Topic: Share your stories on how do you get addicted in gambling? - page 4. (Read 1036 times)

I didn't get addicted to gambling but I had a very close friend with such issue.
How he get on this issue? Well, probably, there are several factors involved....

- money needed = gamblers believe that is really easy win 1000 USD with a penny bet...
- doesn't understand statistics behind gambling = if you don't know how to manage it... you are in big troubles
- a lot of interactions with others "problematic gamblers"
- sometimes he wins bets "casually". this lead to a disaster since most of the time he is just picking the odds and not the event...
- " close to win " ... each parlay is wrong for just a couple of goals so he is doing great it's just matter of time....
- no discipline. no budget. no math approach, just binge-gambling ....

In order not to get addicted to gambling learn to gamble with responsibility is most important.

Discipline strictly in order not to become bad at gambling.
Manage money well so as not to be too wasteful when playing gambling.
Do not play all the time because it will obviously lead to a more severe addiction.

So far I don't consider myself addicted, but I'm always learning to avoid being overly addicted to gambling so it's important to see some advice from people who have had their experiences.

Addiction means when you feel dependent on an activity including gambling, and maybe I will also admit that I am one of the gamblers who was previously trapped in a cycle of addiction where I really could not spend a single moment without gambling, and when I have some money then usually the first thing I think about is gambling, thinking about multiplying the money several times over, and believe me that when you are in that cycle then every time you will feel tension and worry due to problems in your finances.

Often I spend 90% of my income just to gamble or pay debts, and I have even sold several times some of my valuables such as my vehicle and my wife's jewelry, it was terrible.

But in the end I am very grateful that now I have managed to get out of that cycle, and I will say that something that makes you addicted is because of the interest and very high expectations of winning, I realized that when I took the time to meditate for some time.

In the end I decided to eliminate all access that I had that led to gambling, such as blocking all local bank accounts that I had and limiting myself with gambling environments such as some friends who were involved in gambling, in this way little by little I could eliminate my interest in gambling until I finally lost interest completely, and I knew that when I was not interested at all and did not feel curious when I saw one of my friends who was gambling.
Maybe there are some important points that you can take from my experience, my friend, and I will say that the real victory is when you can stop completely.

Not trying to highjack this thread but we have our own support group thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62142108 I created dedicated for those problem gambler that seeking support with other user online.

I become a victim of gambling addiction way back one dice game is still the most popular games on crypto casino. I barely took some sleep since I use bot that time to make a bet for me while I apply different strategies to get profit.

I manage to snap out of addiction after busting tons of bankroll. Those losses gives me fear to stop gambling for good and bet responsibly which I can apply until now.

OK, definitely sure bud, with such a high level of self control, sure you are gonna get through with the gambling addiction even before you realize it, and thank goodness you are working, which is a great distraction from the urge to gamble which is something that usually grips it's victims times when they are less busy or totally ideal, this is why the best way to deal with addiction to gambling is to get busy with other stuff, get really busy that your brains doesnt even get the chance to think of or about other things, in a little to no time, you discover that your brains have adjusted and no longer remembers to remind you of gambling when you usually should be gambling.

Anyways, I wish you Goodluck bud, rest assured you will beat the addiction soon, if you haven't actually.

Though I won't call it real addiction for me, but I still remember back in my early days of gambling when I will place so many bets in a single day, even when I made some losses. Back then I still didn't know what it means to minimize my risk, I just wanted to see some wins at least. I later had to learn the hard way. So since then I only gamble a few times and dont let my gambling wins get the best of me. When I make wins  I just take it as a norms and don't get too excited to avoid getting too attached to my wins just incase I encounter some losses another day

Lack of education for me about gambling is the main reason I became an addict for certain period of time, suffered much losses, struggled to understand how it’s hard to stop and couldn’t notice that I was chasing my losses for so long. My story begins from the day I made few bets on finals of champions league, and from that day where I noticed slots and games in a fiat casino. I wasn’t really aware of gambling online and the laws or rules inside it, so I started looking for Youtube videos and believed everything I have watched.
Watching people gaining and hitting jackpot rewards was so tempting, lack of understanding is very dangerous and what made me think that sooner or later I would hit a jackpot, besides feeling lucky enough to win, I kept making deposits without counting how much money I have spent and lost.

Gambling addiction made me depressed for a while, guilt feelings and anger of losing pushed me to search more of what I was doing in a young age. I takes months even years to fully heal from addiction and once you understand it fully, it is hard again to fall into that trap.

I am more or less a gambling addict and I don't blame anyone because I got addicted to gambling based on my own decision but now I am trying to stop myself from gambling. I was addicted to offline gambling before online gambling and I was busy with dices with my friends. I got involved in gambling because I had some kind of curiosity in my mind towards gambling but now I am mainly busy with work so I don't have much time for gambling. I am trying very hard to be completely abstinent from gambling but although it is a bit difficult for me, I have 80% self control and believe that I will be able to control myself more in the future.

Actually, there are many ways to avoid gambling addiction, articles have been published that will certainly be different from the way someone who has been addicted in the past.
I have a friend who has been addicted to gambling who gave away all his assets including the property he owned, and one of the things I know after losing all of them he just realized that it was all wrong and regretted it, even though he has now completely stopped gambling but he cannot return the assets that he had sold.
One way in my opinion is, start discipline, determine the bankroll if it is exhausted then do not be forced to continue playing because you know the adrenaline in gambling will always increase if you continue to lose.

