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First, am not a gambler, I ones was but didn't play for long, but i have many friends who are into it and it's because of one of them I quit gambling (not quit like never play again, but quit like I no longer play it frequently like before).

I have this friend named Bassey, he needs help, his problem is that he's addicted to gambling, we both work in the same company, but when you see this guy, he looks so homeless, he's gone out of style, he no longer dresses well, feed well, sleep well, he's always looking like he's sick every minute of the day.

Our salaries are ways paid on the 28th of every month, but before 5th of the next month, Bassey is already out of cash and asking me to lend him some money so he could feed till he gets his next salary,
At first, I didnt know what was going on, cus we are both young and married, i always wondered what he uses all his money for cus both of our wife's are working too.

After asking him severally without an answer, he called me one day and opened up to me that he feels like he's loosing his mind, i asked him how, he said he's addicted to gambling, betting on football, horse and dog races, he siad that he doesn't keep money without ending up gambling with it, that the temptation is just irresistible, it has gotten so bad that when ever he's out of cash to play, is either he ask me to lend him or he goes and withdraw money from his wife's account without her permission, the woman complained and complained, got tired, took their only son and left him alone.

Sometimes, I have the feeling that maybe my friend is cursed, but sincerely, I can't say for sure, I personally used to gamble like three to four times in a week, but after I discovered what my friend is going through, I reduced to once or twice in a month, I no longer gamble for money, I gamble whenever I feel like throwing some money away for fun, and if in the process I win, I never let that win over cloud my sense of reasoning, this is different with Bassey, if he plays and wins, he still ends up spending every penny of his winnings on betting on other games on that very spot right there, good thing that with my help, he trying his best to break free from the habit.

So am urging everyone out there playing to play, but try not to make it a lifestyle, try to always play with only money youve decided to loose, play for the fun and don't expect anything back... Play and don't get addicted.

Your friend is not cursed he is just strayed and needs guidance on how to control his gambling habit, this is not an isolated case, many or most of the gamblers are like this, one time or another we lose control, we keep saying that we will allocate time and funds but we keep adding time money until we realized that we have nothing left

The cycle continues and we keep justifying that we will be better next time, your friend need help or he will lose everything, it's ok to lose money but not control of your life.

I can feel your friend because i almost lost my family also because of gambling but Lucky that My wife is strong and have still faith on me that i will change
and return to what we are before we got married many years ago.
She did Not leave me even though i did worst than your Friend,Maybe because I did not still money from her but everything i done is more .

I hope eventually Your friend will recover just like what i did,because now i can proudly say that I am gambling free,not to the extent that i will never play or Bet but "from the desire of Playing To win" Because Now i only play for Fun and stress relieving .

The Problem is the best person that can help Him leaved him already,and that is His wife.

Maybe OP is much concern so Please don't leave your friend and Help Him realize what is going on and what is coming,i am sure if He did not change the next
 that will leave him is the JOB and this is more worst/

Betting for fun could aswell get your friend addicted again, and not just greed or his attachment to the huge prizes. If there is nowhere else he could derive fun, he could keep betting just to have fun and "waste money". I'd rather advice him to quit gambling altogether and instead learn to be profitable/successful bettors.

I guess you mean 'bet with little amount or amount you can afford to lose"? I think if you do this, you are no longer taking big risk which is Gambling (and as long as you betting on good/safe games). You are betting responsibly and not gambling. It's irresponsible to gamble.

But you said you are not a gambler and still say you gamble(that's abit contradictory)... I guess that means you still take huge bet risk, even in once in a month/awhile basis?

What gamblers should know that if they get addicted, it's not only them that is affected, but everyone around them. When it's all about financial stuff, it's going to be affecting everyone and it would affect your health, relationships, responsibilities, etc. I think you should help him in a way that you can and not telling him that he is cursed.

Great way dodging that "gambling" bullet that you fired, OP. Lol  ;D

when I sald am not a gambler, and still say I gamble, I actually meant am not really what should be considered a gambler, and yes, I do place bet ones or twice every month, I personally don't know what you consider as huge risk but for me, i dont take huge risk, my bets is usually between 5 to 10 usd, 10 usd is a threshold I set for my self and ever since I did, I've never crossed it, and am glad cus when I was fully into gambling, I sometimes spend up to 100 usd in a week and still end up winning nothing, am glad I was able to easily pull my self out early cus if I had let it eat deep into me, maybe I would have been worst than my friend is right now, and we both would have no one to help us get out.


I never said I told him he is cursed, I said I sometime Assume Or Think he is, though i know he's not, but even if he is, I will never say that to his face, that would be insulting him which is not the same as helping.

you know what , you are such a good example . i read your story carefully and i figured out that you arent the one that has a problem but it was your best friend  . you can gamble responsibly but your verry humble because you have quit gambling for good  , not the total quit ofc  .

please dont be tired helping your best friend , i mean not in a way of lending him money so that he can gamble again but the help in the form of spiritual and mental advice   . good bless to the both of you   

Take away that thinking gamblers are not cursed or should think that way, they are just not lucky that they are in that position they need guidance and understanding from responsible gamblers and families to get out of that position, we must not discriminate,  we also experienced that we thought we are in control when actually we are not.

it would be best for him to be rehabilitated(his wife should have thought of that but I understand her anger) because if this continues it will get worse and will most likely lead to depression(if he still hasn't had it) at this time it would be great if you stay in contact with him giving him advice if he asks for it but I advise to refrain from lending him money so he won't rely on you every time he is out of money.

No, not anymore, I used to lend him money when he hadn't opened up to me, he usually lied to me that he needs the money for feeding or to buy other stuff, some times, I thought of asking why he can't ask his wife for money, but on a second thought, I shift my mind from that cus i know right from time we got to know each, he never depended on her.
But eventually the wife left, that was when he opened up to me, since then, I've stopped lending him money, what we do now is that when ever we get paid our salary, he sometimes gives me 70 percent of the money to keep for him, he keeps the rest for his feeding and up keep, when he finishes the 30 percent and ask me to give me some money out of the 70 percent, I always do my best to make sure he won't go gambling with it before giving him the money, to be sincere, he still gambles when am away but the extent to which he gambles have reduced significantly

He must stop his habit of playing gambling, and I think with your help, he can cure his addicting. Your friend is not a curse, and I think he has another problem that makes him addicting. Maybe you need to talk privately with him to tell you what is the real problem. Sometimes, people run away if they have a problem with something, but they don't try to solve it, and they will get deeper into that.

We can play gambling, but we must know the limitation and controlling ourselves so we don't become addicting. We can have fun inside the gambling but don't get addicted because you already saw what happened to your friend.

He literally lost control. Aiming to get back those losses and keep losing and losing. That is really difficult.
I also have that kind of friend, just last week, this friend of mine was able to borrow some money on me to get his smartphone back since he was able to pawn his cellphone just to pay some of his debts on other people because of GAMBLING.

It's really difficult, but he should be thankful because you still there, a friend that still understands and still on his side. Just keep encouraging him about what is better or ask him to do some things so he will forget gambling even in a short period of time.

I believe there is a spirit that always keep on controlling an addicted gambler they always a feelings of winning big someday which never happen, I have seen soccer gambler whose accumulated odds was 200.0 or above  (i.e more than 20 matches odds) having the impression that once those bets are won that amount to millions despite the fact the chances of winning those kind of bet is very slim.
A way out of this kind of habit is counseling your friend, you should extend a helping hand to him by outlining the pros and cons of gambling addict
the disadvantages outweigh it advantages or he should limit his gambling habits to the minimum.

Feel sorry for your friend Basset but I think he really needs a rehab with the current situation he's in. What I can advise for you is to be at him at his side and if by chance if he ever ask you to lend again, don't be, since that will just be put through onto his gambling addiction.

If he can't be put on a rehabilitation center then it's best if there's people that will remind him everyday to stop it. Though there's some people that will try to stop him it's still himself that could stop the mess he is into.

It's best for your friend to consult with an expert to help him stop or lessen his addiction to gambling because based on your story, it's not healthy anymore. It's really hard when you get out of control with spending your money and having an addiction because it will affect not only you but also the people around you.

We often say it here what could gambling addiction do to us, and how should we control ourselves but outside this forum, there's a lot of people suffering from addiction. But really, your friend can still do something to change, he just needs to accept it and be willing to change for the best.

that's great! he is trying to limit himself and it rare for someone to trust anyone when it involves most of their money, you two must be good friends. but I still think he needs medical attention for his gambling addiction since the way he is doing it right now is merely preventing himself from losing all of his money by entrusting majority of his salary to you to keep. also, since he trusts you why not talk about to him about rehabilitation or talk to someone with medical expertise about gambling addiction from time to time.

