There are many incidents in my life, among which I will mention a losing bet last week, I mainly like sports betting and I bet the most on sports. Last week I bet on Manchester City team and I bet the usual amount of money there but they lost this match, and I was basically disappointed why it happened. In this way, I have suffered a lot of losses. I have lost the most by betting on Manchester City team where I am still unlucky, so for the last few days I have retired from betting.
Again, when I have the mentality and money saved up again, the will to bet will increase, because I may have made mistakes but I am not addicted to betting. Because I used to bet three to four days a week and the rest of the days I take a break or a holiday so that I am free from addiction.
Topic: Recovery journey from gambling addiction. (Read 157 times)
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Mine story is no more new on this forum. I was addicted since 2014 and lost money until 2019. That was 5 years. After losing huge amount of money, I knew I had to stop gambling. I stopped for a year. I gambled again and I noticed I can get addicted again and I stopped. Until now. I rarely gambie now and I can control it. But my advice for you is just not to gamble anymore. I have not gambled more than 20 times this year and I do not think I used more than $50 in total. So I can control it and I do not think if gambling at all. Probably because I got job already that is keeping me busy and not have time for it. Even if I have time, I do not think I will use it to gamble.Its repetitive process and once you get involve again with this activity then there's huge chance for affected person like you to come back with that stage.
More better for people have addiction thoughts should avoid any things that can lead or redirect them to gambling. Since if you or OP could see something fun happening especially this season lots of promotion running and many people talk about gambling related topics which provably can hype them, then make people have addiction thoughts to gamble back again.
I also think its more better to join community support groups which they can get support and good advice to their fellow affected person to stay away on this situation. We can find those groups on Meta(Facebook) and for sure they can read various stories to learn from it.
Dear Gambling Community
I have been an active contributor to our gambling community here in Bitcointalk for a long time now. Over the past years I worked as a community manager and live streamer in a few casinos. I have shared much of my knowledge about this field and always strived to be honest. About six months ago I created a topic discussing my decision to take a break from gambling excessively. I had noticed my increased in gambling that time not only in spending more money but also in dedicating more time to it.
However, a few months later I made a series of bad decisions. I gambled away a significant amount of money that was meant to pay off an important loan. On top of that, I borrowed more money and lost it again. I decided to share my story honestly with this community and with myself. Gambling is dangerous and not just for new players but also for experienced ones like me who are fully aware of its risks. I would say that knowledge alone isn’t enough but selfcontrol is even more important. Looking back to my situation it was greed and the desire to make money easily that tricked me into addiction.
This topic is dedicated to discussing my healing process and the first steps I have taken to rebuild my life. I decided not to chase my losses and have self-excluded my accounts from many casinos. I won’t lie to you, over the past month I felt the urge to gamble for fun. But what has helped me to not do it is the support and encouragement from this community and some of its members, to restart everything and find more jobs.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
That said, I still remain in touch with the gambling field as part of my work and lifestyle which I genuinely enjoy. My deep knowledge of this field feels valuable to me and I choose not to let it go to waste. While this close connection between my healing process and working in the gambling industry is without actually gambling, doesn’t tempt me anymore. Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
I have been an active contributor to our gambling community here in Bitcointalk for a long time now. Over the past years I worked as a community manager and live streamer in a few casinos. I have shared much of my knowledge about this field and always strived to be honest. About six months ago I created a topic discussing my decision to take a break from gambling excessively. I had noticed my increased in gambling that time not only in spending more money but also in dedicating more time to it.
However, a few months later I made a series of bad decisions. I gambled away a significant amount of money that was meant to pay off an important loan. On top of that, I borrowed more money and lost it again. I decided to share my story honestly with this community and with myself. Gambling is dangerous and not just for new players but also for experienced ones like me who are fully aware of its risks. I would say that knowledge alone isn’t enough but selfcontrol is even more important. Looking back to my situation it was greed and the desire to make money easily that tricked me into addiction.
