Lenny Rider
Well-known member
- Sep 15, 2010
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First and foremost apologies if this upsets and offends anyone on here, however it’s a subject close to my heart, and unfortunately but also in a positive way, there may be NSCers who need help and perhaps as a result of reading this thread reach out.
My reason for posting now, in the last 24 hours it’s publicly come out that a colleague, who in turn became a friend, has had to enter a rehabilitation facility in order to address his gambling addiction.
It will be life changing, but as a ‘veteran‘ of rehab myself, it’s not the end, it’s about moving forward with a fresh outlook.
Having ‘palled up’ with a gambler in my time away I discovered in deep chats well into the wee hours that it’s an unique addiction, you reach a point with drink where you can’t have another one, with drugs you become so spaced out you can’t take any more at that point, but with gambling you can keep going and going, until you basically run out of funding streams.
But it arguably ruins as many lives as drink and drugs, but as a society we appear to look the other way, Ray Winstone, bizarrely himself a man affected by addiction, is the face of 365 betting.
Other ads on social media and TV and radio bombard punters with ‘mouthwatering’ offers, and whilst it seems to be tempered in some forms of sports sponsorship, will anything ever really be addressed when the people at the top of the tree are making so much money?
I’ve been awake since early, thinking about my colleague, this is not vodka on his cornflakes or lines off a toilet cistern, this situation impacts not just himself, but his lovely wife, his teenage kids, his job, his reputation.
I believe he will come out the other side, my pal in rehab lost 900 grand in a calendar year, but now has the love of his children back and the respect of his wife when he felt all was lost, another friend in Worthing lost his house when Tiger Woods lost a golf tournament, but is back on the road to recovery.
Please if this strikes a chord with anyone reading this, go and get help, or if that’s a step too far PM me, we can meet for a coffee, I won’t have all the answers but I will help however I can.
Take care,
Harty
www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk
My reason for posting now, in the last 24 hours it’s publicly come out that a colleague, who in turn became a friend, has had to enter a rehabilitation facility in order to address his gambling addiction.
It will be life changing, but as a ‘veteran‘ of rehab myself, it’s not the end, it’s about moving forward with a fresh outlook.
Having ‘palled up’ with a gambler in my time away I discovered in deep chats well into the wee hours that it’s an unique addiction, you reach a point with drink where you can’t have another one, with drugs you become so spaced out you can’t take any more at that point, but with gambling you can keep going and going, until you basically run out of funding streams.
But it arguably ruins as many lives as drink and drugs, but as a society we appear to look the other way, Ray Winstone, bizarrely himself a man affected by addiction, is the face of 365 betting.
Other ads on social media and TV and radio bombard punters with ‘mouthwatering’ offers, and whilst it seems to be tempered in some forms of sports sponsorship, will anything ever really be addressed when the people at the top of the tree are making so much money?
I’ve been awake since early, thinking about my colleague, this is not vodka on his cornflakes or lines off a toilet cistern, this situation impacts not just himself, but his lovely wife, his teenage kids, his job, his reputation.
I believe he will come out the other side, my pal in rehab lost 900 grand in a calendar year, but now has the love of his children back and the respect of his wife when he felt all was lost, another friend in Worthing lost his house when Tiger Woods lost a golf tournament, but is back on the road to recovery.
Please if this strikes a chord with anyone reading this, go and get help, or if that’s a step too far PM me, we can meet for a coffee, I won’t have all the answers but I will help however I can.
Take care,
Harty
Gamblers Anonymous
This site offers various help for the compulsive gambler including a Forum, Chat Room, Literature and of course most importantly a meeting finder
www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk
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