I chose the second point, to continue playing by lowering the bet amount.
Because to be honest, if I have to choose the first point, I don't think I can stop it right away, even if it's only for a moment. I only need to rearrange the finances spent on gambling with the aim of minimizing the losses incurred and also rearrange gambling activities with the aim that the gambling activities that I do are more controlled. And I think in this case we just need to reduce the dose so it doesn't make things worse.
Hmmm well it depends to the person playing. In my case if I only lower my gambling budget it can only makes me anxious more and will make me more think that I need to add more money just to play and win the game . That's why I chose first one because it will also calm my mind and made me reflect to what will I do next time when I am having a losing spree. All of us have their different opinions and emotional capacity.
I think everyone has their own way of being able to exercise self-control over their gambling activities.
And on the contrary, if I immediately stop gambling activities I feel anxious, indeed the most effective way to be able to control myself is to stop for a moment and I admit that but I haven't been able to do it. And I tried to do it slowly if last week I gambled almost every day so what I'm doing now is reducing the activity and the number of bets.
At this time I try to only gamble three times a week and keep the deposit amount down. and the next step I will try to only play once a week on holidays.
It's okay if you haven't been able to stop gambling activities even if it's only for a moment. The most important thing is to keep trying to control the gambling activities that you are doing and in my opinion that is much better than just sitting around without any effort or plan to control the gambling activities that you are doing.
And the plan you are currently working on is good enough to be able to control all your finances and gambling activities. Good luck mate.
Whenever I'm starting to have a lose streak in gambling, I would start to start lowering my bet so it wouldn't hurt to lose more whenever I started to lose again. But if its the other way around like I'm starting to have win streak, then it would slowly increasing as well. But it's not like a loop, I'm having a target money and I also have my limit. Because I know to myself that once I break that limit, gambling would absorb me as if I am playing without thinking of the money where if you do this repeatedly, it could be considered as an addiction already. Just pause for a minute if you're feeling not good with the gambling due to losses, then you must stop already. Well I have learned from my experience, if you can't control yourself just don't do it.
Spending limits for playing gambling are really needed with the aim of minimizing even greater losses in gambling activities. Yes, that's the temptation in gambling, we often lose consciousness when we get a winning streak, which causes us to increase the number of bets. But if we can respect the boundaries that we apply and be consistent in continuing to do so, then these things will be overcome.