Topic: Recovery journey from gambling addiction. (Read 2708 times)

I really wish you avoid that addiction because it can affect your life in ways you might not see coming. I was fully aware of the dangers of gambling addiction yet I couldn’t avoid it myself. What started as controlled activity and fun for me turned into chasing losses spending more money and time than I ever intended. All of these things led me to make choices I really regret, like losing money meant for essential payments and borrowing more to try to recover.

It’s good that you set strong boundaries and not gambling regularly, keeping gambling money out of your wallet and maintaining a cautious mindset. These habits can help protect you from playing excessively. But addiction is sneaky I may say it often enters in when you least expect it. I recommend staying careful and always assessing your relationship with gambling. If you ever notice it taking more from you than it gives then better to step back immediately.

The fact that you overcome another addiction shows your power and self awareness. Keep applying that discipline and don’t hesitate to seek support if you ever feel things slipping out of control as I did here with the community. Prevention is always easier than recovery. Stay cautious.

It's avoidable and there are things we can do to avoid being a victim to addiction, you can also recover when you get into addiction new and discovered it on time. Pay attention to your habits and you will be quick to realize when you have started doing some abnormal behaviour that you don't use to exhibit before. When you start gambling more aggressively without being concerned about your losses, you're beginning to lose it but stopping can help prevent further losses. Recovering journey from addiction is a gradual process hence you don't have to try to rush the process or you won't be healed completely. You have to look for replacing hobby that can take up your time to replace the time you use to spend gambling and it'll be helpful to your recovery process.

With the current thing that is done tends to be easy to develop quickly making many people familiar with this gambling allows everyone who builds a casino to be likely to be successful if the marketing they do is good and correct, because not everyone can market their business well only certain people have expertise in marketing including this one gambling business.

Unfortunately many people do not understand the risk side of gambling and sometimes they ignore it even though they are aware of the risk side, things like this are what make them addicted and unfortunately when they are addicted it is quite difficult to recover.

Yes it's true,we're all good at something;which we all love and are passionate about and in one way or the other,we tend to overwhelm ourselves with whatever we're engaging in.In between, it's very crucial to pay attention to this little details and endeavor to make changes at the right time.Your ability to identify and diversify your choices would be great and helpful for your recovery.

Addiction is something that is very difficult to avoid. I take utmost care that I never get involved in any addiction. Especially in gambling, I always see a negative side to gambling addiction and I always try to control my mind from gambling addiction. Till now I have not become addicted to gambling and my negative thoughts towards gambling addiction are unwavering. For the fear of becoming addicted to gambling, I never gamble regularly and I do not keep gambling money in my wallet. I always party with my friends with the money I win from gambling.

I am not addicted to gambling yet. However, I was addicted to another thing, from which it took me about 5-6 months to get out. That addiction was not related to money at all, but it was harming me mentally. It was not possible to suddenly get free from that harmful addiction. I then tried to get out of that addiction gradually and tried my best to get busy chatting with friends. If I used to do the work for 5 hours at first, I try to reduce it to 4 hours, then to 3 hours, then to 2 hours. In this way, I gradually reduce the time I do the work and try to control my mind. In this way, after 5-6 months of continuous effort, I was able to change the habit and now I am completely controlled. I always try not to do any work continuously which is harmful to me.

Gambling is what it is, where the gambler lose it all to the casinos and get paid a Penny to keep them coming each time, and for that we have to understand that factors of losing more than winning in gambling and in doing so we are building our level of acceptance when the inevitable happens which is the loses and not get too carried away when the casino decides to let us win some, many gamblers make the mistakes of over betting let say for example, a gambler who's capacity to bear losing is around $500 and he won at least $700 on a bet, and decided to increase the betting amount to $1000 by borrowing extra $300 to balance up the staking initial amount.

