Topic: Recovering gambling addict stories - page 13. (Read 2096 times)

The story of addiction has flooded the internet and hardly any day passes without new stories coming up. No one can have access to all the stories because all are not even shared online but one common thing about these stories is that it keeps the gambler in a state of misery thereby affecting his time and relationship as you have noted. In terms of time, the gambler keeps gambling more than necessary and he loses sight of productive ventures. Addicted gamblers spend large portions of their day and even night gambling, either in shops or online and most times neglect work, school, or personal obligations. Some of these addicts may spend a significant amount of time thinking about, planning, and strategizing their next gambling session. This can include researching games, tracking wins and losses, or trying to find new ways to win. For instance, I remember when I started gambling newly I always gambled at break time and even during work I still gambled. Every chance I got was used for gambling and nothing else.

In terms of relationships, some addicted gamblers engage in gambling secretly, hiding it from friends, family, or coworkers. This can result in lying about their whereabouts, spending large amounts of time away from home or work, or becoming isolated from others. Gambling addicts may spend large sums of money on gambling activities which can create debt, bankruptcy, or the loss of assets, causing further strain on relationships. A couple’s relationship may become strained when one partner develops a gambling addiction and begins hiding their behaviour from the other. The secrecy and lies can lead to mistrust and conflict within the relationship. Additionally, the financial strain caused by the addiction might create further tension and stress. Similarly, a parent with a severe gambling addiction might neglect their responsibilities towards their children by spending excessive amounts of time and money on gambling activities. This neglect could lead to the children experiencing emotional distress and instability in their lives. I can remember vividly times I didn`t help friends who asked for financial favour simply because I wanted to use the money to gamble.

Lucky for that guy he has the chance to get that much money in gambling but for some other gamblers around like me luck is elusive. And I think that reason for not gambling ever again is a smart move for that guy as gambling might get all the money he got from winning back out from his hands if tides go against his favor.

But with OP's story that guy involve was irresponsible as he cannot provide the needs of his family because he spend all the time and money in gambling.

It is quite unfortunate for him and should be a lession for others who are in this same gambling captive.
Until you realizes that gambling is not a place of investing and expecting profits, you would keep loosing your valuables beyond your control to the gambling places. The guy fucked himself up by himself. Even with his previous depressive losses, how the hell did he think he could just bump into the gambling Casino and think he could make an emergency or a quick fund in it just like that? What was his faith for such miracle to happen? Winning in the gambling that hasn't been easy for you in all those years you have been gambling what sudden makes you feel you could win at such a time of your needy?
Well I am happy for him to had recovered from his gambling captive and should be served a lesson to to others on the same categories of chasing after profits in the gambling.

They ruined their lives.

A gambling addict will spend all of his money, wasting all of his time and energy for gambling, resulting to lose everything.

A drug addict will spend all of his money to buy drug, they will become criminal in order to earn money, resulting end up in jail.

An alcohol addict will spend all of his money to buy alcohol, they will become beggar and live on the street.

A sex addict will spend all of his money for his girl, as long as he can fuck her, he will do everything.

All of them has a same ending, it's not only caused by gambling.

I've had enough stories of people that gambling ruined their lives blah, blah, blah... Is it gambling that ruined their lives or they ruined their lives? This kind of story didn't start today, it started in days immemorial, and it will continue after this age. It all depends on us and not gambling, gambling will always remain what it is, but we should be wise and smart toward it. Gambling that some people would say has ruined their lives is the same gambling some would say it blessed them, and it is still the same gambling some would be neutral about. In this light, don't you think these 3 sets of people do it differently?

That's it, the way you engage gambling is the way you get the result from it whether good or bad. In gambling, people can gain or lose, but what you do after the outcomes defines you, my friend. Some who win will play more to try their luck further, and if they continue to gain, greed might set in and anything could happen afterwards. But others could lose and attempt revenge for the loss, and before they know it, they may lose more and become addicted to it or just be devastated.

In all, no one forces you here, it is your choice. No one should blame gambling for the choice taken by any adult. If they win and the house loses, won't they be happy? But when the house wins and they lose, they will believe it is terrible, but I do not see it that way. Even if we lose, can't we control ourselves and manage our gambling portfolio? But the inability of us to do that is why we become desirable towards gambling.

Sincerely whose fault is that? Certainly, our fault and not of gambling, because it is we who can't control ourselves and correctly manage our gambling activities.

