Topic: Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction - page 6. (Read 3546 times)

Of course, if their will is strong, they will be determined to quit gambling. They need to stay away from places where they often gamble and delete all the websites they usually play on. Keep your mind busy, or find another game to forget about gambling. It would be great if there were relatives or friends to support and help them during this period. As long as they have determination, I believe they can do it.
If they are responsible people, I believe that quitting gambling addiction will be very simple. They should remember that gambling addiction greatly affects family members, work, and possibly society. It doesn't simply affect them alone.

And even though the government or regulators regulate gambling, that doesn't stop people from gambling excessively. This is because we have seen many cases of people becoming addicted to gambling, so this has become a serious problem in many countries. People lose self-control after gambling and only think about gambling because they see that gambling can provide unlimited pleasure. It is our job to limit this pleasure to avoid gambling addiction. If we can limit ourselves to gambling, we will be able to avoid gambling addiction and will not experience other problems that can cause bankruptcy.

Many other things are more fun than just playing gambling continuously. Besides that, other things will not use more money, which is different from what they do in gambling, where they have to use money to enjoy the gambling game. Yes, they can use the demo mode, but that is less challenging, and using real money can make people get the most out of it. That is what makes more people addicted to gambling, which they cannot avoid. But by doing other things, at least it can reduce the level of desire to gamble because there are other things they can still do.

Yes, it will also affect his finances because by doing other things, his finances will not be disturbed and will only be used to meet his daily needs and sudden needs. They will not deposit more money into the casino because they are already trying to reduce their gambling activities. This gives them more money to be saved to prepare for the future. But if they are addicted to gambling, they will not be able to have more money because more of the money will be allocated to their gambling account and this will cause problems for them.

Doing sports can make their bodies healthier than before and can also divert their minds from gambling. It will be a deterrent for them from thinking about gambling and can reduce their gambling activities. By exercising, his body will be fresher, his mind will also think positively more often, and he will learn to control himself well.

We don't need to reject gambling, but considering it as entertainment is enough because gambling is supposed to be for fun. Gambling is entertainment that can be enjoyed in moderation without needing to spend a lot of money. And we can also stop gambling because we don't want to cross the line. By continuing to practice self-control, we can use gambling as entertainment and will not be drawn deeper into gambling.

The financial issues you highlight are very important. Instead of gambling, spending money on more productive activities or socializing will save money and improve relationships. Spending time with friends, learning new skills, or saving towards a goal can be more satisfying than gambling. It's about broadening one's horizons and enjoying life's diversity, not just the results.

Not only physical exercise but any sports will be enough for the gambler to stay away from gambling and be involved in that sports. Playing sports is one of the effective medium where one can easily engage himself and do not find much time for gambling. Outdoor sports is a healthy exercise and it may help gambler overcome their addiction and at the same time, it is the low cost solution. The gambler has to spend his time and in some cases, a little money to get ready for sports like sporting equipment like a ball or racket or football, depending upon the sports which one is playing.

Both causal gamblers and professional gamblers can benefit from this idea as it will suit both. Even if one is not a gambling addict, even he can engage himself in sports too and keep himself away from gambling addiction.

Instead of thrill-seeking, try rewarding, low-risk pursuits. Activities like sports, learning a new skill, or creative hobbies like painting or writing can also give a sense of accomplishment and enthusiasm.

However, I do not trash gambling 100%. Like other amusement, it can be enjoyed in moderation. Key is balance and control. You're on the correct route if you can see gambling as one of many fun pastimes, not the only one. Gambling occasionally rather than regularly promotes a healthy relationship with it.

The financial issue you highlighted is significant. Instead of gambling, spending money on more productive or sociable activities saves money and improves relationships. Spending time with friends, learning a new skill, or saving for a goal can be more fulfilling than gambling. It's about expanding one's horizon and enjoying life's variety, not merely an outcome.

even though if you think about it, there are many other things that are more fun, and they can still do other things that are more useful, even though they gamble on a small budget but that doesn't allow them not to become addicted to gambling. Maybe it will be difficult for those who are addicted to gambling to escape their desire to gamble, however I think they should be able to do other things that might be more enjoyable to leave their gambling habit.

you are right, by them doing something other than gambling maybe they can see their finances improve because they don't gamble, apart from that they can also use the money that should be used for gambling to save, maybe this is better for them,  because by saving will also provide something good for themselves in the future, and this can also make them see their finances become stable, because as far as I know, if someone is addicted to gambling, chances are they won't be able to control their finances. I think this needs to be done to reduce the risks that will occur later.

Yeah, that is one of the typical factors in addiction.

People get their "high" after doing certain behavior, it can be an activity, not a substance, and it will also create addiction on the brain.

That is why gambling is regulated worldwide. It is quite addictive.

