Topic: QuitGamble.com - Free Help for Problem Gamblers - page 3. (Read 3833 times)

Perhaps it’s true that you can find hard and low-paid work in most places where people live.  However, often such work is associated with criminal activity or crime.  For example, you can even go to work as a mobile phone network operator, but at the same time call people and offer fraudulent actions, try to rob other people of their money. 

However, I certainly agree that the stage when a player becomes a criminal and a thief in order to continue the game is of course an abnormal option; this happens rarely, and in this case such a person intiially has criminal inclinations.  And by the way, he needs real treatment for gambling addiction by real doctors, maybe even isolation in a closed medical institution, since family members are powerless in this case.  And they can't help him.

I am curious about the number of 6,500 ex gamblers you claim to have in your community - especially as it has not updated in any form since November last year but it seems a bit made up in the first place. I'm all for helping gamblers, but at least gambling companies can tend to be open about what they're offering and that seems like a bit of a lie. It's such a strange name as well, while I am happy that you're part of a project that supports ex gamblers there are already quite a few preexisting solutions out there. Take this forum for example, it seems like a much more open design where people can see activity rather than trying to funnel people straight to download an app.

Stealing for the sake of gambling is the height of it and I have never seen or heard of that story before. Not with the uncontrollable ones I know, they always have their limits, and when there are no friends and families willing to give them money anymore and they do not have anywhere to borrow from, I believe they often accept that situation as their last and do not resort to stealing. In my thought, I believe the person who went to the extent of stealing to gamble is a criminal on his own, I will never take the excuse that it is the addiction per se that led him into it but the lack of contention and for his desperation for "money."

Still, he might gamble with part of the money but definitely not with all, meaning that it is not all about gambling but for the lack of money at that time. The scarcity of money can bring many unthinkable thoughts and acts, but nevertheless, it is out of greed that people do this. They can do unspeakable things due to greed and I know they do not have a single bardonable excuse for it. If you need money that desperately, why not go do menial jobs, after all, such jobs are readily available, and they are sufficient enough to satisfy the immediate need.

This is why the best thing that you should really do is not to make yourself that getting addicted at the first place, although it might not be that simple but having that control and moderation would really be the key.
Making yourself that getting addicted is really that too simple but getting out would really be the toughest challenge for a certain or particular person would really be able to experience out.
This is why if oyu do really value your life and the people around you and with your finances then it would really be best that you should be having that control towards your gambling involvement.
Quitting gambling is something that you should really be able to do so without any issues. It is really just that there are people who are really that not good when it comes to self control.

However, some begin to actively seek money to continue their games.  And here the degradation of personality practically begins.  Such a player cannot repay the money borrowed from friends and acquaintances because he has completely lost the money.  The attitude of the people arolund him and his close relatives also changes dramatically.  Nobody lends him money.  And such a player begins to commit crimes, and he begins to steal.  Well, it ends in court and prison.  Well, in prison there is no way you can lose in normal and decent gambling games.  This is of course the saddest ending to the passion for gamblng.  Sometimes there is a better option and the player is cured.  And continues his normal life. 
But still, such cases with criminal outcomes happen quite often in many countries where gambling is very widespread.

On the time that you are already spending into those amounts on which arent supposed to be spend then this do obviously signifies that you are already addicted to it and it is really just that better that you should stop it immediately if you dont like to mess up your life because of too much addiction. No external services or help that could really be totally be able to help you out with your addiction and it would really be just that be on yourself decision whether you would really be quitting for good or you would really be deciding for you to tolerate out such addiction. It would really be just that a matter of choice.

On the time that you do find out that you cant really be able to solve out such addiction then this is the time that you would really be seeking help from your loved ones. Things turns out
to be that a devastating thing if you do tolerate out such addiction. People do usually stop on playing gambling on the time that they dont really have money for them to spend on.

never that gambling is a bad place but the problem is how we deal with it , how we manage to gamble because if you deal with gambling seriously then that will make you a complete loser because sooner you will become addicted.
and when you starts borrowing money to use for betting then you are already considered as addicted gamblers.

Yeah!  There is really a lot of activity in this topic and in my opinion this is how it should be.  Now so many years, even decades, have passed when gaming addiction entered the life of mankind on such a scale after mass computerization, and then the mass distribution of all kinds of gadgets, smartphones on which you can play whenever and wherever you want. 
So the phenomenon of gaming addiction has become widespread and in general I like that the scientific community, sociologists and psychologists are really concerned about this global problem.  Of course, the problem needs to be solved somehow, but the solution itself will obviously be difficult.
 It is very correct that you find out the statistics on this issue. 
I hope it will help you in your much needed work.

I informed them and also gave them your email. Hopefully they will contact you soon. Your works are inspiring. Thank you.

Cheers,

Please do! Send me a PM, or ask them to contact me at [email protected]

I was checking the site and felt great to see that you are working with some academics to create contents. The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga is conducting a survey to understand decentralized gambling industry. Do you think you can collaborate with each others to help the academic study? I can connect you both if you want.

I'm sorry I haven't written anything for a while. I'm amazed to see the activity in this feed. I wish the people I'm trying to help would be as active in discussions as you are.

