There are various signs of someone that is slowly descending into a habit of compulsive gambling and gradually into an addiction. The individual would always want to gamble more despite steadily losing money. With thoughts and hopes of recouping his losses in a mighty win. That would drive the individual quickly to financial ruin. To hide the losses accumulated, the individual would probably lie to himself and others around.
Financial problems would follow as the individual would have spent whatever monies that might have been saved up.
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several years ago when I was not married, I experienced a gambling addiction that was really crazy causing the destruction of myself and those around me. and I want to add a little bit that I felt when I became a gambling addict.
*always feel anxious about funds to gamble and always think negatively to earn money by all means to gamble.
I define compulsive gamblers as gambling addicts who really can't avoid gambling, always thinking about gambling. like life just to gamble and gamble.
so my advice to gamblers who have experienced the things you wrote on your topic, it is better to immediately improve yourself to control so that you don't become a gambling addict to a worse level. because if you can't control yourself to avoid those things, that's really really bad.
*always feel anxious about funds to gamble and always think negatively to earn money by all means to gamble.
I define compulsive gamblers as gambling addicts who really can't avoid gambling, always thinking about gambling. like life just to gamble and gamble.
so my advice to gamblers who have experienced the things you wrote on your topic, it is better to immediately improve yourself to control so that you don't become a gambling addict to a worse level. because if you can't control yourself to avoid those things, that's really really bad.
I am the only one thinking that it is almost the same with addiction? since it is like an urge or we can't control ourselves to gamble? or it is different, like it is just some urge and it is only in our mind, unlike addiction, that it can affect your life. Though I think I have experienced it one time when I was supposedly going to sleep, again, my mind was somewhat telling me to gamble just one hour, so in the end, I did gamble that time and lost my money I wasnt able to sleep lol.
Many times we are in a situation and we do not not realize the intensity of the problem. One such case is compulsive gambling. In simple words, it means that you are unable to control the urge to get involved with gambling even after understanding the potential harms associated with it.
Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
You forgot to add the most important and the one that will consider you a compulsive gambler and that is you are chasing your losses once you cannot accept your losses and you keep on adding thinking of your losses to the point that you taking a loan or putting money that you can't afford to lose to recoup those losses then that's the sign the obvious sign that you are a compulsive gambler, you just cannot accept your losses and you always think that you can recover it. Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
When I was addicted, I tried to gamble more if I am losing, but also when I have gained a lot. There are days I would have gained so much, but continue to gamble as it is enjoyable and I will lose more at the end of the day. Be it if losing or winning, you will gamble more if you are a compulsive gambler. 
Compulsive simply means doing something against one's consciousness. We can only say that you are gambling compulsively if you cannot subdue the urge of doing so even if you are aware of what is happening. But is a different thing than addiction. So somehow I am against mentioned sign 3 because it somehow speaks for a need to do so, which is a determinant of addiction. Same thing goes with obsession whoch is also a different thing wherein it allows you to focus your attention into it such as with signs 1 & 4. But any of these would simply mean that you are going too much more than what should be. If it affects your daily functioning then seeking for professionl help would be the best thing to do.
One of the main symptoms that I have observed of compulsive gambling or gambling disorder is the need to gamble daily. You are there on a high that you want to achieve more and feel that adrenaline rush that you are yearning for, and as a result, you bet more and more money with regards to the usual amount that you should have, OR you didn't follow your betting system and risk management.
The sure way to say that you have a gambling disorder is you lie about gambling. If you can't tell the truth or somehow, someway, you don't want to say it because they might think that you are an addict or something, that's already a sign that you are.
The sure way to say that you have a gambling disorder is you lie about gambling. If you can't tell the truth or somehow, someway, you don't want to say it because they might think that you are an addict or something, that's already a sign that you are.
The best way to control this are to ask for help, because when you reached that stage... you are beyond the point where "self exclusion" will help you. There are just too many ways for people to bypass these self exclusions ..with all the casinos that are not asking for KYC details.
I set myself a budget and it takes huge self discipline not to go over that budget... especially when you have gone into "degen" mode. Also "block" all gambling advertisements and promotions in your emails.. or create a mail filtering rule to delete it, so that it will not provoke you to gamble.
I set myself a budget and it takes huge self discipline not to go over that budget... especially when you have gone into "degen" mode. Also "block" all gambling advertisements and promotions in your emails.. or create a mail filtering rule to delete it, so that it will not provoke you to gamble.
Many times we are in a situation and we do not not realize the intensity of the problem. One such case is compulsive gambling. In simple words, it means that you are unable to control the urge to get involved with gambling even after understanding the potential harms associated with it.
Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
The number one sign is enough to spark all the next numbers as a compulsive gamer.I remember being in that phase many many years ago where even when I was laying down to sleep my thoughts kept revolving about gambling and about what slot machine I will play tomorrow,during the whole day I kept playing slot machines and this is a clear sign that I was addicted.The only choice to recover from such illness though is if you really want to and no one else can help,maybe in the extreme case recovering in a gambling rehab center would be a good solution to this illness,for many people this is the only option,I was luck though as I recovered myself by a strong will to be a better person and do better things in life than keep gambling.
Many times we are in a situation and we do not not realize the intensity of the problem. One such case is compulsive gambling. In simple words, it means that you are unable to control the urge to get involved with gambling even after understanding the potential harms associated with it.
Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
Here are some signs of compulsive gambling :
1) Gambling related thoughts are always in your mind even when you are working on other activities
2) You keep increasing the gambling related money with each game
3) You try to gamble more in attempt to recover loss
4) Ignoring other important work like job just for gambling
Would you like to add to these signs ? Have you ever found yourself trapped in this situation and how did you get rid of this ?
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