The problem with those kind of people like your friend is that they rely too much on the people around them so they wouldn't mind spending their money since they know they could always borrow from them.
They are careless because they know they have someone who they could rely on if you really want to help your friend guide him properly don't lend money and let him taste the consequence of his own action the part when the wife left him should have been a good wake up call for him.

IMO, you friend Bassey needs professional help as he is out of control. He is not cursed because i don't believed in that, he just don't have the discipline a gambler should have. He has already a job so gambling for him should be for fun and not to earn money as if he does not expect money monthly. I have many friends who i considered compulsive gamblers but they don't end up like what you described on your friend because my friends knows what they are doing, i mean they have the objective on that particular day and when they achieved that, they call it a day and come back whenever they have free time. Easier said than done but your friend really lack the discipline.

People like that, who's so into gambling will never listen to anybody. Its only after he losses everything then he'll realize what his mistakes are. Probably, let him be for now, because his mindset right now is focused on recovering his losses. That's why he'll never stop until he wages the last money he has. When that time comes never give him anything, even if he begs you. You can always help him by giving food.

Some words here are not right when we are playing we are hoping to win but it will not harm us or we will not get disappointed if we lose, we are not giving money to gambling sites we are playing against it and hoping to win while having fun,I never play to give I'm trying to hodl my money but if I lose it's ok with me at least I tried.

I also think that your friend should seek professional medication. Since it is addiction, and based on your narrative, it seems that he has a severe level of gambling addiction. Try convincing him to ask for help. And if you could also influence him to refrain from gambling for the mean time and focus on fixing his personal problems like his family issues first.

OP's problems are the same as my experiences with my close friends, and the best solutions I have found are with close friends like myself or other close friends who always hang out with her and ask her for good advice.
and all need a process and patience to be able to change it and besides good advice I also make diversions when there are signs of wanting to play gambling, I switch to playing music because we always play music when there is free time or divert it with the mutual assistance path that creates togetherness getting stronger and over time it will forget and continue when there is a sign towards gambling.
and good advice is put into practice first
continuously and besides that, invite him to be closer to God and always be reminded that excessive gambling is very dangerous for him, and there are many other ways to realize it and most importantly keep trying if you care about your friends.

Man, to be sincere, we are more than friends, infact, i personally decided to name him as my friend here, in the outside world, we are more like brothers, weve been together since wey back 2005 , we met in each in primary school, putting his gambling habit aside, we both trust each other, i trust him just as much as he trust me , weve done alot of businesses together way before we got employed where we both work currently .

And speaking of rehab, i dare not make mention of that to him, he might perceive it the wrong way cus people in this part of the world believe that its only when someone is mentally ill (like Madness), that they are refered to rehab, but i get your point and i appreciate all the advice, ive been talking to him and he's been improving bit by bit, what i wanna do now is to make sure his wife reconciles with him, maybe that will even make him recover more quickly .

I am happy to know that you can change your time to gamble because you see what was happened with your friend. Finally, you realize that gambling can make someone's lives ruined, and it is hard to go back as before when we are at the bottom. It is good if you can playing gambling for fun because that is the right reason for gambling. We don't have to play gambling too often because that means we will use more money to gamble. Yes, we need to prevent the addicting because that is the biggest problem that all gamblers should avoid.

I heard the story like this many times and yeah I just take it as a learning for my habitation. Gambling is not a good place and I'm aware of it, but everything need a proccess. Maybe I can't leave it now because I really enjoy when I gamble but who knows in the future, at least I always have a hope that I should leave gambling.

Although I always play with the entertaiment purpose, yeah you same with whl just play gambling once a week. I play when I got money that I can afford to lose and never use money that I will use to meet my daily life. With this thing maybe I can avoid to be an addict and actually this thread will also help the user here to avoid become an addict.

Gambling often makes someone addicted to it all because they are constantly curious about the "easy money" that can be obtained..  This is my experience when I was in high school, I was very addicted to gambling and was even willing to make my school fees into the gambling capital.  control yourself and don't be too lustful with the "easy money" on the table..

Gambling addiction is a complex thing.
some people love gambling because they love the feeling and excitement when they win.
some people love gambling because it gives them chance to rich instantly.
some people love gambling because it's entertainment.
gambling addiction combines all of it excessively.

I personally, only gamble for fun, not for living.
I love to feel the excitement when I win a bet.
I've never place a bet more than $5.
my averages for a bet this month? around 30 DOGE per bet  ;D

Myth: Problem gambling is not really a problem if the gambler can afford it.
Fact: Problems caused by excessive gambling are not just financial. Too much time spent on gambling can also lead to relationship and legal problems, job loss, mental health problems including depression and anxiety, and even suicide.

Source: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/gambling-addiction-and-problem-gambling.htm

What has happened with his friend Bassey is very rare to happen with most of the gamblers. Gambling is all about fun, but very few understand it and move accordingly. When a person himself isn't able to have control even after months and months of same suffering then he is affected by the addiction. The only way to get out of addiction is through de-addiction centre or through regular medication.

Gambling is addictive, social media as well highly addictive and lot other things so its all upto the tolerance level of the users, once they passed it and don't know how to come back will get addicted to it.Unfortunately most of the people won't hear or agree with our words when we say them about gambling because they are already addicted to it, so we need to help them in the professional way like with the help of medicine and counselling.

Most of time it happened. Gamblers who are very drunk to this activities will never listen to anyone. They rather lose more than to think of  stop doing it. Lots of addicted gamblers suffered from heavy
depressions after realizing that they've losses a lot.

Amount that they can't afford to think back, some takes their own life can't accept this huge mistakes in life.

Your friend will always says that gambling thoughts are irresistible because of one thing, in his mind he always thought that if he tries to gamble his money, he is going to win and that what hypes him up. He is already counting the chicks even though it's still eggs, that's why the expectation is high and the disappointment is much higher resulting to a emotional and mental breakdown.

It might help if you'll suggest to him and to his family to visit a psychologist to start his therapy before he waste all of his money including to his family.

Great story.
It's good that you are helping him.
Just be sure he is really accepting the help or he is just keeping the gambling addiction from you so you won't feel bad for him.

Ever since I started gambling I have never been to the point of addiction.
The secret is always enjoy it.
Now, if you are getting stressed out of it then you are near the bad habit. You need to stop it at that point or else it will be nasty in the end.
Gamble to pump your excitement from watching and if you lose, leave it there. Don't bring it home.

The story Bassey is going through is actually very sad, I think that he will recover from addiction if he finds someone who stands with him and guides him to the right path, you can do that. You have a great reward for that. Try to try many ways that will enable your friend to recover his wife and children. You can use real stories about people whose lives have been ruined by gambling, to realize that if he continues to gamble, he will be like the characters in the story, and this may make him hold back, and the important thing is that you must support your friend.

Without limitation or self control then you will surely become addict in gambling in just a short period of time especially if you have enough money to gamble and plenty of spare time.

But if you will keep yourself busy then you can avoid it to happen like you will only gamble in your day of or when you have nothing to do.

Everything is addictive when you keep drowning every day in doing it, but for some they don't notice it as it will become part of their routine however it is noticeable in such stuff like gambling. Losing is part of the game, but losing every single day is part of decisions made and trust me it gets addictive when you can't accept the fact that you lost. On the other hand, people gets addicted to gambling because they keep on winning, that's another story.

Even you do say that it shouldn't make as a lifestyle but there are people whom do really actually make this as their living or making money with this one to support their needs.

Sounds impossible? but its possible but only limited to those players who had been on this industry for too long.Gambling is indeed addictive and if you do let yourself fall into greed

and aims on making yourself rich with it then you'll suffer wreckage until you do realize in the end that gambling doesn't work on that way.

Its just really for entertainment but majority do go overboard on that one.

In every winning story there is some losses, this can also be the reason why his friend keeps gambling hoping that somehow his turn of winning will come, or he's just to eager to win back he's loses without realising that he loses more in what he is doing.

His friends needs medical attention or support from family now to stay way from his addiction, there should be someone who can guide and inspire him to move out from gambling and start some new habit that can make him look decent as well makes him feel alive.

It will not be easy for him to quit gambling all at once. Maybe you have to tell him to spent less time on gambling initially and try to find other activities which are of his interest and keep him busy. It is not easy to come out of gambling addiction and perhaps he needs a long meditation before things get normalized with him.

