Help Stop Agressive Online Gambling Advertising

Sign My Petition to STOP aggressive advertising by Gambling Houses.

Kelly Field
Saint Helens,
United Kingdom

I am 32 year old Female with along Term partner and 15 year old son. I work full time and my Partner works Full time.

I had a Grievance with my work place back in 2012. This quickly Led to me suffering with work related stress and quickly followed Depression and Suicidal thoughts.

I was off work for 8 weeks and started using online gambling (Mainly Bingo Sites). Little did I realise at the time that illness/mental health issues and gambling do not go hand in hand and quickly I had an addiction.

I got several credit cards to fund the addiction and was allowed by the banks to go over the £1,000 / £1,500 limits on my cards No questions asked. This quickly mounted to over £20,000.

I do take full responsibility for spending and my addictio. When suffering with mental health issues you DO NOT logically think and do not make rational decisions.

I went back to work and a year later raised the grievance again and was off for a further 6 weeks.

I just felt low and would gamble to try escape my issues. This led me further in to debt and led me to cut my arm. I thought so many times of ending it all to try make all my problems go away.

I managed to build my courage up to go to the doctors for help. I was assessed and referred for counselling . I was let down on the first session and the counsellor cancelled. I could not build my self up to go again.

I found someone in my local paper who was a recovered gambler and he charged me to do some counselling . This did not work and I was still having a flutter 4 years later.

I have now managed to get some free counselling with a gambling counsellor.

I did write to my local MP to ask for help to stop the advertising of these gambling sites. He wrote to government and It was a "We can't do anything".

This is because the Government gets 2 BILLION from gambling so WHY would they do anything to help.

I am passionate and want to help others and try stop the aggressive advertising from 9am until late. Drugs, alcohol and sex would NOT be advertised before the water shed but it is okay to advertise gambling and destroy people's life's. NO ITS NOT .

I understand some people play bingo, slots, gambling okay with no issues. But many people have a problem and this destroys lives and families and even drives people to suicide .

PLEASE HELP me and sign my petition to stop these sites and the government cashing in on people and destroying lives.