After a decade-long gambling addiction, Marc Williams had lost control.
He had been wading through a swamp of debt for some time and now couldn’t pay off the interest on his credit cards. Still, he attempted to place a 10,000 bet. The screen greeted him with the words “insufficient funds”.
He hurled the iPad he was holding as hard as he could. Then he started throwing anything that wasn’t tied down in his living room. He screamed and cried, cursing the world and his misfortune.
Then, he locked eyes with his 18-month-old daughter sitting on the floor.
“She was just staring at me,” Williams reflects. “I’ll always have that image in my mind, of what I must have looked like to her.
“I calmed myself down and picked her up. I held her close and…
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