'I had to re-mortgage my home but I still gambled every day': Women encouraged to seek help for addiction

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'I had to re-mortgage my home but I still gambled every day': Women encouraged to seek help for addiction
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Lisa Walker won £127,000 playing poker, but her gambling addiction saw her lose all of it - and much more.

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"I got rehoused but I still continued to gamble because every single day - that's all I could think about morning, noon and night." But two in every five women suffering high levels of harm may not be getting help due to stigma or shame. "What I'm trying to do is to raise awareness and to make women feel like they can come out, and that it's safe for them to talk about it," she said.A new campaign by GambleAware aims to raise awareness of the signs that a person's gambling is getting out of control

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