Reading stories like this is really inspiring and shows that anyone can get out of addiction if they truly discipline themselves. Self-discipline is all that matters.
I have not really been addicted to gambling before, but I know I have been training myself not to gamble above my limit, and so far, so good. I have been doing great; ordinarily, I prefer gambling just on weekends.
It's really nice that you are able to get out of it, and you should continue keeping your distance from it; at least people will learn from your story directly or indirectly.
Topic: Recovery journey from gambling addiction. - page 2. (Read 567 times)
I am not addicted to gambling, but I have friends who are, and it's pretty evident in the way that they deal with life. When they get money, they try to push themselves and dilute their minds with the gambling fallacy that they can win because they have already lost so much. It's something that you can see.
I believe there are many things that could help you, like seeking professional help, setting yourself boundaries, and lessening the habit little by little. Be mindful of what you are doing, and you will be okay.
I believe there are many things that could help you, like seeking professional help, setting yourself boundaries, and lessening the habit little by little. Be mindful of what you are doing, and you will be okay.
I think what you experienced is also experienced by many gamblers especially those here but in the end only some of them are truly able to realize their mistakes regarding the perspective on winning in gambling, I agree with what you said that knowledge regarding the risks is not enough to keep you safe, self-control is much more important than that, I myself am one of the gamblers who managed to recover from addiction by making experience as a learning material.
On the other hand, you have good suggestions and input on how to recover from addiction and from some of the points you convey honestly what I think is much more effective in curing someone from addiction is by keeping yourself busy with various physical activities such as main jobs or adding side jobs to fill your free time, I have proven that this method is really effective in reducing your level of interest in gambling, believe me as time goes by you will also forget about gambling.
On the other hand, you have good suggestions and input on how to recover from addiction and from some of the points you convey honestly what I think is much more effective in curing someone from addiction is by keeping yourself busy with various physical activities such as main jobs or adding side jobs to fill your free time, I have proven that this method is really effective in reducing your level of interest in gambling, believe me as time goes by you will also forget about gambling.
Yes, recovering from gambling addiction is a very difficult task. But it is not impossible. You can recover yourself from this if you try properly. op has given some very important tips that an addicted gambler can follow to recover himself. One of them is to keep yourself busy with other things. This will be very beneficial because when you are busy with something, your gambling will automatically decrease. And slowly you will continue to recover. But keep yourself occupied in something where you have responsibility. Only then will it work for you
Also, if we are influenced by gambling because of friends at the hangout, it is better to temporarily never visit the hangout first. Maybe it will be something that makes people at the hangout sneer at you.
If we are online players who play alone at home, then keeping ourselves busy until we are really tired every day is indeed the right way. Maybe we won't have time to visit or open a casino.
Start by making a list of activities that will keep you busy.
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.
It is indeed difficult for us as humans who are always trapped in gambling, even though there are many gambling promotions from all over the world that make us unable to avoid it, what's more, gambling sites have penetrated the digital world so whatever we can to avoid serious addiction to gambling, even though we ourselves are promoting gambling sites but with this thread chat. we can control ourselves so as not to get caught up in gambling that makes us addicted which endangers our finances in the future, with tips from OP at least we can take an example from OP's journey to stop being addicted to gambling.
Whatever finds abusive will always be difficult to get away at. Just like with gambling addiction, it takes so easy to make yourself addicted but it’s too hard for us then to untie the rope that connects us into gambling. This is the reason why we should never gamble with our emotions, otherwise we’ll end up getting trapped. Gambling addiction is no doubt very tormenting. Without self-encouragement and motivation to move forward, with the aid of medical practitioners and loved ones, we will never get out from this traumatic phase of our life.
The first time I saw a post like that, which not only shared his expertise but also his experiences, the best thing about this post was that he provided alternatives for how someone can recover from gambling addiction. Addiction itself is a bad thing, not only gambling, but every kind of addiction is detrimental to us. In gambling, I have seen many people who gain profits in large amounts, but at the same time, I have also seen those who lost all their assets to gambling. People earn money like sports gamblers, but they are very strict about their rules. They don't succumb to greed or chase their losses, instead, they have great control over their emotions, and that's why they earn more and more money. You will be a good gambler if you have a combination of knowledge and control.
As the post is related to gambling addiction, I would recommend the OP's post to those individuals who are willing to overcome their gambling addiction. The OP provides the best strategies to stay away from gambling.
As the post is related to gambling addiction, I would recommend the OP's post to those individuals who are willing to overcome their gambling addiction. The OP provides the best strategies to stay away from gambling.
I don’t have any personal experience to share as I never had to overcome severe addiction towards gambling rather I would like to just congratulate you and I hope that all of the supportive and kind words you are reading now from the members encourage and motivate you to continue doing better.
