Topic: Have you checked an overview of your gambling habits? - page 8. (Read 1358 times)

I am an adult who stays alone and caters for myself so I do not care about the opinion of others about the activity that I engage in to keep my mental health intact. I do not pay attention to others because people always have an opinion and that is what I have come to know.
Work already stresses me, I cannot do more than I am giving because of the stress level involved, and since I consider gambling to be something someone can do for fun, and fun is necessary to keep someone in a right frame of mind, I gamble to ease work stress, but make sure that the same stress I am trying to ease is not accumulated again by losing too much money than I can really accept. Prioritize your well being as much as you prioritize work, if you run mad or die due to work, the company you work for will not waste time replacing you.

Neglegent is one thing that has eaten most of the gambler's mind, they felt it wouldn't happen to them because they are (were) extremely cautious about their gambling habits forgotten that when addictions starts showing up they wouldn't know when and how it all started, therefore when they find themselves in such condition it could be too hard to control that is why today many people has became poor, some are homeless, while many married couples divorce due to intolerable attitudes discovered towards gambling habits.

Just as the other time I red a topic where a man gambles with their wedding money, this is extremely crazy and insane for a man to used a money mostly raised by the woman to gamble, like did he know what woman passes through or things she had done in the dark just to make sure their wedding was finance. Reading the op will actually help us narrowed down our eagerness towards gambling as it's not the only way of survival.

Sure, so gambling is for fun and easing ones stress but it shouldn't be seen as a major source of income were they would be pressed or pressured to regularly gamble in the name they increase their financial level. Again if we study this carefully we would know our level of understanding and engagement towards gambling to be either high or medium and low. If low then I can say that person is at a safe gambling mode, but if so much high then such person needs relaxation or distancing the casinos/betting site to recall their senses back, hence can actually practice those things I aforementioned above as guide to reduce their attention from gambling.

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It's a good feature to limits your gambling activity, the good things once your limit reached you still can claim bonus but can't bettings. It's more better than self excluded for collecting some bonus money and withdraw.

The edge some of us had is that we got to know about the possibility of getting addicted to gambling quite early when it hasn't become an issue for us if not it would have not been an issue situation. By constantly reading people's view on gambling addiction and getting to know how badly addicted some persons can get to, it's been the best review I've ever given myself that has helped me never to become victim of addiction. However, most of the chronic gamblers I know of don't don't do reviews of thier gambling engagement. They just gamble as it comes as long as the money is available to fuel that urge. Some can't even walk past a gambling hub without getting inside to start up a conversation and in the process play some games. Those kind of people are the ones that get addicted easily because they lack proper knowledge on how how far they've gone as a gambler.

Budgeting and staying strict to the amount you're using for your bet helps a lot and even when you're not taking cognisant of  the frequency of your gambling, it's going to help you spend a modest amount on gambling that will never become a threat to your financial needs.

I don't play slot games, so I'm a bit relaxed about these things. But there are people around me who play slot games all day long. Sometimes I tell them that if you want to be a more social person, you can try betting on football matches instead of slot games. Because I think someone who bets on football matches has less addictive habits than someone who plays slot games. I only bet on sports and I don't feel like an addict. I don't know what I'll do if one day I turn into one of my friends. I think in that case I would consider getting professional help.

I totally agree with this, only I think everyone with some brains already knows that you shouldn't prioritize gambling to things like studying or working. You can gamble instead of taking drugs or alcohol to relax, you can gamble instead of bungee jumping if you need some adrenaline in your blood. That is what gambling is here for. It's not like a thing that you can make money through forgetting about everything else.

Good advice and this should indeed continue to be done even though it has been discussed many times before regarding addiction but there is nothing wrong with us continuing to try to do good for others.
And regarding additional advice it seems that it would be better for us as gamblers to realize that gambling is just a little time for us to have fun by betting a little money and trying our luck.
And never take it seriously about making money from gambling no matter what happens even though sometimes we are tempted by seeing the amount of other people's winnings but always think that "this is gambling and it will not be possible to continue to make money"
With this mindset, we as gamblers will certainly continue to be motivated by our own thoughts not to bet too often and only bet when we have free time and money left.

Everything you said is good, and everything is right. Maybe what I would add is that we should not let greed enter us, because we know that having greed in playing gambling
And what I like most about what you said is that we should not let our gambling take away our time for our family with our children and husband.

It's one of the things I really liked,  and it's also true that it's not right for us to spend a long time gambling.

Don't really give a crap about what other people say for the most part, so I just ignore that. My family knows I gamble and they know how much I spend, so there really isn't any problem there. Same with my habits in gambling, it's all controlled. I had a phase in the beginning where it was "I do it whenever I want, however long I want", and it was horrible looking back on it. It was an absolute huge wast for the most part, both time and money wise wireally. Glad I managed to handle it early on and set up a sort of habit whenever I play.

I guess at the end of the day, you will really need to evaluate on how things are going, how's your life? are you suffering already because you have lost a lot and then bills are pilling and you don't have the means to pay it?

So it's not about how many hours you spend on gambling, it's really how you are doing after gambling, even if you only play 30 minutes and the results are negative, like you don't have the money to put food in the table for your family because you've lost everything in gambling, then obviously, there is a already that problem and you should really stop before everything goes out of control.

