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As I saw my uncle become depressed regarding on gambling loss and addiction, i become pity to those who are already on these pit. But when this all begin? I hope i would get some gambling addicts here change their minds.

It all begins with a simple curiosity. A man is curious by nature and it sometimes lead us to places we do not want to be. We tend to get curiosed at first. What do they do ? Is it easy ? How do they do that? How can they earn that ? Can i do that also?. You start to wonder things you see on people who already on the gambling business. Seeing yourself on their feet and crave  about their life.

Now you want to get it experienced. You always look up on their winnings and get blinded by all the money they boast about. Your eagerness will get you on hand and start getting yourself into it little by little. Once you already know how to play, you are now on the first step to your grave.

It always feels like the first time.. This is what you tell yourself when you win and never realized that the money you earn is not enough to fill the money you lose. You just keep your bet until the last drop of your penny and even all your things convertible to cash starting to be the pot money. Now that you are addicted, its almost impossible to stop. Your mood started to change and even your family wants to push you away.

Now you want to die. and you know it is the only way to escape your problems. You have none. No money, no assets, no friends and even a family. The only thing left is you, your greedyness and your love of gambling. But is this the only way ? What option do you have? Let me help you.

Think about your life in the past. know how far youve been through this and how rough you have experience when you start to have this life you choose. Think the reason ypu start it. Is it woth it ? Now that you know the answer, start makong change. This was the hardest part but many people came through it, they overcome it, you can do it also.

Start changing yourself. if you learn how to love yourself, you can start loving others like your family. Start to rebuild your relationships with them by doing things you stop doing when you start gambling. Gamblers just love you when you have money but your family always loves you no matter what. Start moving away on things that remind you from gambling. The rest would be your own history.


Just telling how it started makes me feel bad. I hope those aspirant gamblers will not be in this situation.

Good advices, but certainly any advice will don't help if a person hasn't realize what he is aiming to be. It is easy to say however if you are in the persons place and state of mind it is not that easy to take this moments and for it to realize your life was been ruined or broke by your own gambling addiction. I remember when i was a gambling addiction any advice was only passing through my ears and go outside in the other side. You know that feeling that you heard them but you never ever mind what they are saying.

Although you have good intentions, I seriously doubt that what you say will help anyone to recover from gambling addiction. For people with serious problems the only solution is to quit gambling forever, not even one small bet. That same person can do this either with his willpower or by self-exclusion and help from friends, relatives and maybe psychiatrists.

Yes,if someone seriously addicted to something then he need to stay away from that thing forever or the addiction will come to him even after he recovered if he still continue gambling.As you said one who want to get away from gambling need to realize that he was addicted to it that is the first step towards recovery and he still need medications to recover combine with will power.

A lot of conflict goes on within us when we gamble. I know myself too well what happens when I have a lot of money, so I always try to set aside everything I need for bills expenses and savings, before depositing the amount to gamble because I know I eventually lose it all. This is easier said then done of course. I remember depositing extra after losing. Taking risks just to win back small amount and losing everything and more.

It is very difficult to help someone... but they will appreciate it. Thank you for the reminder.

Words can easily comes out our mouth to give advices either your own experiences or just got from studies but the real thing is we dont know whats the feeling of every gambling addict,we dont even know how hard they wanted to quit.i have known some friends that became addicted and trust me,they really want to recover but they cant.

But thanks about this advice i wish this can help someone

As I said the only will power from the addict is not enough to recover,he also need care from the surrounding from family who need to support him to get rid of that.And medical help means he need to visit psychiatrist to get the councelling which is like the process of brainwash which can help them to get away slowly.

Still recovering from any kind of addiction is very hard only 2/10 can fully recover from that who have strong will power.

Addiction is always very difficult to address, especially in the gambling industry where there is a clear conflict of interest... Do we maximise the gambler and classify compulsions as demands that engineer profitability? In the UK for example we see industry experts argue that regulatory intervention, such as attempted banning of Fixed Odds games... As unfair to the industry. On the other side we see ex addicts say these are the "crack cocaine" of gambling, the gateway to dangerous addiction.

What makes it harder to help these individuals is their own insistence that they keep their habits private and their own refusal to admit to having an addiction.

We've seen the other "vice" industries evolve... Alcohol and tobacco for example, but with the effect of declining revenue. I wonder if the same will happen to gambling.

That is not always the case and that's why these words would be of no help to those hated by their family and who have found, in their opinion, a real friendship among gamblers. If we want to help a gambling addict to abandon the addiction we should not be hypocritical in our advises. We have to admit that in some cases spending time with fellow gamblers, either online or offline, is much more fun than being around your family members who hate you.

On the flip side, I think that the "real friendship among gamblers" is an illusion, which can be convenient to believe in, but still is far from reality. To live a happy life one have to concentrate on finding the real love and gambling is not the place where to seek for it.

The problem within addictive people is that it is really hard to change an actual routine. As I said before, quiting gambling is like moving on after your girlfriend ditches you. It is not easy, but if you get used to the new routine, you will be able to forget about her completely. The only thing you have to do is convince yourself that you will never go back to that life (Gambling), because if you do, you will suffer and it will be hard to move on.