This type of gambler will definitely end in either of this two conditions, which is either debt burden and or addictions, this is because he have failed to accept that he will lose that total initial $700+$300 which make him lose amd also becoming indebted at the end of the day, this is why we all advice that only gamble for fun and not for financial gains, but many gambler's won't listen to this and at the end they regrets and may shift blame to the casinos for letting lose so much but not knowing that casino is like a business and for any business to thrive, there must be profits merging that stabilize the operation of such a business.

Most of the gambler that slide into addiction after much losses are rear to gain victory over addiction and becoming free again, records have shown that have shown that majority of the gamblers who recovered from addiction have slide back into it again when they failed to keep off totally from gambling after once gotten addicted and recovered, this is why we often time warn people to avoid sliding into addictions at first, because once addicted it becomes very easy to slide back, but total abstainance is key to freedom from addiction.

That's a nice workaround to keep yourself away from gambling to avoid unwanted losses.
I kind of did a similar thing when I hit some unwanted losses. I actually took a break from gambling for some time.
Later I started gambling again but played micro bets as it gave me some fun time while not suffering from any major losses.
So I guess, in a way, losses are necessary to keep ourself away from gambling if we take it in a positive way.

It's very good that you learned from your past mistake, although I wouldn't call it a mistake, it's just the natural development of a player and his growth in emotional stability and forecasting skills. I think many players have gone through similar situations, but the main thing is how much each of them individually sinks lower in order to understand and begin to draw conclusions and realize their mistakes, so that this does not happen again.

Along with everything else, a long break helps me restore my mental state, as well as going to the gym and improving my health, after which I become more resistant to emotional blows.

Actually, remembering our losses is a way to stop gambling especially if the losses is hard. You can use it as way to scare you back on gambling instead of forgetting it since the moment you saw a gambling trigger accidentally such as promotion will surely urge you to gamble again because you are already fine and completely forget your sad experience from losses.

Personally, I started to gambling moderately after suffering losses. I don’t want to experience it again therefore I reduced my risk appetite on all of my bets and decided to take minimal risk on most of my bets.

Also my bankroll management improves significantly after knowing the real risk after experiencing it the hard way.

Are you kidding me? Do you mean people can stoop so low to the point of believing that they "must" be lucky? This confidence can only be birthed by folly and it will certainly put them into trouble. Gambling is luck-based and no one can be sure if they will be lucky at any point in time. This is more reason why we should rather be more conservative and responsible in gambling than believe we can always have it as planned. This ego has put many in trouble and I hope people can learn from them.

It should be like that if with a strong intention, do not want to repeat and return to play, if we always remember our defeat then, we will not be free from gambling addiction, in this period, we actually have to really stay away from the community that likes to gamble, even if it's just for entertainment. a great success if someone really gets away from gambling, I really salute

Well yes that's the logic, gamblers who play quite rarely still can't completely avoid addiction, let alone gamblers who are quite active such as playing once or twice a day will certainly be much closer to the possibility of addiction. On the other hand, actually old or young still have the possibility of falling into addiction because the point is when you are involved in this activity without being equipped with the right understanding, it certainly won't take long for you to get addicted, but the problem and what is worrying about small children is because they are still very unstable, so it is certain that they are also very likely to end up addicted because they most likely will not care too much or not pay too much attention to the advice given by others to them. On the other hand, plus again, as you said, now there are so many streamers or content creators who stream gambling blindly without caring about the impact that will be received by their audience, they only think about money or profit, meaning that someone can indeed change to not care at all about anything when they see money in front of them.

Nowadays, generally everyone uses an Android cellphone, because gambling sites are easy to access via Android, so it is very difficult to prevent someone who is addicted to gambling from gambling, especially since almost the average friend is currently involved in online gambling.

But there is one friend of mine who is so addicted to gambling that he managed to overcome the challenges until now he doesn't gamble anymore, but out of 10 friends who gamble only one has succeeded in passing the challenges of addiction.