This topic is dedicated to discussing my healing process and the first steps I have taken to rebuild my life. I decided not to chase my losses and have self-excluded my accounts from many casinos. I won’t lie to you, over the past month I felt the urge to gamble for fun. But what has helped me to not do it is the support and encouragement from this community and some of its members, to restart everything and find more jobs.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
That said, I still remain in touch with the gambling field as part of my work and lifestyle which I genuinely enjoy. My deep knowledge of this field feels valuable to me and I choose not to let it go to waste. While this close connection between my healing process and working in the gambling industry is without actually gambling, doesn’t tempt me anymore. Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
It is great that you are sharing your experiences and the process of working back to normality. A lot of people stay stuck in the gambling rut for their whole lives and it can end up as a sad form of denial when they have lost so much money. If someone understands fully how the odds are working against them, there's no issue and it can still be considered fun entertainment, but so many problem gamblers are lying to themselves. I have never been addicted to gambling, but went through a period of playing games for far too many hours each day - quite fortunate that it wasn't costing money. Thinking of ways to fill that time void was perhaps the biggest adjustment and I spent some of it starting to exercise, which helped establish a routine that was very distinct from the previous one.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
Glad to hear that those strategies worked for you, and congratulations by the way in successfully controlling the urge to gamble.
I myself wouldn't think that those few strategies you mentioned to avoid the urge to gamble will work for me. Focusing on my job will only give me more stress lol. I once have a strong urge to gamble before, but I don't think I was really addicted that time, but I think I was close to being one. The best thing that worked out to me is when I go out with my friends who don't gamble. We go out of town more often during weekend with our motorbikes. So, the money that should've gone to gambling, I ended up saving it because I am excited for our next weekend ride.
OP, it's good to hear that you're finally getting recovered from gambling addiction, and you're not into gambling directly anymore. It's really a tough thing to keep oneself away from gambling because when someone gets addicted to it then it becomes harder and harder to distance oneself from it. However, the ones like you with strong will power and dedication can reduce the impact of that addiction and sometimes even fully give up on gambling altogether.
True, getting distance from gambling when you’re totally addicted to it is never easy. Some still fail in the process and find theirselves get back into gambling again after weeks or months from avoiding gambling. The temptation is really high with gambling, but if you are determined to resist it, you can with the help of your support system. Hopefully you can continue to inspire other gambling addicts and help them on their healing process. 
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
I've always said that if you want to move on from gambling, find a hobby. or two. Keep yourself busy. It's 100% going to help. I've done a few hobbies before like drawing, playing tennis, just jogging, gaming and it was extremely helpful early on when I was gambling. It can be expensive sometimes depending on the hobby (some games have ridiculous prices lol) but I reckon in the long term it's going to be 100% cheaper compared to gambling. I still gamble, a few times per month, but I've learned to just enjoy it and stop spending so much money from it. Anyway, happy for you OP. Hope you can keep it up!
Yes, we need to have something, that will make our minds busy and not to think about gambling so that we can recover. Thank God though, I have self control and not your typical gambler, except sports betting.
But I have been in this kind of situation before, I didn't do anything special though, just like when I quit smoking, I just think of my family and so it's very hard but I did go to the gym myself as my first hobby and then just make myself busy. Now, I' totally different, I know my priorities in life.
And yeah, it's good to hear that amongst us, someone has recovered as well.
Glad to see that you are making good recovery and you are happy with your decision, well I would say it's quite refreshing to here your story and I hope that people can also learn from your situation and avoid making poor decisions.
In between gambling wasn't the main problem the main issue was addiction. Getting addicted to anything always has negative effects be in gambling or not. Many people suffering from gambling are addicts. Gambling was never meant to be a do or die affair. Yes I understand that people are looking for profits when they gamble so it's a serious business but still you should be able to control yourself, know when to say I have lost enough or I have won enough. No gambling site online or offline owes you anything they also want to gain so you need to be discipline and remember always have fun and never get addicted.
In between gambling wasn't the main problem the main issue was addiction. Getting addicted to anything always has negative effects be in gambling or not. Many people suffering from gambling are addicts. Gambling was never meant to be a do or die affair. Yes I understand that people are looking for profits when they gamble so it's a serious business but still you should be able to control yourself, know when to say I have lost enough or I have won enough. No gambling site online or offline owes you anything they also want to gain so you need to be discipline and remember always have fun and never get addicted.
I don't think I have any gambling addiction story I can place my hands on right now about anyone or myself except that many times when I read stories about how people are struggling with gambling addiction problems I just feel some gratitude to myself for holding it together all these time. The self control/discipline and everything just makes me proud of myself. And am proud of you OP for taking such bold step on working on yourself. Cheers!
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
This is the one that I have been doing, I don't have money borrowed from friends or banks, but I have max out all of my credit cards for cash advance and have been playing like that in the last couple of months and it's really hard to recover from that.
However, I don't have a choice, so I did slow down on my online and offline playing and just concentrate my efforts on working hard just to pay all the bills. Me and my wife who is also a gambler have to sit down and talk about it and put up a strategy to pay all of them,
Congratulations man on your victory. I know how it's not easy battling addictions
The times you feel you better but it usually creeps in when one is at their weakest.