99% of the gamblers know the results but still they want that 1% who got lucky. out of 100 only 1 person will change and that too if he got  holded  strongly by his family and friends. Their are so many threads related to this topic and still no one have even came and told that they changed their life after reading this all post.

Gamblers addiction is not curable. The end is either they will become bankrupt or die. This is the bitter truth of the gambling addiction. 

Though the advice given may seem relevant to gamblers, the best way in order for them to remove their addiction is through experience, self-evaluation, and self-help. A gambler's mind is mostly clouded by the thought of earning money through the means of risking his/her resources. Their logic is flawed and irrational as they rely their finances on something that is unpredictable.
The only way in order for them to stop their addiction is when they are put in a situation wherein they ask for help. Though prevention is better than cure, a person who does not want any help will not listen to anyone. Just be there for them at all causes since once they are put in that situation already, then your intervention may be the key to fix their addiction (they may result to suicide if no one helps them at that specific time).

apart from themselves, the environment also has a big effect. if we live in gamblers environment, it is difficult for us to avoid. as much as possible we should be in an environment where there is absolutely no gambling.

Well you can be influenced in such an environment but i don't think if you are resolute and know your left from right you could allow yourself so easily into something you don't want. Most of the time many victims are only forced into things they don't understand or never took time to understand and thus base their decisions on here-say. You can abstain from gambling with a strong self will even if you live in a gambling environment but i admit a few can only do this.

In such cases your self discipline and will power that comes into picture as you can always move away from the things which you understand is not for you or a complete waste of money and you need to become a role model for such scenarios and this is how genuineness are born within.

there are several ways to stop gambling, and the simplest step is to deny yourself some devices that can get closer to gambling like gadgets that can get closer to the online casino, the internet that makes many gamblers become a very severe addiction

It is a good one to point out some of the things that has really made gamblers to totally lose it. One thing with the human mind like you said is to always want to try new things and when it comes to gambling, we tend to see the better side and forgetting the worst side when indeed the worst is even more rampant than the better, which is where the main issue of control starts from.

It is hard to ever see any gambler that would say they want to gamble for fun as most always want the winning but over time, some who just enjoy the experience, usually find a way to control them-selves by applying some limit. Best thing is that if you know you cannot even handle yourself and the impulses, do not even start.

I can say that you narration is all about hasty generalization which is based on the experience you have or someone close to you had. I gamble and the beginning you enumerated does not in any way related to what I witnessed neither was it borne out of the quest to be rich or envious of those who made some money out of it. I actually started because I participated in the bounty of gambling sites that made it mandatory that the payment should be wagered at least once before being eligible for withdrawal while to others, it was as a result of payments made to their compulsory account created on the betting site.

And when I decide to tone it down, it was not because I became addicted and couldn't move on with life. It was borne out of the feeling of 'its a waste of time" and nothing else. Anytime I feel like making a run for my money, I try it out with the hope of losing and when I get disappointed, I am happy.

LOL, he seems written article from the own life incident. Whether it is Uncle you need to avoid the greediness and emotion while you are investing on the gambling platform. Most of the gambling is are not meant for you make the profit there.
Sometimes with the luck you may make the money but other than that you need to be careful with picking the odds, slot rolling and etc...
I always concentrate on sportsbetting other than I do not like and I would not invest on gambling sites mate.

I know you just want to help by your encouraging words but I will tell you the truth it won't affect those gamblers especially those who are already hooked to it. The only person that can help them is their one and only inner self if they are already willing and determine to change cos if not even how many thousands of people giving advice it is still nothing.

It is not a bad idea that he shared it though, but most addicts already know some of these things, but they cannot just help it.
The difference between someone who is in control and someone who is not is that some allow gambling to get the full control over them while some put themselves in control, which is one thing some people do not understand and instead of realizing that if you are gambling

You should either be doing it because you want to have fun or not doing it but whichever way, never gamble to concentrate on the winning as you will make bad decisions that leads to addiction most of the time.

Well, I believe there is another way. Nowadays pretty much everyone is addicted to something. I am not talking about the usual addictions like drugs, alcohol and stuff. I am talking about coffee, smartphones and computer games. People just decide that some addictions are not so bad, while others are terrible. Of course, the bad thing about gambling is losing money. This means a person should transfer his/her passion for gambling onto some other activity. A very good choice is going for sports. Whether it's a team playing or not, a person is still likely to feel anxious and excited about the experience while not spending so much money. I think this would be easier and more pleasant for the addict.

gambling addicted is serious problem although they're know gambling is bad but they can't stopped their habit even they want and if they have money then they will back to gambling and very difficult to healing this but indeed to cure addicted gambling the person himself have to dicipline to quit gambling and i think family support also necessary because family can give strong influence to cure this

I would rather say that out of millions only one person is this lucky that he becomes really rich by gambling. Everyone thinks that they can be like him. No doubt, there is a possibility if this too but why choosing such a terrible and dark path when we can earn money in a proper decent way which will also bring some respect. Gambling is a wastage of time. It can also lead a person to committing suicide.