Sad to learn about this, and glad that you were sensible enough to pull away, for me, I am still wearing a signature where it's payments is directly sent to my account on the casino, and it's been more than 2 years now, and I've never for once, been tempted to use my payment for the week for gambling, not once have I tried that, if I must gamble, I must first withdraw my payment for the week into my personal wallet, then from there, I will decide an amount I want to spend on gambling, and then deposit that amount back to the casino, then use the rest of the funds for whatever I've planned to use it for, this strategy have helped me over that years to ensure I never make the mistake of gambling away my pay for the week.

But then, like I've said before, I am happy you were able to pull away right on time before such becomes an addiction that is hard to break away from.

When you can control your desires well, then you can avoid gambling addiction, even though you do it routinely every week. I think many people are looking for fun on the weekend, and one of them chooses to gamble, and that is a personal choice. It is true, many people are trapped in a cycle of chasing losses, so that they have the potential to experience severe addiction, even potentially losing quite a lot of money. If you gamble once a week, I think you are someone who gambles to relieve boredom, not someone who is included in the addiction category. Meanwhile, it is difficult to withdraw from gambling when you are addicted, someone will need a lot of advice and most importantly self-awareness. Of course, by setting personal boundaries, addiction can be overcome more.

I once dreamed of making money from gambling. I thought gambling money could give me a big chunk of income. I will realize my dreams from that position. In such a situation when I started betting I got a win and got more excited and also took part in a few more bets at the same time but because my results were good there I continued to spend a lot of time in gambling. At some point I keep losing when my losses are so big that I realize by myself that gambling is not a source of income. I try to get out of my addiction slowly on my own initiative.

I was getting addicted when I'm new to gambling, I still not able to control myself since gambling really make my adrenaline rush and try to gamble more. I think there's no solution because it was when the first time I gamble, how can I know gambling if I never try isn't?

Sometime you need to make big mistake or something that makes you regret, that's the time you learn to not gambling too much.

I consider myself not addicted even though I gamble every week but I can still control and not spend a lot of money in gambling.

Usually people who gamble are addicted because they start the game that starts to get addicted, if they lose and continue to want to chase losses and not much control they do this play like carelessly without any calculation in their finances then it can be considered a symptom of starting addiction.

There are many ways to overcome addiction.
All you have to do is take responsibility and discipline in gambling if you don't do it, you won't feel whether there is a change or not.

I got addicted to colour games, but it's not something to be alarmed about because the colour games in our locality are seasonal; there are only colour games when there are fiestas, and after the fiesta, all gambling booths are taken down.

I can say that I was addicted because I played for hours and borrowed money to sustain my addiction.
My addiction stops from triggering after they are gone, and I'm back to normal, I like to conclude that absence of the stimuli stops the addiction, and that's what happened to me.

Addiction to gambling does not happen instantly; it's an accumulation of desire, motivation, greed, frustration, and satisfaction; it becomes a habit if done regularly, so the habit becomes embedded in our system.

I started betting on horse racing. I aim to win a few laps for fun and excitement because I've seen how some people react and what their actions are like at the betting station. It became a passion after a few weeks of betting because I'm actually able to predict some laps. I just thought then I just needed more time and effort to have a good prediction ratio.

I overcame my urge to gamble with the help of some of my friends and the realization that I could lose my regular job if I could not overcome my urge. It helps if you have family and friends who understand what you're going through.

I have been telling my stories about my first gambling experience on the other thread that i was so often to playing traditional card and this also causes me to became an addicted in gambling because at that time i cannot control myself and always to gamble for everyday even i didn't care about my jobs and my family anymore and this addicted also caused me to losing my jobs because during works i was unable to focus and always thinking to gamble

Everything was change when i lost my jobs because at that time i have no money anymore to gamble and this makes me realize that gambling is an activity that runs the risk of becoming addictive if done too much and since that i have set my limit to my gambling activities and only gambling for fun

There is no story that will help except someone discipline himself. You will see many addicts and advice them but as you are advising them, they will be saying the opposite and not yielding to your advice at all. Gambling addiction sometimes can be regarded to something like madness. They may not even consider themselves as addicted and looking for many ways to earn money from the gambling site that they are using. What I know that corrected some of them are long term losses of money.

I was a lottery and poker addict about 10-15 years ago, there was no day without buying lottery numbers as well as no day without playing poker.
Cant really remember for how long I did it but it was more than a year, I stopped because I was in financial issue as the effect of playing it every single day.
Luckily I could get almost what I've lost on that addictive period due to a jackpot hit on lottery (hit it with after I sold my old car), then I decided to stop it because I experienced myself how hard my life when I had financial issue.
Lesson learned for me, I have no idea what I've done if I did not hit jackpot after I sold my car It was like a blessing time for me that change my mindset completely on how to deal with gambling.

Although the question from the OP was for players who somehow got addicted to gambling, to my luck I can’t say about myself that I got very carried away by gambling. Still, as a beginner and trying person, I always try to pull myself back when I want to risk more than I should.

However, I observe my acquaintances: someone still gets out of it every time by inventing a new story to borrow some money from people for games. Others, who have learned a big lesson from their passion, are now using the services of psychologists. I can say for sure that when undergoing treatment, these people give a considerable amount to doctors, and I think that returning to gambling after such an expensive treatment would be very thoughtless.