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Hi Jack! There’s so much hard earned wisdom in this group of amazing people. Just scrolling through previous posts will give you a lot to think about. Gamblers Anonymous also has a website gamblers anonymous.org which is a great place to get info. Not sure if you’ve tried a meeting but you can click on their topic titled 20 questions to get an idea of how much gambling has affected your life and those around you. Congrats on your week of clean time. Recovery does not happen overnight. It’s a slow evolution of changing how you think but it is possible to retrain your brain and turn the negative downward spiral into a positive upward one.

Hi Jack, I’ve only been successful in stopping the scratches one way I did it was I counted up how much money I spent every day twice a day in fact and double on pay day. I did that for a year’s worth of scratch tickets, even though I won some back a couple times, I was still behind about seven or $8000. So I thought what could I have bought with that?
You can imagine my credit cards in about 4 to 5000 of that so I spent 8000 have one 1800 and fell 4000 to 5000 further in debt. Sometimes I think that there is a built-in subconscious thought to become a victim again through these losses. That’s my own take on myself.. my partner showed me through recurring conversation, but I don’t need to win a bunch of money to be a good person. It might be self worth has a lot to do with it. speaking for myself. All the best to you
Jack.