-No, because my parents have nothing to do with my gambling. For me, gambling is a hidden activity that not everyone should know about.
-Of course I can, even a week I can still go without gambling, because no matter how, my gambling does not make me feel like an obligation that must be fulfilled at all times.
-On the other hand gambling is not a top priority, because it is only for entertainment, so activities outside of gambling are still much more important to do. I can bet and leave it at any time without having to check every time.

the second part of your message is the absolute truth. I have been working towards this for a long time, from the very beginning I thought out strategies and schemes and absolutely did not monitor the budget that I spent on games. But later, after some time, I still began to control the budget and lowered the bar of expectations from the games and it became much calmer to play and I always know how much I spent and how much I won in a month. Control is the basis.

It's a great initiative to provide these key points to avoid gambling addiction but if you've already fallen unto it and is already addicted, it will be really hard to follow through with these.

Just like most gambling addict, they already know their situation and they want to control and stop it but they can't until they go broke or someone stop them. I too, have experience being addicted to gambling to the point that's it's the first thing I check when I wake up, but without experiencing that significant loss, I don't think I'll be able to control my gambling habits.

The thing is that,  Greed is the number one killer of most gamblers, especially when they hear a story of a fellow gamblers hitting the jackpot. Gambling has a way of making you feel you can be a millionaire  in the next minute, which can actually be true, but the bad part of it is when you begin to put vested interest on the fact that, you want to be the next millionaire through gambling, then that's where the problem begins.

The sad part of all this, is the fact that somebody can actually be addicted to gambling and his family will not be aware, making it difficult for the family to come in and help out. on one hand, most gamblers are not aware that they are addicted, they've seen their gambling habit as a normal thing, it will only take the help of another fellow who is observing to call them back to order.

It's always a good idea for us to remind each other of the need to take our gambling habits seriously because the kind of habits one displays toward gambling will dictate what one's finances will look like, whether having moderate or poor finances.

However, someone who cares about their gambling habits will go into it with a low budget, and less expectation not to make millions out of it because their intentions in the first place weren't to make millions out of gambling but to gamble in their free time just for the fun gambling brings

I don't think many people realize how subtle the shift is from simple complacency to something that dominates their time and mental energy. For others, one approach that works is having tough deadlines and having to live within limited financial capabilities. The same applies to limiting one's use of social media. For example, if one finds himself spending several hours each day gambling. Scheduling or scheduling other activities Regular sessions of gambling can help break that cycle. It's also helpful to reflect regularly, such as asking questions like: "Is my gambling interfering with my relationships or career?" or "Do I gamble to escape stress or boredom?" can quickly draw attention to healthy patterns. Gambling can be fun and entertaining. But it's good to keep it under control and be honest with ourselves about the impact it's having on our lives.


I do concur with you on the issue of family balance and time spent together. It might save the situation from getting worse emotionally and financially. Many addictions to gambling arise from a deep need for something within their lives. It could be financial stress or even boredom. Open communication and quality time spent from day one helps in preventing such problems in families.

You are right that the more desperate a person becomes due to dire financial struggles, the more dangerous it is. It ceases being fun and becomes a selfish attempt at changing their situation. That is why education regarding responsible gambling and risk perception is all the more important. It applies especially to those in unsafe positions. We have to help every gambler learn how to regard gambling merely as a pastime and not try it as a solution to financial solutions. Freely discussable issues are those that we can attempt to help others notice the signs before it gets too late.

I feel sorry for those husbands who work while their wives are having fun on the side.
Here I support the OP. To avoid such incidents with cheating, families should always have time for rest, for joint rest. In such cases, wives will not allow their husbands to acquire a gambling addiction, controlling the process, and husbands will not put on "horns.".
But seriously, the topic of the OP carries the idea of how not to get sick with gambling addiction. But unfortunately, many people do not learn from the mistakes of others and do not read the warnings. There is a need for money, or greed is present; these are the factors that drag people into the hole. Understanding that gambling is fun is difficult for those who are at a lower level of their financial situation, unfortunately.

Sincerely, I don't take gambling seriously, so there is no need to evaluate my performance. Only a few people know that I gamble, and they are all aware that it is not affecting me in any way. The amount of time I allocate to gambling largely depends on how long set aside for entertainment. On weekends I could spend more than on weekdays.

Nevertheless, I think people who take gambling seriously should be concerned with what people around them think about their gambling habit because they are the best to give an honest report. We usually we don't know our weakness until someone else informs us about it.

Being engaged doesn't connotes that you wouldn't have time to rest as human aren't robot, what I meant being engaged is not to take gambling as priority while there are other important thing to do. You know, most people usually gamble at working hours leaving their core duty to gamble.
But when you are occupied at the day time I believe after closure from work there will be less moment given to gambling because you would want to rest and prepare yourself for the next day activities at office so even though you must gamble there is always the believe that you have much duty to carry out the next day so you must rest or space the gambling site to enable you work productively the next day.

This topic should be in gambling discussion and not here, that board is for discussions around gambling.

Addiction in gambling is a topic that has been brought up several times here. We should have a single thread for discussions like this and all comments related to it should be added under that thread so we do not have repetitive threads.

- Jay -