Topic: Recovery journey from gambling addiction. - page 7. (Read 2708 times)

Well, that's why I always say that in gambling, having a proper mindset is always very important.

If the gambler has a mindset of "making more money with gambling" then there's a high chance that he will lose most if not all of his money. On the flipside, if the gambler has a mindset of "gambling for the same of fun" then yes there's still a chance that the gambler might lose the money, but he will not make unnecessary or bad decisions because he had fun while gambling already. The problem is when he hadn't entertained after losing the money.

Most of the gamblers who are chasing money often leads to bad things like some will borrow money from the people they know, or they will sell things just to have money to gamble, or worse, they will steal other people's money. Sometimes, realizing that spending too much money in gambling will help you realize and from there, you will have the power to stop your gambling addiction. It's good that he managed to fight his gambling addiction. Some can't even do it by themselves.

I don't see any solution in freezing or deleting the account where a gambler can bet or in a physical casino. You can gamble and there is nothing wrong with that but there should be maximum efforts to reduce the tendency to become addicted. You should conduct your own activities regarding entertainment and you can make your efforts considering gambling as a means of entertainment. Entertainment is necessary for physical and mental health with limited financial allocation and proper use of time. It is possible to refrain from addiction through family protection and responsible behavior and for mental peace from social status in view of the surrounding conditions.

Yes, that's right, no one intentionally wants to find a disease to cure it unless maybe it's someone who is addicted to gambling because people like that will still force themselves to gamble even though they know beforehand that they have experienced several losses in large amounts. Some people only think about winning no matter how much they have lost, the desire to win remains a priority in their minds. But that just makes them get trapped. That's why before gambling we must be able to do research first to think about whether we are ready to lose or not, besides that we must be able to accept the defeat that occurs because accepting this defeat is also something that needs to be considered.

Firstly, congratulations on embarking on your healing process, the greatest step to heal from gambling addiction is to recognize that you're addicted, identify what you've lost and guard yourself not to lose more than you've already. Taking a break from gambling was the best option I could relate with, I did same six years ago when I was addicted too. I was able to avoid gambling for 3 years and healed from the demon of addiction, started afresh with more addiction mindedness attitude and I'm very good until now.

At the point I recognized myself in my addiction, I moved to record my losses and almost got depressed. Somehow I was able to deceive my subconscious mind that I'm going to be fine. To heal properly, in the early days of 2019, after my granny's burial, I took a job to assist my brother in a region with little or no network efficiency, meaning we struggle to even make calls, so browsing was a no go area, there my thirst for gambling died a natural death after spending a year there. I came out determined never to gamble again, uninstalled every gambling app from my device and started listing out my daily activities in a jotter. I bent myself to executing tasks only on that jotter, so without gambling there and avoiding the betting houses, my gambling friends and gambling sites for a period of 3 years, I found a new life. I still gamble, but now I'm giving it the least attention and have never been addicted again, I made it the last thing to focus on and I hardly finish off my to do lists now, talkless of frequenting the last item on it.

That's right, sometimes just a piece of advice won't affect those who are already addicted to gambling, someone who is already addicted to gambling will not be easily influenced by just a piece of advice, they might listen but it only goes in one ear and out the other, like the saying goes, this is what happens to them, even though they listen to the advice given by others, they won't listen to it properly.

In addition, with different levels of addiction as you said, it is true that not everyone who is addicted will recover with just a piece of advice. Maybe this advice will work for those whose addiction is not very severe, but for those who are severe, advice alone will not be enough.

Yes, recovering from addiction is indeed difficult but it does not mean it is impossible, actually it is just a matter of time, or what I mean is that gamblers who are currently trapped in a cycle of addiction can definitely recover but maybe in an undetermined period of time and also in terms of the slump it cannot be known how depressed they will be when they are in the cycle of addiction, so of course I think it is a very commendable action if we can share ways to cure gambling addiction from each other's experiences.

Honestly, I have experienced addiction before but thankfully now I have recovered which maybe I will share the recipe here that if you really want to recover from addiction then the first thing you have to do is remove all access that can connect you to gambling such as deleting or freezing all casino accounts, blocking your account and busying yourself with various other activities.

This may have worked for your neighbors whom you did advised but isn't a guarantee that it's going to play out same way for another, you have to understand that there are different levels of addiction and so they also demand different types and levels of elimination so the remedy will be different but a professional help has been proven over time to have worked so well that many gamblers have been able to scale through gambling addiction and turned a new leave after, so it's become a well pronounced and recognized.

Which is why I always encourage and suggest rehabilitation centre for people with this kind of addiction, from your story if the dude was noticed earlier and the parents took their money or his money to put him in a rehabilitation course, the cost of bailing their car would have been avoided. unfortunately it's not their fault but the incident occurred out of over looked behaviour of the dude.
Of course it's not easy to key out of gambling especially when it's a habit you will need another habit to get rid of the ridiculous old habits I encourage those of us with this level of knowledge about addiction to help those in such situations and they are probably unconscious to their behaviours.

Most gamblers became gambling addict not because they knew how to gamble best but they took it upon themselves as a source of income.A person that is always occupied wouldn't render much of his time to gambling.Its a good thing you've recovered from gambling addiction,I know it wasn't an easy journey,I know a lot of gamblers that are battling with gambling addiction.Gambling for fun should be at the tip of every gambler's finger cause that's the essence of gambling.Many gambling addicts lost huge amount on gambling and stopped gambling for some period of time,I believe they'll continuing gambling after the pain of the huge amount they lost have subsided because they haven't realized the main purpose of gambling.

