Topic: How to control this ? - page 2. (Read 498 times)

Though, getting rid of a gambling addiction is not always an easy to do task, but with the help of a proper rehabilitation therapy and intervention of an expert guiding you through the process, I'm sure it's very possible for one to get rid of this menace called "gambling addiction". However, for an addiction recovery to be successful, the sole individual in question needs to be willing and ready to stop gambling irresponsibly,  which is what will aid the recovery process, since gambling addiction is most times a product when a person fails to accept defeat or loses while gambling. Hence, for one to be a responsible gambler then he needs to know that there will always be moments when you win or lose.

Addiction is a disease and like all diseases, it needs to be cured by a doctor. The first step for this to happen is for the person who is sick to admit that they are sick and seek medical help. But what happens with diseases like addiction is that in most cases, the sick do not admit that they are sick. They hide the disease and sometimes they believe that they are not sick. And when they have serious problems with the police or are physically attacked, these are the moments when relatives and friends discover that they are addicted. And the fight begins to take them to the doctor and the doctor has to isolate the addict, because gambling addicts should stay away from games, casinos, betting shops and even the telephone and anything that has the internet. For people who are not addicted yet, the advice is simple: gamble in moderation and only with money you can afford to lose, and never look at gambling as a means to get rich.

As you said, blocking or deleting a casino from our device will not really stop us from playing again. creating an account is very easy and making a deposit transaction is also very easy nowadays. all on our device.

I have also been in that problem, spending more than I allocated because I was too excited with the bets made. now I try not only to limit the allocation of funds but also my playing time. that's how I first dealt with the problem of excessive betting. more time spent on people around us, as well as work. so use a little time to visit the casino, that's better.
It may not be very easy. but when you start to get used to the restrictions you make yourself, then unknowingly it will develop into a good pattern for you. control will be better in your emotions until you can determine the right time to stop playing.

I think total abstinence is the best form for this situation cause in as much as you find yourself gambling you still want to do more with the little you've gotten and it's quite not suitable, when you lose you stop playing and when you don't win just keep it that you do this for awhile at least to avoid future damages.I definitely know it's hard to get rid of gambling especially when you're addicted to it and blocking of accounts would help as well because it limits your chances of using the casinos and as well enable you to be discipline with your decisions, so the best way to control addiction is in many ways depending on which one suits the criteria of addiction the person is involved with, cause for some you can block the account and it will help them have self control over their gambling habits but for some it differs too.

the problem is that a person with no self-control will need help
casinos won't vetting people without self-control to bet, in reality they could even want this kind of people because they'll be bigger LTV costumers
this is the sad reality.

My simple and sincere advice is that if you keep your funds in cryptocurrency you will definitely use them to gamble if you don't have the mind to overlook games. You will be tempted to use them in whatever wallet you keep them. Be a non Custodial wallet or exchange (custodial wallets), because they are not looking coin for future use. And in Centralised exchanges, you can't lock but the management can loock them for you if you contact them and explain to them that you want to lock then and unfreeze them in 5 to 10 years time to come and if they do that, it is better you keep it there but I don't trust Centralised exchanges because if anything happens to the platform, your funds are gone. So the second alternative is to keep the money you local bank and freeze them as fixed deposit which can be withdrawn within the agreed time frame. If you are not investing in cryptocurrency. Tell you back to freeze them as fixed deposit, whenever you have money, you deposit it in the bank. That is what I can advise you to do if only you accept it.

It all depends on the stage of gambling addiction and if the development of the disease has already reached its maximum, then it is impossible to cure such a person without completely abandoning the casino. It was necessary to think about self-control before you decided to visit the casino for the first time.

If you cannot control yourself anymore, there’s something wrong with you. You need to really see why you will gamble instead of being productive with your life. Find something else to do, and ensure you don’t have access to your bank account if that’s a problem.

Focus on yourself, and I think you could do it.

The first practical step that a gambling addict can take is to identify that he has an addiction problem. Without acknowledging that he has a problems then getting help will not be easy. Besides trying to work on himself by first abstaining from gambling, he can open up to his loved ones that he knows are responsible people because a problem shared with the right people is half solved. So getting help and encouragement from loved ones and also getting therapy from professionals can also help.

After overcoming addiction if the person must return to gambling then he must practice responsible gambling. As I said before it means having a budget for gambling and being disciplined not to exceed the budget, whether he's winning or losing. He must stop gambling and exit immediately the budget is finished for the day. The budgeted amount for gamble most be the amount that he can afford to loose.

The only thing that has helped me spend less money gambling is introducing into my gambling experience a deposit limit and increasing the time intervals between gambling sessions. I still have to fight my urge to deposit after another loss, but now it is much easier than when I was a beginner. It's about the same as dealing with alcoholism. Former alcoholics spend their entire lives fighting the urge to consume alcohol. How do they control themselves? They just know it will get them in trouble. As I said above one single answer to this question you will not find one single answer.

Gambling addiction is a very strong addiction. According to scientific research, this addiction is more dangerous than drug addiction or alcoholism.

How to overcome gambling addiction? I can share my own experience.

