Topic: Letting the cat out of the bag - page 3. (Read 557 times)

The day a gambler admitted that he is addicted to gambling the problem is already solved, most gambling addicts don't open up easily because they don't think or see themselves as the problem, they believe that they are not just trying enough, if you can think that you are addicted to gambling then you found the problem already and you will or should be able to get yourself fixed, you don't even have to involve someone else but telling your close friends or family could speed up the recovery too.

There are other things that's not gambling or drugs that I became addicted to, but I always know what enough is enough, I believe I am always in control of myself, when I was new to crypto I spend some money on crypto HYIP projects, some gave me a lot of money in just days and weeks and some turned into scam and I lost money, but it get to a point where I consider myself to be addicted to HYIP and I need to stop, mind you I needed a lot of money at the time which was why I started the HYIP thing but it doesn't took me a second thought to put an end to everything myself.

Some people have weak mind and some have strong mind control, if you can't see problems as problem it will be difficult for such person to even know that they are doing something wrong, it's not bad to question yourself, it will increase your state of awareness,  ask yourself if you are doing something wrong, it has been always helpful.

It is not only about gambling addiction but in general. If you have a problem that kept solely to yourself, it is depressing. Because you have no one to talk to that will give you advice. So it's a must to open up to someone that you can trust and can share your problem with. This is to ease the burden and to get a positive response on how you can overcome what you have been going through.

There are gamblers who wants to keep their gambling activity a secret because they don't want to be judged. Not knowing that this decision has a negative effect. One of it is the possibility to become addicted since no one is reminding the gambler to only play in moderation. If I know someone who is addicted in gambling, I will not meddle on his business but will try what I can to help the person be out of being an addicted gambler.

That's a noble job if you were able to help an addicted gambler to fix himself, not everyone has the will to do that since it's a personal problem and we don't want to intrude on their lives. But personally, I haven't tried that yet, hopefully in the future if i meet some addicted gambler I will be able to help as I have experience it and fix myself, so I know what to do and I feel what addicted gambler are feeling now.

It is not not my duty to change anyone. In fact trying to change a person that doesn't see the need of it will be met with stiff resistance. Anyone that needs change should go see a therapist. What I tend to do occasionally is that if I am at a physical bookie and I perceive that the next person is about to make a "dangerous" stake(you always know this from having a brief convo with them), I chip in one or two words that could help them snap of out it. Maybe it saves them that they a few bucks  but whatever they decided to keep doing is solely up to them.

The few gamblers I recently met are not too addicted to gambling though they had been incurring streaks of losses which had prompted some of them to start chasing their losses which could lead them to becoming addicted fortunately my prompt response save  them, firstly I advised them against placing bet on too many games in their bid to win big with regards to soccer betting, secondly I told them to accumulate their bets with a small  odds of 2.0 to 3.0 sure bet and lastly should divert to other form of soccer bettings instead of the popular win or lose betting example btts, both team to score, over/under etc and to bet with the amount of money they can afford to lose.

So far, it just so happens that my siblings and friends do their gambling responsibly, so I don't lecture them too much in making the decision to gamble because they can limits themselves to the abilities they have.
Gambling addiction does have a very bad impact, especially if our friends or relatives have a gambling addiction, we will definitely do something to help them cure their addiction.
Honestly, I don't know what it will be like if one day I am face with a friends of mine who is addicted because I don't have the right to forbid them if they don't have the desire to stoped, but if they ask me for help to cure their addiction I will help a little with the knowledge that I have, maybe with a method of reducing expenses gradually and I always accompany him through this process.

So far, it just so happens that my siblings and friends do their gambling responsibly, so I don't lecture them too much in making the decision to gamble because they can limits themselves to the abilities they have.
Gambling addiction does have a very bad impact, especially if our friends or relatives have a gambling addiction, we will definitely do something to help them cure their addiction.
Honestly, I don't know what it will be like if one day I am face with a friends of mine who is addicted because I don't have the right to forbid them if they don't have the desire to stoped, but if they ask me for help to cure their addiction I will help a little with the knowledge that I have, maybe with a method of reducing expenses gradually and we always accompany him through this process.

I haven't helped anyone but myself managing their addiction (i don't think you ever really get rid of it, but you can manage it). But lying about it is definitely huge sign. It's a sign that gambler knows that their habits are not going to be approven, or that they are downplaying the truth for themselves so that they can.

Lying to your friends and to yourself isn't going to just make your addiction worse, but it can destroy relationships. And it's definitely not a healthy foundation to build anything on.

What helped me was being honest to myself. Writing out things like what i want and what i need to do to get it. And by being honest, i won't be just writing what i want to happen, but what i need to happen. And that can include wanting to gamble while wanting to quit. That's how addiction works, you need to want the other thing more in order to that happen.

Or you can set up rules for budget, so you can keep on gambling but to keep it check, but if someone is already lying to themselves, those rules most likely don't work. You need to be 100% honest to yourself to be able to obey your own rules.

It cannot be on just anybody, because gambling addiction is a sensitive issue if you're going to tell someone it should be someone who knows how to get you out of gambling addiction, not just your close drinking buddies, not your family members who have a high morale, it should be someone who knows what addiction is who have experienced helping others.
When a gambling addict asks for someone to talk that means he is ready to open up and he needs help to get out of his present situation if someone fails to do it, there will be no second chance that the gambler will ask for help again because he thinks he was betrayed, and he'll be keeping it all to himself.

