Cassie's story

Reading these posts, I just can’t believe how all the stories are just like mine. I feel sick to my stomach as I have gambled our savings away.

I don't know how it was so easy to sit at the pokie machine like a zombie and just put $50 after $50 after $50. I wouldn't even move to go to the toilet, just kept hanging on till I got those free spins. It just felt like the money wasn't real like monopoly money but once you left the venue a loser again you begin to realise what you had done was all real.

Then the next day would come and you go back hoping to win back your losses and you just get deeper in debt.

I can't take the lying to my husband anymore and have told him, he is ashamed of me and can't believe how anyone can gamble, I feel ashamed of myself the guilt of what I have done to him, for making him so angry, I just hope someday I can crawl out of this hole and get back on my feet and he will still be by my side.