I was also moving in this direction before I strategised by mode of betting. Betting is very addictive.

He needs professional help because him alone will not resolve his addiction. He will always go back to his habit. Even advice from friends will be futile. It is easy to give piece of advice, but when it comes to actual implementation, his friend will go crazy. His level of addiction really needs a professional one to address his problem. Need to know the root cause of his habit and start from there.

Well, that is the hard part of being an addict to gambling. You will never know something is wrong until someone told you so and do something that would make you realize that, in terms of your friend, his wife and child left him. It is hard to just say use money you could lose or just play for fun since even though you're like that you are also hoping you could get something out of it since you're gambling.

You can't just also say don't get addicted because not all of us can control ourselves. When I as in his shoes I thought that I am just having fun, I thought that I got it under control but even though you don't have money, you will still go there and watch other gamblers play. Sometimes you might even think of begging money on those big winners so you could also play. It is hard but it is great that you are helping him since that would be a huge thing for him. Be there for him, also invite other friends you could also introduce him to other people that could accompany him,

Sounds like it time to pull that band-aid off of their finger, or cut the apron strings.  Either way, you're going to have to wean your friend off of lending money from you.  True, they may hit on others to fund their habbit, but if you give others the tip-off that you've been put out lending to this person, others might also keep their wallets closed (you might also find out your friend is lending from others in which case it really is time to pull the plug).

It's so bad. Something like this shouldn't happen, how can think like gambling more important than family. That's why we need to control ourselves and think realistically. Don't expect too much to earn regular money from gambling, even think to be rich suddenly by gambling. If we expect too much, then we will lose our mind and use every single money on our pockets/ATMs. He must regret it so much one day, broke his family because he cannot control his desire in gambling!!

There are many lives ruined that have the same situation as OP's friend. Without the control into your own emotions in every aspects of life can turn into mess, It's just it is so bad in gambling addiction because it involves money in it.


I agree with this, The actual implementation is the most hard step, Resisting the will not play gambling is a very troublesome experience for some addicts and they don't know how to control themselves from not playing. Some professionals suggest putting them into rehabilitation centers and for me it is somehow effective since they are giving limitations to their patients so they can heal slowly with the vices they want to get rid.

These are just some of the few effects of getting addicted to gambling.

Your friend has affected his lifestyle because of gambling. Because of gambling, he also got left by his family and now living alone. I can't feel any sympathy from him because from the start, we know that gambling can be really addictive and once you got addicted into it your life can change and this is what happened to your friend. Your friend isn't cursed though. Its just that he got addicted into gambling maybe because he find himself happy when he gambled for the first time and that happens more often that he became addicted into it.

If you can help your friend that would be better though especially now that he really is addicted and alone, your help would be beneficial for him. Thanks for sharing then and I hope that some take this as an eye-opener especially those addicted ones.

Perhaps, it is happening in reality which wife doesn't know where her husband spends the time. Sometimes, playing gambling can give pleasure to us, but in the next minute, playing gambling can attract us to go deeper into gambling, especially if we used another money. If that happens, we might lose control of our minds and emotions, and if that happens for a long time, then that can become an addiction.

If we want to play gambling, we need to make sure that we don't use our family's money to buy our needs. But in the end, if we still can't control ourselves, that money will be used for playing gambling too because we will forget about the needs, and we only remember about how to win the gambling games. Gambling is addictive, but if you have control over your mind and body, you can avoid the addiction.

Thank you for sharing the story about your friend's, who became addicted for playing gambling. There are many valuable lessons
that we can take from the story in the opening post. That don't play gambling too often, then limit the amount of money to play
gambling. If we are addicted to gambling, it will damage our lives. Not only will our money run out, however, the relationship with
the family can also be disturbed. So controlling ourselves when playing gambling is very important, don't make gambling a source
of income.

This is one of the reasons someone gets into gambling wanted to be rich suddenly. That's a fact really but it's a rare scenario you'll be rich suddenly without the underlying risks but most of the time it always on going to get rekt. The next time the one that will be sudden is problems if you can't moderate to gamble and you still loses as well.

This is the serious problem of addition and have seen so many falling in this trap and finding it difficult to come out untill they have lost their money etc. It is important for their partners, family, friends and the person itself to have strong will power and change the mind form gambling to do something new. Take a break, go on a vacation or do what you love the most after gambling. Th break from gambling is very necessary and, in this phase, all should be supporting that person because it is not easy to come out. Also, for newcomers it is a lesson that for fun if you are gambling its fine but moment you lose control then problem arises.

Hats off to you buddy for taking care of your friend.

That is the best thing you can do right now, let him feel your comfort so he could understand how bad he is right now. He should admit to his problems that way he could fix that and in the long run, fix his broken relationship with his wife and his son. I feel bad for his son because he will be the most affected in this. I think as long as you love your family, you could stop gambling for them so instead of your gambling habit, pay attention to the relationships that you have with your family and your peers. That could help us gamblers in the long run.

In this kind of situation only guidance and help from you will not work as although you are helping him you are also making possible for him to continue in this loop like forever.The best solution would be to try and convince your friend that he is in a loop and there is no other solution except professional help to save his life and the one of his family.

I even forgot to mention, another thing gambling did to Bassey which I don't like at all is Alcohol, during weekend, Bassey spends his Saturdays and Sundays in a gambling shop, after loosing so much, in other to avoid thinking about it, he goes on drinking alcohol, he drinks to stupur, goes home and if his wife troubles him in any way, he will unleash all the anger on and beat her to hell, it's majorly the reason why the woman left in other not to be killed before she realizes it, i was among those who advised her to leave Bassey alone for now, maybe when he gets better, she can come back, i personally have a thing or two am addicted to, but this is too bad to compare, many times, the company have queried and trethenedto sack him, ive always been the one pleading to give him time, that he will heal

That can happen to many people who play gambling because they can use other money in their pocket when they feel have fun on those games. They will not think that gambling can make them lose in just one second because they believe they have good luck this time to win a lot of money. They will think that the next round will be for them, so they increase the amount to place bets, but suddenly, what they want can not happens, and they only lose the money. He will regret it because he uses more money for playing gambling.

this is what this persons need a support from his family and friends by not giving him a money that he can use to continue his addiction which we know that it doesn't help them to stop it.

By giving or lending him money, he will think that its ok to continue that addiction as if nothing wrong is happening , help him  by not giving him money and teach them what other habbit he can do aside from gambling.

I am reading and I can't believe! If he is acting like this he deserves a few slaps that will put him back on his place! I understand gambling, I understand drinking...but to raise hand on a woman, that's the line nobody should cross! And if he has kids, you didn't say anything about that, problems will just become bigger!
First you say he is your friend, you need to think about that, if you think of him as close friend you should do something about this, if he is just a guy from the work that's another story. Some people don't understand when you talk to them, they need extra incentive to understand. Someone needs to help him understand what he is doing in his own way! I strongly believe that every problem can be solved, in one way or another, but it's you who needs to think do you wish to deal with the problem? Do you want/wish to spend your time, energy, maybe money to solve this problem? Are you ready to go all the way?

Lol, I am sure it is not "curse" that has made him addicted to gambling and lose every time. It is a habit he has picked up that is ruining his life. Perhaps it is time you confront your friend and help him? Since he has already told you about his addiction, you can now try and help him fix his problem. Get his family involved too. But, if he doesn't want any help, it is useless helping him. You will just be wasting your time and energy as he will never change! Try helping him for first few days. Check if there is any improvement and if there is, then continue helping, or else he just a lost cost and stop lending him money.

Well, you can't say you are not a drunkard and still say you get drunk. I think it should be: *I am not a drunkard, I occasionally drink.*
Anyone with sound mind reading this^ will understand that you drink (occasionally) & probably no longer get drunk.
Drunkenness is  analogous to Gambling while Betting is analogous to Drinking. Too much of both (drinking & betting) than you can handle still makes one a drunkard or gambler.
So you clearly no longer gamble. An occasional $10 bet (depending on how wealthy you are) doesn't look like gambling.

It will help him yes but I don't think that this will be the scenario forever or in the long run at least.
There will be a time where this will end. Where comfort will end.

Still good that the addicted gambler has a friend who is willing to help him to go out from his addiction but his help isn't enough. He still needs to help himself in order to win on this or he needs the help of professionals for him to get out from gambling addiction.

For me, this is the reason why I don't spend too much in gambling. I don't want myself to end like this.

