Topic: Advice when you are going a bit far in gaming and betting - page 54. (Read 7873 times)

This is more than precise and I couldn't agree more. Priming your environment and choosing the right people around you is crucial to the process of becoming the person you wanted to be. Reading books and putting on a lifestyle or habit that will keep you busy will also be helpful because most of the time, people are just too bored of their own life that the best thing they can do is to waste it. What a shame. I would add, maybe you can find someone who can make yourself accountable. So during the process that you lose yourself again, you have someone who can help you get back on the right track.

There are people that would not mind exploring the gambling interface to get what they want. If we think that we are going too far in gambling which had been affecting us and the way to make betting, it will be good for us to amend our ways and try as much as possible to limit the way we make betting to prevent the advert effects in the later time.  

Being a considerable gambler, once you detect any abnormalities in your gambling experience, the first thing to do is to pause and fix yourself right, there are many ways to go over addiction and other unethical behavioral attitudes one might had developed through gambling and some are:

1. Change your environment if it's a gambling enabling environment
2. Avoid friends who are addicted to gambling and adds no other benefits to your life
3. Read books on maintaining an addicted lifestyle and how to change as a person
4. Engage doing something every day to keep you busy and avoid any unimportant relationships.

This can be spotted when you finish your balance allocated for gambling and you continue to play saying to yourself that this is the last spin and you continue there until you lose all the balance.When this happens once I can understand the rage of the moment but if this is done continuously it means you have gone to far and the best first thing to do is to acknowledge this and ask for help.If anyone fails to do this and continue in his addiction things will precipitate real fast for him and life will look like the worst thing in the world,we should avoid this scenario at all cost and ask for help from friends and relatives first to take us to a rehab center,no other way around this.

I agree to manage time and keep myself busy so that don't have thoughts of gambling and can forget about gambling in order to prevent over-addiction.
But to find a professional and go to rehab I'm not sure I can succeed because so far there is no rehabilitation for a gambling addict moreover it all depends on one's own will if an addict really intends to stop he can forget about gambling and never come back but if a gambler has the desire to quit gambling but his heart and mind are still heavy to leave gambling so it is difficult for someone to recover from gambling addiction.
So far, there is no effective way to overcome gambling addiction except on your own volition.

In addition to the above, I can advise:
1. Set limits. In pursuit of big winnings, even if you are playing with small amounts, you may not notice how you lose all your money. Setting a limit can help you control your budget and prevent you from ending up with nothing in the end. For example, your monthly limit could be 5% of your salary, so if you lose, you will still retain 95% of your salary due to the limit.
2. If you learn to follow 1st rule, it can have a positive impact on your discipline. Discipline is another way to maintain control. Discipline yourself not to live solely for the sake of the casino or sports betting. Allocate time to all areas of life for balance.
3. Point 2 leads to the third one: take breaks. Don't forget to dedicate time to work, hobbies, and spending time with family and friends.
4. Avoid chasing big winnings and trying to "get rich quick" through gambling. If you incur losses during gambling, don't try to recover them by making impulsive bets or playing longer. This can lead to further losses and exacerbate the problem.
5. Pay attention to your emotions during gameplay or betting. If you find yourself experiencing excessive stress, disappointment, or obsession, take a step back and reassess your involvement. Impulsive bets can result in significant losses. Perhaps in a different mood, you wouldn't take such risks.
6. However, if you still feel that your addiction is progressing and becoming problematic, be sure to seek support from friends, family, and professionals.

If you are really starting to get addicted, timers can help, but without self-control, it is still a problem as you continue to gamble, and that is really a huge problem as it is difficult to practice it. That is why others tend to find some hobby as well as keep themselves busy so that they don't have free time and can't think to gamble. But again, if the person has already gotten addicted, there is no way that you can stop him unless you seek professional help to make the gambler go to rehab.

Well, many gamblers are playing not to have fun but their goal is to win huge. They think it's easy to win in gambling and they can become rich in snap. If you're a kind of gambler with such mindset, it's likely that you have a gambling problem since your main desire is to win and not to entertain yourself.

If you win in gambling it can bring satisfaction and you'll be motivated to keep on playing. However, isn't it good to gamble just to have fun and you're not expecting anything? That way, if ever you win or lose, you're not so affected since that's not the main reason why you're playing.

Will the gambler ever accept the fact that gambling is for fun, I don't think the number of gamblers that have that line of thought is much and we must know how to set the priorities right and by doing so we must learn how to control the phr emotion and never to go above our boundaries.

Setting a timer could help, but having self-control helps more since that will have psychological effects on your mindset other than a timer.

Good advices, i would like to add some:

When you are losing money, comfort yourself. Don't try to act tough because it really hurts and you need to be aware of what you are feeling and take care of yourself.
By comforting i mean doing something just for you. What ever that is or how silly it is, it doesn't matter as long it brings you comfort and joy.

