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Quote from: lienfaye on May 09, 2021, 06:35:06 PM

Now that I experienced the worse that can happen if you let yourself become addicted in gambling, its a lesson learned to never repeat the same mistakes. It's important you know your limit and already responsible to know whats right to wrong.

Addiction is recurring, if you become an addict there is a possibility that it will happen again, that is why these gambling anonymous groups have a follow-up session, it takes character to remain in control after you have reached the height of your gambling, it's hard to forget that one time or many times you've won a lot and you seldom think of your losses, you only think of the excitement and what you've won, so even if you are cured, you still have to check yourself from time to time.

Getting away from addiction is the most toughest challenge because this is just still similar into those common addictions that we do have in real life experience.
Once get hooked then getting away would already be hard or wont be easy even lets say that you are telling to yourself that you can handle that but basing off with
your actions which simply shows addiction then denial would always comes next. Seeking out help would be neither be starting on yourself
or your loved ones or professional thing would be needed.

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Quote from: lienfaye on May 09, 2021, 06:35:06 PM

Now that I experienced the worse that can happen if you let yourself become addicted in gambling, its a lesson learned to never repeat the same mistakes. It's important you know your limit and already responsible to know whats right to wrong.

Addiction is recurring, if you become an addict there is a possibility that it will happen again, that is why these gambling anonymous groups have a follow-up session, it takes character to remain in control after you have reached the height of your gambling, it's hard to forget that one time or many times you've won a lot and you seldom think of your losses, you only think of the excitement and what you've won, so even if you are cured, you still have to check yourself from time to time.

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Quote from: aioc on May 09, 2021, 06:14:37 PM

Besides the gambling anonymous in your respective countries or localities, you should also ask help from your loved ones, they are the first that should know your condition, besides the professionals, your family will help you to overcome excessive gambling and help you get back to normal life, your family will also suffer financially and emotionally with what you are going through.

Indeed, they're the first one who can understand our situation and can give advices. Being open to our family of what we have been going through is important, but there are times that some of us think that its more comfortable to open up with our friends rather than to our family.

When I became addicted few years back, I seek help to my family because I cant bear the emotions of losing money plus the debt I had. Then I attended sessions of counselling to enlighten me and to address the issue, it really help.

Now that I experienced the worse that can happen if you let yourself become addicted in gambling, its a lesson learned to never repeat the samr mistakes. Its important you know your limit and already responsible to know whats right to wrong.

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Quote from: aioc on May 09, 2021, 06:14:37 PM

Besides the gambling anonymous in your respective countries or localities, you should also ask help from your loved ones, they are the first that should know your condition, besides the professionals, your family will help you to overcome excessive gambling and help you get back to normal life, your family will also suffer financially and emotionally with what you are going through.

It makes a lot of sense since family is the only set of people that would be willing to put efforts just so they can help you recover and get back. The first step towards working their way back from such addictions would be to open up to family but sadly, its not everyone that likes doing so.

Quote from: yazher on May 09, 2021, 06:13:39 PM

If you ponder about it, refraining from doing things is easy you just need to have a proper way to do so. Because when you refrain yourself from not doing certain things, you don't need to pay for that nor have to get any punishment from doing so. instead, you will gain some spiritual and good conduct. Like for example quitting gambling, you don't really need to go to anyone but it is recommended to seek the help of an expert and after that things will be easy because you don't really need to pay for not doing those things anymore.

It sounds so easy but I tell you, it's only easy to say but much harder to put into practice. That's the problem with breaking free from gambling addiction or any other kind of addiction for that matter. You can't just "quit". It takes a lot more than that - help from professionals and support from family and friends to break free from something as strong as that.

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Besides the gambling anonymous in your respective countries or localities, you should also ask help from your loved ones, they are the first that should know your condition, besides the professionals, your family will help you to overcome excessive gambling and help you get back to normal life, your family will also suffer financially and emotionally with what you are going through.

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If you ponder about it, refraining from doing things is easy you just need to have a proper way to do so. Because when you refrain yourself from not doing certain things, you don't need to pay for that nor have to get any punishment from doing so. instead, you will gain some spiritual and good conduct. Like for example quitting gambling, you don't really need to go to anyone but it is recommended to seek the help of an expert and after that things will be easy because you don't really need to pay for not doing those things anymore.

