Topic: GAMBLING ADDICTION: when it begin, and how to stop. Let me help you (Read 764 times)

This ! sometimes gambling can indeed make a person dissolve and start the way he plays safe. and emotion is carried away from many factors that greatly influence. maybe the most simple is to focus and think more about the possibility of failure than too far away gamble a luck.

Yes.Treating gambling as for fun or entertainment might help an individual not to get addicted to it.But once you're an addict with gambling,you cannot recover from it if you will not motivate yourself to make a change.Changes should start within yourself and good things will sure to follow in the process.

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People get attracted to it easily as it involves money and those who think money can be earned easily form it or one can become rich this is how they start playing and keep on continuing inspite of losses they may have incurred Only if you play for fun and enjoy it will be better for oneself.

Good advice but, when a gambler realizes it's time to stop then, he would be in neck deep of problems. So, it is too difficult to overcome that predicament. It is not easy as you think of it. If you want to change someone then, better start to dis encourage him at the start. When people addicted to it, advice won't work.

Ohhh thank the fuck lord someone said it!!!

So much advice my 6 year old neice knows, yet Im still gambling daily.  I've lost everything, excluded from all casinos, even went to inpatient treatment, the hole gets deeper and deeper.

And I cant fucking stand people explaining the "trick" on how to stop

This is what most of the people are making other understand with. These gamblers are just making their lives miserable. And once they are get addicted to this gambling, this wouldn’t let them go anywhere so easily. So a huge impressive force and mindset is required to chose different path and make your route over it. Better life can’t never be achieved as long as you are connected with gambling.

Yeah you are right strong determination will help you to stop gambling. Other people will just advice you to stop gambling but they cannot force you to stop gambling. I have never seen that a doctor or relative stopped a gambler from gambling. If you think a little bit about your family then you will not gamble for the rest of your life.

Unless you are a doctor or qualified to help gambling addiction, then I would advise not starting threads like these.
You may be giving people a sense of false hope which is not a good thing to do especially to a gambler.

Recovering from the gambling is addiction is not an easy job we need to get realize first that we are losing our wealth in the gambling.Then we should seek the help of medicine and from the affection from the close persons our life to get our concentration from the gambling.But still it is possible to get away from addiction so it all depends on us.

playing gamblin begins from curiosity how to make money or encouraging from the friends to enjoy while palying in gambling and if they can't control themself become miserable life because of addicting in gambling.

To stop playing ganbling need the support of the family. Family binding are the best solution to forget the gambling addiction to become busy in the some others actitivies.

I think from the story, we can get a good lesson for our life. I agree with him that we need seriously to leave gambling if we want to make a better life and we need to save our money and not use for gambling only. we know that if we continue playing gambling, we have a big chance to lose all of our money without any chance to recover our loss. when we lose that money, we are difficult to realize that we don't have any money to buy something for our life. so, it is not too late to try to quit gambling for now as we still have a chance to leave the gambling games.

I didn't say anything wrong, I just mentioned the actual condition of wht is happening around,we can say we need to control our emotions while betting but you will get emotional when you lost your amount unless you no need to worry about the money required for future.
But if you can I am not against you but most of the people can't that is why more people getting addicted to gambling.
We will never know that situation until it happens to us.

This is human nature that he likes a person who resembles in mindset and thinking with him. Like, if some teacher taunts you or scolds you for anything wrong you just did, this might be letting you to hate him. So don’t make this criteria for your good or bad. Here this man seems to appreciate you so now you are saying your gratitude to him however he is totally wrong.

Finally, A post from someone who probably at least struggles with gambling.... And it may not be too severe, but at least it gives me the impression he understands what others dont......

So Thank you for posting that...


You are right,  the reasons why theres so many posts similar to the one your quoting is because its so easy to say.....

Easy to say but really hard when we apply it ourselves because our mind don't take it as easy if we lose money into something like gambling it always want us to try more and get back the lost amount.But we need to understand that we need to leave if we have lost more money as oer our budget for betting.

If one more person gives a "Morality pep talk" but yet isn't a gambler themselves (in which case they wouldnt be giving a pep talk)  I'm gonna lose my mind....

People actually are making statements about how "We need to make positive choices, and we're responsible for those choices" 

      For Fucks sake, my 6 year old niece knows that..... I do appreciate the reminder, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, it's possible that given the situation that isn't affecting you, There could be something you don't understand?


Gambling has ruined my life, my familys life, and I'm gambling as I'm posting this.....   And no its not bc I forgot about "good choices," or I wanna be cool, and not to mention, its not enjoyable at all......  Yet, I'm still bettering while typing.....


I don't understand why, but I do know this is a decade long problem at this point, and if I don't understand it, I promise if you are not a gambler, it's very difficult to grasp...


Especially with the stigma it has in society as "Fun, Entertainment, Parties, etc..."    I realize it's tough to link gambling in with drugs and alcohol, but I have a hard time understanding how drugs and alcohol can be "SOOOO Addicting".... I just don't comment about it since I don't know......And I wouldnt want anyone who is having a tough time, to hear me say incorrect things that could be interpreted as arrogant or even insulting.....


"Yes.And we are making our own life so we should be responsible if ever consequences come.And if you are really addicted in gambling,you need not to stop there,you should find ways by your own self how to stay away from gambling and never come back anymore.I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline and self-motivation.Changes should start with your own self."


I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline[----->  I believe you are basing that on your own personal NON-experience.......

Yes.And we are making our own life so we should be responsible if ever consequences come.And if you are really addicted in gambling,you need not to stop there,you should find ways by your own self how to stay away from gambling and never come back anymore.I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline and self-motivation.Changes should start with your own self.

  yes that friends do play a vital role in your life but in case of gambling, the friends also return empty handed because gambler’s real friend is gambling and no one else. If you don’t agree with me in this regard take your best friend with you to casino for gambling and have a match with him and after seeing his reactions comeback and tell me the truth.

That is really not the point because what makes the person an addict in the first place is the fact they he or she finds it hard to stay away and it is easier said than done to tell a gambling addict to stay away when indeed all he is thinking even when he is not in a casino is gambling.

Being a gambling addict is hard to get out from and the best thing is never to even be in that shoe in the first place and that starts from the moment you want to start making those decisions to gamble. Those who find it hard to control or talk to themselves when they are threading the wrong path as a result of their greed will always end up this way.