It is only when someone (gambler) loses huge amount of money that he will decide to leave gambling. What happened to Op has happened to a friend. In fact as it is he is owing people a lot of money. And I thank God that he has finally gradually leaving gambling addiction. And I also appreciate your courage to cut out your gambling addiction from the industry. Many have tried but they could and continue gambling.
I have been avoiding to become an addicted gambler. I only gamble when I want to have small fun like twice a week and not a continues gambler.

Don't ask him to make a new fire - but suggest he do something more useful, such as exercising or improving the quality of his worship ^{[according to their respective religions].} I agree that transition methods will help gambling addicts reduce the intensity or eliminate their addiction - but this must also be supported by the right environment. If you are still in the same gambling environment as before - then your success in reducing your addiction will probably be low.

Yes, its really that something that good on trying out to share up about gambling addiction problems and on how it do able to recover from it, but actually everything will really be just that depending on a certain individual since not all would really be having that kind of control towards themselves when it comes into this aspect on which there will really be those who cant be able to do so just because they cant leave out gambling and cant really be able to remove into their minds. We do know that everything will really be basing up according into their interest and mindset towards gambling.

If they wont be able to remove out that kind of gambling urge, then they will really be definitely be able to fail up when it comes into this aspect because thinking up will really be resulting on keep on
making some engagement even if it means that you do need to spend up even more.

I really appreciate how you share your experiences lately with the community.
I wasn't addicted me myself but i witnessed some cases addicted to the activity of gambling and van't control their bihaviors.


From the beginning of my experience I was afraid of the idea of becoming a gambling addict, especially since I had a bad experience with alcohol addiction, which required me a great effort to get rid of. Then, by virtue of my knowledge of scientific research, I understood that behavioral addiction is one of the most dangerous types of addiction that can afflict a person.

I don't know how strong your gambling addiction is. It is generally accepted that gambling addiction is difficult to get rid of, but I know a great way to quickly overcome gambling addiction. Here you need to use a bypass so as not to leave your subconscious any chance.

This is the substitution method - you replace one addiction with another. For example, you used to gamble, and now you start playing computer games. Play with passion, try to enjoy the process.

There is a great way to put out forest fires - by starting a new counter-fire. One fire will destroy another fire. One addiction will kill another addiction.

At the same time, each subsequent addiction is much weaker than the previous one - so you will not have big problems with it.

You're right getting busy with alot of goals and activities can really help one to stay far from gambling and it's alot good and better as it helps to enable the gambler stay discipline and focus. And like the saying goes an idle man is the devil's workshop, so then when you're idle your ipen to gambling at anytime and as well resulting to addiction.

Well, I agree with your suggestion, which previously was the only idea that successfully helped me recover from gambling addiction, so actually if you want to recover and really want to get rid of activities that have become your habits, then eliminate everything that can connect you to gambling, or simply eliminate access to it, because when you do not have access to gambling, there is no other way than to hold back your desire to gamble, one of which is in terms of money as you suggest, namely by entrusting most of the money you have to other people and make sure that person can really be trusted like your parents or wife.

Previously I also did it but the first thing I did was block all local bank accounts that I had and after that I entrusted most of the money I had to my parents and only left some for needs that could not be tolerated, I am sure that this method is really effective and I have also proven it myself, and in my opinion it is the best way to reduce your level of interest in gambling and over time you will definitely forget about gambling.

I don't think followers or friends in general can stop the person from gambling, they only warn them that gambling only brings momentary pleasure and will bring disaster to them in the future. Bookies know very well how they play their role when someone is given a win in a gambling game, they feel euphoria which can make them want to continue gambling to feel that sensation again and want to add to the profits that are much bigger than before. Addiction can be cured or restored in various ways, we can flashback or reflect on what happened to us before, if we take lessons from before, I think we can let it all go.

The past is part of repentance but there are many people who are truly insightful in this matter, they know what has scratched people's eyes and instead of just letting the past haunt them every day, they look for another goal to erase this haunting bit by bit. Although the collapse of the image is difficult to regain people's trust, living well and the right thing will come is the most comfortable perspective, maybe people will later keep a less intimate relationship with the addict but we recover not to change the relationship, we recover to become more transparent and upright in our personal ethics.

That's true. It was not meant to be like that because if it is, then most online gambling sites today will be bankrupt and we might not even see one existing anymore. There's money if you are the online casino owner and that is why they can give back lots of money during events. The house edge is what feeds them and that means more losers than winners. I have seen many guys who had been spending way too much time gambling and I can say they become so unsocial that they won't even talk to anyone anymore. I experienced it firsthand from a friend who came to visit our place. It's like he was just forced by my other friends to come because he didn't do anything while in my house but only face his smartphone and gamble. That is a sign of addiction or worse he is already addicted but would not admit it to us or to himself.

There is one way for you to be able to overcome gambling addiction and I think it has not been mentioned by other people here, for the additional points you give in your argument, and this is also important in my opinion, when you work never save money wherever you can access , entrust your finances fully to your family, mother's wife or anyone you can trust to hold your money, and you want to stop gambling then they will understand what they have to do to help you quit the gambling addiction.
I give this advice to my neighbors, and that is effective to this day he has succeeded in eliminating gambling addiction fully.