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Gambling addiction can still be cure if you seek for others help, most of the gambling site have their own way to help addicted gamblers, just check their responsible gambling site and seek for their help. If you’re already addicted into gambling, you tend to lose more money than to win and this is the start of many depression. Your family can also help you get out of this gambling addiction, don’t be afraid to seek for help because that’s the only way for you to survive that addiction.

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Gambling addiction is clearly a malfunction of the human brain which stops thinking about anything and keeps hammering the head with wonderous thoughts like if I win a lottery, if I win a million dollars with just €50 bet, if I could live a lifestyle those celebs live. The hunger of living a king sized life is something that needs to be conquered on by a human brain to control itself, instead of it all the helps will not work as some time later, that gambling addiction will pull out the gambler from his house and take him to the casino.

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Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 02:04:39 PM

Hello
So I was going through a story of a girl who literally stole 70,000 Euros to Gamble apparently it all started when she invested 20 Euro and won a thousand and since then she became addicted to easy money.
It made me realize that every now and then there is someone here sharing their addiction stories and it might help to have a particular thread for them to keep all the sources which could help them get their life straight again..

It's always useful to see these horror stories, but it's worth adding "she became addicted to easy money" is a bit misleading - the fact that she kept losing money all along should tell us that it is far from easy to win and pretty much impossible with some online gambling. What I find slightly shocking is the rather low sentence she received for the theft side of it. While I fully support helping problem gamblers, she was basically given a slap on the wrist for stealing what would be a life changing sum of money to many, community service and no jail time. It is actually a discredit to the justice system - if we were talking about a few hundred, or even a few thousand, then it might be acceptable to let them off with this light punishment. However she stole tens of thousands and consistently lied while trying to cover it up. What happens if it was a small company? That might be enough to send it bankrupt and many people could have lost their jobs for her reckless theft. It is essentially fraud and they have been given a free pass, it feels like even 3 months jail time would have sent a minimal message at least.

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This is just my opinion, while am sure that a gambling addicts can greatly be helped by these psychological programs to help them with therapy and coping up, I don't think it can really uproot the main problem which is the addiction itself and it can only be beaten by self and discipline and sometimes, moral lessons. The lesson that "it is wrong to accept that another person's hard earned money is yours just because you have a 19 in blackjack and he has a 17" is the lesson we need to instill in a person and make them value hard earned money instead of chasing easy money. Plus, a gambling addict who's in debt simply can't be helped with therapy, we need to help them through paying their debts and so that they can pay us back in installments when they get a job and be pressure free and not gamble again to recover the amount. I think not many things which are really necessary to stop this dangerous addiction is done and only few therapy stuffs are promoted.

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Quote from: Mauser on May 09, 2021, 02:50:35 AM

I think the first step with any addiction is to realise you have a problem. This can come either through friends and family who are concerned or from your own realisation. Once we identify a problem with gambling than we try and get better. In my opinion it is best to talk to people who have had the same experience. It is much easier for them to understand your problems and fear. I came across this forum https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/forum/ where people recovering from addiction can help each other. This is a good way to go.

Professional help would be just the last resort if you do find out yourself on not to be that being helped with those help from loved ones but honestly you can really stop your addiction

if you do just simply be aware on what are the things you are currently been doing.If you can handle up yourself and your own will that you are already experiencing problem

then self realization would be enough and nothing can beat out when it comes to that but there are really people who cant just resist an do fail out on this one
and this is where professional help would be needed.

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Quote from: just_Alice on May 08, 2021, 03:40:33 PM

You are literally reading my mind! Good for you to create this thread. I just recently had a thought: there are so many people with gambling addiction, and some portion of them are on this forum, creating threads and sharing their problems. But the thing is when a gambling addict is sharing a problem everyone just keeps saying "you need professional help, go get help, you're addicted", but no one actually gives sound advice as to where to get this help, which forms of treatment are effective, etc.