It is difficult to avoid gambling especially when you are addicted so for everyone who is just starting to gamble do not be greedy and always have self-limitation. And of course a reminder to everyone we always advise our friends who are addicted to gambling because they need us because it is difficult to avoid gambling. They need advice, friends, family members so that they can overcome the addiction caused by gambling.

Just never Leave Him now because he has nothing to lean on,Wife and child already leave Him so if there is anyone
he can turn on that is you.

Please never let down of your friend.

i use to have a friend that being involved in Drug and gambling addiction but he did not make it,after losing everything
 Suicide is what end His life.

So if you have sympathy and concern to your friend?be with him now.

Gambling shouldn't be considered a habit because you are already considering gambling as an income instead of past time activity. By that, you can have a mental illness and desperation in gambling until you get bankrupt. It is why I always limit myself from gambling and consider it a leisure time or entertainment because I don't want to see myself being pathetic or look pity.

I am pretty sure that he is lucky for having you. Usually, it is very tough to manage oneself in dealing with his own gambling addiction that is why expert always says that if you have known a person who falls into addiction his family or peers should help him to deal with this.

Agreed on the idea that you should only play the money you can afford to lose. Or set an amount for you to play and as much as possible have someone handle your money if you can't help it. Gambling was supposedly for entertainment not to gain or earn anything coz. You should be aware that you even only have a low chance to hit a jackpot in there.

If he will not Leave Him then Yeah he is lucky since the family already leave him.

This is a very sad story but no one pushes Him to do such wrong decision But Himself.

But this is not what addicted gamblers do as the game feeding them more than what is truth.they had been pushed from their limit
and stayed on that so mistakes continues to happen.

What's wrong if someone already considered gambling as a source of income? If he/she considered it already as a source of income, does it mean he is more probably good at it?
Mental illness is an exaggerated effect of gambling. It's true that some gamblers tend to be broken when gambling resulted them to be bankrupted, but it does not always bring mental illnesses. In the first place, a gambler should have proper management on it. He's the one who is responsible on it so he must face what comes next with positivity on him.

Common problem with addicted gamblers, instead of limiting they keep pushing and trying to win from time to time but the reality,
They just keep losing their money


You need to have strong control with your emotions, it's easy to say than doing it in an actual scenario.
Most of the time losing control is your worse nemesis when playing the game.

Being addicted is not easy to end maybe a person who are addicted playing gambling can minimize playing but not totally quitting gambling.
Im addicted playing also before and all my money including my earnings use it to play a gambling and I said to my self to quit but I back playing but in moderation only and Im in controlled now and Im happy to what I've achieved.

You can guide your friend to lessen playing and I hope your friend will not lose any big money. But maybe he canstop gambling if he really want he just need a guide and also help to his own.

One more thing that addicts can do is decrease the bet amount. Let's say from $100 to $10 so that it doesn't matter if they play every week. I don't have serious problems with gambling exactly because I wager pennies. Once you get too serious with gambling, all sorts of issues arise exactly like what OP said. Yeah, sometimes people think they can become rich from gambling. Yes, if you own a casino!

I'm not an all-time wager but I wage a large enough money or value of bitcoin every time I play gambling and I lose most of the time but those are enough value only just to my leisure time playing gambling.

It's quite too hard if there are a lot of people getting affected like your friends and family it's better to have control over your gambling activities.

If you don't have the capability to play a large amount and you are a person who really needs money gambling is to risky for your play.

But if you are a billionaire or millionaire that is earning a lot of money and does not regret it if you lose a lot of money go for it.

Addiction is very manipulative. Many gamblers were lose their control in gambling and lead to an addiction. Yes, it may be controllable by everyone but only few gamblers can make it. Why? Because inside of our thoughts, we dream to win and bring home the jackpot prize. I know that this feeling had been always your feeling everytime you play in gambling. This is the reason why most of us continuously lose because we think that in the second round, we might become lucky.Well, unfortunately gambling is made to defeat players. Therefore, if you become an addict in gambling, assume that you will become poor and lose your emotional control. Which at the end, your health and mental aspect may be affected. Gambling is really good when it comes in leisure but everything that is too much cause bad things to our lives. Moderation should be exercised when you want to play gambling.

Gambling is additive depending on what kind of person you are.

There are people who are good at self-discipline and self-control, while there are also people who are not good at it and very greedy in gambling.

We have different perspectives and reason why we gamble, some of us are making it as a source of money even if it's not. Some of us are making it as a habit or as a stress-reliever so that they can release the tensions in themselves. We should always remember that gambling is risky and the only thing that is good in it is its entertainment that it can bring to people.

Gambling is part of our society, there are many people who are gambling, they ave also different reasons why they do that, there are some who play just to become entertained especially when they are with their friends, thee are some gamblers who play because of money, they sometimes considered it as their source of income. Well, gambling isn't bad at all, it depends on a person who gambles, if you will let yourself controlled by gambling then it could be so bad for you but if you are still in control and you sill know what are the things you should prioritize first before playing then I think you are still fine.

You should also know how to limit yourself while playing, you should know when to stop and continue to play.

Gambling as a habit doesn't mean that you're considering it as income because there are people there, addicted to gambling, and don't have worries in money because they're just having fun. They don't mind playing gambling, it's just a matter of entertainment for them. If someone considered it a source of income, they prolly get addicted to it and there's a high chance of ruining their lives.

You will require medication for you to get out of gambling addiction, that's how hard on getting addicted to gambling. So as much as possible, let's control ourselves on playing because our future depends on our actions.

In history we see that many cultures have been using gambling for hundreds of years. I would go so far to say it's in our nature to be attracted to gambling. It gives a lot of excitement and rush to win big, and with the risk of losing everything makes winnings just much more sweet. So yes there is a risk of becoming addicted, but there is also risks involved in many things that are fun. We just can't ban everything. It's on all of us to watch our habitat, including our friends and family.

Banning everything is not the solution, I agree to that point because as such there would so many other things for somebody that can be risky but for others it is not so ideally every individual have to take care of themself in order to either stay away from it or should take responsibility and be in their limits because once you loses the control then its hampers a lot of other things.

This could work. I also advice it to a friend of mine who is addicted in cock fighting, in the start he said that it was very hard because it's tempting to bet more. But after 6 months, he successfully decided to stop betting on it. Right now, he is just breeding cocks and sells it instead of him going to a cock fighting arena and bet on his cocks. It was all about self realization, they shouldn't have to rush it for their own good, before it's too late for them.

So far, this is the most convincing piece of advice I have ever seen among the other replies, or I'd say, feasible given the guy's condition. Well anyway, just to add, it is also possible to lessen his bets while in the process, I mean maybe, a 5% reduction gradually whenever he bet, until he gets used to it. He still could gamble though, obviously, however atleast, he won't be able to waste huge amount of money like before  :D.

I get the points of these responses. Professional medication might have just be the solution to his case but I also think that it is important that he receives and feel some moral support from his friends and families. That would definitely have an impact for him to strive to change.

Medication is a solution, but the same needs to be done upon the users willing. People say gambling addiction same as alcohol addiction. When one is addicted to gambling, and if there is forced medication it will have side effects. Rather than medication it is good to go with meditation 🙂 and analyse plans to have control on our activities.

I agree.
It mostly happens when you are losing more.
I am guilty of that back in the days and maybe even at some days up until now, when I am forcing to get the profit back.
But, I do keep at the back of my mind that the "house always wins".
That helps me to control it and stop at some point.

Most of them don't even realize that they're addictive and become aggressive when they're cautioned. The worst mistake is them wanting to get back their fund after loosing it. If I was to advise the users I'll suggest he retain from gambling for sometime to avoid his emotions overshadowing his decision making.

Some people have strong issue due gambling, they can't stop gambling, unfortunately they are just addicted.
I am curious to understand why some people become addicted while other not. It's not just a matter of self discipline. Probably there is a mechanism on human brain that can allow this issue, like drug addiction.
As reported by OP and It's always true, play for fun.
NEVER try to recover the losses since it will generate a negative effect were people are forced to play more ( = losing even more!)

Self-control when playing gambling is very important, where our emotions must be suppressed under our mathematical intelligence. Not mathematics for gambling calculations, but for calculating the necessities of our life. We know that gambling is gambling, but our management skills must be improved as well, such as dividing money to play and money to eat.
Gambling is addictive because there is a shadow hope that the players can get, they will keep on trying and there is no stopping point, because there is a bigger shadow when you win some money.
Try rehab, like a drug addict. There may be hope for your friend to recover from spiraling out of control over discipline

have you tried to gamble at some point of your life? because you will understand why some people are being addicted to it. any game that you find interesting with. even slots can be addicting. it is the thrill and adrenaline rush and the hope that you will win your game, combination of different emotions. but once you lost big time and it affected your life, your family life, that will be your wake up call. either you will continue your gambling habit or change for the better or just gamble moderately. discipline is hard to apply if you are already deep in this game.

