the more I chase losses to get my money back the more money I will lose. therefore I had to give up all the money for the sake of my family and myself. It may start out painful to get back to normal but over time everything will get better and don't want to be stuck in one zone
You do the right thing which is not trying to get your money back and yes, that will make you get more losses. You can realize that reality so you do what you must do which is give up all the money for your family and yourself. Not many people can realize about that instead just keep playing gambling with a hope they can win back their money. Those who thinks like that will only regret when they see their money is gone all but they can not get it back. It will make them feel bad all day long and cause their emotion change. 
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The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
.Discipline and the ability to stop at the right time, both when winning and losing, is one solution to maintain balance and avoid big losses, with a clear strategy and sticking to the limits that have been set can certainly help us avoid impulsive decisions.
There are only two possible outcomes for this one on which it will really be just that those who do able to get out from addiction and to those who wont be able to do so then it would really be that continous for them to lose up even more money because they cant really just that able to resist on playing further. It will really be that up to you on how you do gonna handle yourself on such condition.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
So I think that no matter when and even if for example you already understand the concept of gambling I am sure that there will always be a time for you to get trapped or fall because you see temptation, but if for example from the beginning you already know about the possibility then it should not happen to you too often, because you already recognize the signs.
Gambling and betting constantly remind us of themselves from all sources. This includes advertising on the Internet and on TV (in the country where I live, gambling is prohibited, but betting is allowed), so in Prime Time, there are often cheerful calls to play gambling games. Also, on my smartphone, I constantly see gambling and betting ads, especially on sites that are not shy about any advertising and are ready to advertise even very bad betting organizations.
And because of all this, it is very difficult for a problem gambler to overcome his addiction. And it often happens that his friends often talk about their winnings.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
.Discipline and the ability to stop at the right time, both when winning and losing, is one solution to maintain balance and avoid big losses, with a clear strategy and sticking to the limits that have been set can certainly help us avoid impulsive decisions.
On the other hand, I think this is the importance of us as gamblers to always maintain awareness in ourselves, or what I mean is to maintain an understanding of what and how the basic concept of gambling is, especially in terms of winning or losing, as you said that we should have the ability to stop at the right time, whatever the situation, such as stopping when winning or losing, and the key I think is as I have said above that we must first have a proper basic understanding of the concept of gambling and after that maintain a level of awareness so that you can control the indications that can lead you to excessive or impulsive actions.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
.Discipline and the ability to stop at the right time, both when winning and losing, is one solution to maintain balance and avoid big losses, with a clear strategy and sticking to the limits that have been set can certainly help us avoid impulsive decisions.
From the topic «how would I gamble if I have $1 budget per day», I personally came to conclusion that if I gamble with little money, I will never taste the taste of big wins. Since I dont believe tha someone might be ever fully recovered from gambling, playing little budget, but sticking to it might help not to go wild and do uncontrolled gambling like previously.
We can agree that people are different, every person has a different personality, different environment, and capacity to gamble with a bigger budget. Personally, when I decided to quit gambling, I didn't think at all about lowering my budget or gamble less often than what I use to. Knowing and accepting my personality which is addictive one, I know that if I even started to gamble once again, I may cause go with higher budget and spend more time. I don't want to fall in this trap again.So for now at least I keep my safe away of any bad thoughts that can push me to my addiction a d troubles once again. Recovery is a long journey and take more than patience or time but changing totally yourself.
Finally you replied to me. I really wish to know how you hand your recovery, when from your posting history, only gambling is around you. Shouldnt it be better to barrier completely from gambling? But I see only gambling-gambling-gambling that you post about. Dont you think that you risk a lot, when you have surrounded yourself with gambling? Because only few clicks and seconds separate you from return.
Recovery from gambling addiction is not easy as we must really have a strong will to say no to ourselves to return to gambling and we must have many activities to distract our minds. But those who addicted to gambling will not have the same recovery process because that will depends on their gambling addiction level.
Indeed, recovering from addiction won't be easy because it must take times and some process. It also requires a strong will and discipline, these are 2 important factors as well. Anyway, I agree with you, the treatment for the addicts can be different. It will depend on the level of the addiction. If it is still a light addiction, it may no need further treatments from the doctors or experts. But for severe addiction, it must be handled by experts or doctors.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
People who consider gambling as a means of entertainment, I think they will be able to maintain their perception of their views on gambling, but that does not rule out the possibility that they will experience a loss of control once in a while, they may lose control.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
So I think that no matter when and even if for example you already understand the concept of gambling I am sure that there will always be a time for you to get trapped or fall because you see temptation, but if for example from the beginning you already know about the possibility then it should not happen to you too often, because you already recognize the signs.