Every addiction can be a big problem, gambling isn't special about it. That's excessive use of something, and only way for addict to stop use what he uses is on him to decide that. You can't cure addicts if they don't wish to be cured, if you forbid them to use one thing they will find another addiction.
Gambling is entertainment, as long as you see it like that, as long as you spend money you can afford to lose on that fun, like you would on any other fun thing, you will not have problems with gambling addiction. Control over emotions is the answer on all addictions, control your actions, your money, your health, and you will not lose more then you can. Usually addicts have big expectations, when they don't fulfil them they fall deeper and deeper in addiction.

Gambling is not the problem, nor is the depression or the looses you made. Problems never stem from outside they stem from inside and it's sad to read about your uncle but I don't think gambling is the problem. We're often ridiculed or there is a resentment in us which we refuse to let go and that's the problem.The patterns we create are what we get so for everyone including your uncle read the book heal your life by Louis hay. #stopblaminggambling.

I am not a philosopher and cannot get such deep things but as far as in can see, losing money for no reason is pathetic and indeed a very big problem. No whatsoever reason caused this to happen, if someone loses his amount, he indeed is in a deep trouble. Definitely, it is up to individual what he chooses to do but if ever there was nothing like gambling, there would not have been ruined poor gamblers around. This game ruins life.

I don't think that anyone who had gambling addiction and was able to overcome it from this forum or outside it will want to be reminded with it, he won't come back to a gambling discussion where people talk about wining and casinos, to overcome gambling addiction one needs to cut off anything that has to do with it and surround himself with distraction to not feel the urge to go back to it again, and i would like to think that many people have done that, and i don't need them to show up here and talk about it.

To be honest with you being really addicted to gambling only happens when you have a weak mind. I will admit I did gamble in the past and obviously the possibility of winning a lot of money in 1 spin/click is very tempting, at least at first, once you start losing or when you lose everything the temptation becomes anger. I once earned around 2 bitcoins starting with 0.004 in the past, it was around 1k $ total and then I lost everything. Losing everything didn't make me want to play more, it made me angry and made me realize I was stupid enough to keep playing even after such big winnings.

Yes,you have your point.But other addicted gamblers wish to gain back their money after big losses so they intend to play more and more to the extent of selling their own valuables just to play again.Their own greediness will only lead them to their own self-destruction.And this would be the hardest part to stop and recover.But i believe with your own will and determination and with the help of your loved ones,you can still get through from this and overcome addiction.

I know all the things you say are true various tiger ways to to quit from the past history that can be said as a gambler expert who was once a gambler and now want to stop with some excuses of fatigue or others but what if we have done some time then we fall again in that matter most important than the aoa on your topic environment is very influential to support the intention and belief to stop gambling.

I wouldn't call addicts weak people, I think that under the 'right' circumstances almost anyone can become addicted.
Doesn't happen to weak people exclusively and you're not necessarily weak if you can't quit.

Sometimes I think it might be better if we approach addiction as if it was an actual disease.
Usually it's even out of the addicts direct control whether he can quit or not.

this is what is vital, when we are faced with great victories, and at that moment we become addicted. Well, actually even though we are addicted to gambling, in fact we should still be able, I'm a gambling addict. but I can hold myself when I do not think I can afford to lose more

Good for some people who can able to control themselves but there are really people who cant able to resist such addiction.Big winnings do act as a booster which would add up the addiction or do create gradually the motivation to play even more.If you do have financial capability then high chances you would fall into addiction but if you are on a situation where money is important due to responsibilities i would say that your self awareness will surely control you.

it is true because it happens to the dissatisfaction of the victory to get a very big advantage hoping to re-meme bets in every game makes a person very difficult to stop.

Not many people are easy to leave from gambling addict, and sometimes it can have something to do with their living conditions, as well as their environment, it can make it difficult to leave it, because of certain influences. I think in essence., the intention in the heart that's really strong to never touch the slightest smell of gambling even though it's difficult, well., I think there should be a change of new situation, circumstance/condition.

it's all about curious and we are trying to play the games. after we feel in the first time of the games we've played, the curiosity become bigger and attract us to try more and more without we realize that we are losing much money. and from this, if we continue to play with the money that we have, we can lose all the money we had so if we lose the money, we can become depressed, angry, sad, and of course, still curious that we cannot win and finally we become an addicting person in gambling. so I think we can help this person to get out from the addicting situations but he needs to have a strong passion to leave the gambling games forever.

Good thing that you have mentioned "start changing your self". I can relate to this topic since I was once a gambling addict. I have spent every dime I have just to gamble. I stopped going to casino's to stop gambling but that didn't work because I found a gambling website so I am just gambling at home. It was hard to resist the temptation so you have to be determined that you need to stop gambling. After that, ask yourself on what good it will do if you stopped gambling. Try doing that and it will help you guys a lot.

