My bank accounts. My credit cards to have a look at them whenever he wanted over the next a little bit, and you know that that's always been a bit of a temporary measure. You know holding on someone's credit cards or having someone look at your stuff. It'S only temporary, the real fix for me was when I figured out what was wrong with me: ain't got that treated and then then not instantly, but the gambling the need to do something extreme like gambling to cope and that went away. But you know the end of this story is, I'm probably about $ 40,000 in debt and I'm starting a new job, which is, I think it Oncasinogames Canada? Maybe it was paying me 40,000 a year.
So it's not ideal, but it's better than the situation I was in before, but not really because I'm probably another 15 or 20 thousand dollars in debt than when I was before you know. Overall, the story is a happy ending, but it didn't happen right away, and I really want to tell people about this because you know addiction is hard. Mental health is also hard and the only way that I was able to get through this. It was by taking the time that I needed to explore what was wrong with me and then taking the time to treat it, and I was only able to find out about the ADB after I went through a whole bunch of different therapy options to figure it Out and even then it was an incident I you know, I started taking the medication and it did change my life, but I still had these residual gambling behaviors. I know I want people to know that this is out there and then, if you're, going through something something like this not exactly like this, but you know, maybe you just had a spending problem. There'S there's a way out. You can get out of it. You know it might not be right away, but as long as you know that there is a way out, then you can take the steps, but usually there's no way out of something. By doing the same thing that you were doing right, they say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. And I was, I just kept gambling thinking that somehow it was gon na fix itself, or this time was the time, and now I had to change my life completely. To get out of this, you know go work in a cigarette factory if you're trying to quit smoking. You know I'm a big Cheers fan, but I think Sam alone gave a really bad example by working in a bar being an alcoholic you you don't really do that if you're trying to change yourself because you're always sucking there, I got a job. You know about 10-15 years ago, at a casino in mice. In my town, I I'm a train roulette dealer, I'm a croupier, because I thought it would be a good idea, a good idea to not be able to gamble in the casino that I worked in, which is true, but I've just exposing myself to this world that I really really needed to get out of, and so I'll tell my other story is another time, but I think this is a good one to start with, because you know the your lowest point is there's only you know they say you can only go up from There and it's you know I can - I can talk about it now, it's so hard to talk about it. I can talk about it now, but it was. It was really terrible and I never thought about suicide and funny enough. I never thought about even going to get a payday loan, which is what a lot of people would have done instead of going to their friend. I think part of me wanted some accountability, some help, and sometimes the only way I could get help was by causing some kind of disaster for myself. So that's my story for today anyway, and it's not the most uplifting one, but it's very important for people to know - and I'm here at the at fincon is a personal finance conference, because today I help people and I help them by just trying to give them Some basic advice about what to do with their money, but I also want to help people by telling my story and if you have a story, you should tell it too, because you never know who's going to be listening and then they say I have that too, And then they go get medicated or you know I have something similar and then they talk to you about it, and maybe they never even thought about it before, but it's something that they can work on and fix, but they never thought that they could or no One ever showed them for the acceptance, and this is important.
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