Topic: Recovery journey from gambling addiction. - page 8. (Read 2693 times)

The worst mistake a gambler would make is to see gambling as the means of making money and becoming rich overnight, this feelings is what leads to destruction when they think possiblity of using cent to win a large amount from gambling. But in your own case you quickly call yourself to orders to understand the bad effects of gambling though even though you became addicted there were chances for you to make adjustments or correct your path to choose and follow.

Yes of course it's easier to prevent being an addict than to actually fix the whole thing after you already ended up in addiction. Anyways thank goodness OP has been able to finally get rid of his addictions as you seldom find people step out of addiction that easily. Anyways I think I've come across a post of Op's before now in the reputation board where he announced his situation back then.
Like I usually say , sometimes gambling is like a cone shaped road that's easier to get into from the beginning however as you begin to drive deep into it the more difficult it becomes to snap out of it.

Maybe many of us experiences like that but we should grateful if we can cure our gambling addiction by using many ways. We know that is difficult to leave out from gambling but we must do before everything in our life change. It is our time to realize how deeper we are in gambling so we can start to change and reduce it if we feel that we are too often to gambling. It is not just for ourselves but for other people who closest to us and I am sure that we don't want to see they are in trouble because of what we do in gambling.

Awareness is what we need to check in ourselves so we know what is change into ourselves. If we think that we need to reduce our gambling activities, we must do that and trying to have more positive activities like what @OP suggested.

The major things that makes someone gets addicted to gambling is;
1- Either not gambling moderately.
2- Out of compulsion.
3- Only source of income.
4- Chasing profits after loss
5- Becoming the only activity to involved oneself, like not going outing with friends, do not join in any another activities rather than gambling all times within oneself. If all these must be avoided then the chances of someone becoming so addicted to gambling would be that so common and easily.

I have read about addiction and how dangerous or harmful it can be and I have seen some few cases but I started fearing addiction when I witnessed a young man playing game and squander his own money then proceeded to play and use his father's car as a collateral. To cut the long story short, he gamble out of budget and the car was seized. It was that day I realised how critical addiction gamblers can go with their irresponsible gambling behaviour. The father has to come and pay off the money in the gambling shop to bail his car. I assumed he was going to quit gambling after that incident but it seems he was just getting started. If addiction reach critical stage, it becomes hard to help yourself or listen to advice.

I'm with you on this, it is easier said than done, gamblers who have crossed the red line can't be handled like those who just started having the addictions, such as they can easily be talked to or plan some drastic solutions that will work. But the real addicts need extra measures because they will find all other means possible to bypass existing ones. As I've hinted many times, gamblers should find help and get properly healed and not look for a way to punish or respect themselves, such plans will only work temporarily, that's if they will work at all because they are just like cutting the grass on the surface and leaving the root.

One thing I always try to maintain when it comes to gambling is to remain a small gambler, not with a large amount, even to minimize the desire to gamble I do not hold a penny. What is meant is intentionally not taking money if there is no urgent need. I can take money if it is to buy food, coffee, and cigarettes, basically for my consumption for a week. Outside of that there is no quota that can be used for gambling.

So where can I gamble once in a while? You must know the world of Airdrop, giveaways and some free activities that generate income. If I'm lucky then I am free to use it to gamble so I don't worry even if I lose.

Everyone has their own tricks, right? Well that's my personal activity so far so that I can still gamble calmly.

LOL you're right about that, gambling addiction to be more precise, when someone goes against what they're promoting there's certainly something wrong.
If it is not gambling completely and is only an entertainment, the comment with a conflicting tone saying that gambling is very dangerous certainly shows a personal experience from him that losing money from gambling has ever happened, is it wrong from gambling?
Of course, what needs to be corrected are people who comment that gambling is very dangerous.

I also may not be an active player of gambling and any casino games just as entertainment and only a small amount of money is used,
instead of greedily using all the money to get big wins that are ultimately disappointing.

It is always more advisable to take care of your health than to treat a disease later, and in the case of gambling, it is better not to lose a huge amount than to think about what to do when you lose. A huge loss is, in my understanding, half of the bankroll or even a game of all-in, this is the original problem that you need to think about solving, and not about how to recover from a huge loss.

Isn't that comment a kind of conflict of interest coming from someone who is wearing a campaign logo and promoting a casino while they're saying otherwise here? How do you justify that seeing you're on Duelbits?

Perhaps, "gambling addiction" would've been more appropriate.

Locking your money in cold storage like just to be able to escape your gambling behaviour shows that you are not far away from getting addicted either, you should be able to say no to what you don't feel like doing, if not, you are already near the end of getting addicted.