Good thing you watching said documentary
You would learn that a year Victory doesn't mean the war is over.
Keep winning brother
Learning there's a problem is halfway towards the solution
And you've crossed that milestone.
Congratulations once again.
Well my story, I never knew it was an addiction until I realised the time I devoted towards it
I just started cutting ties and using my energy for other things
Now I can go a 6 months without Gambling
The times you feel you better but it usually creeps in when one is at their weakest.
Good thing you watching said documentary
You would learn that a year Victory doesn't mean the war is over.
Keep winning brother
Learning there's a problem is halfway towards the solution
And you've crossed that milestone.
Congratulations once again.
Well my story, I never knew it was an addiction until I realised the time I devoted towards it
I just started cutting ties and using my energy for other things
Now I can go a 6 months without Gambling
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
I've always said that if you want to move on from gambling, find a hobby. or two. Keep yourself busy. It's 100% going to help. I've done a few hobbies before like drawing, playing tennis, just jogging, gaming and it was extremely helpful early on when I was gambling. It can be expensive sometimes depending on the hobby (some games have ridiculous prices lol) but I reckon in the long term it's going to be 100% cheaper compared to gambling. I still gamble, a few times per month, but I've learned to just enjoy it and stop spending so much money from it. Anyway, happy for you OP. Hope you can keep it up!
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
Everything starts with willingness; all these guides will only matter if there is willingness on the part of the gambler. Quitting and controlling addiction should be a mindset, and when you have this mindset, you can think of anything or plan your way to get out of addiction, like what the OP posted. People should have customized actions and plans when it comes to quitting gambling addiction, a customized plan that you can easily follow and succeed.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
I'm happy that you're able to figure out how to stay away from gambling with these that you've mentioned. Someone has to find it by himself when he's already addicted on it and that's a hard part.- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
Figuring out how to stay away from gambling at most times isn't that easy at all. One of the good part is you have a job to keep and to work on and that's what makes you busier.
You will not have time anymore for recreation and to have some fun but I know that with time management you can still but you choose not to.
This topic is dedicated to discussing my healing process and the first steps I have taken to rebuild my life. I decided not to chase my losses and have self-excluded my accounts from many casinos.
Talking about healing process, some have the opportunity of getting a recovery from the impact of how they have been addicted, while some have not been that privileged to have any chance of making it over, so i will say that this should instead be counted as an opportunity for the second time in making it over again form gambling, because some have gone into what led them into their current predicaments which they cant afford an escape route over, but making it to recover back is one of the big reasons you should share your story to the world for others to learn form it.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
I am happy to know that you are gradually overcoming your gambling problems. It's not an easy battle because I have experience addiction but not gambling. Thank you for sharing some strategies that help you to overcome your disorder. I am more concerned about how watching other people's stories helps you to keep fighting to overcome addiction. When I was suffering from addiction I was always motivated by some celebrities who were able to fight some counterproductive behavior and became victorious. These true life stories give me the confidence and motivation that if these people can overcome this problem, then I can also achieve it.
Another move that helped me was to disassociate myself from some of my friends who are active gamblers. This was because I observed that staying around them and hearing discussions on gambling was triggering the urge to gamble.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
If you ask me I will say I am not a gambling addict. Although I often gamble some times but don't take it too seriously. From your experience I see that you have undergone so much difficulty due to chasing the goodie bags, and meanwhile there is no easy goodie bags in gambling .Gambling is a game of luck, and if we pay deaf ears or neglect its rules we would have problem of addiction. To controle addiction is simple just by not being greedy or selfish ad not trying to make fortune out of gambling. 
OP, it's good to hear that you're finally getting recovered from gambling addiction, and you're not into gambling directly anymore. It's really a tough thing to keep oneself away from gambling because when someone gets addicted to it then it becomes harder and harder to distance oneself from it. However, the ones like you with strong will power and dedication can reduce the impact of that addiction and sometimes even fully give up on gambling altogether.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Mine story is no more new on this forum. I was addicted since 2014 and lost money until 2019. That was 5 years. After losing huge amount of money, I knew I had to stop gambling. I stopped for a year. I gambled again and I noticed I can get addicted again and I stopped. Until now. I rarely gambie now and I can control it. But my advice for you is just not to gamble anymore. I have not gambled more than 20 times this year and I do not think I used more than $50 in total. So I can control it and I do not think if gambling at all. Probably because I got job already that is keeping me busy and not have time for it. Even if I have time, I do not think I will use it to gamble.