This friend went through a long process to overcome addiction. At first it was very difficult for him to do it, but with strong determination he managed to do it.
How: he has an older sibling who lives in the mountains, every day his older sibling only does gardening and is far from internet access, then my friend's parents took him to his older sibling's place, at the start for about five months he didn't accept living there, he wanted to go home, However, with the activities planned by his brother every day, how to garden chocolate, so that after a year and a half he has felt a different life, slowly he has been able to accept the reality, this is how bitter it is to make money, long story short, three years passed, he had completely forgotten about gambling, he knew that gambling was ruining his life, with his older brother's teaching, his younger brother managed to get out of his gambling addiction, in fact now he is the one who is against online gambling.

The growing hype created by social media influencers and installing some wrong information that they can easily earn a lot of money here is one risk factor to anyone to get involved more in gambling. If this actions will never be stop nor regulated properly I guess misinformation will continue to spread out and that will hit all those vulnerable people and may result to addiction.

For those people already affect with these disease I guess they would struggle more to resist the temptation especially that there's so many running promotions been posted online and if they keep their presence online for sure there's huge chance that they might take those offer and go back to gambling. I really think the best solution for addicted individual to get out totally in this situation is they shutdown everything that can make them remember to gamble. Including staying online for many hours since without getting any further information about gambling for sure that they can slowly forget about it and realize for their selves that what they have done before is so bad for them.

I completely agree because if you have a job, online casinos are likely your go-to option. The convenience and accessibility are what draw most gamblers in, which is why we can see how quickly the industry is growing. This creates a big challenge for those trying to break free from gambling because, as long as you’re using phones and the internet, the temptation is always there.

Looking at the situation, it’s clear how difficult this struggle can be. In fact, even kids are now learning about gambling, and I believe even more people will fall into addiction as time goes on.

Along with the development of the era, of course, nowday gambling is also growing rapidly, even compared to traditional casino, it cannot be denied that nowday online casino are a better choice with the offer of convenience that we get, easy access to online casino has attracted many people, but this also brings great risk, especially for those who do not have deep thoughts and knowledge about gambling, that's why we should be wise in gambling, because gambling can lead to serious problems, such as addiction and financial losses even for a long time.

Gambling is a business for its owners, so when someone does business of course they will seek profit from the business they run. Well for the casino itself, of course they will look for ways to make their casino popular and one of them is making a promotion which can attract many people to play. This is part of their strategy and when many people are interested that is indeed their goal. However, this also depends on the people who see their promotions, because all decisions are in the hands of the person himself. and actually some people I know also gamble not because they see promotions, but they start to get interested when they see their friends playing.

I would also add that it is a matter of the player's own and personal ego. Many of us are too self-confident that we will definitely be lucky, and others will not. You don't need to think that luck will choose us, and not others, the fact is that luck does not look at everyone equally, so we have exactly the same chances as everyone else. In addition, I would add that when we enter the game, we should already keep in mind that we will most likely lose, and if we are lucky and we win, then this will be an exception to the rule. And luck will not come to us constantly and not be greedy, at least I am guided by these rules.

They don't need to push anyone they are just maximizing each venue where they can promotes their business and earn the interest of their target audiences and receive the visits that they are aiming, along the way, those visits can be converted to potential end-users that will bring their business into success.

It's a self-decision making that's needed to be cater, each gamblers needs to understand the risk and they need to prevent that to avoid getting to deep and lose more money than the amount that they can afford to lose.

It is a certainty, with those who build casinos of course the goal is to seek profit and they benefit from the many people who gamble, therefore now many casinos operate either online or physical, it's just that those who are interested in online casinos are currently very large in number because the access is very easy to make many people indirectly understand in a short period of time.
In my opinion, the casino itself does not force everyone to gamble at the casino and after that they will give a lure and for those who are wrong in their mindset of gambling, they usually experience bad effects because the gambling they do is likely to be excessive, even though winning in gambling cannot be obtained for sure if not because of luck, with you who think it is a gift from the dealer is quite interesting because the dealer also has the power to regulate whether the player will win or not.