Most people who become addicted to gambling, the main cause is because they cannot limit and control their emotions when
playing gambling. I understand gambling is indeed an activity that can get our adrenaline pumping, so there is a special pleasure
when playing gambling.Especially when our luck is good, we definitely will continue to play gambling and it is difficult to control it.

Your friend needs a therapy, a rehabilitation center to get rid of his gambling addiction or at least clean himself. Work is non sense if you are spending it in useless ways specially in gambling. I have one friend with the same issue as yours and thank god he is fine by now. I know it will be hard for him stopping gambling in an instant but it will make his life harder if he will continue gambling, more and more problems will come.
Thats why we need to keep in mind that only gamble what you can afford to lose, don't put too much money on gambling because it will never give a positive result.

Well, I don't know what kind of person they are, --perhaps they will consider as irresponsible people because they just can do everything just to continue gamble even though they don't have money or just looking money either they know that it has come from a bad source. If you are not wealthy people there is a big impact on your family. Even your rich it makes ruin your life if you lost control to manage your self in gambling.
Based on my neighborhood story, --they are very rich before and a lot of businesses they had managed, --but when his dad become a gambler, everything change, and all businesses have been bankrupt.

Gambling consumes you little by little without you noticing it. Same as how the addiction starts, it starts as a habit and then you start making excuses and repeat the same pattern over and over and without noticing, there you are drowned in addiction. Seek help before everything gets worse, because even if you are aware that you are addicted or not it's really difficult to stop once you are hooked into something.

A friend of mine even sells some of his appliances, gadgets, clothes, and anything he can possibly sell just to play in a casino until he becomes bankrupt and even lost his job. Gambling addiction shouldn't be ignored.

Having discipline over a certain habit can't be sustainable of you're not having the desire control yourself. It should start step by step process before addiction can be prevented. We must deal with positive person who can guide in times of desperation, especially when you're losing too much in gambling.

I guess that is something that would hit to him.

As the OP help his friend, I know there times that his friend will have this in his mind that he needs to help himself. His friend(the OP) can't always be there for him and if he will not make anything great for himself he will never get his family back. We are the same in terms of being anxious in gambling since we never know, we might be addicted and that is why I usually evaluate what I am doing and what should I do.

In this case the OP has posted, seeking professional help would be the best solution right now because the worst is happening for him already. Being left by his family, being like homeless, hopeless and doesn't know what to do right now because of gambling addiction. This shouldn't ignored because anything that is too much will lead to negative things. Gambling too much will result to what the OP's friend is experiencing right now.

One of the worst decisions your friend ever made in his life but not only him is doing this since many addicted ones are also doing this. Selling different things and even borrowing from their relatives.

Perhaps, we need to say to other people if we have a problem with gambling, so they can suggest to us how to solve it. But most people can't tell others because they think that they can handle those matters.

Gambling is followed what we think, and if we think that we can make money from gambling, gambling will tempt us to play more and more. And if we follow what we hear without having discipline, it will not take too long to see we will lose the money, and we will also lose control.

I think not just gambling that could be addictive, but in the other thing, when we are too enjoy and busy with that, that can be addictive. But yes, the damage from gambling will be too big than the other things.

Good that you found your way out because this is really not a Good way to risk money not unless you are 100 % sure you can
Held liable if become addicted.

actually you have also fault here,You should have not Give Him that loans when you are already not in good faith where did He spending
 the money and the way he looks,maybe he is involved in drugs and gambling.
that sense you should have known that he is not in good shape.
Now you must not leave Him instead be with Him from now on.

Gambling is way too much addictive so if you are a beginner or if you are a novice gambler you should know how to control and discipline your self because when you used to play everyday it will eventually be on your system and you will not notice if you are an addict already so be careful. I don't really recommend gambling as a job because literally it's not co'z you have 50/50 chances of winning and gaining money at all.

Let me just say that addiction in general is significantly dangerous especially if you lack the discipline to handle/control yourself.

Most gamblers tend to fall on what I call the 'gambling illusion'. This illusion may be demonstrated as such: when a person gambles and he wins, the tendency is that he will gamble again due to the feeling of winning again (gambler's fallacy). If a gambler lost, the tendency is also the same because he feels that he needs to recover the amount that he loss on the bet. Thus, the person will stay on this cycle until he exhausts his resources.

When a person falls in this gambling cycle, this is where the intervention of family members, close friends, and peers would help. Proper guidance, maintenance, and patience should be extremely given as this may escalate into a worse situation for the gambler.

It's not that simple to overcome gambling addiction.

If we see a person dealing with that problem, try to help them at any cost. Seek help from his/her family or try to direct them to a rehabilitation center.

But on OP's case, his friend can be cured and no need for a therapy or consultation from experts. But as early as it is, OP needs to do something before it goes totally wrong.

There are a lot of people really love to play gambling and if you are just a typical person would like to seek for some fun with risk I think this is the most efficient way to do.

Many people play gambling at their own risk they don't mind too much also with the money because they look for fun and nothing else also there are a person into the world of gambling who is already skilled and professional even you want to beat them the luck is on their hand.

Many life destroys with the too much addiction on gambling if the people on your life is affected too its better to think first before taking any action.

Gambling is right there but the family and love ones has a limited time.

Am trying my best bro, and thanks to everyone who have contributed with time and advice, i read them all and i appreciate everyone, gambling is like smoking, like every other addiction, if you dive too deep into it that it becomes a part of your system, its hard to get out, sometimes , getting out means becoming seriously ill, so i advice everyone reading to please refrain from too much gamble and also mind how much money you put into it to avoid loosing money that would have been used for some other important things .

Lola s if newbies in gambler knew about why there is a need to control because the very moment they are encouraged or they got interested in betting is just for fun or to gain at least some bucks.
Not knowing that in the next days or months they may get addicted and become a bad gambler.
there are so many advises but the truth is?they can't even do it on their own playing habit.

Once you get deeper into gambling, you will not have a chance to get out, but if you need a strong will and power to change, you can solve your addicting. The help from other people will be needed to give support, so we can have time to find the way. Handling the money will be the first thing that you need to have because you will lose all the money if you lose control.

I've read that there are underlying conditions why a gambling addict got addicted to gambling, it can be depression, anxiety, sadness, drug addiction, longing, and etc. They are addicted because there is something within, it's one of a reason why almost everyone here are talking about getting a professional, cause the professional will help you pinpoint that specific problem within to control your addiction. Some can do it themselves but some really need to talk with the professionals.

If you have felt something different in your self that you didn't expected and you always seeking a gambling activity, you should pay attention to this because gambling addict is really hard to cure and it needs usually days or weeks. Why we are letting our self to be addicted in gambling, if you are already self oriented, you can gamble regularly and has a limit in your self.

Poor people like us I guess will not be focus on gambling, gambling is those for wealthy people that can afford their luxury.

Addictive gamblers should understand that, their addiction doesn't only affect them but other in the family. Whenever such a gambler get into a dipper loss financially while gambling it also have great impact to their respective families. So, having the habit of addiction isn't a joking stuff but serious issues which should be address with immediate effect. As a gambler, ensure to pay close attention to your habit towards addiction, this will help keep families in good health.

That will happen if that gambler uses the money for his family. If he can hold himself for using that money, I think he will still have the money to buy his family's needs. But many people out there can use their family money to gamble because they think that they can double the money from gambling. But the fact is they can't always get the chance to do that because gambling can't be predicted.

A gambler might forget about controlling and managing his money when they play gambling because we know how gambling can invite them to go deeper into the games.

That's true that is why they kept this addiction from their family they do not want to get exposed because if they do they will be in trouble and there will be friction in the family and this will cause a lot of issue once exposed, gamblers will also in denial if you asked them if they are gambling to much,this is so they can defend themselves that they can still go to the gambling table.

You're right there, dude. From the story, his friend's wife left him because of his gambling addiction which causes him to withdraw money from his wife's bank account. Since he's alone, there's a possibility that his situation would go worse. That's why, op should guide his friend. He's the one who is in a better condition so he should help his friend overcome his current situation.

And this should be a lesson and a reminder to all of us not to make gambling a habit and to learn to control ourselves and our emotions towards it. Better safe than sorry.

