is a bit better than the 1s over in the UK. In Ireland you go to casinos to play them. I argee totally and i have seen lads in casinos going in with there wages and going home looking for a lend of money to pay there partners there wages of bills.
buckshot
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It was tough in the beginning. After the first month I realized that if I just worked I'd have more than enough money and wouldn't need to gamble to have enough to have fun.I bet it’s tough.
buckshot
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I completely agree, admitting to yourself and others are the actual hardest steps. Once you do that and get over the embarrassment it gets much easier.Nearly 2 years for me, close to relapsing all the time. Very tough addiction to stop.
I’ve been to GA meetings and on a forum elsewhere which has helped massively - I tick off every day which I’ve not gambled.
Had I carried on down that road I dread to think where I would have been, now next year all going well - I will be on the mortgage ladder and having a wedding - my life has turned around since I stopped.
The hardest thing is
1. To admit to yourself you have a addiction
2. Open up to someone close to you about it
3. Actually stop
I cried my eyes out when I told my partner.
But it was the best thing I could have done. Now when I get a urge I remind myself of that moment.
If anyone here thinks they may have a issue then I’m more than happy to have private message with.
What forum do you go to for support?
leighton
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I used to find any reason possible to go near the bookies just so I could pop in and waste 30 quid, often more in 20 minutes. I realized what I was doing before it truely got me and managed to stop it. Do a bit of online betting on the footy and horses now, but it’s very limited now. What it showed me is how easy it is to end up in that hole and I really feel for people who do. Gambling advertising should be banned as well, any sport these days and it’s like kids tv adverts at xmas for toys, just tempting people in.
I really dont get the banning of the bookies its not the key to it. The adds be there forever we live in a nanny republic a adds a add people will have there own views on it. I honestly think that education is needed more so than anything else. In the schools kids are learning about sex education and drugs and addiction in this there should be stuff about gambling and the effects of it. Both good and bad. Lets be honest here a day out at the races be it horses or dogs is a brilliant day out and why not have both. The education is key but we cant just ban gambling or go down that way it would be the craziest thing to do.
Gabriel
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Remember listening to this on Radio 4's The Moral Maze back in 2013. It's an interesting debate about the morality of gambling advertising on television. What struck me at the time was just how completely ignorant the middle-class speakers were about its inherent dangers and the scale of the problem that was looming in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qwgm2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qwgm2