Shonica Guy
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Shonica Guy – who fell into the grips of a gambling addiction – celebrating one year of being ‘pokie free’
*Shonica Bowermeister
*Shonica David
*Sonica Gupta
*Shoneca Marsh
*Shonica Gooden
A mother-of-one who spent 14 years addicted to poker machines has shared an honest account about what it took to pull herself back from the brink of total destruction.
Shonica Guy, from Adelaide, started gambling as a teenager, a pursuit which she says started out as a ‘harmless bit of fun’ with a then-boyfriend down at the local pub.
Do you want sound like a native speaker? In this video you will listen how pronounce the SHONICA GUY! The pronunciations are performed with American and British accents! Give us LIKE or SUBSCRIBE. Former addict Shonica Guy claims the game is rigged and is taking the powerful industry through the courts. Picture: AAP Image/Joe Castro Source:AAP ‘IT IS WRONG, AND IT HAS TO STOP’.
‘Little did I know that decision was going to cost me the next 14 years of my life,’ the 42-year-old woman told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I was hooked from the moment I started.’
Despite their relationship ending a few years later, gambling continued as a presence in her life.
She revealed that at first she didn’t see what she was doing as anything more than ‘harmless fun’.
*After 18 months of preparation, law firm Maurice Blackburn, Ron Merkel QC and the Adelaide-based plaintiff Shonica Guy yesterday kicked off their David-and-Goliath Federal Court battle against.
*Shonica Guy, of Adelaide, wants to force both companies to admit that their Dolphin Treasure slot machine is deceptive and manipulative. Guy began playing slots when she was 17 and quickly.
But soon, she was gambling before and after a shift as a part-time worker in a food court and ‘popping out for a punt’ during her lunch break.
Shonica Guy (pictured) started gambling during her teenage years – a pursuit she says started as a bit of fun with her boyfriend down at the local pub Pick 3 lottery.
‘I remember my boss at the time telling me he’d been told I was going to the pokies and saying it wasn’t a good look and that he didn’t want me to go,’ she recalled.Shonica Bowermeister
Ms Guy said while she went home and ‘thought about what he had said’ in the end she chose gambling, sending her boss a text to tell him she’d quit.
It is such a secret so you tell lies. You don’t want people to know because it’s embarrassing and people judge you
By the time she hit her mid-twenties she was gambling much of her income and could barely afford to pay her bills.Shonica David
Ms Guy said while she never intended to spend more than $50 in one sitting, she would have ‘at least $200 on her’ – the money she would quickly feed into the machines.
‘You never think you are going to spend all the money, you only think you will spend a bit,’ she recalled.
While it dawned on her that she needed help, she admitted at the time she was far from ready to stop.
Ms Guy (pictured with her mum Leanne) reveals it was easier to say she was a drug addict than tell her mother the truth about her situation
She said one of the most terrifying moments of her addiction saw her access $1,200 of her superannuation due to financial hardship
She said one of the most terrifying moments of her addiction saw her access $1,200 of her superannuation due to financial hardship.
Despite the fact the money was earmarked to help her get out of debt, she headed to a hotel with the intention of doubling it on the machines.
Within an hour she lost the lot.
‘At this time I knew I was hooked and I needed to do something about it. I thought about gambling all the time. But thinking about it and doing something were two different things,’ she said.
The 42-year-old said the lows kept coming and not only was her gambling addiction spiralling out of control, but she had also started to lie to her mum, Leanne.
She admitted at the time it was easier to ask her mother for a loan to pay for drugs and to say she was a drug addict than to reveal she had a gambling problem.
Advocates for reform estimate that people lose around $12 billion a year – with losses spiralling since the first machines were built in 1953 (stock image)
‘It is such a secret so you tell lies. You don’t want people to know because it’s embarrassing and people judge you,’ she said.
‘And obviously, at the time, I didn’t want to tell anyone still so I had to make up something.’ Sonica Gupta
It wouldn’t be the first time Ms Guy would have to ask her mum to bail her out, remembering another harrowing time where she had spent everything on the machines and only had $5 left in her purse to live off for a fortnight.
‘I just lost it,’ she said, ‘I didn’t really know what to do.