I just want to tell you to keep your spirit and remain consistent in healing yourself first, because healing addiction independently is very difficult, especially if you still do gambling, even though by limiting the budget and so on will still be easily influenced by an emotional atmosphere , because your emotions are still very accustomed to your character who is still addicted to gambling, this healing requires dedication, requires seriousness and requires consistency, my advice you fast not to gamble for actors who you think are enough and feel much better in the future on addiction you have.
Yep, someone might not able to quit completely, so they need to start from little. Even @OP is back to gamble, but as long as he reduce the frequency and the money he spent, he should be alright.
I’m not experiencing addiction but by simply stumbling to a post about bonuses and different casino promotions makes me want to gamble although I can fully control my urge so what’s more to the one that has addiction problem.
Yeah the best solution is to stop anything related to gambling including quit signature campaign, but @OP has a loan that he need to pay and signature campaign is one of his source, so he has no choice for now.I just want to tell you to keep your spirit and remain consistent in healing yourself first, because healing addiction independently is very difficult, especially if you still do gambling, even though by limiting the budget and so on will still be easily influenced by an emotional atmosphere , because your emotions are still very accustomed to your character who is still addicted to gambling, this healing requires dedication, requires seriousness and requires consistency, my advice you fast not to gamble for actors who you think are enough and feel much better in the future on addiction you have.
Yep, someone might not able to quit completely, so they need to start from little. Even @OP is back to gamble, but as long as he reduce the frequency and the money he spent, he should be alright. 
That is the most difficult thing to do, to know your limits and to stop for a period of time when you are presented with a win after so many lost rounds and gambling sessions. I know personally as I have not been playing with money of my own from more than 3 weeks or 1 month or more don't remember that well as I think I am healed from addiction. For many people though it is very difficult as we are human beings and emotions play a big part in the decision we make, so most people led by emotions want to get their money back and as a result they get in an even worse situations than that of their initial one. It is not impossible to come out of this, yet extremely difficult for real.
In addition to your input here. The extra difficulty for user that experiencing gambling addiction here in the forum is the constant appearance of gambling every time they browse since he is part of signature campaign that requires gambling board post.
I’m not experiencing addiction but by simply stumbling to a post about bonuses and different casino promotions makes me want to gamble although I can fully control my urge so what’s more to the one that has addiction problem.
Being not addicted as much as possible is the best way to fight addiction because there’s a lot of temptation here once you are already battling addiction.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
That is the most difficult thing to do, to know your limits and to stop for a period of time when you are presented with a win after so many lost rounds and gambling sessions. I know personally as I have not been playing with money of my own from more than 3 weeks or 1 month or more don't remember that well as I think I am healed from addiction. For many people though it is very difficult as we are human beings and emotions play a big part in the decision we make, so most people led by emotions want to get their money back and as a result they get in an even worse situations than that of their initial one. It is not impossible to come out of this, yet extremely difficult for real.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
Most players lack the capability to maintain limitations for a duration of time, they can forget the strategy when the casino offers some tricky wins. Your advice is useful for players with self confidence and resilience in disciplinary matters. A single win is enough to deceive an easily distracted player, who sticks to limiting how long they gamble and how much is spent. So, it's fine for players to understand who they are and what method will be convenient to keep or retain.
From the topic «how would I gamble if I have $1 budget per day», I personally came to conclusion that if I gamble with little money, I will never taste the taste of big wins. Since I dont believe tha someone might be ever fully recovered from gambling, playing little budget, but sticking to it might help not to go wild and do uncontrolled gambling like previously.
We can agree that people are different, every person has a different personality, different environment, and capacity to gamble with a bigger budget. Personally, when I decided to quit gambling, I didn't think at all about lowering my budget or gamble less often than what I use to. Knowing and accepting my personality which is addictive one, I know that if I even started to gamble once again, I may cause go with higher budget and spend more time. I don't want to fall in this trap again.So for now at least I keep my safe away of any bad thoughts that can push me to my addiction a d troubles once again. Recovery is a long journey and take more than patience or time but changing totally yourself.
From the topic «how would I gamble if I have $1 budget per day», I personally came to conclusion that if I gamble with little money, I will never taste the taste of big wins. Since I dont believe tha someone might be ever fully recovered from gambling, playing little budget, but sticking to it might help not to go wild and do uncontrolled gambling like previously.