Everybody knows how addictive gambling is even gamblers knows that, but they denied it even if they are losing thousands of dollars, they will keep defending that they are still able to recover the lost money, when in fact they really are not, they are lying about their gambling activities because they do now want people questioning about their gambling activities.

Well, the best you can probably do is introduce a new hobby, one that would take up most of his time, so as to make him avoid gambling. Though without the will to actually stop and change, nothing much can be helped with it. Nonetheless, you can't really change addicts with irl experience, believe me. They'd need to actually WANT to change, and that''s a hard thing to do for an addict. Still, a big help though to those people who are on the verge of going addict, since really, the only thing that separates addicts form normal gamblers is probably fear. Fear of various things, from fear of losing money, fear of having nothing left, fear of being shunned, etc.

When it comes to addiction it has something to do with the a hormone that is explained here (https://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk/how-hormones-affect-addiction/).


Anyway, one of the best method to combat addiction is thru self-moderation.  Self discipline and self check should be done regularly in order to monitor how we are in terms of gambling addiction.

If you are a type of person who dont have much good control of finances then better quit gambling while still early or you still you can because high chances that you would really be put up into these kind of hardship or consequences in life if you do proceed yet chances for you to get wrecked is high since you dont know on how to control your money.

Its not bad to gamble but everything should be on moderation as we all know but majority do really lapse and do fail to do so.Making it as a habit? It shouldnt be unless if you do
have some money allocated or save up just for gambling and dont tend to make use other amounts or money allocated for another important things in life.

You would be putting yourself into a big trouble if you do let your addiction control you.

That is why we see many people ruin their lives because of playing gambling without having control. They don't know how to limit their money, but they still put more money into their balance to continue playing gambling. Once I am in those situations, it is not easy to reject gambling because the games were so attractive.

But then, I am fortunate that I can remember about something that makes me stop gambling for a while and do that thing. It really helps me realize that gambling was only the way to enjoy life and kill boredom. From that moment, I always use some money and limit my time in gambling because I don't want to become an addicting gambler.

I hope we can always remember that our life is not for playing gambling by spending money, although our life is a gamble.

if thats true then no one is addicted on gambling now but no because there are still but not to the people that denied it . lying is bad but they have no choice to do it especially if thier parents was questioning them and if the money they spend on gambling is thier parents money

no we shouldnt say that because we dont know whats going on behind the scenes . sometimes theyl they lie but what if they win on the next day or two . they show that they dont easily give up and they keep on believing that they can win which is a good spirit .

Nobody is going to be affected other than that person and his friend or near ones if they end up being addictive to gambling or lost a huge money in gambling. We all can provide advice of what is wrong or could be harmful in the end and to follow or not to follow is an individual choice. But yes, it feels bad when we hear the stories how people have lost badly not only money but also effected their relationship, mental health etc.

The worse part is not just the money but the relationship and the mental health conditions that really affects the persons attitude after losing that such amount of money. Most of them are living with regrets and frustrations, they are trying to think over and over on why they allow that huge loses to happened them.

Same goes with any strong addiction...

I think people who gamble regularly are addicted to walking the edge, the feeling of adrenaline.

If a person can't afford gambling this person should really look elsewhere for that adrenaline boost or just learn to live peacefully

I am sure many of them realize this,,, I mean all the guys I know who have a gambling problem feel this pressure and acknowledge it. They may not say it all of the time but when they do confide about it,,, you can feel they are full of guilt and shame. But people need to understand that this is why addictions are problematic.

Alcohol, drugs, gambling,,, the victims all feel shame and guilt but they mentally just cannot deal with it.

Very true, this  has once happened to me.  On that faithful day I was with the mindset of gambling with the family fund in order to make some gains before proceed for the message but unfortunately lost all funds in the process. Though I regretted my actions and have learned my lessons.

Gambling has a bad friendly spirit which will always insist you play more when at lost. Setting limit while get involve into gambling Should be embrace.

The temptation is sometimes unbearable that a gambler will sometimes take a risk. I wouldn;t consider it like he lose control nor him being cursed but it does happen every time when there is the need to make money in the easiest possible. The only exception that is not tolerable is using someone else money, taking a loan to gamble is even too much so all the more if its the money intended for the family's need.

If not taken with proper moderation and not knowing when to stop, setting limits into game plays and budget management, gambling would be seriously addictive if not taken any appropriate and immediate action. Playing gambling supposedly fun if you were just playing it for the sake of entertainment and not for the sake of making it as a source of fast cash to come into your pockets. If you have that attitude treating gambling to be an easy key or way to obtain great amount of money, then at that first place you will certainly be at the track of being problematic if you will not control the way you play gambling. The problem is not on gambling itself but on the player himself for losing control on playing and doing bets. Avoid betting more than you can afford and know the limits of your budget to avoid chasing losses to just regain what you have loss. Be discipline and responsible on your actions and do not let money get into your head.

That's why addicts need help from their close people, family or close friends. All people must regret and frustration after losing a big amount of money. In this matter, we cannot blame and let them alone. We are better to advise them and remind them about the goal of our life. It is not only about money, but more than money, having family and socialize with others must be more important. Losing money is better than losing family and other close people. In addition, we need to accompany them to visit a specialist or mental health experts.

Being addicted in gambling is a really worse situation that others finding ways to borrow some for them to play even no money left on their pockets. That's true even before I experience this also the temptation and the eagerness to play in a gambling to sustain your addiction. Well that's other purpose to make money or to grow their money in an instant way. There's really need of self control, self discipline and determination to our gambling habits.

IMO, most of the people who gets addicted to gambling are those who also experience to make a fortune out of it. If you know that your money is really hard earned, there is less possibility that you will risk it for profit, you will think of necessities rather than risk it. Or else, if you can't stop yourself from playing, you could try to make a list of your expenses and see how much you are losing. I can say, if you see your losses in your records, you will less likely to spend more from your funds.

That is why i am very particular for my friends who borrow money from me,i make sure that the amount will be spent in right way and not for vices because if does?i make sure that they will never had a chance to borrow from me again.
addiction is very dangerous in all manners,in all kind of vices.

My best solution to prevent to become addictive is to create a paper wallet which I cannot easily reach and transfer 50% of my winnings to. So if I lost after that, I am not able to redeposit all to chase my losses. For me this works very well.

thats an original remedy  . never came across a post or a thread that does this but except to the paper wallet because that was already common  and exept to the withdrawing of funds after winning because so many people have done and recomend this but this is also a fail suggestion because gamblers still find them selve gambling with thier winnings  but for you , you can get discourage for gambling again because transferring a fund from paper wallet to the online wallet is not convinient add in if you put the paper wallet on unusual locations  .

Of course it's easy to sweep the paper when you have directly access to it but if you put it somewhere else, for example at parents house, you wont lose it.

There should be some wallet where you can set a timelock on so you can't withdraw from it till a certain date.

I disagree.

Addicted gambler will never let anyone or any circumstances stop him from betting, even if his money is hard earned or whatsoever, all he have in mind is the satisfaction he'll have when he starts playing gambling. The saddest part is they don't learn from their experiences, which they've lost all of their money most of the time and get mad to their family because they are asking money because it's his responsibility to provide.

There are too many lost souls in gambling, and it keeps on increasing every single time. There is no cure in addiction if you think there is no cure, in short, it's all depends on how strong someone's mental health is to fight the urge to play gambling depending on his life status.

I just noticed one of my experience when I lost a huge amount of money that I send to a wrong address, there's an eagerness in me that I need to take back the money even though it is not gambling. I just think that, what if I lose huge amount in gambling?  Knowing that there's a chance that we can retake our money back, it is the reason why most of the gamblers get bankrupted. But, if we know how to test our limit, we can lower our losses to avoid losing streak. Always think about tomorrow because most of the time, we often have a bad and good day. If we continue to play during these bad days, we will just lost perhaps, all of our assets in gambling.

He does the right thing already. He speaks about it.
He also does a very smart move of giving OP 70% of his salary to make sure he's not spending it at gambling.

I am gambling addicted aswell, lost a lot of money over the last 5 years.
I started this year to send basicly all my big money to a very good friend who takes care of it.
Since then I do not loose more then a few 100$ a day (Its still a lot but I earn it from referral commissions on the same casinos I play with)

I had some days last year where I lost 15000$ in a single day. That day was one of the worst ever to me.