That's because they can no longer feel the pleasure of other things and only think that gambling can provide that enjoyment and pleasure. However, if they are willing to stop for a while and do other things well, they might be able to feel that there is a pleasure to be had when they do other things. And if they do other things more often, they will abandon gambling to do those things more often. At that time, their focus will begin to shift and maybe they will try to start reducing their gambling activities because they have found something different that can also provide fun and enjoyment.

They will also see that they can save money when they do other things and can use the money to buy food to enjoy with the people around them or their friends. This will give them another "taste" so that they will slowly change and reduce their gambling activities.

Even if choosing a different and healthier hobby is a step on the right direction, until a person faces the issues that led them towards the path of addiction, their addiction is not really over.

Since even the smallest provocation could make that person to go back to their old ways and gamble all the time, and if you study the patterns of those that suffer this problem you will see this is very common, however resolving those issues is very time consuming, and over the years the quality and the time invested to mental healthcare has decreased significantly.

Physical exercise is an excellent type of activity if the player does not know what to do other than play. Sometimes it even happens that thanks to a spontaneous decision to play sports, it can switch our brain and we will stop gambling altogether and devote ourselves to a new and useful hobby. Of course, I understand that this will be very rare, but perhaps it will save several destroyed families. I noticed that professional players often play sports or were athletes in the past, probably this helps them achieve results and they draw some analogies to achieve their goals. They have a sense of purpose, but apparently they also have some other qualities that allow them to be more successful than others.

It is really just that too impossible that you wont really be able to realize for yourself on the things that you are currently doing.It is impossible that you cant be able to determine whether you are spending up tons of money already with gambling or you are really that still in moderation. The main thing that you should really be trying out to avoid is on making yourself that getting addicted with gambling because once this thing would shackle you out then getting out would really be that too damn hard. This is why on the first time that you do really get involved with gambling then you should really be that responsible on whatever actions you would really be taking.Trying out to resolve addiction doesnt really come easy or would really be that short time.
You would be needing to assess on where you would be able to find yourself to get distracted on the time that you do see gambling on which avoiding it at all
cost should be your priority on the time that you do see that you are that impulsive into it.

That is one way to prevent gambling addiction which is to distract yourself with something much better like exercising. We know that people use gambling as an excuse sometimes a distraction to themselves where they can entertain themselves and forget all their problems, which can worsen their situation by just simply losing more money in the house. Plus sometimes they are not that aware of that addiction cause it's already been part of their lifestyles, unless someone points out that gambling is really bad if overdone. They wouldn't quit for just a day for sure, but they would think about it, and would take time for them to realize that gambling won't do anything good for them. I gambling as well, but I don't think that I can consider myself addicted as I don't think it about all the time maybe rarely when I have the time. It might be the reason of too busy in the world.

Yes, it's like that, because for example someone who is seriously addicted to it is likely that they will find it difficult to stop gambling because the gambling that has become attached to a person is difficult to get rid of, and also if they don't have the awareness to stop gambling then it will be difficult to recover, even though there is encouragement from the family to help them to leave or to make them aware. In my opinion it cannot make them aware, because they themselves do not have awareness of what they are doing, which is what makes them harm themselves.

No matter how hard they try to help someone become aware of gambling, I don't think they will realize that they themselves don't have their own awareness.


That makes sense, maybe it's true that they don't see other things that give the same pleasure, and indeed in my opinion there are still many other things that are more fun that don't require money to get pleasure. In my opinion, if they are already heavily addicted to gambling, of course their lives will be destroyed, because people who are addicted to gambling tend to only think about gambling and maybe they always prioritize gambling in their lives, and of course prioritizing gambling is not a good thing, because like that it will make them only focus on gambling, even if they don't have enough money but they will try something to be able to make money so they can do gambling again.

I think the main thing is to have your own awareness, before your family or friends who provide support, I think that's the main thing.

That's because they don't see other things that can provide fun and entertainment and only focus on gambling so they forget to do other things. Indeed, there are levels to gambling addiction and if gambling addiction is very serious, who knows what will happen to them because there are probably many possibilities that could happen to them. Maybe their life has become worse than we imagined because their focus in life has really changed drastically and they can no longer see any opportunity to heal themselves.

They can recover from their gambling addiction, but it requires a strong desire and effort to do so. But most gambling addicts find it difficult to cure their gambling addiction without help from other people so it will be difficult for them to get out of their gambling addiction. There must be a trigger for them so that they can start to realize their gambling addiction and leave behind things that have a bad impact on their life and there also needs to be support from their family to help them cure their gambling addiction. Having self-awareness is something they must have in their efforts to heal themselves and tell their problems to the people around them so they can help them get out of their gambling addiction.

