Topic: Have you ever been a gambling addict? - page 15. (Read 2434 times)

6 years ago, I was very addicted to gambling to extend that I literally wake up very early everyday and go out to work in other to raise money to finance my gambling addiction. Sometimes, I do win but most of the time I do lose my stakes. It was so bad that I felt it will be a huge embarrassment if I open up to anyone around me about my gambling habit but after I lost a very huge sum of money one night in a gambling house, I made the decision not to gamble again and that decision has always stood since then.

Isnt the person who gets few wins in a row or wins frequently, or even got some easy money, automatically turns into addicted gambler? I will speak for my self. I have made a 1 BNB deposit and rather easy turned it into 1.3 BNB, withdrew it and in few days that easily gained profit basically forced me to make deposit again and repeat everything. Easy 0.6 BNB in less than a week, and I start to think that I am gonna make a deposit again after a pause. Probably 0.6 BNB. Because even if I lose them, my total balance would be still that 1 BNB. And that starts to make me crazy...

Every person earns money to meet the basic needs of life the addiction thing is really bad if you can't control yourself it makes things worse. He is very much aware about gambling even though his income is low he is not ready to take risk in spending his money on gambling. Spending on necessities is more important than gambling in fact if there is no harmony between means and achievement the world can be terrible. He realized his problem after a while and controlled himself by thinking that he should hold himself somewhere.

You did the right thing to include gambling in a certain routine. One shouldn't gamble with emotions. He should know when to play and when to stop. When it comes to gambling, if you can't get a hold on your emotions you might loss everything.

Another thing is that, gambling should be played for fun not money making process. Yes, gambling will bring you a lot of money. But that doesn't mean, it'll be your main source of income. Gambling should be something to relieve stress not create stress.

Lastly money management is the most crucial part in gambling. If you don't take account of your earnings and loosings, you might loss everything before you realize you have nothing left. So always maintain a limit when gambling. Gamble the amount that you can efford to loss not what you could win.

I only played once a week and at that time I lost my self-control so when I lost, instead of quitting, I played again and even borrowed money from friends. A person who loses is naturally upset because it's common, who says they don't want to quit? Can you read someone's mind? Are you sure everyone who gambles wants to keep playing? Can you be sure everyone has no gambling limits? Are you sure that all players are like that? Why would you say that? Are you one of those who gamble with no limits and want to keep playing?

Basically everyone doesn't want a loss, no one wants themselves to experience a loss, but in all things there must be a risk that will bring a loss. It all depends on ourselves whether we can run it properly or not. I myself can limit gambling by playing only on weekends, even if I have other events I don't play at all. But it's not up to me to make you believe, I'm just sharing my experience in gambling.

Well if you have bare minimum salary, for sure you would be conscious on every money you stake at gambling. Every money is important to you as you earned it for the whole month so wastign it all into gambling would be so regretful. Whenever you are at loss, some people would say they would try to recover their losses which will lead to addiction cause it will just worsen your situation, if you have low income, losing some few funds you will already realize how that money can cover some of your essential needs like from what you have mentioned. Using gambling as source of your income and escaped to your life, would never be an option to person that are earning money bare minimum. I actaully understand your point and it's quite relateable since I live in a country where most of the people earn money just to survive.

I don't even have the most certain answer of how a person would be considered as gambling addict. Now, let's put it on your perspective. What if you're in control of the games you played in a certain casino and you were able to afford all the money you spend in gambling because you're rich and you regularly gamble with huge amount of money but still in control with all your finances. Does that mean you have the indication of being a gambling addict?
I am starting to realize that gambling addicts are not only the ones who became broke, but there are also rich people who are able to balance his money generating business and gambling urges.

It is true that if we do not pay attention at all and also do not apply management and control in any field in our real life then obviously as a result there will definitely be some problems that come, it often happens in real human life and I'm sure everyone must also have experienced it and I call it carelessness maybe. Yes, especially in gambling that really involves your money, if you don't care about the name of management and self-control then I can make sure that soon you will experience a lot of problems with your own finances, it's because you don't have good management in terms of money allocation and you don't have limits when gambling so you always put your funds on gambling even though the final results often lose. Do not let you go too far even though maybe the purpose of gambling is to seek pleasure but still you should not overdo it and must put limits, how can you exchange money for a pleasure, it's okay but it must be with good management too, or the point is to set limits and not too often because it will cause problems with your finances.

Yes, that's the point, go ahead if you want to gamble, no one forbids it, but on the condition that you must keep your finances in order to stay fine, do not let because of this activity you even experience a lot of financial problems.

That's true because by preventing gambling addiction, we have eliminated the biggest problem of gambling that many people may have experienced so far, especially since we can easily be tempted to continue gambling. We must be able to learn to be responsible when gambling and also have good self-control so that we don't experience a lot of losses, which can trigger us to continue gambling. By continuing to gamble, we can become addicted to gambling and we often don't realize it and we only realize it when we have a serious gambling addiction. But we still feel that we are not addicted to gambling and consider ourselves to be fine even though if other people saw it, they would say that we are seriously addicted to gambling.

