I’ve had a long time battle with gambling. I’ve done everything you can think of to safeguard myself. All the blocks all the meetings all the counselling - everything.
I have recently lapsed from a strong 7 months. Despite the blocks in place there is always a way round it if you want it. A new thing I did to try and help myself lately is purchase a device called “Brick”. This locks you out certain apps on your phone and you can only get back into them by tapping the brick on the back of the phone. This works well to an extent but it clearly hasn’t worked entirely as I’m here recommending a gambling feature I know would be a game changer.
My suggestion is a Gambling Proof Blackout button within the app. My thought it whenever you press it in you’re essentially taking a time out specified by the user from having access to the app. Currently depositing to casinos via bank transfer has managed to fill the gap of standard gambling blocks. I feel if there was a button I could press where I just couldn’t access the app until time had passed I would be able to get through moments that prove to be challenging when I am gambling. You could still have your banking acting as usual I.e direct debts going out and stuff. You just couldn’t log into the app to send money to anyone until after the time had elapsed.
Anyone on here with any similar problems with gambling I wonder what you might think about that.
Thanks
C