Just sad though to hear your story about your uncle and we understand your eagerness to help the community. I for one have witnessed it a lot when I was still young with my close relatives as well and its not really good. So I personally appreciate your efforts. However, stopping gambling must come to one self and its difficult to really help someone if they themselves doesn't want to admit the problem in the first place. The most important thing is to admit it to ourselves and I'm sure that quitting will be an easy task. It might take years but with the support of our family we can achieved it.

The sign of gambling addiction if people can't control themself to play gambling even if no extra money
Difficult to stop gambling addiction is almost the same with drug addict need the family support to stop the gambling addicting, one of the best way to stop is focus to other activities specially family gathering bonding until they forget it.

This is the sign which clearly shows that the person has now become a gambling addict. There is nothing more dangerous for the person himself than to become a gambler because once he would become a gambling addict, his whole life would be destroyed same like the dry wood is destroyed in fire and soon turned into ashes. They properly need counseling to stop their addiction.

One of my friend ended up like this. Gamblers always have the idea that they have to get back what they lost from gambling itself again and again getting loan. He now have repay the gambling loan with his next 3 month salary only.

That’s the thing, they begin to gamble more and more on the hope that they are going to eventually retrieve all their previous losses but they just keep on losing and losing.

Losing and losing you are right because of gambling not build by the dev for always winning, seldom of being gamblers we can be called very lucky almost are getting lost because of unlucky. So, while earlier avoid this gambling or just control your self through this gambling.
For me getting a loan just to gamble is not right, remember just gambled that you can afford to lose in your wallet, not all your fund.

For me it started because of my neighbors when I was living on rent. They introduced me to this but now I am over it.

One should be cautious about the money being spent in online gambling. It should also be in limit and you should not spend more than 5-10% of monthly income on this. You should not use the money allocated for other important works like household expenses and avoid taking a loan for gambling.

All these indications are really absurd. We have to stop those people to get themselves ruined. And an important thing is, they aren’t only to get devastated rather everyone who is attached to them are equally disturbed and problematic. These gamblers have to think over it. They must not be indulging themselves in gambling just to earn this fake money. Keep yourself respectable.

Long enough time for someone to go back to a better life and avoid all the gambling games that have been considered highly addictive, it is indispensable for someone's advice but in direct interaction can at least control every activity and also can avoid in gambling, it is very difficult to make someone thinks, but they only think for a moment and the next few days will repeat things like that again.

No one else could help a person that already addicted to gambling. It is better to avoid gambling if in a latter end no control at all. A person should have a goal and determined to achieve the goal that can able to succeed in life.

That was so right. It is not like a gambler has to just fight against his luck but he has one more opponent, the house. Whether it is an online or land based casinos, gamblers are cheated by the owners and I don’t condemn it because this is how a business is supposed to be done. Expecting to get money out of casinos while making all the customers happy won’t generate any revenue or a little one.

Even seriously addicted people can also be recovered from addictions by medicine and lot of care from others,mostly addiction comes when we are in alone so we concentrating on to something very deeply causes the addiction.In gambling addiction the consequences are danger because it involves money o our wealth can be eaten in no time so first if someone realize that he is addicted then he need to see the medical help to complete recovery from those addiction.

I don’t think the same as you are thinking because there are doctors or psychiatrists present in this world who are for the insistence of these gambling addicts. No doubt that it is better for the gambler to leave gambling before it becomes an addiction for him because at that time, it would be like impossible to cure his disease and it can also happen that he would end up with this.

If we know someone who is already addicted in gambling, we can really help them in fact they really need someone to help them. Gambling is a game of fun but sometimes people are tend to be more greedy and they ended up broke, its not too late to change and do better things don't give up on someone you know that is addicted in gambling help them out of gambling. We should really control our emotion, and don't be greedy when we gamble, just know the reason why you are doing that.

1st thing 1st , people should know that gambling addiction is a disease such as any other form of addiction and is curable .
As a former addicted gambler , i believe that addiction begins when you think about gambling the 1st thing in the morning after waking up , you don't think about studying/working/family/girlfriend .. no , you'll be thinking what games you'll bet on today and how much did you lost yesterday and how are you going to win it back.
How does it stop ? well , it depends on your self confidence and what you're made of , because taking such a decision and achieving it are two different things because you'll be constantly and continuously fighting temptations and you'll feel as if you were being strangled or deprived from air ..
The key to succeed in quitting gambling ? Strong will and good family/friends around you , medical care in the most extreme situations is also a solution .

Just to add as well, if you really wanted to quit, it should start from inside of you, admit it to yourself that indeed you are addiction and the second step is that admit it you needed help to finally stop this disease or addiction. Everyone has an addiction but it will really take a lot of mental discipline to really put a end into it. What if you are susceptible because that how your environment is in this first place. You need to have that mental toughness not to get tempted again to put that bet and get suckered around. I don't know about the mental care though, I don't think it will be effective as controlling and managing your demons inside of you.

