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I am facing severe financial problems due to my gambling problem .
This problem can actually keep me away from gambling but how to solve the financial problems created due to gambling . I have house rent to pay , I have tax payments due , I have to repay loans to banks , I have to repay private loans , I have to repay friends loans . With all this around not easy to get any more loans ….. quite mess to clean and very stressed . Anybody can share how can one go about solving financial problems created due to gambling . -
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Hi Raj
Reading your posts they are always financial based, always analytical, you ask “Why” when the answer may well be “because were addicted or the answer may be “Why Not”
What Id love to read is more about you, how gambling has affected your life in non monetary ways.. look at the consequences of you actions and you may find it easier to stop thinking about the losses and start to focus on what you can realistically do to help yourself
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Hi Raj and welcome.
I am a compulsive gambler. Why? No idea really, the important question for me wasn’t – why? It was – what am I going to do about it?
For me that was getting to GA meetigns, putting barriers in place, being honest with family etc.
There is a lot of financial support/advice out there. Lots of options from bankruptcy through to repayment plans, with lots in between. Get that advice and support, Im sure if you connect to the Helpline here they will be able to give you some useful links to look at to help you do so.
What then? Unless you address the addiction then any financial solution will be short lived. As Compulsive Gamblers we have the tendency to climb out of one whole only to start digging anotehr one, usually deeper!
Yes teh finances do have to be addressed but keep posting and tell us about the steps you are taking to address your gambling addiction, the barriers you can put in place to stop this happening again.
One day at a time.
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Ok Raj, why not list here the things you love which you would hurt if you gamble and the things you fear will happen if you continue to gamble? That way you can look back at your list when you feel the urge to gamble and remind yourself of the reasons why you don’t want to.
Kind Regards
Janey
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