Many times it is difficult to give more precise advice because people never reveal where they are residing because they want to retain their privacy, however there are many centers that treat any kind of addiction as even if gambling is different from substance abuse in the sense you are not consuming any chemical it is known that while gambling the brain of the gambler generates the same chemicals, which means the treatment they should receive is very similar to the one those addicted to chemicals substances need to receive.

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Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 02:04:39 PM

This is a url with further sources : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1kS7QTDB16PWkywhsXJLzxz/information-and-support-addiction-alcohol-drugs-and-gambling

Please feel free to add sources according to the nation or locality. 🌞

There is one in our country and they offer the same help Gamcare is offering, these organizations know what gambling can do to people who lose their sense of control so they set up this organization, some of its members are former addict themselves and that's what makes this organization effective, it should be mandatory on every country where gambling is legal.

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I think the first step with any addiction is to realise you have a problem. This can come either through friends and family who are concerned or from your own realisation. Once we identify a problem with gambling than we try and get better. In my opinion it is best to talk to people who have had the same experience. It is much easier for them to understand your problems and fear. I came across this forum https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/forum/ where people recovering from addiction can help each other. This is a good way to go.

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Quote from: Wexnident on May 09, 2021, 12:59:31 AM

Most casinos should have those links that actually help you with gambling addiction. Iirc when I used to try Roobet they have in their site linked gamcare was it? It was kind of like a customer support style of gambling healthcare where you can basically call them up to help you with managing your gambling addictions. Idk if other sites have it though since I've never actively tried to actually look for something like that. Though the first step starts with you (and is probably the hardest one imo).

I support gambling sites that posted links of a site like Gamecare, responsible gambling sites care for people too, they offer games and entertainment but it's not within their power, if the players are doing it too much, they offer exclusion features but they know it's not enough when playing in a gambling site player should know the risk and how to deal with it, and if you are a responsible gambler be sure to guide new players on how to play properly.

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Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 02:04:39 PM

Hello
So I was going through a story of a girl who literally stole 70,000 Euros to Gamble apparently it all started when she invested 20 Euro and won a thousand and since then she became addicted to easy money.

Those the main mistakes that many gamblers made and ruin their lives. They get tempted because of the big easy winning money, so they think that they can win more money in the next game.

Every people who are playing gambling needs to have control so they can prevent from playing for longer. Many cases about addiction to gambling and many people lose their money by playing gambling.

I do not know what place the gambler needed because it will depend on where that gambler lived. Those gamblers need to have other people who can watch them playing gambling or that gambler can admit to other people that they are addicted to gambling to help them solve the addiction. Otherwise, that gambler will not have a chance to solve his problem.

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Most casinos should have those links that actually help you with gambling addiction. Iirc when I used to try Roobet they have in their site linked gamcare was it? It was kind of like a customer support style of gambling healthcare where you can basically call them up to help you with managing your gambling addictions. Idk if other sites have it though since I've never actively tried to actually look for something like that. Though the first step starts with you (and is probably the hardest one imo).

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Quote from: Saisher on May 08, 2021, 07:38:10 PM

Sir, I don' think it will work, yes they can exclude you but that doesn't mean you cannot register again using a new account or you can just go to other gambling sites register and continue playing, we need to address the symptoms not restriction to a gambling site, a compulsive gambler will always find a way, and will always try to cheat himself to play.

It might not be the most effective solution to most gamblers but I think it's still a good alternative to stop other gamblers from escalating their addiction even further since there's different stages or phases to these gambling addictions.

He's only trying to help and give every solution available, it's always better when you have other options.

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The story reflects the key point of addiction: winning. To hit a jackpot provides an emotional state similar to that of taking certain drugs, and from then on, the gambling addict plays more and more in search of that hit again, even though his rational mind knows he is losing too much and should stop.

Apart from the remedies that have been cited, there is also the option of self-exclusion from Casinos, although people can always end up in illegal gambling, but it is a first step and greatly reduces the chances of returning to the habit.

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It's great that you are acknowledging that you might have a problem, however, it is but the first step towards the many if you want to achieve full recovery. That being said, you can always hire a counselor or a therapist to have your issues addressed, I believe that they will accept all forms of addiction and will do their best to assist and ensure that you get back to your normal and best version. Keep it up king, you're getting there.

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