Topic: Have you ever been a gambling addict? - page 6. (Read 2434 times)

But to get a bonus they have to top up their gambling account first, and my experience is sometimes when I put a not too large amount then the bonus I get is meaningless, or I mean maybe it can only be used for a few spins, I only get 5% of the amount of 100% of the money I bet and that's very small. Some gamblers may have been fooled by the bonuses they can get, even though you managed to get a bonus but look at the actual facts as you said that the amount you lose is far greater than the bonus you get and it is far from equal. If you come in looking for maximum winnings along with bonuses then I think it's all going to be reversed, or I mean a lot of money you're going to have to lose.

Casinos are so clever they can do anything that looks good to gamblers, it's like indirect brainwashing.

It is very difficult to define or to have an understanding of what gambling responsibly actually means because it related to the personal circumstances of the individual that is gambling and that might include their mental/physical health situation, their family/domestic situation as well as their financial situation.

Keeping that aside, what steps have you taken to improve your financial condition?

I can only blame @cafter for this who knew nothing about gambling but just got attracted to it by the bonus offers to play. The bonus is, of course, good, once you read and understand the terms and conditions and have patience in fulfilling them, then you are good to go. However, it's bad not to understand what you want to use the bonus for even as your wagering amount is also included. The first thing that he should have done is to abandon that account after the deposit (to claim the bonus if it's time-limited) and seek knowledge. Then after gaining the right knowledge, use the money patiently until the condition to withdraw the bonus is fulfilled.

Besides, for you @madnessteat, I believe that it's more false that "since the house has the advantage over the player they can't make them win." I think this assumption is overrated, especially these days when we have provably fair systems in gambling. Mind you, it's not all aspects of casinos and sports betting that the house has that power over or can wire in their favour, some games are so real/fair and can't just be manipulated.

When seeing those kind of offers we need to always think about why the other party is going through the trouble of doing what is the equivalent of giving money away, and once we do so we will realize that casinos do this for several reasons, the first reason that comes to my mind is that they know that the conditions they have set forward as wagering requirements will make it very hard for the majority of the gamblers to be able to withdraw that money, also since the odds are on their favor the more you bet the more they win, and finally this is a great marketing tool for them, allowing them to bring even more gamblers to their casino especially if their bonuses are better than what most casinos are offering at the time.

I'm glad to see you here and that you pulled it off. Now we are sharing our experience, this can motivate other BTT users, but at the same time, not everyone succeeds. My experience is stored in my head, and even though they say that you can break down at any moment, this will not happen to me. I have seen enough broken lives because of this, even if it was online and not offline. I regularly look at sad stories of people, they make me feel that one step is enough to be on this side, this line is very thin. Ultimately, either you overcome the addiction or it defeats you. I think you and I definitely won it.

Yes, that's true because they are covered by their desire to gamble, so they can't see the reality that they are addicted to gambling. If they stay like that, maybe their gambling addiction will get worse so that no one will be able to help them unless they can wake up and ask other people for help. The denial will always be there because they think they are okay and still gamble within their limits, but their limits have changed drastically when they become addicted to gambling. This is what all gamblers must be aware of because if our limits have started to change, we must immediately check ourselves and make adjustments. If necessary, we must immediately stop gambling for a while.

When someone starts to feel comfortable with what he is doing, he will not want to change and move into the discomfort zone because that will cause him to experience disturbance. Whether it is a mental or physical disorder, what is clear is that they feel that it is uncomfortable for them, and they want to return to their comfort zone again. It requires a strong effort to be able to move from a comfort zone to an uncomfortable zone, even though that is what is needed to be able to reduce gambling activities.

They will only develop a worse gambling addiction, and no one will know because they don't tell anyone else. But when the frustration and stress have reached its peak, and there are people around him who are aware of it, then the person who is addicted to gambling will open up little by little and start telling him what happened to him.