I am always proud of those who are able to recognize what’s wrong with their life and be able to turn it around. I hope you continue sharing your experiences and be able to inspire others as well. Keep going, mate. Journey is still long but you’ve come far ahead!
I am always proud of those who are able to recognize what’s wrong with their life and be able to turn it around. I hope you continue sharing your experiences and be able to inspire others as well. Keep going, mate. Journey is still long but you’ve come far ahead!
I am happy for you. This is a difficult feat, to tell yourself that you would like some change in your life and forcing the habit out of our system. I've been through this but I know I am not that deep yet and so I easily recovered from it. There are clues on how we can tell we are almost in gambling addiction. One is when we gamble even if there is an event of a relative. Two is when we even bring our smartphones to the bathroom doing number 2 just to gamble. Three is when we just cannot stop depositing 3-5 times a day. Those are signs that we need to clear our head and think of our future without gambling in our life.
one great achievement for you OP, I salute you where you work as a speaker about gambling but you try not to fall into gambling again, OP I want to ask, after you stopped gambling did your gambling friends distance themselves from you, or did they try to pull you back, how do you deal with the incident if you are invited and always invited to gamble again by your previous friends
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.
It is indeed difficult for us as humans who are always trapped in gambling, even though there are many gambling promotions from all over the world that make us unable to avoid it, what's more, gambling sites have penetrated the digital world so whatever we can to avoid serious addiction to gambling, even though we ourselves are promoting gambling sites but with this thread chat. we can control ourselves so as not to get caught up in gambling that makes us addicted which endangers our finances in the future, with tips from OP at least we can take an example from OP's journey to stop being addicted to gambling.
Yes op's advices are really effective but if you don't follow all of them then there is no problem but if you follow some points you can keep yourself away from gambling.- keep busy yourself with another multiple work
- stop tracking gambling site or Ann
- do not meet together with your friend who also addicted on gambling
- stop discussing about your gambling story.
- invest your money in the same strong physical assets like gold land price Bond etc
If someone follow those some key point then he or she can easily avoid gambling
Thank you for sharing that with us. That was brave of you to detail everything that you went through and I am glad that you are okay now.
I second everything the OP said. We cannot let gambling control us but it should be the vice versa. Control yourself to gamble more and dedicate a fixed amount to gambling that you will strictly follow. When I say "strictly" it is meant to stop whenever the fixed amount is gone even if you lost in just 5 minutes.
Don't let your vengeful emotion cloud your decision-making. This is where it all goes wrong because we are too fixed on getting our revenge.
For recovery I also second what OP mentioned in number 1. Keep yourself busy with other things and not gambling. For me, I went back to playing MMORPG and just enjoyed the company of other people through chat.
I second everything the OP said. We cannot let gambling control us but it should be the vice versa. Control yourself to gamble more and dedicate a fixed amount to gambling that you will strictly follow. When I say "strictly" it is meant to stop whenever the fixed amount is gone even if you lost in just 5 minutes.
Don't let your vengeful emotion cloud your decision-making. This is where it all goes wrong because we are too fixed on getting our revenge.
For recovery I also second what OP mentioned in number 1. Keep yourself busy with other things and not gambling. For me, I went back to playing MMORPG and just enjoyed the company of other people through chat.
All the stories are similar... and I don't see a problem with gambling, I see a problem with someone gambling with money they couldn't afford to lose with the desire to recover the lost money. In the process, you invested even more money that you don't have and gambled even harder and greedier... a disaster in the making.
Good thing you stopped before things escalated and got uglier. I have been repeating exactly what you wrote for years... it's the only right way. Each person has to focus on other things and keep himself busy doing those things. In your case it is work and I believe you have found some other interesting activities. In any case it can be anything that is not gambling!
We should never gamble with money we cannot afford to lose. It's smart to take breaks when we are winning and when we are losing, but it's more worth it in the moments when we are losing... that way we can avoid spending too much when we are caught up in gambling fire.
GxSTxV, good luck man! We learn from our mistakes and we try not to repeat them!
- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
Good thing you stopped before things escalated and got uglier. I have been repeating exactly what you wrote for years... it's the only right way. Each person has to focus on other things and keep himself busy doing those things. In your case it is work and I believe you have found some other interesting activities. In any case it can be anything that is not gambling!
We should never gamble with money we cannot afford to lose. It's smart to take breaks when we are winning and when we are losing, but it's more worth it in the moments when we are losing... that way we can avoid spending too much when we are caught up in gambling fire.
GxSTxV, good luck man! We learn from our mistakes and we try not to repeat them!
