Topic: Have you ever been a gambling addict? - page 13. (Read 2221 times)

Yes! I've been a gambling addict but that was a long time ago and I must say it was one of the worst things that's ever happened to me as an individual. But luckily for me I was able to save myself from gambling addiction after I gambled with every remaining money in my possession and had to go hungry for over 24 hours before I was saved by a relative who helped me financially to get food for myself. After that very day, I made the decision to reduce my gambling activities to the barest minimum and gamble responsibly whenever I want to.

Yes, I think most gamblers will experience more losses than wins. When I was new to the world of gambling, I couldn't take it so I chased losses and eventually ran out of savings. But now I am ready to lose when I gamble and can start to forget about the money I lost because of gambling

Gambling is sometimes funny too, when we look for wins, we end up losing a lot and when we play relaxed and enjoy it, we can often get big wins. Have you ever felt like that?

Yes! I have been in that situation but it was a long time ago when I was in high school, I saved all my money just to play when I got home back in the day and sometimes we gambled inside the campus in our own way. It's the people who are with you who will make you do things that you aren't familiar with like gambling. As soon as I realized I was with the wrong people, I left and chose another company to enjoy life and I found the right friends which I still have right now even though we have our own families, we still hang out sometimes and make some resourceful activities that helps us grow.

Actually lose more than win is really normal and every gamblers must able to accept that, if not there's no way for them to think gambling has a positive impact. Even you've learn self control, strategy or anything about gambling, you will lose in the long run.

So, can you accept to lose in gambling?

He had to win a lot of money to be able to finance his studies because it was not cheap. I also experience more losses than wins from gambling. And if anyone can win a lot of money, it will probably be rare among most gamblers because most of them will experience a lot of losses.

Yes, self-control is the most important thing for all gamblers to avoid gambling addiction problems. Gambling addiction is something that many people have experienced so we should not experience it and with self-control, we can avoid it. If we have recovered from gambling addiction, we must be able to prevent it from coming back to us because we have experienced it before and must try hard to protect ourselves from gambling addiction.

You mentioned the time in college that reminded me of the time when most of my friends participated in online gambling, and we also had groups that were often online to play together, but not to win money but simply entertainment when the games only rank points without depositing money. And at that time, my very close friend was also a gambling addict when he often borrowed money from me, even though we were both students. Perhaps the pitfalls of gambling made many people uncomfortable, including my friend, who had to pay the price, and he dropped out of school when he first started his second year. But actually, I don't feel too sorry for that friend it was only because he had to pay the wrong price. Only then can he be better aware of his own behavior.

Not to encourage that behavior, but I was lucky enough to bet my tuition money on gambling games. But that only happened once when I was in a situation where I didn't have many options to have money to pay for living expenses and couldn't ask for more from my family. Either I would go into more debt, or I would get out of the jam, and that luck happened to me. Ironically, I was quite lucky with offline games, as I had also won before with lottery games, but really, I don't want to become an addict, simply the experience of the people around my family makes me aware of the mistakes and risks that I encounter.

Can you finance your studies with gambling money? sounds good guys. I lost more than I won, that's what made it worse. If I get a lot of wins in gambling it might have a good impact and there is no need to stop gambling. May I know what game you play?

Yes, the most important thing in gambling is self-control. If we can do this then we will not get the negative impact of gambling

For every new gambler there comes a time when he becomes addicted to gambling. I was first introduced to online gambling when I was in college and since then I gambled little by little to save semester money or pocket money. At one point I felt like I was addicted to gambling because at that time I felt I should be gambling. When I didn't have any money, I used to borrow money from my mother for gambling and so on, but later when I finished college I realized that maybe I was going in the wrong direction, maybe I shouldn't be so addicted to gambling. Since then I tried to recover myself although it took me a long time to recover myself from that place but still I managed to recover myself. Now I gamble but not addicted to the tide but on my own accord. When I want to gamble I gamble, when I don't I don't gamble.

But in fact, to see if someone is addicted or not, it's very easy to see, just give him advice, but if he doesn't hear it, it means he's a gambling addict, because gambling addicts don't really want to listen to advice from experienced gamblers before they go bankrupt and look for what's wrong with them, that's what why do they behave more indifferently and are not very happy with anyone around them?

I once felt like that, how I felt at the beginning of my addiction symptoms where I didn't want to listen to other people's advice and continued to gamble, but after I experienced a losing streak and lost money, I started to realize that there was something wrong with my behavior, since then I started listen to advice and control myself better by gambling on weekends. I no longer gamble every day which will only make me behave badly., 

I agree with you that most people do not understand that their gambling hobby is beginning to cross the boundaries of reason. At the same time, they can be understood that gambling affects them so much, let's look at teenagers as an example. Where do they get the money from? They don't have salaries, scholarships. And gambling gives such an excellent opportunity to earn, while no technical or legal knowledge is needed, you just need to guess!

