Topic: Have you ever been a gambling addict? - page 7. (Read 2434 times)

The joy of winning will become an addiction for those who have succeeded in winning it, while those who have not succeeded in winning or are still losing are still trying to win it even though they will use more money. That's what slowly makes them addicted to gambling, and eventually, they will gamble more often and forget about other activities they should be doing. It really has bad consequences for them because before they got to know gambling, their lives were fine, and there were no problems with everything, including their finances. But after they get to know gambling, their lives start to change, and their finances also start to change because, finally, they start to use more of their money to gamble.

The addiction will come without them realizing it because of the pleasure they get from playing unlimited gambling, and they also don't understand that something has changed in their life. This is dangerous for them because they should be able to limit their gambling well, but in the end, they only get deeper into gambling without being able to stop it. This makes them a serious gambling addiction, and if no one warns them, they will not be able to quit gambling. And if they can't realize it themselves, it may be difficult to cure it.

Realization would really be always in the end of the line and this is really that something very normal for most gamblers because on the time that you are winning then you wont really be bothered
on how to control yourself in gambling because you will be continuing on playing as long you do have the funds that you could be able to make use on gambling.
In my case then i havent made myself to be that addicted because i have controlled my urge and financial spending because i do have priorities and it is really just
that right that you will be putting up importance into those things before anything else. Gambling is just for fun and you shouldn't really be thinking
about making it as a source of income.

Agreed, and very few realise that they were much addicted and take the necessary measures to quit gambling and be on the safer side. Majority don't have the mind to accept and when they think after years, they'll realise how bad they've addicted. These days gambling addiction have turned to be very common as we've got more platforms to spend. More the time taken to realise more will be the loss which is why we need to keep on self evaluating when we're regular gambler.

Every gambler will be gambling addicted person in some period,So if the gambler can't control the emotions in the gambling site.If the gambler can't control the emotion at certain period of time in gambling,at that time he can uses all their holding assets and generated assets to revalue to dollars to get the recovery of the loss in the gambling sites.But later only he understand that he need to understand the real tactics to achieve such situation.When he understand this things,he get away from the gambling addiction.But he should later use the free money for the gambling to avoid of get into the gambling addiction again.

Yeah, I believe so because almost every gamblers have lost hug amount of money when gambling but there are only few gamblers that have won more than the amount they lost and some have won just half of what they have spent on gamble.
Just as I always say, that is is easy to become an addicted gambler but as same time, it is very hard to quit gamble because one that have ones a stain touches the white, then it will he so hard for the stain to remove, I am just trying to say that as it is hard for a stain go get aways from a white, it is also hard for one to quit gamble when he or she has become and addict.

Many people have a story to tell about betting, mostly gamblers, I have lost when gamble but what I always believe is that as I am not at the top leading losers, then I am not losing (it might be hard to understand, but it's true).

Exactly, this is one of the biggest challenge of most gamblers, knowing their limit is something most of them don't know, they just gamble until they have exhausted all they have got in their wallet before they will eventually stop and sometimes they turn out broke.

This has a lot to do with self discipline because they are not discipline enough so they can't definitely control themselves especially when they have turn out to becoming addicts resulting from their continuous gambling without restrains. This is why it's always important these casinos always emphasis on responsible gambling because they know how well reckless gambling could impact on their customers.

That's true but when it comes to this, our first concern should be to let our loved ones know about it. They will come forward to help us out and they will be the first ones to take us to a professional. When it comes to us, personally we don't want to agree to our own terms that we are an addict. We will most likely try to reason with ourselves that the situation is not that bad yet and we can seek professional help later.

Just saying, if the situation is bad and you know it well, don't waste your time thinking. Let people around you know about the situation and they will come forward to help you. They will be the first step to seek professional help.

There isn't a clean line between being an addict and not being an addict, you can't possibly know if you are an addict or not around the start levels. I mean if you are an addict that sold his house to keep gambling some more, yeah then you know you are an addict, but how many people does that, whereas there are a lot of people who gamble with a small amount and have the addiction to keep doing that, and can't stop, that could be addiction too.

In the end, you can't just go "aaaaand now I am an addict after doing that", it is not clear, you can't possibly know what's going on, and this means that you can't know if you have ever been a gambling addict or not, to be fair you can't possibly know if you are one right now, because you could be an addict, but the results do not hurt you, or haven't so far and then you think to yourself I haven't been crazy so far which means I am not an addict, but you also have failure to stop for a month, if that's the case whose to say you are not an addict neither.

Gamblers who are addicted to gambling will not want to admit that they are addicted to gambling and will say that they still control themselves well. They will not see the fact that they are addicted to gambling, so this requires someone else's perspective to make them aware that they are addicted to gambling. What you are doing is right by allocating a certain amount of money from your salary to gambling and only considering gambling as entertainment. And that's what we should do when gambling so we can avoid gambling addiction. Sooner or later, gambling addiction will come to us, and only by controlling ourselves can we prevent ourselves from experiencing gambling addiction.

sure, it will never be possible to cure addiction alone, while an addict needs clear advice and direction to guide him to slowly forget about gambling, just like a drug addict who will recover when he has support from family and an environment that can provide support to recover.
maybe for the environment or neighbors it is not that important but what is certain is that an important role for addicts is support from the family to continue to tell them how to forget their addiction and on the one hand they may need a psychology doctor to provide additional advice or medication to help them forget their addiction.

what is more important is that if a gambling addict has a strong desire to recover from his addiction, perhaps he only needs family to be able to recover, which is a very easy effort because after all, the family of loved ones is worthy of being an encouragement for the addict.