Many people who gets addicted to something have some underlying psychological problem and even problems with other

addictions. {smoking & alcohol} and if you look even deeper you will find that these people are knee deep into debt. You get

dedicated "smoking" gambling areas and free alcohol in some of our casinos that are targeted at these people. They know that

drunk people make poor financial decisions and that is why they feed them FREE alcohol. If you have a problem, then you

should just stay away from the temptations that these sites offer you. The Brick n Mortar casinos over here have a service

where you can ban yourself, if you cannot control your addiction, which the online casinos does not have. {They will use very

sophisticated CCTV systems to identify gamblers that banned themselves and then you will be turned away at the doors}  ;D

So online gambling is actually the biggest problems for these people, because they turn to online gambling if they cannot get

back into Brick n Mortar casinos.  :(

Maybe others can help like relatives, friends, doctors, etc. but the only one that can really help you is none other than yourself. No matter what and how many encouragement they say, in the end, it's up to you. Depends on your dedication or determination.

These kinds of gamblers want to become rich fast and they don't want to work hard for it instead want to find high-risk shortcuts like gambling. They also know that they are taking lot risk before taking a loan for gambling but they can't control their addiction so they go for it. Gambling actually meant only for entertainment but we all use it wrongly to earn fast money.

But its really difficult for most pathological gamblers to admit to themselves that they are addicted and need professional help. And its too late if we see someone snaps at the last moment and ended up dead because they didn't like to be help by others not even his families. Its one of the most hardest addiction to quit together with smoking and alcoholism which relapses might occur during your bouts of trying to get rid of it in your system. But gambling is different because the worst thing can happen is that the gambler ended his life or took others lives.

and look what happened to him, now he have to work harder to pay for his loans such a pathetic move of a gambler. Gambling is not that easy, because your emotion can be your greatest enemy when it comes to decision making. Gamblers may win sometime but they will surely lose the money and they will be broke if they continue to do the same thing.

Nice article OP. Though,  I still think that gambling is not as bad as what most people view it as cause it mostly seems as a game of fine but as you know too much of everything is bad. The one big mistake that  most gamblers make  is the mistakes of becoming addicted into gambling because they don't know when to stop and also know when the game becomes intoxicating to them.

can be with some therapy and support from family so you can really stop the gambling and the most important thing is your intentions of yourself that you really want to stop the gambling.

I could tell OP I have seen way too many addicted gamblers who gamble and lost huge amount of money to the casinos and resulting getting themselves into huge debts, I also find it useless to talk to them about quitting gambling as they never seems to listen to your advice, they would always tell you they will win back their money someday, I guess it is just way too difficult to talk to a gambler who is seriously addicted to gambling to quit.

The only way to recover from any kind of addictions is that they need to realize that they are addicted to it until that that there is no use of advicing them about it.But even after the realization it needs lot of works to get away wiith it and it is a slow and long time process.

Yeah they all can help you to retain your previous life. Once a gambler decides from leaving gambling, he must be welcomed. Plus not only welcomed in literally meaning, rather physical support must be given at utmost level. Like you have said, the doctors, brothers, sisters, family members and everyone else can be moral system for this gambler and he must be dealt softly.

No doubt that when the gambler himself will start blaming to him that the thing which he is doing is not good for him and his family also and he should better quit it for good sake. It is more likely that he will start hating gambling and maybe leave it in his near future. But when it becomes an addiction, then without concerning proper doctor or psychiatrist, he can’t be cured at any cost.

Agreed.An addicted gambler may find it hard to really quit from the thing he used to do but with the help of all his loved ones around him,he will be able to do it in a faster process.Of course changes should start within himself,with all his focus and determination,and self-discipline to avoid gambling sites and learn to divert his time into other hobbies that will give him more positive views in life.

Gambling is a bad thing and thinking it a bad thing really is a good thing to every person who seems to be attracted towards gambling. It’s good that we know much about gambling because in future we would not have to suffer the consequences of gambling as most of the gamblers have to face. I agree with you that the mistake gamblers commit is to become an addict to it which leads them to great losses.

I wish so much I would have known 10 years ago.... Growing up in Atlantic City...  I am now excluded from 12 casinos in 3 different states,  Maybe it makes sense now why I am involved in cryptocurrencies..(No not for "investing")





I do get frustrated when I read other people's "Solution" on how to stop, i don't however hold it against them, It just means they aren't a gambler (which is a good thing!)

Because I promise, there's nothing someone on this forum will come up with, that I haven't tried many many times.....  I do always keep a very very tiny thought in the back of my mind, that some day, something will happen, and it will just end for whatever reason....   Anyway,   I wrote this hoping that gamblers who read the threads but dont post, might feel a little better

This is good advice, but I believe in my opinion advise is not enough. This is due to the person giving advise thinking that it’s easy to quit. However, they are not in the state of mind that the “addict” is in. I think the best way for someone to quit addictions is for them to experience a big hit. In gambling industry possibly, it being them losing lots. In drug addictions maybe, they get really sick or close to dying.

Gamblers do have different personalities where they would either need assistance from their loved ones or totally select up to solve the problem on his own.Once addiction already controlled you getting out would really be hard seeking others help would be pointless if you arent still able to help out yourself first where this should took into consideration that you should be sensible to quit because once had set out its goal or motive and with self control this can actually be done without the help of others.

