"You can break cycles, you can break routines, you can break bad habits and you can create new ones."

"It’s important to reduce stigma and recognise gambling as a serious and escalating problem for some people"

“I struggled to understand why I couldn't just stop, why I no longer could think rationally, why almost everything was a trigger to gamble.”

“The buzz and getting lost in the moment of gambling was what got me hooked.”

“I just wanted to offer peer support to people struggling. Because I knew it was something I could have used at the time”

"I'm grateful, and incredibly lucky, to have gotten out of the other side of my experience of conversion therapy."

"I enjoyed my brief stint with finally having a childhood and a young adulthood."

"I thought I just need to do this, to get through to 18, and I’ll deal with my mental health then. I’m almost out"

"With me it was done at the hands of one of my parents"

"I don’t recognise myself from back then. When I was in my late teens loneliness and depression took over."