I think important to say is:

When the fun stops, you should stop. If you chase your old losses, you should stop immadently. Don't expect a big win. Gambling is for fun, not to create money.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Good to hear that you are working out of your addiction and trying to make your life smoother I am not habitual gambler but have incurred good losses in the past and have also worked things out now.

I Hope everything goes smooth for you in the future.

your friend is not cursed, the problem he is experiencing is the result of his own actions...
every gambling addict, drug addict and female addict will definitely experience difficulties like that of your friend and it happens because of his inability to control his desires. I hope you can wake up your friend slowly even though it takes a long time, so that he returns to his normal life.

I am glad you can solve your problem, so now, you don't use too big money to gamble. But still, using $100 a day is a big day, and I think you can lower the amount, maybe it's for $50 a day.

You need to try to cure your addiction to gambling because you already have the worst day of your life, and I am sure you don't want to have the same thing again.

That is good advice for every gambler, and that is right. I think we always need to remember that we must stop gambling when the time is enough.

You have a point because I also notice it, I am a gambler but I still have the control of myself on when to stop especially if I am losing my extra money already
that I set aside for my gambling habit.

Being addicted will surely affect our daily living as you have no control to your expenses anymore and there is a big chances that you will be drown to debt in a long process
so I fully agree with you that we should pay attention to our gambling habit.

Lol, I don't understand why a man who already has a wife and child but still has no self-control in gambling. The man thought enough for his family life and not about the ambitious gambling to take what was lost. If the man can think about the future and life of his family, I'm sure that's enough for him to quit gambling. It's that simple for you to get out of your gambling addiction, and it can be done if you still have common sense.

Well of course gambling makes us addicted after that, then the addiction we will face, but if we pay attention to how we control ourselves, we will be fine and know when to gamble with the remaining expenses if there is no control then it will certainly make us addicted and not. I know the time by playing gambling, so I can still be in control and see how my spending when gambling loses or wins is possible, but I always record expenses from gambling.

That's a clever Idea and you are the only one doing that so far. I see, when you already transferred some BTC to your paper wallet, you will have some hard time getting it back or I may sat it takes a lot of time that would make you stop playing whenever you run out of money in the gambling site without getting some money from that paper wallet. However, If the gambler pursue to play even though he runs out of money from playing and decide to get some BTC in his paper wallet, he may ended up losing everything inside that wallet. You may say this has not happen to you but I was just talking about the tendency that this could be happened if greed cannot be stopped.

What you are saying makes perfect sense, if we have common sense it is impossible to sacrifice our family for the sake of gambling ambitions.
For men who love their families, surely they can control themselves in playing gambling and separate money to play gambling. So if the budget
for playing gambling runs out, they must be able to stop playing gambling. If this can be done,I am sure that addicted to gambling can be avoided.

What if the man is not married, of course they don't think much about family and he just wants to have fun with his solitude by gambling, I also can't deny that gambling has a lot of impact on someone who has no control and their ambition is big so that they sacrifice family they were to bet, but if the man was disciplined then all would be well the expenses wouldn't be too great if they knew how to play the game.

Your friend is just an addict. That is the usual story of an addict.


I doubt you don't know you are spreading some negative on betting and gambling platforms with this but no matter how it appears, new gamblers will join. Some people see gambling as business for living and they can't stop to look for means of survival through it.

But true addictive behavior would find a way to somehow play, even if they have to sell everything they have. Though most addictive behavior stems from "just one more, if only I can win one more I can have the time of my life" mindset, limiting the funds you have may actually just prove to be detrimental, and besides, what's difficulty in face of wanting to do something you really want no? In the end, it comes to changing habits, and yes, I know habits die hard, but other than that, there's really no stopping an addictive action.

It's not an unusual story, just that most of such stories actually go untold. Plus, if someone were really an addict, letting himself go free is pretty difficult. It's difficult to stop addiction, a simple example of how difficult it is to find a habit and changing that habit, try it, you'd find it really difficult.

If he doesn't marry, someday, he will feel lonely without family, and at one point, he wants to end everything by doing something that can make him better. Trust me, when we have much experience, but we don't have family, we will not feel alive, even if we have a family (parents and brother and sister), but the feeling is not the same if we don't have a family (wife/husband and kids).

In that time, he will realize that he spent too much time in gambling, and he will want to fix his life by stopping gambling, and he will think that it is enough for him.

Gambling has a lot of impacts, whether we often play gambling or we play gambling occasionally. And without controlling ourselves and discipline, we will hard to stop unless we have a strong will to stop, which we will feel someday.

Actually it depend how your activity to gamble, if you have healthy mind you will aware that is the worst thing to do. You may have 5% to pay your loan because the rest you will just lose money and trying to borrow money to another person. But, when you being an addict you may no have these thing, you will just focus on borrow money to meet your lusty and you will confuse and lamenting when your bet gone wrong and you lose the money.

Borrowing is a big no no when you want to do is to gamble. Surely one will be in great debt after lossing the money in the gambling activity and this not sound good paying debt without seeing some things that we could say money being borrowed was being put to good use. I suggest when borrowing money it should only be done to a good purpose and not into gambling. Borrowing money may be like for building a house, buying a car, investment purposes and etc.

It is Ok if you are surely to win,i mean that the one you will betting is cheater or have some Bot to assure the win.
then it is safe to Borrow and gamble,but the problem is How long will you stay in gambling table when you starts to win?
maybe in the end for longer playing time then  losses is what will happen.

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so yeah never borrow money when you are going to gamble,better sell some of your things at least you are not disturbing other.

I tend to disagree - people won't stop at selling the shirt off of their own backs if they can dip into other people's funds (or their employers for example).  If you have to borrow to gamble, or sell items, then that person has a problem.

Different kind of addiction level is there for every activity and this is one of highly addicted behavior that is why the person can't resist their gambling urge even when there is no money to spend on it.And it also need psychological assistance to relieve from this kind of addiction simply saying stop will make them more addicted to it.

He needs help, I know some big celebrities on our country that does the same thing, they were addicted on gambling and they need to be rehabilated to help them cope with their addiction in gambling.
He can do it himself I think without going on rehab centers, help him wonder around away from any money related thingy.
Relaxation will help, his mind need to rest, put his attention away from gambling, maybe you can try going into outing, like going out for hiking.

That will be different because the celebrities have more money to go to rehabilitation, and they can go to that place alone or with their friends. If he doesn't have a positive mind to stop gambling, I think it will difficult for him to stop his gambling time, and he can play gambling more and more. We can hope that his family or friends can know that he has a problem with gambling, and he needs help from them to solve the problem. Relaxation, having a new habit, or doing something will help him to cure his addiction in gambling slowly.

I only borrow some if i know for sure that i can repay after a x amount of time. I get some affiliate at the end of the month and i can see upfront how much that minimum will be.

Its unfortunate for those who try to make this as the earning source because in gambling there is no assurance you will make money. Also, house has the edge so chances of losing is higher than making profits. Those who lose money and then just play to recover may further lose money and may continue doing it and at a time they may get addicted to gambling.

Common story and effects of a gambler getting addicted to gambling. I've heard many stories almost similar as the OP has posted and many stories like this will be created in the future for sure.

Quite unfortunate for those people who sees gambling as their business or their lifestyle and they are expecting that they will come out into the casino with lots of money. That is the wrong perception of a gambler and it must be changed.. or it will never changed unfortunately.

Don't urge everyone to play but let them play if they really want to. In the end its their money and we can't do anything about it. Its their life and at least they know the consequences of getting addicted to gambling.

The problem with a gambling addiction is that it changes you. You are not rational anymore and your actions become much more impulsive. Without you really realising it. Let's say you lose big one time, instead of evaluating what went wrong you only focus on making that money back. Which usually leads to higher losses because you are emotionally too invested. If everyone would keep acting rational there would be no gambling addiction. I think it's mainly the job of friends and family to notice a change in behaviour and gambling habits.

Unfortunately I have witnessed a friend getting addicted to gambling and it is not pretty, your friend cannot solve this on his on tell him to look for professional help, just as there is an association like Alcoholics Anonymous there are probably associations with the sole purpose to help those with gambling addictions, I do not know if it is too late to get his family back but at least he should do everything that he can to get better and see his son again.

Not at all like most casual players who halt when losing or set a misfortune restrain, individuals with a compulsive betting issue are compelled to keep playing to recuperate their cash — a design that gets to be progressively damaging over time. Some individuals with a compulsive betting issue may have abatement where they bet less or not at all for a period of time. In any case, without treatment, the abatement ordinarily isn't changeless.