Other people in gambler’s life like your family members, relatives and friends can help the gambler to leave gambling to some extent that he will become aware of the consequences of gambling and will start thinking that he is doing wrong and there is a probability that he will leaving gambling in his near future but for me consulting a proper psychiatrist is the best thing.

Oh no are you doctor bro. For gambling addiction you want to psychiatrist and other to help for rid off from the gambling addiction means I do not know what extend people you met in your life. I really love to gamble only on betting purposes.
Other than betting I will care or go with that. Then I gamble I do not look about win or loss. First I use to check the odds and team potential. Then go bet on the good team I believe. So 90 percent I win only 10 percent does not make any problem bro. So addiction just enjoyment.

Not only hard, it will be close to impossible for him to leave gambling alone because it has become an addiction for him till that time and leaving addiction not only of gambling but also of other things need a proper treatment to be done. Gamblers have to take sessions with the psychiatrist in order to get rid of gambling and after doing this, they get cured.

Yes it is true. Addicted gambler won’t listen and won’t take advices because what they usually do is to justify their mistakes and satisfy themselves with their vices. They are like so genius that they have answers in everything that we want them to see negatively. And even if they are going to lose everything they have even their loveones, it is not enough reason for them to quit. It will always be depend on themselves to realize how bad it is to make them quit.

There is no way that we can deny the facts that the ones who get into gambling can never get out of it and that it becomes impossible for them to quit it no matter how hard they try. It is better not to do any such thing as this will take away all your money from you and that you will then left with nothing in your pocket and inspire losing all your money, you will never be able to earn anything.

I think his relatives and other people in his life can’t help them to leave gambling for good as far as my knowledge is concerned. The thing that they can do is to make him aware of the consequences of gambling so that he leaves gambling as soon as possible but he has decided to continue as he things he will become rich with it someday which is totally a wrong thing.

Yes it must come to there mind then only they can listen our advises or else they don't care for our suggestions. when they will realise that they are losing money and loved once that time they only ask suggestions. I think addicted gamblers they cant control their emotions that's the problem once they start to control their feelings then slowly they will recover from this addictions.

They just never will and they will keep coming with flimsy excuse or consolation that persistence is the key. Like they always say, it is only a fool that will keep repeating the same thing over and over and then expecting a different result. It is still funny that at this stage of enlightenment when people share their experiences all over the globe and easily accessible online, a lot of people still fall into the addiction trap.

The only way to stop when you are in it, is to set your mind up to get out of it and know there is nothing to gain from it unless you want to have fun and not many people feel losing money having fun is a path they want to take.

Gambling of course is a game and it is not bad, but it is how people accept it that makes it bad. By acceptance, some see gambling as a way to make money or as a form of them investing their money and making shit tons of money from it and then that mindset ruining them entirely until they become totally addicted.

If everyone ends up seeing gambling as just a game and nothing to expect much from it, I believe we would not be complaining about gambling as we would have sane gamblers but human nature we all know is centered on greed. I believe no one could help curing an addicted gambler but may prevent well in advance. If OP works in that way then that must be a big help to this community.

Probably getting aware of where addiction starts and what are the things cause it, will help anyone to avoid those things. But when a gambler into gambling rush, we cannot expect them to remember all these to follow. But before and after gambling they must work for preventing addictions. Because that is the only the right time to work against gambling addictions.

They will realize their persistence to keep on gambling while hoping for a recovery is actually meaninglessness, as there is a very high chance for them to keep on repeating their losses to the casinos in the long term, and usually the only way for a seriously addicted gambler to stop gambling is the time when he have no more money to gamble anymore.

He will also realize there will be no more friends, relatives or banks that are willing to give him a loan for whatever excuses he came up with, so the best advice would still be, just gamble the amount of funds you can afford to lose and just take gambling as a form of entertainment.

It means that you are betting just for fun and not for making money. Sports gambling is everywhere in the world even in small streets, but we are talking about addicted gamblers. How they can quit gambling? I don’t think that doctor is required for this addiction because it is not related to physical health, but for this I think clean and fear society can help.

then it must be with intention and strong and high confidence if we are still in the environment that the majority of the population is still playing gambling our intentions less then we will be carried away again because environmental factors are very influential.

This is one of the biggest dilemma of these gamblers. They are not ready to listen about leaving gambling or the negative effects of gambling. They think of this as a holy game that comes to their life to enlighten them with amazement of money coming in their accounts. However this never even happens. It is just a stigma that eats them up but they are unknown to this danger.

Gambling sometimes benefits a person but also it can become a curse for its player if he gambles excessively. Mainly very few people get benefited from gambling while many people get themselves destroyed in the procedure. If someone want to be successful than he must play in a limit and with great care. Moreover it he wants to quit than I think he should get himself involved in some other activates rather than gambling.

Yes I agree with it, a person with an addiction to gambling need to realize and accept that he/she is already an addicted to that vices , they are close minded to any advices and also it is very useless if they are not willing to change their own selves  . You are right mate it will be slow and long process before a person change for good.