My advice is you need to work on yourself, your no should be no, practice this act for a while it will master you, many people need to understand the human body, what you train your mind and body to become is what you will become, the weaker you are the weaker your results will always be.

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.

I remember myself many years ago, when all I did was gamble 24/7 and didn't notice anything around me. It was some kind of illness. All the money I had was immediately lost in a few hours. What was that? Insanity or something else? I still can't understand how I could do that not only to myself, but also to my family. I let so many people down that I still regret it. Yes, the past can haunt us for quite a long time.

Maybe it is more appropriate to be able to prevent our behavior towards gambling from being excessive when doing it, because addiction will not occur if we do not do it excessively and also with the assumption that we should not think that we can make a profit for sure, we should think that this is nothing more than just entertainment. The addiction that occurs a lot has damaged the destruction of each individual, this must be prevented because it is better to prevent than to cure. Now if we think that we can make a profit in gambling then addiction has become a consequence that is likely to occur, I agree with you to be able to narrow the chances of getting addicted, it must be considered. When someone has gambled by ignoring the chances of getting addicted like not caring about the risks then they can get addicted I am sure of that.

If you have become an acute addict, it is indeed difficult to get rid of the urge to do it, like around me there is a young minimarket worker, maybe he is now 19, but even though he works and has an income, he himself has debts here and there, either with his friends or with loans made online, he even said that his debts are up to thousands of dollars.
With what you do, in my opinion, is one of the good disciplines. Maybe it can be used as an example to be imitated whose purpose is clearly to reduce risk, besides that I myself am a person who does not want to take risks, so now I have limits and discipline that have been set.

If the mindset for gambling is wrong from the start, then gambling will always be addictive, and make people look for reasons in themselves and others. Why is it difficult to stop gambling? Because the brain is already haunted by the "sudden wealth" that will happen or commonly called easy money. So people who find it difficult to stop gambling because they are lazy and have no other motivation. Therefore, the mindset that must be had before gambling, it is easier to prevent gambling addiction than to get out of addiction.

Even though you have already fallen into gambling addiction, to get out of the addiction must of course be based on self-awareness and intention. If this already exists, the next step to get out of gambling addiction is to get closer to God and know how to be grateful for this life because this is an important point to be able to get out of gambling addiction. If done consistently, then slowly you can get out of addiction. This is not a personal experience, but this is what I tell the experience of a close friend who has now succeeded in getting out of gambling addiction. This friend of mine was one of the most addicted among my other friends, he even dared to steal his own parents' money so he could gamble, but he quickly changed. The change happened when he started to get closer to God.

It is better to always avoid addiction than becoming a victim because as then it would be too hard to control because you wouldn't know how it happens and suddenly became that destructive to our lives, and we could be looking for a way to control after having a total destruction in our lives. As a gambler it's imperatively to always narrow down those things that leads to addiction because when it comes its hard to control, for instance a gambler should always gamble within a specific budget and when it's off they should stop and shouldn't see gambling as the only source of income or livelihood.

I personally believe that therapy can ease up every gambling addiction whether it's critical or not. Some time ago I went to visit a rehabilitation centre in my city and I found out that most of the people are either drug addicts or gamble addicts that family couldn't help but to bring them to such environment where they have no access to anything relating to their problems. And I also encouraged this rehabilitation for anyone deep into gambling, and first it starts with ones mindset once one is convinced that the problem is over gambling or chasing losses then recovering from addiction can be simplified.

Critical addiction can be very hard to leave and that is why we will keep seeing more gamblers finding it hard to get rid of the addiction.
Some gamblers would complain or gamblinh addiction and after a while, they could testify that they are okay and no more addiction. I'm this case, I believe the gamblers addiction is still in a minor state that could easily be overcome. When an addiction get worse, we could see a severe case where the gambler does not have full control of themselves and the disciple is not more there to help the victim gradually get rid of the addiction.

As a gambler, you will encounter a time when you will start finding it difficult to go a day without playing gamble and this is the period where addiction comes in because you are giving gambling so much of your time, that is why you will find yourself gambling everyday. Actually, i have found myself in a state of addiction whereby any day i don't stake a bet, it will look like that day was the day i should have made a lot of winning and it always happen in sports betting after the results are out and you start having the feelings that if you had stake a bet that you would have won but all these feelings are just pushing one towards addiction.

 When i discovered that i have been gambling often with less productive results, i started engaging myself in different things during my free times, that made me forget to gamble. I will be so committed to those things such that i don't even spare out time to gamble. That was how i was able to conquer addiction, not that i don't gamble again but i do it occasionally and not like the way i made it a habit before. If you want to overcome addiction, just find meaningful things that you will be doing at your spare time when you are not working and gradually you will see yourself defeating addiction and you will become so relieved with yourself.