‘I rang my mum and told her the truth. I told her I couldn’t be trusted any more and she needed to help me manage somehow.
Ampex coins. ‘I couldn’t do it anymore.’ Gambling addiction in Australia
Ms Guy has become an outspoken advocate for gambling reform in Australia
Gambling addiction is a major problem in Australia. Advocates for reform estimate that people lose around $12 billion a year – with losses spiralling since the first machines were built in 1953
In 2016, Shonica Guy brought a case against one of Australia’s largest game groups, Crown Resorts, and machine manufacturers Aristocrat Leisure
Her claims were for unlawful deception and fuelling addictive behaviour
Although Ms Guy didn’t win her case, she said Justice Debra Mortimer noted her judgement should not detract from the issues Ms Guy had raised
It’s been nine years since Ms Guy made that life-changing call and now she can proudly say she’s been free of her addiction this entire time
Her resolve to change would only last a matter of weeks and soon she was borrowing again from friends and trying desperately trying to keep up the charade she was in control.
Then, she said, one night $500 ‘disappeared in record time’ and she had finally had enough.
‘I was thinking I would either do something to myself to die or I was going to make a phone call.
‘And that’s when I decided to make the call to Pokies Anonymous.’
It’s been nine years since Ms Guy made that life-changing call and now she can proudly say she’s been free of her addiction this entire time.
The hardest part she said about stopping was being hit with the realisation that ‘half her life – 14 years – was gone’.
Aspers poker. ‘I couldn’t understand what had happened. Why didn’t I wake up to myself?Shoneca Marsh
Now the 42-year-old, who is also a mum to a boy of five, dedicates her life to helping others who are ‘still stuck in that trap’.
She’s a coordinator for two support groups, Pokie Anonymous and Gambling Link, and she runs a drama group to educate people.
‘People need to know if you touch these machines you are in danger,’ she cautions.
‘I feel strongly about letting people how it’s possible to become hooked.’Shonica Gooden
For help and information, please contact Gambling Help or more information about Pokies Anonymous can be found here
Register here: http://gg.gg/uphbl
https://diarynote-jp.indered.space
Shonica Guy – who fell into the grips of a gambling addiction – celebrating one year of being ‘pokie free’
*Shonica Bowermeister
*Shonica David
*Sonica Gupta
*Shoneca Marsh
*Shonica Gooden
A mother-of-one who spent 14 years addicted to poker machines has shared an honest account about what it took to pull herself back from the brink of total destruction.
Shonica Guy, from Adelaide, started gambling as a teenager, a pursuit which she says started out as a ‘harmless bit of fun’ with a then-boyfriend down at the local pub.
Do you want sound like a native speaker? In this video you will listen how pronounce the SHONICA GUY! The pronunciations are performed with American and British accents! Give us LIKE or SUBSCRIBE. Former addict Shonica Guy claims the game is rigged and is taking the powerful industry through the courts. Picture: AAP Image/Joe Castro Source:AAP ‘IT IS WRONG, AND IT HAS TO STOP’.
‘Little did I know that decision was going to cost me the next 14 years of my life,’ the 42-year-old woman told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I was hooked from the moment I started.’
Despite their relationship ending a few years later, gambling continued as a presence in her life.
She revealed that at first she didn’t see what she was doing as anything more than ‘harmless fun’.
*After 18 months of preparation, law firm Maurice Blackburn, Ron Merkel QC and the Adelaide-based plaintiff Shonica Guy yesterday kicked off their David-and-Goliath Federal Court battle against.
*Shonica Guy, of Adelaide, wants to force both companies to admit that their Dolphin Treasure slot machine is deceptive and manipulative. Guy began playing slots when she was 17 and quickly.
But soon, she was gambling before and after a shift as a part-time worker in a food court and ‘popping out for a punt’ during her lunch break.
Shonica Guy (pictured) started gambling during her teenage years – a pursuit she says started as a bit of fun with her boyfriend down at the local pub Pick 3 lottery.
‘I remember my boss at the time telling me he’d been told I was going to the pokies and saying it wasn’t a good look and that he didn’t want me to go,’ she recalled.Shonica Bowermeister
Ms Guy said while she went home and ‘thought about what he had said’ in the end she chose gambling, sending her boss a text to tell him she’d quit.