Yes, one must be sincere and realize that one must change by having strong intentions and also asking for help from the people around them so one can help those who are addicted to gambling. They must be able to open themselves to the presence of people around them who are always ready to help them get out of their gambling addiction. With support from the people closest to them, as well as their desire and effort, they can give good results, and they can see that they still have a chance to cure themselves of their gambling addiction. They can recover from their gambling addiction and although it takes time, it is still worth it. And yes, everything is a process they must go through together with the people around them.

Self-awareness and desire will make them see that they have done the wrong thing in their life and it is time for them to change it by living what they must do. They will not stop trying, especially if they have seen changes in their lives while they are healing. When they can see it, they will become even more enthusiastic to continue doing it, and they can still survive even though they may find it hard to go through it. However, the support from the people closest to them made them strong in going through every process because they realized that they had to go through everything to recover from their gambling addiction.

Yeah, that's one helpful way of treating addiction, to do something else instead.

Specially when the triggers appear, do something else.

For example, if someone always gambles after coming back from work for example, it might be a good idea to say, go for a run after work. That way you end up replacing a bad habit with a good one.

Over time, you will feel better

Those who are experts in this field certainly have a different approach to each person's case. Gambling addiction is not something that can be easily and instantly eliminated. Even when gambling addicts no longer have the capital to play, it has the potential to harm other people.
If certain organizations or communities are willing to provide assistance to gambling addicts, that is a noble job. not only for the gambler, it also impacts the gambler's environment indirectly.
but what is clear is that the process will not be instant.

A gambling addict has ambitions that are truly beyond the limits because they want very big win like jackpot to be able to get satisfaction, and this is the reason why gambling addicts always make efforts to pursue these ambitions but they cannot accept the risks that occur.
Efforts to make very big wins are done by betting that exceeds their limits and in the end they have to lose everything and then mindset occurs that makes it even more difficult, namely to be able to recover from their losses, usually they will borrow certain amount of money to be able to continue betting and to recover.
We all know that this is bad attitude and should be avoided by all gamblers, but for gambling addicts they will only do what makes them feel happy and of course other people advice is only considered nonsense.
Moreover, gambling addict will be very difficult to advise and direct and they will only be able to realize that they need direction and advice when they actually face series of problems that complicate the impact of gambling addiction.
Mental and financial continuity are the factors that cause problems most easily for gambling addicts.
If it is only about money, they can still work and make money, but when they experience mental or psychological problems, they will take quite long time to resolve or cure them.

I've tried my best to be the very best version of myself, there's certainly no time to hold back but exerting the same energy level received by people. We can make profits and losses from the system, it just depend on what we do and how we're able to stretch our mappings and strategies. Nothing is no longer free in the system, before one would be willingly to grab significant profits in the system, ensure you don't fall among the categories of gambling addicts, they're worsen in every phase they have found themselves and they will continue to glow away.

I heard about such organizations before although I don't know much about how their therapy work but i heard such organizations are work for society with free of cost. Although it's common that some of those organization may ask charge for that! But i still confused that, if a person don't have control in himself then how would he follow other instructions? And many addicted student and unemployment people involve themselves in usually activities to manage money for gambling, then how could they manage that fee for therapy? I think self-exclusion is best way to control ourselves and get out of gambling addiction. People can do anything, can get recoverd if they are being serious and dedicated for that matter

Yes, we can measure the difficulty of overcoming gambling addiction from how serious the addiction problem they suffer is, if it is very para in the sense that they have to justify all means to get money for gambling such as for example taking some actions out of control whether it is stealing or deceiving people then obviously requires an unusual formula or one that is considered powerful enough to be able to overcome it, no matter slowly because however it must take a long time to change their mindset and keep them away from their gambling habits.

There are many reasons that will come out of gamblers, some can be trusted and really say from their little hearts and some are basically just words, usually if they only say and there is no seriousness in terms of not taking any action then here I can already conclude a little that their desire to stop is only when they lose in one of their latest sessions which makes them desperate, but that is only for a moment and most likely when they already have money then they will gamble again.

Overall yes it is true that addiction is one of the things that is difficult to overcome, one of the reasons is because it is very difficult to change mindsets and habits and in addition to addicted gamblers they put hope in the activity so it is difficult to achieve awareness and common sense.

Unlike regular gamblers, they always stop when they lose or set limits on the number of losses. Gambling addicts often continue to play to regain lost money. People addicted to gambling may be aware of the consequences that gambling causes, but they seem to have no way to control or resist the urge and temptation of gambling. I think that by keeping people addicted to gambling busy, they will no longer have time to think about participating in gambling games and gradually overcome their addiction more successfully. The detoxification process will face many difficulties and challenges, sometimes it takes addicts many years to overcome all the consequences caused by gambling, and at the same time eliminate their interest in gambling.