I haven't felt like a gambling addict.maybe because I consider myself a low income earner and meticulous keep track of everything I spend money on. I know that this is not so with some people but having low income means minimal amount is allocated to gambling and therefore, your risk of addicted to gambling is low because after you have considered the amount you'll spend on feeding for a month, house rent, health, transportation, internet fee, and other things, you can't even imagine being addicted. As it would be being hungry, being thrown out of your apartment, and not being able to care for yourself when your sick. You may have a counter argument but this is my own opinion. Thanks

In the context of testing a web gambling for example I choose from board games and rounds there are many games as well as campaigns that are running, I am interested in testing features, speed and whether it competes with competing games, that is my goal and not to settle for 1 game meaning I don't expect much in 1 game for example gambling.

Experience is a valuable thing yes gan, and I agree. It is very true that you realize your financial condition that must be recovered and if you play when your financial condition is stable it will far make you enjoy more from every result that comes out, of course?

I deposit a few $ or crypto under $10 usually, I consider it worth renting a certain website and I randomly enjoy its features and benefits at will, it's better to enjoy exploring a game by understanding it without having to force yourself and hope for huge profits beyond expectations let alone hope for instant profits and become a routine, if the intention is right I just enjoy it.

Addiction in my opinion is almost the same as what you said, but here it could also be a matter of time. Someone who is addicted always wants to be in the casino all day or in front of the slot machine all the time to play it. If he is not at the casino for even one day, he will feel restless and like a depressed person. That's the easiest level of addiction to get into, even if it doesn't cost a lot of money.

So when people start to feel addicted to gambling, they not only waste money, but also their time and all their attention. Is this good for his health? of course not. Everyone must be able to focus on productive things so they can continue to make money properly and live comfortably.

You may be successful in controlling your money in a gambling place, but if you waste too much time, that's not a good thing.

Are you sure that it wasn't big enough? Then why you are annoyed? Or maybe you think it is small but you gamble too frequently or you are re-depositing right after a loss because you feel like you want a revenge. No it doesn't comes down to luck. You see because even if you are lucky to recover and win more, you still don't feel like quitting. Much more for those who experience to continue a bad luck continuously.

Expecting back losses isn't wrong. It was a good thing in fact so that we won't feel disappointed and most of the times the less we expect a win, the more the wins can come. The last thing that you said is true because even though there are skill-based games, luck still plays a role even just a little.

I think thats because people in here try to prevent being a gambling addict than to find a solution when they become one. Well its easier said than done but when you started gambling responsibly, it unconsciously becomes part of your system that when you start feeling like you are betting too much, you stop yourself from being addicted to it. For me, addiction is when you can no longer control yourself from gambling. So as long as you are still in control of your games and finances, its okay.

This is a good point. And this made me wonder, that what if we were all addicted but we were not just aware? or is it because our addiction is not as the same degree as what gambling addicts have? But I have not yet experienced any negative implications of gambling as what other have experienced. Like experiencing financial troubles caused by excessive gambling or having mood swings because of the losses. But I have experienced chasing losses before, but I don't think that's a clear sign of gambling addiction. I have also experienced before where I don't want to stop gambling even though it's already past the time that I have set for my gambling activity as I have other things to do. I don't know also if that's a sign of gambling addiction. But I was able to control that and that never happened again.

That sounds more reasonable. I also thought that at that time I was a gambling addict, maybe still at a low level so that when I ran out of money I could immediately stop gambling without causing any side effects on my physical and mental health.

Yes… I think slot games have the biggest addictive effect. Apart from that, the feature of buying free spins and the possibility of winning up to 5000x, 10000x, even 100000x the bet is like a challenge that we want to overcome.

Your friend long and angry debate succeeded in getting you not to do things that were more detrimental to you again and again, and fortunately your friend continued to remind you tirelessly.
that's why we gamble at least openly whether it's to our family or to our friends because at least one friend will always remind us when we find it difficult to control ourselves when gambling, if only your friends don't know about your behavior when gambling at that time and have used up all saving you may be experiencing difficulties at this time and the risk of gambling addiction could occur because you are really trying to chase your losses to the point of almost taking out a loan.

Is there any possibility of gambling with limits ?? That even after everything, you ain't cut up with addiction..?? That's not just possible...
In as much as you're a regular gambler, the possibilities of involving in gambling addiction is far possible, but the resistance is slim .. "if you accept it, you can't retract it"..
The more you lose, the more you'd realize what it means to keep wagering...

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

It's hard to say no when you're a gambler. Maybe it's just the level of addiction that varies between gamblers, even though they are addicts. I admit that I am an addict, but I don't think I'm so addicted that it ruins many things, including finances and so on. Self-control and finances are ways that allow gamblers to become less addicted, then not chasing wins to recover losses is another thing that needs to be considered.

Maybe this thread is not a way to avoid addiction, but based on the title alone; I am also a gambling addict, especially certain games like slots. The intensity has lessened as I focus on investing, but there is always a good time to indulge in some fun on a particular game in gambling.

I am going to admit that I'd fall into gambling badly but not to the point that I become addicted and maybe because I was able to stop such kind of temptation and are able to control my emotion. I could really say that most of the time we commit mistakes first before we realize that we are wrong and then become responsible gamblers. Because if we let our emotions dictate our actions, the more possibility that we fall into addiction. That is why I would say newcomers must think about the reason why they are gambling because if they think about making money here, the more chances of failure.