When they start winning, greed will come to them and whisper attractive words, which will ultimately make them tempted to continue gambling even though they have already told themselves not to continue gambling. But because they didn't immediately leave the casino after the win and instead visited another page of the casino, they finally chose to gamble on another game. They said it was just one more time, and they were done gambling. But the reality is that they are drawn deeper into the gambling game and choose to continue gambling while greed laughs when they finally fall for the temptation. That is what makes gamblers who have won lose control of themselves in gambling, and instead of withdrawing their winnings, they use it to gamble and say they will really stop gambling after getting another big win. But what happens is that they experience loss until they end up having to lose their winnings.

For the most part, bonus systems in casinos are designed to make a gambler in the casino as much money as possible to his account. If you consider the fact that the casino has an advantage over the gambler, it is easy to understand that the more you gamble, the more you will lose money. This is a very simple marketing move, which many do not understand and continue to chase bonuses.  

That's because they weren't, or won't admit it, so they talk about something else, avoiding the answer.
Saying that you've spent all your savings on gambling doesn't tell us much. You could be a teenager and all your income is the pocket money your mother gives you every week so you can buy yourself a meal at school. Sure, losing that every single week means you're an addict, but it doesn't describe the severity of your situation.

I've never been an addicted to anything. The closest I could get to that was maybe to PC gaming, but I stopped doing that long ago by myself, so maybe I wasn't as addicted as I thought. Some of us are just not prone to addiction. Maybe it's strong will or something?

This is not true, it's only when you are trying to solve your family problems with gambling profits you can become addicted on a mere playing. I don't understand why an ordinary person would feel addicted when you are not meant to be reliant on something that will give you high blood pressure. Gambling should be done witb discretion and not rush into because you will get the opposite of what you are looking for and you will not be happy and when you want to force it, you will lose even more it.

There is one way to Runa way from gambling, don't gamble with the money you know will hurt you, it should be from the money you don't need and by that, I mean you should gamble with the money that even when you lose it, you wouldn't feel anything at all, your risj should always be smaller than your profits, that way you will easily make your capitals from a any win if you are the type that gamble everytime.

There's no gambler that'll proudly day that he's never been addicted to gambling ever in his life and that's because of how addictive gambling can be. That been said, it's one thing to become addicted to gambling and totally a different thing to fight the addiction before it gets out on hand because living with the addiction is very detrimental and can easily ruin a a person's future.
I was once deeply addicted to gambling before and it was so bad that I was totally unable to save a dime rather I was constantly using every cent that I get to gamble and it was a very sad experience. I had to fight against it and luckily enough, I got over it

Such a rethinking and difficult path has occurred for many, but what is important is what conclusions the person made after all this. Unfortunately, very often there are none. I'm glad that you've reached the level where you can bet for fun, even though you had to pay quite a price for it. There are also those who will not be able to understand this in their entire lives; they will constantly bet and lose and will never bet for fun. Something similar happened to me, so I understand you well.
There will also be those who, having reached your level, will reach a bet that will infuriate them and they will again go to another circle that they went through earlier and learned nothing.

Loosing once money on the course of gambling is not an addiction, every one wants to taking winning in the gambling that whether loosing or winning there is always other days to get back to the gambling and still after loosed you still report back other times.
That was just such a scenero that exhausted your money.
Gambling addictions is measured by the gamblers level of gambling specifically his consistencies where he has fallen in love on the gamble and doesn't feel complete if he doesn't get on the gambling board.

So I would say that you are an irresponsible gambler and can't take control of your emotions  whereas you fails to undermine making savings in other to accumulate in solving your financial problems and the lost of goal of planning for your future.
You were an irresponsible gambler to had not considered how hard you works to earn the money spent of and your flexibilities to unconsciously loosing and your continues staking without realizing that you are running back to zero level.

Tell us how you did it so others could learn but however, it is always nice at when one realizes himself, picks the point of errors and take drastic measures to tackle the issues. I am happy for you because addiction is a diesease that could have negative mental state of being.

Yes of course I have not only felt being a gambling addict but I feels like I am possesed with gambling because I don't imagine investing my money on a system that I have about 99% percentage to loose yet I keep striving and striking to survive along the line but though I am a responsible gambler who is not addicted

I don't care to know how much I have lost. I am a responsible gambler and somedays wishes I could release all that of my lost back nomatter how little it could be.