Here are the latest updates from QuitGamble.com

• We have passed 6500 members on the platform from 150+ countries now.
• The website is live in French, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and English
• During January, we worked on a study where we asked our members about their gambling habits. We got 3300 responses. I believe it's the biggest study on gambling addicts ever. (I'm a bit proud of that to be honest.) Among the questions we asked were: What do you gamble on? What do you struggle most with? And why do you gamble? We got some interesting results. 73% of gambling addicts gamble on slot machines... among women, that number is +90%. That main reason gambling addicts gamble is to win big money. (However, I've never met a gambling addict who gambles to win... so for me, that result is the most interesting of them all... Because it means that most gambling addicts don't know why they gamble. If you're curious, you can find the full gambling addiction study here.
• A couple of weeks ago, we started with a paywall for our courses and community. There are two reasons, first people tend to value things more if they need to pay for them. By paying, people take things more seriously, and hopefully, that will boost the activity. Second, we need money to be able to run our operations. Our goal is to be self-sustainable to remain completely independent from the gambling industry. All the extensive guides on the website and the Happiness Test will remain free.

The first step to quit any addiction is to just want to do it, the majority of those that are still immersed in it are in that situation because they want it, they cannot conceive their lives without gambling every day for hours, only those that have gotten tired of that lifestyle and want to recover a bit of what they lost can begin the process to heal, a process that is definitely difficult and that it can take a massive amount of time, but it can be done, as there are many people that leave their addictions behind and never fall on them again.

By the way, many players are well aware that gambling greatly affects their lives.
 First of all, because the player spends a lot of his time and quite a lot of money losing when he gets stuck in the game.  However, even with the realization that gambling is a problem for such a player, he still continues to actively play. 
But maybe he continues to play with short breaks.  However, during these breaks, his thoughts often return to his game, which makes it very difficult to concentrate on his other affairs.  In this case, I think outside help becomes necessary.  To begin with, this is help from loved ones, with persuasion and simply persuasion, trying to distract the player from gambling. 
Everything, of course, depends on the character of the player, but it seems to me that in some cases this will help cope with such an emerging gaming addiction and prevent the addiction from developing into the stage of mental illness.

lol the process of quitting is to admit that you are addicted and you need to quite .

the requirements that they need? is to admit that they need help and they must quit.

Look at those?? similar thing and admittance is what they need to win against gambling .

betting is not bad if you know how to handle but  if this affecting your life then that is not a good thing.

Since all people who gamble are quite different from each other in temperament, character, and self-control, their behavior in a gaming situation can be completely different. 
In my opinion, quite a lot also depends on a person’s mental abilities, which precisely determine the moment when it is better to stop in the game or when it is better to continue playing.  And here you are absolutely right, until a person himself personally experiences some shock or, one might say, a strong emotional impact from losing or winning, he will never understand where the limit of reasonable actions in a gaming situation lies. 
But theoretically, all this can, of course, be told to a novice player; he will even nod his head, showing you that he understood everything.  But in reality, when it comes to his independent play, everything will not be so. 
It seems that only specific personal experience in this matter really enlightens the brain and trains the ability not to make completely stupid game moves.

Inherit in what sense? meaning the gambler have been addicted because of what he has thought ?
I Know many gamblers become gambling because they have been thought but not sure  if even addiction are
being inherit because this is a human choice ,and also it is our money so who will decide is of course us only lol.

Expectations have to be in line with what we can achieve, if a person imagine themselves earning a great fortune through gambling and they have no skills which could make this a reality, at some point they will make a huge mistake while gambling since it is impossible for their results to actually be that good, and when that happens they will begin to increase the size of their bets hoping that this could remedy the situation, which of course it does not as things get even worse.

Despite of all the challenges many of the gamblers are having while they are gambling due to some other reasons they personally contributed to or the ones that are inherent to them, how many of them are still finding it something interesting to quit gambling at the cause, gambling is not what is that easy to just say with mouth that we are quitting or we are providing a solution to the already wrongs in it, there are process and requirements needed.

The moment anyone starts positioning their mind on the money to be made from gambling, that's when things start getting awkward. It takes a mature mind to gamble, but unfortunately, most minds gambling are not just mature, hence the bad results and complaints we see about gambling. Gambling on its own is not bad but is pushy, and for those who have the prior knowledge about this bad side of it, they could have planned ahead which is why learning is so important. It will guide us aright to know the good and the bad side of gambling so that we can try to achieve the good and also guard against the bad side. This is the only way responsible gambling can be unlocked because gambling itself will creep into people unnoticed, infest it and the outcome could be devasting.

As we know, nothing can be done when the mind has been corrupted by gambling, it will be uncontrollable, and at this stage, the gambler would have become addicted and all that he does will be toward gambling and wasting money on it. Because at that time, such wouldn't be gambling politely anymore but just following the emotion in him. This calls for discipline, and self and account management, with these, no gamblers can go extreme to the point of becoming irresponsible doing it. Nonetheless, we can help ourselves by not fixing our minds on the money involved in gambling, we should gamble with a neutral mind and believe we are having fun in it. And when it comes to the time of losses, we should let go in most cases, it's not worth chasing it too hard, especially when further gambling at that time will not in any way agree with our gambling principles and plans.