I think gambler would listen to everyone’s advice and talks but like he is deaf which means he is pretending to be listening but actually he didn’t have listened anything. Gamblers respect others opinions and advices because they don’t want others to discuss their gambling every time so they say that they will work to recover back from gambling.

Most of the gamblers came here to make money so it is hard for them to concentrate on the other activities while they are losing here,our mind will keep saying that we need to get our lost money that is the common man's thinking but we need to be smart that this is not the perfect way to earn because our part in gambling is nil we just need to rely on the luck to make money here.

I also have the same thinking in this regard because relatives and family members don’t know how to cure the disease because at that part of his life, gambling has become an addiction for him which is a disease. The only thing that they can do in his favor is to take him to psychiatrist where he will get proper treatment and maybe become well soon.

Greed is the main cause for regular and continuous gambling. Then you lose your money in gambling you will try to win back your lost money on the very next day otherwise you will not feel good and gradually you become addicted and then you will not live without gambling. It is difficult how to stop gambling because it is addiction and addiction is not easy to quit.

Yeah, self-realization is the key to solving anything. A lot of addicts even if you tell them that they are, usually do not agree with you and would rather tell you they know what they are doing. Like someone always tell me, the day you realize that you do have a problem is actually the day that problem gets to be over.

Many people will tell you to visit a shrink, get support and so on but in reality, you are the best support you can ever give to yourself as a person otherwise every other person's support will end up fruitless. It much better to avoid gambling addiction rather than struggling with it after got addicted. But most gambler never understand the simplicity behind this.

When you feeling emotional while you investing on the gambling and loosing continuously it would work better bro. Please look around the amount you invested and leave if the you loose the fund little. When you lost the big fund also you should do the same bro.
Please check the good betting option first while you loosing the money.
Then you can leave the gambling when you find the day completely bad for you bro.

You have said it all. Even gambling addiction is a by-product from gambling, its dangers are impacting on day today life. It begins unknowingly and causing all the troubles to gambler even they are coming to the point of realizing their addictions. You have suggested many points which are resembling to my gambling life. I may try to quit my gambling in coming days or else I may start gambling business so that I will not lose big and I may start earning big too.

Yeah, pretty good ones. There is nothing hard really! I believe the state we place ourselves is where we have chosen to place ourselves. I used to have this mindset of winning and then I brought it into online gambling which was my first attempt of gambling anyway and for a fact, it started well when I started playing dice with martingale strategy, I got comfortable and then it all started.

Now, over time, it became pointless that the house edge is basically there to eat you raw and then I stopped. Addiction starts by overworking your emotions and over working your emotions starts from expecting something you can absolutely not get.

Support from family and therapy will work only if you are ready to want to see some difference in your life and ready to change. Stopping is a thing of the mind, though it is not easy as most of it is based on how deep you are in it already but for the most part, the majority of the decision on changing is on the gambler himself like you have said and it all starts from the mindset most of them had before they started gambling.

Yeah you are right. Nobody can help in quitting gambling. Although social mobilizers will motivate you to quit gambling because it is not good and the people of your society will not respect you, even your family members will not give you any respect. Strong determination will help you quitting gambling and for that you will help yourself.

Friends do play a vital role in one's life. If friend says something to who the person may be close their are chances that he listening to him may be high then compared to himself if he/she lacks the self control. In such cases other person when says their is chance that they may understand the perspective better.

Our number one hardest enemy is our self that's why if we lose control of our self and forgot to remain as what we intended to plan then there's a big possibility that we are going to become addicted in gambling. We must be fully aware of what we are doing because it has an equivalent consequences of what we are doing in our everyday life.

That is really not the point because what makes the person an addict in the first place is the fact they he or she finds it hard to stay away and it is easier said than done to tell a gambling addict to stay away when indeed all he is thinking even when he is not in a casino is gambling.

Being a gambling addict is hard to get out from and the best thing is never to even be in that shoe in the first place and that starts from the moment you want to start making those decisions to gamble. Those who find it hard to control or talk to themselves when they are threading the wrong path as a result of their greed will always end up this way.

  yes that friends do play a vital role in your life but in case of gambling, the friends also return empty handed because gambler’s real friend is gambling and no one else. If you don’t agree with me in this regard take your best friend with you to casino for gambling and have a match with him and after seeing his reactions comeback and tell me the truth.

Yes.And we are making our own life so we should be responsible if ever consequences come.And if you are really addicted in gambling,you need not to stop there,you should find ways by your own self how to stay away from gambling and never come back anymore.I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline and self-motivation.Changes should start with your own self.

If one more person gives a "Morality pep talk" but yet isn't a gambler themselves (in which case they wouldnt be giving a pep talk)  I'm gonna lose my mind....

People actually are making statements about how "We need to make positive choices, and we're responsible for those choices" 

      For Fucks sake, my 6 year old niece knows that..... I do appreciate the reminder, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, it's possible that given the situation that isn't affecting you, There could be something you don't understand????