When you are addicted to gambling, believe me, no one will care and try to help you from this situation. Because other people will only help us when it is truly beneficial for us personally. If not, then don't ever hope that you will get help from others. Because gambling addiction is a loss.

So if you like and often play gambling, so that you can avoid feeling addicted to gambling, then you should be able to take all forms of anticipation to prevent this by continuing to play within reasonable limits and playing with good self-control.

Sincerely speaking,  I haven't really taken the time to study how gambling addiction react and how those who are addicted carry themselves,  this is because most times I only gamble in online casino,  and since I don't visit the physical casinos,  so it may not be easy for me to spot any addicts,  but then I believe that when you can call a person an addicts is when their fails to control they gambling excesses and also being ably to limit the urge and time of gambling.

These are both very important aspects that point to a person who is addicted because having those prior watch-out characters will help you to easily spot them and at the same time try to help to clean up.

I do the same. I have a personal rule that I'm only able to gamble again once I recover the budget I lost gambling through another sources of income. If I don't recover that lost amount through investments or by working, I can't gamble anymore. I'm doing this since always, and it has been working nicely in order to avoid accumulating deep losses and compromising my finances. If you have a solid and prepared mindset to deal with the potential losses you may face, I think you are safe from addiction. You just have to be very responsible and committed with your plannings.

Fortunately enough, the only person I was able to save out of gambling addiction (from those that I know are already gambling and are on the verge of gambling addiction) is myself. I've been with friends and people that have been very disciplined when it comes to dealing with vices and the only one that needed help thus far is myself. This is even during our heightened gambling sprees way back in 2020-2021 which went on for hours and hours by the by.

Hopefully however, the advices we put out in this forum goes to those who desperately needs it, words aren't that much impactful compared to hands-on assistance but at the very least letting them know that someone from the other side of the planet cares about them should make them feel less lonely, and less reliant upon gambling.

Luckily, I don't know anyone who is addicted to gambling on a personal basis.
I have seen online gamblers who are addicted but hard to change their stance if you don't know them personally.
It is better to influence somebody if you know them personally as you can truly give a sincere advise to them.
However, one should not be aggressive in giving their advice as they need to evaluate the situation first of that addicted gambler.

Throughout my gambling endeavors, I've encountered a lot of gambling addicts not only on physical casino but also on online gambling platforms. Out of all the people I've encountered and befriended, I can only confirm I was successfully able to help only 2 of them on their gambling addiction. One of them is my friend way back on college and he got addicted with online gambling, whereas, I was the one who introduced it to him, fortunately I was able to get it out of his system by getting him addicted with something else which is collecting sneakers. Another person was one of my previous gambling friends on my local casino, he financial fit but has trouble managing his gambling activities and I was able to convince him on doing something else and, right now he has a business where he met his girlfriend.

It's really hard to predict how gambling addiction can affect oneself and it can be a good idea to reach out to someone for help and it's never easy to try ask for help for something you're suffering on. As for me, luckily even without someone else help I was able to stop myself with my gambling addiction however it was because I felt lost and down during those times and the only option is to stop my gambling activities.

Recovering from addiction is not easy, but with a help of the system and someone close to you it is still possible to go back to your normal life. I personally know someone who are addicted in gambling before and now living a better and a happy life. I’m not an addict but there are times that I gamble beyond my budget, well I do recover from this by punishing myself not to gamble got a month depends on the money that I’ve loss. I believe this is all about being responsible and stay within your budget, gambling addiction can be cure so don’t lose your hope.

I only know addicted gamblers virtually. People close to me have never been on this situation before, so all the experience I have about this is regards people I have met on the internet. We always try giving good advices to these people, but since we aren't close to them in a daily basis, it's hard to know if they take every advices seriously and adopt the hints received for their lives. I would to believe so, because sometimes the only thing people need is some legit attention, to have the assurance there is someone listening to them and interested on their problems for real. If they feel cared, they will tend to change their habits for the better.

There are only 3 things which i do see that you would really be needing for you to quit up addiction
and it would really be in order basing up on how you would really be doing accordingly.

1. Control to your self/Self will/Discipline
2. Help from loved ones
3. Professional help when it comes to gambling problems

You wouldn't really be putting up yourself on such condition if you are really just that responsible towards your gambling. People do usually make some learnings on the time that they do experience
unfortunate conditions or situations on which it would really be just that a normal reaction. Dont let yourself do experience unfortunate conditions first before you would be tending to avoid things.
As much as possible you should really be needing to have that control over things so that you wont really be coming into this point.

People do really make out learnings on the time that its already too late, dont come into a point that you would really be giving out that huge impact or effect into your
finances before you would really be considering on stopping or having that good control towards your gambling activity.

The possibility of the getting away from the gambling addiction was possibly 50-50 percentage,but the gambler should need of self acceptence of gambling addiction to the gambling.So the gambler will set their mind to get away from the gambling addiction,this was the reason for the mentor of the gambling addicted person will ask their gambler to accept their addiction to the game.The gambling addicted person will do some crime to generate the money for the time when they don't have money to gamble.The experienced gambler will do the game more then the gambler,but they do the game in the planned way and play the next game with the profit from the previous game.So they mostly withdrew the funds of the deposit after they made many win in the gambling sites.

That is if someone can even have any around that is a gambling addict, then talking about change, it is that an easy task to just say it by mouth on changing others, maybe we should first start talking about changing our own self first before thinking of changing others, gambling addiction is not easy to deal with, it's a big task to help in seing tht we change thise addicted to being a regular gambler, but how many people are willing and ready to give the demands needed on seing this change come to happen.