Honestly, I wasn't waiting for this huge support from our community of gamblers. I can see that most of old gamblers has suffered or been in similar situations as mine at least once in their journey. I'm happy to see a positive reaction from you all, and not blaming me for what I have done.
This topic will stay open as long as there are many members here sharing their same stories and suggestions. Gambling is a fun activity, however, it should be taken with much cautious. The best thing to heal from addiction is the first step which is admitting to yourself first and sharing with community, family or friends to seek help.
I think that you will be fine and you will cope with it, but you should never relax completely, otherwise you can start on the same path again. Sharing your experiences or failures is one of those points that helps, even if there are no close relatives nearby, then many give feedback on our forum.This topic will stay open as long as there are many members here sharing their same stories and suggestions. Gambling is a fun activity, however, it should be taken with much cautious. The best thing to heal from addiction is the first step which is admitting to yourself first and sharing with community, family or friends to seek help.
I did similar things several times, but the amounts were small, because I realized that it is like a funnel that can suck us in completely, the only question is to stop, the decision about which no one except ourselves will comment. I have not played for high stakes for a long time and have set for myself an amount above which I simply close the game and that's it. This helps me to stay in good shape to this day.
It feels good to see a gambler that's breaking free from gambling addiction, it is not easy, I have seen so many examples and they failed to win the war, you staying on your own for 30 days without gambling is massive, congrats on that brother.
Maybe it is just me but I don't like to be sold some hope that might never work out in the end, gambling most times feels impossible, my mental health struggled with it at times as keeping my safe lane without going off my boundary can be hard at times.
Just keep yourself in the midst of something engaging, an escapist type of world, maybe some TV aeries or some console multiplayer game with friends, you will quickly forget about your gambling life, for me, to understand gambling is to fear gambling, it is all in its definition.
Maybe it is just me but I don't like to be sold some hope that might never work out in the end, gambling most times feels impossible, my mental health struggled with it at times as keeping my safe lane without going off my boundary can be hard at times.
Just keep yourself in the midst of something engaging, an escapist type of world, maybe some TV aeries or some console multiplayer game with friends, you will quickly forget about your gambling life, for me, to understand gambling is to fear gambling, it is all in its definition.
Honestly, I wasn't waiting for this huge support from our community of gamblers. I can see that most of old gamblers has suffered or been in similar situations as mine at least once in their journey. I'm happy to see a positive reaction from you all, and not blaming me for what I have done.
This topic will stay open as long as there are many members here sharing their same stories and suggestions. Gambling is a fun activity, however, it should be taken with much cautious. The best thing to heal from addiction is the first step which is admitting to yourself first and sharing with community, family or friends to seek help.
This topic will stay open as long as there are many members here sharing their same stories and suggestions. Gambling is a fun activity, however, it should be taken with much cautious. The best thing to heal from addiction is the first step which is admitting to yourself first and sharing with community, family or friends to seek help.
The journey to recovery can be rough but when you're determined, you can achieve it. Congratulations on how far you've come on abstinence to gambling and I hope others learn from your story.
It will definitely start from ourselves, the self admittance that we need help and that we want to recover and forget about gambling addiction, is the best course of action that we can take. And so even if it is very rough road ahead, we can do it and with the help of our family.Another thing I'd suggest is to not be focused on updating the community about your progress but going behind to test the waters since you don't really have anyone monitoring you. Your determination should serve as a watchman to you because that's the fastest way you can get healing.
It might be good though to update us, at least he still has the "responsibility" to us. And with that he knows that he shouldn't fail because the whole community is behind him. So it's better for him to keep us posted as well and for sure we will encourage him to continue and who knows, in just matter of months he is already back on track and a different person. 
The journey to recovery can be rough but when you're determined, you can achieve it. Congratulations on how far you've come on abstinence to gambling and I hope others learn from your story.
Another thing I'd suggest is to not be focused on updating the community about your progress but going behind to test the waters since you don't really have anyone monitoring you. Your determination should serve as a watchman to you because that's the fastest way you can get healing.
Another thing I'd suggest is to not be focused on updating the community about your progress but going behind to test the waters since you don't really have anyone monitoring you. Your determination should serve as a watchman to you because that's the fastest way you can get healing.
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.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from
Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
Here are a few strategies I found helpful in staying away from gambling all this time:
- Spending the money I earn on paying bills and expenses beside the friends I took loand from
Day by day, the desire to gamble is fading and I feel stronger in my journey.
I have quote only that part of your post on purpose. While you say you are in a process of recovery from gambling, could it be that you are only in a process of closing gambling debt? And you only feel relief because the size of the debt is decreasing. You think that you are recovering from gambling addiction, but when you have cleared your debt, it will trigger you to return? That when you will drop chains in a form of a debt, you will continue gambling as previously.
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