If I were to give my personal opinion on this, I would say that most addicted gamblers would say they are not addicted or were not addicted. In this case I think self checking will not give correct answer. But I won't say anything about what I did earlier but now I limit my gambling to a certain amount.  I set aside a certain percentage of my salary just for entertainment. And gambling has been included in this entertainment, so currently my gambling is not having any effect on my family or life, and also I don't remember anything like that happening in the past.

Without a doubt overcoming an addiction alone is almost impossible as it would be too difficult to know where to begin with and how to proceed forward, however while the support of your family is key, it is important as well to not forget that if a person receives professional help as well they may recover even faster from their addiction, as those are people that are used to treat others with the very same symptoms and they know very well what you may be going through.

It's pretty good to hear how you recover at early stage of becoming addicted to gambling. Having a self assessment and realizations, it will definitely help you to think and to analyze what should you do in order to completely stop or setting limits to minimize gambling activity. Though it's hard at first but once you used to it, you can gambling freely without thinking of the money that you've spent because you already know what is the right thing to become a responsible gambler.

I don't know what 4 digits you mean, whether in what currency. If you count it in USD, that's quite a lot of money.
However, from a glance I see what you are trying to convey about a little of your experience, that it seems that at that time you were really in a quite difficult situation. And in this position, most people are not aware that they have been addicted to gambling, and they only realize it when they have run out of balance for gambling. But luckily you were able to get out of that situation, because most people are not able to get out of a situation like that.

And starting from an incident that you have experienced, this is enough to be a warning for me to be more careful when gambling.

But I doubt that if I had a gambling addiction, I would go and talk to the people I love. I think that's not the best solution, because the people we love don't necessarily love us and care about the events we experience. And more precisely, we have to come to people who clearly love us, because people who love us will definitely care about us and will not leave us alone to face quite serious problems.
However, if we don't have someone who loves us and cares enough about us, then be careful and love ourselves, don't let us continue to be in a bad condition and down.

Gambling too much may of course be reason enough to claim some kind of addiction but I also think that to talk about a serious gambling addiction a person must be unable to control himself/herself and lose all his/her money gambling. For example, let's assume that there are individuals A and B;

Person A gambles regularly 5 days a week in a way that doesn't affect his budget negatively but he/she doesn't go beyond the budget he/she plans to use for gambling. Person B, on the other hand, plays one-time bets or high stakes games whenever possible with all the money he/she can find. In this case, we can say that it is a habit and fun for person A to gamble regularly by controlling himself/herself but person B is addicted because he/she gambles with all his/her money without being able to control himself/herself. We can also think like this;

Person A has a monthly income of 1.000 units and this person regularly gambles with 20% of his monthly income using the minimum bet amount. Person B also has a monthly income of 1.000 units and this person takes big risks by making one-time bets with all his/her income. In this case, while it would be a mistake to call person A as addicted, it would be correct to call person B addicted.

In other words, there will be a big difference between calling someone who gambles 100 games with each bet being 1 unit a gambling addict and calling someone who gambles 100 units in a single bet a gambling addict.

Yeah, I was a gambling addict way back. Now I have quit gambling and living a normal life. I have lost a lot but I don't want to disclose the numbers. All I can say is it's a 4-digit number. When you live alone and there's no one to tell you what's wrong and what's right, you will never realize that you have become a gambling addict until it's too late. This is exactly what happened to me. I was living alone and I started gambling on online platforms and I didn't even realize that I had already become an addict.

It was a hard journey to come back to my normal life. But many people have helped me on this journey. Now I can proudly say that I am not an addict anymore. If anyone is on the verge of becoming an addict and feels like they need to stop it, go out there and talk to your loved ones. That's the best therapy. It will be hard if you try to do it on your own.

Now that's a discipline you don't see everyday as many people would have found there self in your situation might just tend to be procrastinating about the habit and thats the beginning of a serious addiction that can't be stopped. Many people lack self control and tend to fall out and become serious addict to this act of gambling. Myself had of difficult times in gambling habit but mine was nothing too serious that I wasn't in control of.

Gambling is something that one should know his limit and when to stop, some people are just in the lost that everytime they try out their habit in gambling they are going to win a big amount which is obviously the trap that is behind someone becoming addicted to gambling.

Actually I am a small time gambler and I can control myself but not all the time cause way back 2021 I'll resign for my regular job and focus on my projects cause I am an electrician before but I am in the gambling world which means if there's an extra money then I'll gamble but the times goes by almost everyday I will gamble and after a few months I'll realize that I am almost become an addict so I force my self to stop cause once I am become an addict in gambling then for sure s lot of problem will come to me.

I have to admit that I went through periods when I thought about gambling all the time. But then I asked myself a question. How long can I live like this? Then I did some financial planning to take control of my finances and I got back to normal. Today I have a set amount of money that I spend on gambling. And I never exceed that amount. And most importantly, I see gambling only as a means of entertainment. And I don't see it as a model of passive income or a model of regular income or a key to getting rich. And I realized that when my life became normal, I became a happier person.

At one time I am, I was glad that I overcame it, you cannot talk about responsible gambling if you have not experienced how to be addicted to gambling even for a short period of time, there's a big temptation to lose yourself in gambling because our emotion is so attached to gambling that we forget how to control ourselves.

It's not really only the amount of money, but also the amount of time you spend on the gambling platform that will make you a gambling addict, when what you think is only gambling that you neglect your relationship and your work then have become addicted and you need to get out of that whether from your effort or help from the outside I guess the majority of us here becomes addicted even from a short period time.