One addiction can be overcome with the help of another addiction (since the same section of the human brain is responsible for these psycho-emotional disorders). When I realized that I had a gambling addiction, I started playing computer games. At the same time, I limited the time of play to half an hour a day. As a result, I was completely cured of gambling addiction, but I did not become addicted to computer games.

You can also use another area of ​​human activity in which there is drive and excitement. For example, pickup or extreme sports.

I do not have a gambling addiction, but sometimes while playing, I thought about what I would do if this happened. However, at the moment, I clearly understand that my money is simply not enough for all the desires that I would like to realize in life. I do not want to close myself in a rigid framework of restrictions, but the understanding that there is me and my responsibilities to loved ones, always do not allow me to forget about it.
Perhaps those who fall into the clutches of the game sometimes need to think about who surrounds them and how they would feel if these people were not around. Since playing with all their own and sometimes other people's money, which falls as a heavy burden not only on the player but also on his family, he betrays his loved ones.
Psychologists teach all this understanding and acceptance, and working with them will be a very good helper in order not to fall into the pit of gambling.

Even if their account is blocked, it will not help them because they will come back and continue gambling. Since you can open multiple accounts on the gambling site, they will open new accounts again and again participate in gambling. You can consider this as heavy addictive gambling. Since they prefer to earn money from gambling than working, they will come back again and again. But you can't give up gambling easily so you have to change your habits gradually to give it up. Spending your time on any job or business can easily reduce gambling. Once money is lost, do not try to recover it.

It's all about self-control as you mentioned. A person having no self-control will barely be able to control themselves from excessive gambling which is why it's not good for people with low patience levels to venture into things as addicted as gambling because once they get addicted, they will have a hard time getting out of that addiction.

Someone might be able to get rid of the addiction with some assistance, but it won't be like they can keep gambling but won't be going to excessive levels because you can't change someone's nature. You might give them lessons, and teach them what they should do, but you can't implant things such as patience and self-control in them.

So it's extremely difficult for a person to be able to do that if they don't have self-control.

Most gamblers are addicted because they have no job or their job is not paying well which they think gambling is a platform that can generate more money. A gambler that is trying to get rid of gambling addiction should his best to get a working source of income because when their is no work that is generating money for you it can be a reason why one would want to return back to gambling. I believe when gambling money is not a reason for one to gamble it will be easy for one to try to avoiding gambling.  
One can also get rid of gambling addiction after realising and to feel very worried how addiction is dangerous to him, but when their is no worries then addiction is not a problem to the person.

that's a really long tagging.
The first is acknowledging that there's a problem
This is one of the biggest step.
Determination helps, you know the disadvantage of what you doing the next is to consciously start mitigating it with time.
A slow process and sometimes you would experience a fall back but picking yourself back up matters.
Engage in something that is productive and would require your attention.
Personally never been addicted to gambling because am always conscious of my limit but I have been with a food and I tried other things when am feeling the urge like watching movies, Going for a walk or just outright talking to another.
I know I can never make a proud decision when am been emotional so I tend not to act in my emotions and wait after I know I have got some semblance of rationality.

What gamblers do today is control themselves from the strong desire to gamble, where there are many gambling platforms today, which usually we will sail from one platform to another to seek fortune, without realizing that we have used a lot of money and are in the stage of addiction.

No matter how we give advice to addicts, they will not enter again because they have entered the comfort zone of gambling addiction. some steps are mentioned to avoid more losses but we see in reality the casino still continues.

There is no way unless they stop and train themselves not to play similar games. But in the end they will feel that something wrong has been done with what has happened to them. Only a small number of people can control their gambling addiction, not because of advice from other people but because of self-awareness.

I realize controlling ourselves is not easy while we gamble because we will see the temptation from gambling will comes through many ways. We will not realizes what happen to us and continue to gamble with more money. We may block our casino account but that doesn't mean we can fully leave the casino because the will to come back to casino will be there and will whisper in our ear to visit the casino.

I think many of us have this experienced when we really want to limit our time in gambling. But we still come back to casino and forget about the limitation that we used before.

We really need to control ourselves by not letting the temptation come to us. What I did just to control my minds from gambling by make me busy with my routine activity so that help me to forget about gambling for a while. I know it needs practice from time to time but that is worth to especially if you care with yourself and don't want to get the trouble.

Maybe you can search for the other ways that will suit for you because what other people suggest sometimes will not work good for you.

One thing with how addiction starts is that the player first plays  with a budget just as you have said, when they lose, they do not see it like they are gambling or playing for fun but rather, they become furious and begin to chase their losses with the intentions of recovering back their funds and it eventually turns out that they keep losing and losing.  

It takes discipline and self restraint  to be able for one to control their gambling habit or lifestyle. Many people misconstrue gambling for profit making and a means or source of income and to be frank, that lies the source of gambling addiction because they already conditioned their mindset to the fact that they can earn money from gambling and they keep playing and playing even when they record huge losses, they keep playing not knowing that they already get addicted to gambling.

It takes personal efforts and discipline if a person really wants to stop their addiction. They could limit their visit to casino website, gamble with a clear thought of having fun, gamble with what they could afford to lose, set out a budget for their gambling and have time for which they can gamble and work in accordance with it. They should also know when to call it a quit and not gamble beyond their budget if they win or not.