Have other things in life that bring you joy and excitement, so you don't automatically get every rush from gambling. But have something else to look forward to.
There are cheap or even free activities to fill your time from climbing to gaming with your pc.

If you want you can set days when you don't gamble and try to fill those with activities that are enjoyable and productive. Productive because they bring self-esteem and that's a good balance when you had a losing streak.

It's good to set a budget for gambling but most importantly setting the budget isn't much of a big deal but rather it's keeping to it is what greatly matters. And this is where discipline sets in. Many gamblers have had a laid down budget for themselves but  ended up exceeding their budget as they got carried away with the fun and enthusiasm at that moment of gambling. So additionally when we set up a budget we should also do well do inbibe core discipline in keeping to it immediately our budget is exhausted that should be the end of our gambling for that day, week or month depending on how you decide to set yours.

That's what I really have to pay attention to until now, even though we know sometimes things like this can't always be done all the time but of course in cases like this we also can't make it seem like we're stuck forever.
Even though there are indeed a number of conditions and we occasionally cross these limits, we must be aware that it is not always like that and that must be felt because we cannot be that perfect for gambling cases and we certainly occasionally violate the boundaries of what we do, but of course that is not a reason to keep doing it and precisely with things like this we are still continuing and continuing to improve ourselves.

It's good if we know that gambling is just fun and we don't have to pursue that pleasure to the point of spending a lot of money. And when we realize that we are only playing with money, we are ready to lose and will not chase to win because we know it is not easy to get. And I agree that we must have good self-control to avoid being tempted by the many casino games. We must limit ourselves to gambling so that we are not affected by gambling where we can experience gambling addiction.

The very beauty of knowing your limitations and understand the risk when playing, if you can prevent urging yourself to keep depositing for more after you lose your initial capital the chance of getting addicted and losing a lot will not happen, you'll not go to suffer with any addictions that can really hurt your finances if being dominated by lust of continuing to play.

There are many gamblers who at the end regrets with how they act while they are still playing, unknowingly they are already suffering from hard addictions.

It's a matter of self-will to quit away and to clean the messed that they've done during the addictions.

There have been many examples when a gambler has no limits when playing gambling to become bankrupt, and that is a lesson for us to always remember that we must apply good management of our finances while playing. I am also a bit of a gambler in that I only play with money that I am prepared to lose. I'm thankful I can suppress my urges when I want to gamble but I don't have extra money to play with. The reason is if I force myself to play it will disrupt my financial flow in the end. So I do my best to control myself when I don't have money to play with.

That's a novel approach to controlling gambling, and I applaud you for it. How about we all simply throw around Monopoly money? Here's a wild hare for you to munch on. We'd experience the highs and lows of the chase without having to worry about our savings accounts when we woke up, right?

But let's turn the joke book upside down for a second. This slope is extremely slippery and steep. The complex mechanism we call a brain can get a high from a victory or a narrow escape that rivals the best champagne. So, while these small wagers may appear as docile as a newborn lamb, who can say for sure that they won't develop into a raging bull down the road?

Have you ever considered using something else in place of a deck of cards? The whole wide globe is yours to play in, pal. There is a plethora of exciting, fun, and Lady Luck-free pastimes just waiting to be explored.

Budgeting in gambling is very important, because it serves as an alarm for us to stop when we lose from gambling, limiting the budget for each gamble that I also do, for example every day I have to spend $ 10 or $ 20 to play all gambling games, of course, with small bets because I only a small gambler who expects the game to have fun, because if I'm too serious about getting money it will make me curious when I lose.

I agree with you that limiting the gambling budget can really help to prevent gamblers from becoming addicts and I'm sure that's a way that can be done for novice gamblers as well as old gamblers. no one can stop us when we go too far except ourselves.

Doing physical activity is highly recommended for everyone, including people who often play gambling, because it diverts their attention from playing gambling. And it can also help him reduce his gambling activity because, with that activity, he will focus on one thing and forget about other things for a while so that he won't think about gambling. And maybe he could take a break from gambling for a while, which would obviously allow him to forget about gambling. We can do it in many ways when we feel that we have thought too much about gambling, but that will depend on us.

I agree with you when it comes to visiting physical casinos. So far I have never visited the casino near my home town alone, always bringing at least one friend with me. It's not only about having someone to keep an eye on me, but also makes the whole trip much more fun. Visiting a physical casino is all about entertainment and having a fun night out with friends. Going alone feels more about trying to make a profit and it's probably harder to decide when to leave. An important rule for me and my friends when visiting a casino is to not bring the credit card and stick to cash only, like that you limit your losses. As for online casino it's a different story, here I always gamble alone as it would be a bit wierd to ask my friend to come over and supervise me. It's all about having a strict bankroll management and make fixed limits to not gamble with all our money at once. Having predetermined rules helped me a lot in the past to not lose too much money.