Yes, seen a lot of this kind of horror stories from recovering addict. And there was one gamblers who after going into therapy with a mentor, he says that he really go deep as to why he become a addict and it goes to his early childhood as part of how he turn to be gamblers. I don't know if others have experience it, maybe the background, his families and all the people surrounded him when he was growing up. And it's true that it's either, to go to institutions, jail if you commit crimes because you can't control your addiction, or death, when you can't pay your debt from loan sharks (this is the worst). Hopefully, we find this stories, inspiring and so we can go and recover if we are addicts. Important to mention as well the support of the families as one of the stories I saw is that the wife and her kids and the parents of the addict didn't gave on him but instead he didn't know that he will be bringing him in the rehab and then that is the start for him and now he is gambling free for 13 years and become a motivational speaker and established his own recovery institution.

See what addiction can be done to humans or people. Any kind of addiction is bad and can affect poorly the people who are addicted and also the people around them. For example, in this story, imagine being an irresponsible father just because of gambling. That is the worst. If this addiction keeps on going and the person or gambler keeps on feeding its addiction, then he will not notice that it can do more harm to itself or the people around them. Remember, some of the crimes are the result of people being addicted to something. Drug addiction, gambling addiction—any kind of addiction can result in crime if it is not controlled. 

Any of us has a different story about our addiction to something or addiction to gambling. I personally have done bad things to myself and to the people around me because of my gambling addiction, but it's not too late for me to change. That's why I can say that yes, I didn't stop gambling, but I controlled it, and I'm an addiction-free gambler.

From a player's perspective, saying there is no purpose is not entirely true (money, fame, joy,...)

But when we have been labeled as addicts, we have all seen many different cases in life how it causes harm. The lesson has been warned, but greed and confusion make it difficult for addicts to step out of dangerous places. I myself have also witnessed the situation of gambling addicts in my own family. Debt leads to many negative effects on the lives of people around me, so I am really aware of always playing responsibly. Anyway, we must thank the gamblers for showing those images in life so that outsiders can be aware of the results of this process.

Often people get in over their heads with an addiction and this can have devastating consequences both financially and on all other levels. People really lose money, family, friends, and sometimes their lives because they cannot control their gambling urges. We are all addicts, but as I have said many times here, we either learn to control it and have some limits, or the addiction will eat us sooner or later.

We are all addicts... and we need to be careful with the money we spend on gambling. It's all fun & games as long as we don't spend too much, but when a person starts spending more than he can afford to lose it gets into the magical cycle and it's hard to get out from that. Playing to recover and to get out of the debts made because of gambling will just get a person deeper into the problem.

I'm glad this boy got out of a big problem, many stay trapped forever. That's why we should be careful and responsible.

This is one of the worst case scenario which I've seen. Trying to make money for his hospital bills was just a way for him to cover up for his inability to provide for his family their basic needs. Like to the extent that he wasn't present during his first and second kids. It shows how irresponsible he is and his height of addiction at this point.
A lot of persons makes the mistake of seeing gambling as a means of earning a living which in turn will lead them astray. Addiction destroys ones life completely if not controlled on time. Ruins his image, as he no longer has time for important things and his families duties as the husband.we should all be wise and reasonable about things that will affect us in real life. Gambling should be for fun and even though you can earn from it, it shouldn't be your source of income.

The most important thing is not to go back to the addiction after you have come out of it and made such video.

This story is synonymous to gambling addiction stories and there is something he pointed out that I feel gets a newbie into the addiction and that is first time wins or early wins. Yes I think as a newbie if you begin to lose, you may be discouraged to continue but by the time you start winning then you have that pump up adrenaline to keep playing and before you know it the loses starts to come and you enter the chasing for loses stage and there the addiction builds up more.

It will be a worse addiction that your children won't matter to you but the next bet will engulf your mind, this is really absurd and the height of the addiction.

However, I have witnessed gamblers losing there relationship, wife because the gambling is losing more than he is winning but in the case that he is winning, it is rare losing your relationship. You don't give time to relationship if you are losing because you keep researching for how to better yourself on the gambling.

Well, it is a usual story of gambling addiction and meant for learning process.

When you see this kind of stories, you just can't help but feel sad about the people that was around them when they're still addicted to gambling, I don't feel any sadness towards them when they tell how they're so addicted to gambling that they do this stuff just to get their fix but I'm happy for them that they're able to overcome their problems in life and that they're now in a really good place, those that don't ever make it out, that's the one that I feel sad more, those that tried to get out but relapsed.
Well, that's one way of curing your addiction, you just win a big one and you know you're set with gambling but I don't believe that this man's an addict all throughout his life, probably somewhere along the way, he decided that he don't want to gamble but he has to win it all back and more, that's the story I like to tell myself.

When it comes to stories like this then it would really be on different variations and different situations on which it would really be that not all gamblers do share up with the same fate since there would really be
those people who are just that financially capable or do came from rich families on which something that we could reflect on paying up some hospital bills on the time that his wife born his son/daugher.
Gambling addiction could really be leading up into a huge disaster into someones life if you wont really be that mindful about on the current actions you are making.