It is such a secret so you tell lies. You don’t want people to know because it’s embarrassing and people judge you
By the time she hit her mid-twenties she was gambling much of her income and could barely afford to pay her bills.Shonica David
Ms Guy said while she never intended to spend more than $50 in one sitting, she would have ‘at least $200 on her’ – the money she would quickly feed into the machines.
‘You never think you are going to spend all the money, you only think you will spend a bit,’ she recalled.
While it dawned on her that she needed help, she admitted at the time she was far from ready to stop.
Ms Guy (pictured with her mum Leanne) reveals it was easier to say she was a drug addict than tell her mother the truth about her situation
She said one of the most terrifying moments of her addiction saw her access $1,200 of her superannuation due to financial hardship
She said one of the most terrifying moments of her addiction saw her access $1,200 of her superannuation due to financial hardship.
Despite the fact the money was earmarked to help her get out of debt, she headed to a hotel with the intention of doubling it on the machines.
Within an hour she lost the lot.
‘At this time I knew I was hooked and I needed to do something about it. I thought about gambling all the time. But thinking about it and doing something were two different things,’ she said.
The 42-year-old said the lows kept coming and not only was her gambling addiction spiralling out of control, but she had also started to lie to her mum, Leanne.
She admitted at the time it was easier to ask her mother for a loan to pay for drugs and to say she was a drug addict than to reveal she had a gambling problem.
Advocates for reform estimate that people lose around $12 billion a year – with losses spiralling since the first machines were built in 1953 (stock image)
‘It is such a secret so you tell lies. You don’t want people to know because it’s embarrassing and people judge you,’ she said.
‘And obviously, at the time, I didn’t want to tell anyone still so I had to make up something.’ Sonica Gupta
It wouldn’t be the first time Ms Guy would have to ask her mum to bail her out, remembering another harrowing time where she had spent everything on the machines and only had $5 left in her purse to live off for a fortnight.
‘I just lost it,’ she said, ‘I didn’t really know what to do.
‘I rang my mum and told her the truth. I told her I couldn’t be trusted any more and she needed to help me manage somehow.
Ampex coins. ‘I couldn’t do it anymore.’ Gambling addiction in Australia
Ms Guy has become an outspoken advocate for gambling reform in Australia
Gambling addiction is a major problem in Australia. Advocates for reform estimate that people lose around $12 billion a year – with losses spiralling since the first machines were built in 1953
In 2016, Shonica Guy brought a case against one of Australia’s largest game groups, Crown Resorts, and machine manufacturers Aristocrat Leisure
Her claims were for unlawful deception and fuelling addictive behaviour
Although Ms Guy didn’t win her case, she said Justice Debra Mortimer noted her judgement should not detract from the issues Ms Guy had raised
It’s been nine years since Ms Guy made that life-changing call and now she can proudly say she’s been free of her addiction this entire time
Her resolve to change would only last a matter of weeks and soon she was borrowing again from friends and trying desperately trying to keep up the charade she was in control.
Then, she said, one night $500 ‘disappeared in record time’ and she had finally had enough.
‘I was thinking I would either do something to myself to die or I was going to make a phone call.
‘And that’s when I decided to make the call to Pokies Anonymous.’
It’s been nine years since Ms Guy made that life-changing call and now she can proudly say she’s been free of her addiction this entire time.
The hardest part she said about stopping was being hit with the realisation that ‘half her life – 14 years – was gone’.
Aspers poker. ‘I couldn’t understand what had happened. Why didn’t I wake up to myself?Shoneca Marsh
Now the 42-year-old, who is also a mum to a boy of five, dedicates her life to helping others who are ‘still stuck in that trap’.
She’s a coordinator for two support groups, Pokie Anonymous and Gambling Link, and she runs a drama group to educate people.
‘People need to know if you touch these machines you are in danger,’ she cautions.
‘I feel strongly about letting people how it’s possible to become hooked.’Shonica Gooden
For help and information, please contact Gambling Help or more information about Pokies Anonymous can be found here
Register here: http://gg.gg/uphbl
https://diarynote-jp.indered.space
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