We can agree that people are different, every person has a different personality, different environment, and capacity to gamble with a bigger budget. Personally, when I decided to quit gambling, I didn't think at all about lowering my budget or gamble less often than what I use to. Knowing and accepting my personality which is addictive one, I know that if I even started to gamble once again, I may cause go with higher budget and spend more time. I don't want to fall in this trap again.So for now at least I keep my safe away of any bad thoughts that can push me to my addiction a d troubles once again. Recovery is a long journey and take more than patience or time but changing totally yourself.
When problems occur as you have experienced where there are many defeats and this drains time and thoughts during the defeat, I will also need a break to recover, but now it is much better after shrinking the budget for gambling so it does not become prolonged stress.
The important thing for me is to know your limits - you have to know when to stop when you're losing, and when you're winning when to pull back and enjoy it.
From the topic «how would I gamble if I have $1 budget per day», I personally came to conclusion that if I gamble with little money, I will never taste the taste of big wins. Since I dont believe tha someone might be ever fully recovered from gambling, playing little budget, but sticking to it might help not to go wild and do uncontrolled gambling like previously.
We can agree that people are different, every person has a different personality, different environment, and capacity to gamble with a bigger budget. Personally, when I decided to quit gambling, I didn't think at all about lowering my budget or gamble less often than what I use to. Knowing and accepting my personality which is addictive one, I know that if I even started to gamble once again, I may cause go with higher budget and spend more time. I don't want to fall in this trap again.So for now at least I keep my safe away of any bad thoughts that can push me to my addiction a d troubles once again. Recovery is a long journey and take more than patience or time but changing totally yourself.
Recovery journey wont really be that easy but its not something impossible if you do really wanted to quit up gambling for good.
I'm sure you're not alone here, or I mean it's not just you who experiences something like that with a really crazy approach to gambling, and honestly I myself have also experienced that situation where it's really hard for me to ignore any time without gambling, even when I'm doing other activities I often mix it with gambling like slots or dice and of course the impact can affect other activities that we have, and also yes of course what will happen is like what you said that every money we have will usually be lost in a short time, because when you are in that situation then when you have some money then usually the first thing on your mind is to use it to gamble and this is what makes people have difficulty meeting their needs, and this is also what makes someone have problems due to using money for other needs on gambling and ultimately regretting it, believe me that it is a situation that really causes a lot of stress in you.
From the topic «how would I gamble if I have $1 budget per day», I personally came to conclusion that if I gamble with little money, I will never taste the taste of big wins. Since I dont believe tha someone might be ever fully recovered from gambling, playing little budget, but sticking to it might help not to go wild and do uncontrolled gambling like previously.
We can agree that people are different, every person has a different personality, different environment, and capacity to gamble with a bigger budget. Personally, when I decided to quit gambling, I didn't think at all about lowering my budget or gamble less often than what I use to. Knowing and accepting my personality which is addictive one, I know that if I even started to gamble once again, I may cause go with higher budget and spend more time. I don't want to fall in this trap again.So for now at least I keep my safe away of any bad thoughts that can push me to my addiction a d troubles once again. Recovery is a long journey and take more than patience or time but changing totally yourself.
Because there is a thin line between getting fully recovered from addiction and continue gambling a little after taking some measures to fight with gambling addiction. Like with OP, he has said that he has recovered, yet we see him in gambling section. So far he is strong and keeps his past addiction closed. Or he will be always be strong to keep his addiction away.
Does addiction actually lesves us? Maybe it depends on the degree of the addiction because normally addiction is supposed to ease us when we have introduced different aspects that will aid us and increase our discipline to the level when addiction can easily leave us. There are people that are still suffering from addiction and we ought to help them especially when they are in their conscious mindset.
Recovering from addiction is not really the problem because I have seen many people that had testified that they don't have addiction of one or two particular things while later going back to it.
Possibly addiction will stay inside forever, and waits until something triggers its return. I dont want to look like a person who loves dig in one persons dirty laundry, but take a look on OP posting history. Even though he fights with addiction and talks about his recovery, a lot of his posts are still gambling related. Right now he isnt gambling, but he is walking on the edge of a blade. Maybe he is only posting in gambling section and does nothing gambling related IRL, but being close to gambling when you are on a process of recovery might not be good.
Well, for me, once you are a gambler, it always remains in your heart, even if you are not gambling anymore. I really hope that is the case, otherwise, OP might just be spinning us an unrealistic story.
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