We arent that dumb that when it comes to money spending and on how much we have lost already then its impossible that we cant be able to track it out.
It would be impossible that you cant trace it out on how much you have lost because if you do tend to ignore it out then its already your mistake or problem.

My wife doesn't like gambling. Sometimes her reaction each time she sees me gambling is something I don't like. But I have convinced her that I am a very responsible gambler and she believes me because she has access to the family account. I can tell you that gambling addiction can destroy a family. The wife a family friend took his children and moved out of the house because the man has put the family into deep debt because of his addiction. I sense that my wife might leave our home with my children if I ever become addicted to gambling and begin to misuse family funds. So I agree that gambling addicts don't just lose money but also family and priceless relationships.

Sometimes when I am playing games, especially sports bets, I might not be able to control my time. I wouldn't know when I have spent hours watching, analyzing, and predicting games. There are some occasions when people are so addicted that they gamble during work hours. Some of them fail to perform official tasks because they spend so much time gambling. If you don't control or plan your gambling time, you might end up wasting some precious time that would have been used to do something more profitable.

Yes, There’s a lot of video like this coming from gambling influencers. Most of them turn back to gambling after a year or more break because they still on creating content related to gambling instead of other topic. I really doubt that they can recover their addiction problem even though they already taken a break while they keep coming back.

I remember watching a streamer posting his last stream because he lost everything on gambling including all his savings that he save all throughout his streaming career. You will definitely become addicted as long as your mind is always set for gambling even though not directly gambling will make you addicted to gambling if you keep thinking about it.

Most stories regarding addiction are similar in the sense that the losses they have suffered are enormous, not only in terms of money but also in terms of the health and the relationships those people have lost, but even if that is the case the stories are still heartbreaking, since it is difficult to imagine how can a person suffer so much, and yet they still try to actively engage on the source of all of their suffering and are unable to remain away from it.

every gambler who considers gambling as a place to make money will definitely continue to gamble every day and be impressed if he is an addicted gambler even though there are some gamblers who gamble every day but are not addicted_{(professional gamblers)}but that is only a small part and the rest is almost the whole become addicted.
a gambler who thinks too much about gambling to make money will definitely ignore everything and only think about money so it's no surprise that the story in the video says that he couldn't even accompany the birth of his first child and lost all time with his family because this was his encouragement the thought of making money from gambling which causes the gambler's mind to become focused on his gambling.

maybe I've never seen the same video, but I myself have experienced it when I was gambling, I was too comfortable without wanting to leave my gambling and at that time my children and wife wanted to take me out to dinner but I refused and in the end my children and wife went alone.
well, this is what we have to take from the positive side, that is, don't prioritize gambling but also look at what our family needs.

I saw the video before and there are other inspiring contents surfacing the web. Indeed, helpful however addiction is not something everyone would overcome because of inspiring videos, that is why there are professionals to help and to properly address the problem. It will also need the initiative of the gambler who is needing the help. Let us be real, it alll depends on oneself even the part of getting addicted into it. Not new to hear but we should be peventive with ourselves to avoid unwanted situations. I doubt that there's a gambler who never know it could be an addictive activity also with the risk involved. We are the ones putting ourselves in such situation and if you never wish to be one, start it with always reminding yourself of how gambling really works to all of us. And to those who are already addicted, desire to change and start the change. Have the initiative to seek professional help 'coz it would be the best solution. Assess how things are going as well in your gambling career to check if you'd be needing one. Losing is a part of gambling but not losing oneself.

The story is common with many gamblers that have recovered from their gamble addiction problem, they'll say they have lost time and family members and they're not lying as when you keep gambling and become addicted your family members and friends will start avoiding you. Since you're spending more time on gambling and losing you'll have lost time too as you can't get back anytime that you didn't use for something useful as watching your children grow.

Another disadvantage of being a gamble addict is that you won't have any money left on you when you recover as you have spent all your money gambling. When you then need money and you don't have any you'll be force to go back the gambling as working for money will become very challenging to you meanwhile when you were gambling you were getting free money. It's better to avoid gambling totally.

Many still won't agreed that gambling is just to have fun and good time, since a friend of them won something good, they also want the same thing too but gambling relies on luck, what happens to a friend in gambling won't be the same with your story.

To fix your broke self, you need a business or rather, a job and you should start investing your money in assets and keep having a good life till your money brings in very good ROI, you can't get the same in gambling.

When you are known to be a gambling addict, people around you will likely leave you and you will end up losing your relatives like what the guy said in OP, some families will stay and help you fight the addiction but if there is no changes they will stay away, before you get your senses back, it could be too late already, the best thing you must do is don't get addictd to gambling.