That is, this earnings is also fun! That's why I think it's necessary to keep an eye on and monitor teenagers, and for formed personalities. After all, gambling is fun, but the line from fun to addiction is very hard to feel.

Yes I agree with that, even though with the aim of just having fun but if you play it often or even every day it will make us addicted later. Because when gambling we will forget everything and I have even experienced it, my friend who is gambling does not care about the things or people around him, he only focuses on his gambling even though I have called him repeatedly but he is still focused on his gambling. I myself think to gamble in a place that is comfortable and not gambling in public places such as parks which of course there are often many people there. Because if people see one person gambling in the park they will think what is wrong, why is that? because people think differently. So no one knows what other people think.

With self-control it can make them determine when to play and where is a comfortable place to gamble, because in my opinion gambling will be comfortable if it is done at the right time and place that also makes us comfortable to enjoy the game.

I think it's very possible that someone is gambling addicted and yet not knowing about what they are into, since they can only see the way they behave as being normal in their own sight despite others are seing it as an addiction, in this kind of manners, we are expected to to listen to people's advise and opinions suggested to us from the way we gamble, because we might be doing something wrong and it's appearing as right in our own eyes, we can choose to listen to advise and take heed to being corrected.

I wouldn't say "addict" because it didn't take that long, in order for me to consider someone an addict I need to see that person gambling for a very long period of time without being able to stop, so I wasn't an addict because it didn't take that long.

However, I did acted like an addict and couldn't stop for a short period of time, it was like just 3 months of my life, and I did lost some money there too, wish I didn't had that period but at least it was a smaller amount compared to past and it wasn't something that changed my life, and I was capable of stopping quite easily at the end, took me only 3 months to have something like that and I would say when you gamble for 3 months, unless you bet your house and lose, that doesn't feel like a big deal at all. I think it's clear that we are not going to end up with a huge loss that quickly neither. I learned my lesson from those days and I have not done the same thing ever again, which was really helpful.

Gambling is such an addiction that if played constantly for fun it becomes an addiction at some point. Then you forget everything and are busy gambling so you have to play with control level from the beginning. Limits are also good as a means of self-control it would be great if you set a monthly time and money limit for gambling don't try to recover wins or losses. Playing in a bad mood or playing drunk can lead to poor play decisions and therefore loss of money don't do this.

Its a learning curve to enter the ring thinking you'll outsmart the system but finding it much more crazy. Most of the time, people wake up after losing money, when the veil of "easy money" lifts and the harsh light of danger shines through. Gambling is fascinating because people keep taking risks despite bad results. Some people adjust their strategy after setbacks, while others keep going. The world of gambling is very ironically funny because people are torn between being careful and being brave. Many struggle to decide when to push or fold. Its about managing financial and mental health. Knowing when hope becomes delusion is crucial.

I did in the past and I got over it. It's just mind over matter. I found myself spending way too much money in gambling that I got stressed out in the process. It's not the same feeling as the first time you gambled where there is so much fun playing different games and you get excited just thinking about playing them again the next day.
It became a bad routine that is not easy to let go. Chasing my money back is what urged me to do it continuously and it made things worst.

As long as a beginner gambler is willing to learn what he needs to have when gambling and continues to practice it, he can reduce his risks because without having good self-control and being irresponsible, the beginner gambler will face big risks such as gambling addiction. They should know that gambling addiction has become a serious problem for many gamblers and there are already many gamblers who experience it to the point where they cannot give up gambling easily. Maybe they think that they have tried to control themselves but because they are careless and don't notice any changes in themselves, that makes them irresponsible gamblers. They have lost a lot of money and cannot leave gambling even for a moment, which makes them addicted to gambling and that has become a big problem for them. There must be help from other parties who can help them get out of their gambling addiction and also with the desire to cure their gambling addiction, they can start to cure their gambling addiction.

Yes, that's right, panic leads to their minds not being alert and clear, and they keep wanting to add more money to get back their lost assets. Gambling when your mind is not sound will lead to gambling out of control.
Even people who win easily are too subjective when betting more than they have. With greed, they will make a lot of money. They will also have the same outcome as those who panic when they lose. Therefore, self-control in gambling is always a top priority whether you win or lose.

Being a beginner gambler is risky, it is better not to even make an attempt to be a gambler than becoming a beginner gambler, why? Because at that stage, the gambler might only be chasing loses and nothing more and it will also make him/her lose more in gambling, just like how it happens to you at your early age in gambling, it have happened to others and it's not the first or the last.
For some gamblers to enjoy only the fun in gambling will be a bit difficult for them because some of them thinks that losing money in gambling is meaningless to them, so they prefer to chase winnings and nothing else.

Panic is one of the causes of big gambling losses.  When someone loses 30-40% of his budget in gambling he panics and later bets a higher amount to recover that loss.  And if he ever loses, he loses almost all of his crap.  And he becomes addicted and deposits more and thus a gambler becomes more attracted to gambling and panics and continues gambling.  So certainly one should not gamble when one is not well.  And one should not panic while gambling.  And always try to keep yourself under control