Gambling has ruined my life, my familys life, and I'm gambling as I'm posting this.....   And no its not bc I forgot about "good choices," or I wanna be cool, and not to mention, its not enjoyable at all......  Yet, I'm still bettering while typing.....


I don't understand why, but I do know this is a decade long problem at this point, and if I don't understand it, I promise if you are not a gambler, it's very difficult to grasp...


Especially with the stigma it has in society as "Fun, Entertainment, Parties, etc..."    I realize it's tough to link gambling in with drugs and alcohol, but I have a hard time understanding how drugs and alcohol can be "SOOOO Addicting".... I just don't comment about it since I don't know......And I wouldnt want anyone who is having a tough time, to hear me say incorrect things that could be interpreted as arrogant or even insulting.....


"Yes.And we are making our own life so we should be responsible if ever consequences come.And if you are really addicted in gambling,you need not to stop there,you should find ways by your own self how to stay away from gambling and never come back anymore.I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline and self-motivation.Changes should start with your own self."


I believe it's just a matter of self-discipline[----->  I believe you are basing that on your own personal NON-experience.......

Easy to say but really hard when we apply it ourselves because our mind don't take it as easy if we lose money into something like gambling it always want us to try more and get back the lost amount.But we need to understand that we need to leave if we have lost more money as oer our budget for betting.

Finally, A post from someone who probably at least struggles with gambling.... And it may not be too severe, but at least it gives me the impression he understands what others dont......

So Thank you for posting that...


You are right,  the reasons why theres so many posts similar to the one your quoting is because its so easy to say.....

This is human nature that he likes a person who resembles in mindset and thinking with him. Like, if some teacher taunts you or scolds you for anything wrong you just did, this might be letting you to hate him. So don’t make this criteria for your good or bad. Here this man seems to appreciate you so now you are saying your gratitude to him however he is totally wrong.

I didn't say anything wrong, I just mentioned the actual condition of wht is happening around,we can say we need to control our emotions while betting but you will get emotional when you lost your amount unless you no need to worry about the money required for future.
But if you can I am not against you but most of the people can't that is why more people getting addicted to gambling.
We will never know that situation until it happens to us.

I think from the story, we can get a good lesson for our life. I agree with him that we need seriously to leave gambling if we want to make a better life and we need to save our money and not use for gambling only. we know that if we continue playing gambling, we have a big chance to lose all of our money without any chance to recover our loss. when we lose that money, we are difficult to realize that we don't have any money to buy something for our life. so, it is not too late to try to quit gambling for now as we still have a chance to leave the gambling games.

playing gamblin begins from curiosity how to make money or encouraging from the friends to enjoy while palying in gambling and if they can't control themself become miserable life because of addicting in gambling.

To stop playing ganbling need the support of the family. Family binding are the best solution to forget the gambling addiction to become busy in the some others actitivies.

Recovering from the gambling is addiction is not an easy job we need to get realize first that we are losing our wealth in the gambling.Then we should seek the help of medicine and from the affection from the close persons our life to get our concentration from the gambling.But still it is possible to get away from addiction so it all depends on us.

Unless you are a doctor or qualified to help gambling addiction, then I would advise not starting threads like these.
You may be giving people a sense of false hope which is not a good thing to do especially to a gambler.

Yeah you are right strong determination will help you to stop gambling. Other people will just advice you to stop gambling but they cannot force you to stop gambling. I have never seen that a doctor or relative stopped a gambler from gambling. If you think a little bit about your family then you will not gamble for the rest of your life.

This is what most of the people are making other understand with. These gamblers are just making their lives miserable. And once they are get addicted to this gambling, this wouldn’t let them go anywhere so easily. So a huge impressive force and mindset is required to chose different path and make your route over it. Better life can’t never be achieved as long as you are connected with gambling.

Ohhh thank the fuck lord someone said it!!!

So much advice my 6 year old neice knows, yet Im still gambling daily.  I've lost everything, excluded from all casinos, even went to inpatient treatment, the hole gets deeper and deeper.

And I cant fucking stand people explaining the "trick" on how to stop

Good advice but, when a gambler realizes it's time to stop then, he would be in neck deep of problems. So, it is too difficult to overcome that predicament. It is not easy as you think of it. If you want to change someone then, better start to dis encourage him at the start. When people addicted to it, advice won't work.

People get attracted to it easily as it involves money and those who think money can be earned easily form it or one can become rich this is how they start playing and keep on continuing inspite of losses they may have incurred Only if you play for fun and enjoy it will be better for oneself.

Super interesting Topic discussion.
Loved your intro / full explanation board on all sides.
Thank you for that review.

Yes.Treating gambling as for fun or entertainment might help an individual not to get addicted to it.But once you're an addict with gambling,you cannot recover from it if you will not motivate yourself to make a change.Changes should start within yourself and good things will sure to follow in the process.

This ! sometimes gambling can indeed make a person dissolve and start the way he plays safe. and emotion is carried away from many factors that greatly influence. maybe the most simple is to focus and think more about the possibility of failure than too far away gamble a luck.