For that same reason there must be a lot of awareness of things when you are in casinos, there must be many things that you know before playing the games, guides or advice that can be given to avoid falling into addiction, all addiction is harmful and poor. bad person or his family group bad, a person who becomes addicted is because he does not control his money well or control what he feels, and he has a high degree of responsibility if he decides to put all his money in a game of chance knowing that it is given by luck and having moments where you can win and get some money.

Games of chance are not made so that people become crazy or addicted, games of chance are made so that people can have fun and not to win money, the money you earn is because you have good luck there is no Another explanation, according to my experience in casinos it is like that, there may be moments and that is when you win, but that does not happen frequently.

Not only his emotion, a gambler must also learn how to control his cash flows, and the time he will spend in gambling.  One must set a limit on his gambling activity, because if a gambler failed to set a limit specifically time and bankroll, he will end up losing everything.

Imagine engaging in gambling for more than 10 hours everyday?  What will happen to our work?  Of course it will greatly affected and our performance will surely hit the bottom and might cause us to get fired due to productivity problem.  Aside from that,  spending to much time in gambling will also affect our social life.  We might end up missing important event of our family due to being hooked in gambling and that will affect our relation with the family.

Once the gambler get into the gambling,it's not easy to get away from the gambling.Because the win and loss will manipulate the gambler to stay in the gambling site,if the loss is the last result.The gambler will start to target the win on the next gambling game to manage their loss in the previous game.Incase the profit is the otcome,the gambler will look for the next win and loss the entire money by retry of the gambling.So the gambler should need to quit after the win or loss.So the emotion of the gambler will not manipulate him.

Maybe what really makes people to easily become an addicted gambler is when they start winning, how? Because I have seen some addicted gamblers, although, I have not listened to their stories but I seriously believed that what attracts them to gamble more even when they are losing is how they might have won before or presently.
The only way of an addicted gambler to stop gamble or reduce the way he or she is gambling is by not given much attentions or any attention to anything that has to do with bets.

I started gambling online by seeing those big bonuses on ads and after that I knew that these require wagering to be able to claim those bonuses.
it was hard to complete those requirements so I lost of first deposit and I deposited second time i lost that too, I was playing irresponsibly and without knowing anything about online casinos.
I learned the lesson hard way that player cannot win in gambling long term if he doesn't able to control his emotions.

They know that there's something has changed already and when they become addicted it is noticeable. But what they are trying to do is they're not accepting and admitting the fact that something has already changed because everyone who is in in denial stage will do every justification for what they do to believe what they want to believe.

But it's true that it is dangerous, whether they are aware of it or not. When it's come to that point that they don't want to change what they have noticed is going to impact their lives. We know a lot of stories from gamblers that have changed their lives and way of living due to the fact that they are already addicted and even they are going through that phase, they don't want to set back themselves and change what they have used to do for it.

They have to deal with more serious problems when the time that there's no one is on their side to help. Because if these addicted gamblers have already asked for others help and they don't do something about it, they're just wasting people's time for it and they will eventually get tired to help them get out of addiction.

I got the last bit you were trying to explain. It's all about our mentality and ability to lose. If we can afford to lose the amount we put into gambling then it will never have an impact on our life. Thus, our emotions won't come between us and it will never become an addiction.
That being said, never look for wins while gambling. I know that winning gives us the adrenaline rush we are looking for while gambling, but as it is totally based on luck, we can never depend on it. Never look for wins as gambling is only for entertainment purposes. Enjoy the process not the outcome. It is based on luck and either win or lose could be the final outcome. Just accept what is happening as you can't change it. Gamble responsibly and don't become an addict. It's hard to take out once the stain is there. Nice explanation rachael9385. I like it. But remember, with proper guidance, you can come out of it.

We often talk about this addiction but this addiction is not decreasing among the gamblers rather it has started increasing. A landmark study found that 1.4 million gamblers have already suffered from gambling and 1.5 million gamblers are at great risk. Without proper guidance, these gamblers may also suffer. An online survey of 18,000 adult gamblers in 2021 found 2.8 percent of gamblers exceeded their severity index. Gambling addiction plays a significant role in this situation. Of course a gambler needs to have a limit to avoid addiction. It is very easy for those who gamble excessively or devote time to gambling to become addicted in gambling.