Gambling Addiction

Gambling addiction is one of the areas very close to home for me. My first job was in an insurance company where my colleagues taught me to bet on the horses. Initially it seemed I had a gift, some kind of natural ability for picking the winners. I had some of the most unlikely wins imaginable.... a four horse win accumulator, a single win at 100/1 and several at 33/1. This lasted about six months. When it ended, as any true addict, I simply upped the stakes, spread my gambling into other areas such as greyhounds, fruit machines etc. Every time I lost, I bet bigger until I had spent my rent, food money, petrol, the lot. I would still manage to repeat this as soon as I received my following months pay, running up rent arrears, bank loans, overdrafts etc into the thousands.

Not only did I pack this destructive addiction in, I even made a career within the gambling industry, my last position being National Sales and Marketing Manager for a gaming company. I know this habit inside out as a reformed gambler, a marketeer of gambling and as a hypnotherapist. To date, I have never had to treat even the most serious gamblers for more than four sessions to rid them of this addiction.