Gambling addiction is not a thing for inexperienced gamblers alone, experienced gamblers too can fall victim of gambling addiction. OP is right when he said knowledge alone about a particular game isn't just enough, we still need some good discipline and self control to still be free from any gambling problem. Overconfidence is one thing that has made lots of gamblers take decisions they are not supposed to take, they believe that they know the game too well, so they have higher chances of winning. When they lose the first time, they keep playing because they have hope of winning. After a while, everything graduates from just hoping to win to chasing losses. I've been there before and I know other gamblers understand what I'm saying.
Gamblers need to be conscious of themselves always, one small mistake can give them years of regrets.
Gamblers need to be conscious of themselves always, one small mistake can give them years of regrets.
Dear Gambling Community
I have been an active contributor to our gambling community here in Bitcointalk for a long time now. Over the past years I worked as a community manager and live streamer in a few casinos. I have shared much of my knowledge about this field and always strived to be honest. About six months ago I created a topic discussing my decision to take a break from gambling excessively. I had noticed my increased in gambling that time not only in spending more money but also in dedicating more time to it.
However, a few months later I made a series of bad decisions. I gambled away a significant amount of money that was meant to pay off an important loan. On top of that, I borrowed more money and lost it again. I decided to share my story honestly with this community and with myself. Gambling is dangerous and not just for new players but also for experienced ones like me who are fully aware of its risks. I would say that knowledge alone isn’t enough but selfcontrol is even more important. Looking back to my situation it was greed and the desire to make money easily that tricked me into addiction.
This topic is dedicated to discussing my healing process and the first steps I have taken to rebuild my life. I decided not to chase my losses and have self-excluded my accounts from many casinos. I won’t lie to you, over the past month I felt the urge to gamble for fun. But what has helped me to not do it is the support and encouragement from this community and some of its members, to restart everything and find more jobs.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
That said, I still remain in touch with the gambling field as part of my work and lifestyle which I genuinely enjoy. My deep knowledge of this field feels valuable to me and I choose not to let it go to waste. While this close connection between my healing process and working in the gambling industry is without actually gambling, doesn’t tempt me anymore. Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
I have been an active contributor to our gambling community here in Bitcointalk for a long time now. Over the past years I worked as a community manager and live streamer in a few casinos. I have shared much of my knowledge about this field and always strived to be honest. About six months ago I created a topic discussing my decision to take a break from gambling excessively. I had noticed my increased in gambling that time not only in spending more money but also in dedicating more time to it.
However, a few months later I made a series of bad decisions. I gambled away a significant amount of money that was meant to pay off an important loan. On top of that, I borrowed more money and lost it again. I decided to share my story honestly with this community and with myself. Gambling is dangerous and not just for new players but also for experienced ones like me who are fully aware of its risks. I would say that knowledge alone isn’t enough but selfcontrol is even more important. Looking back to my situation it was greed and the desire to make money easily that tricked me into addiction.
This topic is dedicated to discussing my healing process and the first steps I have taken to rebuild my life. I decided not to chase my losses and have self-excluded my accounts from many casinos. I won’t lie to you, over the past month I felt the urge to gamble for fun. But what has helped me to not do it is the support and encouragement from this community and some of its members, to restart everything and find more jobs.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
- Watching documentaries about people recovering from gambling addiction and how they have turned their lives around to the best.
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from, which brings me relief and a sense of control fighting the chaos gambling created in my life.
That said, I still remain in touch with the gambling field as part of my work and lifestyle which I genuinely enjoy. My deep knowledge of this field feels valuable to me and I choose not to let it go to waste. While this close connection between my healing process and working in the gambling industry is without actually gambling, doesn’t tempt me anymore. Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
I would love to hear about your experiences if you faced addiction or any opinions, suggestions, or stories you like to share. Let’s support one another on this journey.
Warm regards,
GxSTxV
I can understand you better than anyone else I believe as I am in your exact position now from a few weeks and I have not deposited a single cent since these few weeks and for me it was another reason, I had no loans or better no real loans, meaning huge amount of money though I was losing since January 4 2024 until now and this made me think those few weeks before. I said to myself money is better in my wallet rather than in the casino wallet and even when I have lost, of course only bonus money that I am entitled too for a few more weeks I don't give a damn about gambling or depositing, 0 pressure, I feel relaxed and anytime my brain says why not try again now that you have a lot of balance I say no as I know it will be a losing session once again. Well done to you and I see a reflection of what I am doing although in a different way with different motivation though that goes in the same end goal.
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