Thank you very much for your input mate, i really appreciate everyone and their advices, it was a good decision discussing about this here, i feel motivated to help him heal, and hes been doing better lately, hes wife will soon join him again and all thanks to everyone that has being talking to him and as well apologizing to the wife for all shes being through, she decided she will be coming back with their son by this weekend.

Lucky for him that he had a friend like you and other loved ones that do really tend to help for him to heal.There are people which are really that weak when it comes to particular situations where they cant help out themselves alone but rather do need some back up or help from others.

Its just really some rare occasion that you do have a friend which is really concerned about your status in life and you had able to prove it out that you arent only a friend in the good times but also in the bad and the most difficult ones.

Its nice to hear that he's gradually healing and his family do tend to go back.Hopefully he wont make himself get back to the pit because he might not able to recover anything on next time case.


People are different on handling out themselves some do able to control but majority do fail to do so thats why they do just let things do happen and doesnt mind much on what would happen on tomorrow if they do

just let things even gets worst as the days goes by and do continue to get involved with gambling and spend up finances without any awareness on where his foot is standing.
Addiction can really fucked you up big time but people do find it out when its already too late.

Hope that your friend will continuously heal from this gambling addiction.
It will take one day at a time to move forward and live a better life.
And hopefully, he will learn his lessons from this bad experience.
At some point, we need a wake up call to change our destiny.
And great to hear that his wife and son will be joining him again.
Family support is badly needed in his vulnerable situation, more than anything else.

Your friend is not cursed, don't think of it like that. He just getting addicted to gambling maybe because he won once or twice then he had consecutive losses. By that, it keeps him to continue to gamble having his hopes that he will win again or at least get his losses back. That is the common mindset of most gamblers, addiction leads them to that situation.

One of the important things about addicted situations is there is someone they can rely on, and he's lucky to have a friend that will help him relieve his addiction. Your friend is not cursed, having a losing streak is normal in gambling especially if you are unlucky in bettings. Also, it serves as a lesson for both of you because it also affects you and lessens your gambling activities, learning the mistakes of other people.

Always treat gambling as entertainment only not as a money-making job. People are getting obsessed with gambling because of getting money on it.

he already mentioned that His friend is really an addict that lost Family because of addiction.
Some people of course look at this  as business or life giving option,But the truth is only few in a thousand that become successful on this areas.

so let us not consider this as bread and butter but instead a happy place to unwind.

It should not be taken that much if you are not good in disciplining yourself.

Gambling can cause many deeper problem, the very reason why there are people who takes their own life
because of this addictions thinking that the only solution is to die and forget about everything.

That's probably the worst cause scenario being a gambler, actually there have already been some articles about that, like below.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/19/problem-gamblers-much-more-likely-to-attempt-suicide-study

However, with the number of gamblers all over the world the suicide cases was already downplayed, I have no data information to back my opinion but I believe that it's not gambling addiction which are the top causes for suicide as I believe gamblers are risk takers and optimistic.

I can't agree with your opinion. I personally know a guy. Who are addicted on gambling. He was involved in many more misdeeds with gambling. Such as theft, robbery and drugs. He was so addicted to gambling that he borrowed and gambled and drank heavily, at one time he owed a lot of money. He had not the ability to pay the money. He gradually became depressed. And eventually he chose the path of suicide. That's why I always tell everyone not to get addicted to gambling. Spend as much money on gambling as you can afford. Not more than that.

It's one of the most dangerous effect of too much addiction in gambling. To the point that you already don't have money to gamble, yet you still chose to borrow some money just to be able to put some bet hoping that the losses will eventually be brought back to you. But what mostly happen is that instead that you gain, you loss much more.

That case is very depressing, so every gamblers must control themselves so they will be still themselves. Just catch fun from gambling sometimes, don't loose control if you doesn't want to face it's consequences.

Let's generalize things, don't make things that will ruin your life. If you knew that you can't afford to retrieve all of your loss, then don't risk your money in gambling. Once you get addicted in gambling, it's obvious that it will lose a lot of money if you have losing streak.

If you got depress because of many problems, they see suicide as an easy way so all of the addiction can lead to it when worst case scenarios happened.

you are right. Depressed people seek salvation through suicide. They think suicide is the only way to freedom. But it is totally wrong. The real happiness is overcoming all frustrations and making oneself successful. Everyone should strengthen their morale.

A person who decides to give up on the very essence of LIFE just because something trivial in their lives had pushed them into this tragedy, also something that could no doubt be solved through rehabilitation and similar mind related techniques, in my opinion must be crazy.

Life is such a wonderful gift that giving up on it is cowardice. I'm not talking about severely suffering patients or mentally challenged individuals but people who result to their own death due to addictions like gambling, debt, alcohol.

In the larger scheme of things these are all trivial, and one must think twice about their state of mind, well-being and happiness and actively try to remove the cause of negative thoughts which push people into depression because they haven't acted early enough to prevent this.

We all should be more prudent in the type of life choices we make and consider the consequences these choices might lead us towards!

It never changes the mindset of most gamblers.

It's addictive and when someone can't get off his hands, that's what likely to happen. We get the desire to take back our losses if we have lost that much.

But when we realize, it's better to have that lower amount of loss than to add more of it because of our desire to recover.

Wherein gamblers were not able to realize or they realize it after they lose more than they have. We tend to continue gambling to at least win some of our losses but we never realize that the more we continue playing, the more we get addicted and the more money we lose.

It is normal to have the desire to cover the losses we get when playing gambling, by continuing to gamble and hope we can win.
But such a mindset leads us to become gambling addicts, and it will be a problem for ourselves. It should be as you say, we must
realize that having a loss is not a problem, which forced to play gambling again to recover losses, but the more it makes our losses
even greater. And we must be able to limit when playing gambling, because it is very important to control ourselves when playing
gambling.

I think the right thing to say is that in the first place gambling is bad or wrong if only that a person o gambler treat gambling to gain money or such form of obtaining money in easy way, it's not bad play gambling games if only the person view it as entertainment or game and will not chase for it's lost because trying to chasing your losses and desire to gain more money in gambling is a worst mindset at all.

Getting back what I lost is the feeling thats causing more loss and gambling addiction. You could gamble a bit for fun if you can resist your urge to gamble everything and have a budget and a stopping point in case of both winning and losing. People that includes me tends to look at the loss but not at the profit which make us do riskier bets. For an example if someone started with 1 units and goes to 20, if he/she loses 10, it feels like they have lost everything and bets the rest of 10 for just one bet forgetting their initial investment was just 1.

It is normal if the gamblers realize after losing more than they have because I have that experience before. I admit my gambling losses, mostly after I played for some time and use some money more than I used before. Yes, I continue gambling to recover my losses, but that did not work for me, and I only got another loss more money. So I decided to stop and leave the site because I almost ran out of my money. It saved me a lot of money because I don't have to see all of my money is gone because of playing gambling too long.

In the next days, I tried to limit my money for playing gambling, and I know that will help me prevent more losses like what I did before. From gambling, I learned many things, not just about managing my money, but I also learned about managing my time and emotion.

I think I have had an almost your own experience when it comes to gambling. Before, I didnt really like gambling, but after getting to know gambling my interest in playing got out of hand. It is common to spend a lot of money without getting a balanced win because what we play is gambling. In fact I can say that I have no luck at all in gambling because there are more to lose than to win.

actually what happens is that instead of realization they become more eager to win back again.chasing their losses and becoming addicted in time.
it is only few that realizes their mistakes after losing because i already saw many gamblers from my circle of friends and family that gambling teaches them to be more on chasing losses than learning the mistakes.
i believe that we need someone beside us when we gamble so there are chance that we will be advised when the losing is continuously happening.

It’s true for many that people lose out in the end than making money from it. That is also common because business owners have sites and casinos to make profit for themself. Only thing we if have fun and enjoy the gambling then its fine rather than making it a habit and just keep on losing money this is where the real problem may arise.

I don't think the real problem here is gambling. People like OP's friend, if gambling didn't exist, they would develop that compulsive behavior with another addiction. Those people have a problem within themselves and their gambling behavior (or another kind of problematic behavior) is the effect of the problem they have. Although gambling (or taking drugs) can worsen that problem.

We can't blame them if they choose to commit suicide than fixing their problem.
At first place, before they will try gambling they must know the consequences that they may face if the worst happens. Unfortunately they didn't expect it to happen and when the worst thing happen to them,  they will just commit suicide so they will not feel the problem anymore. Willpower and help from the people around the addicted gambler will help him solve his problem.

Gambling is way too much addictive that's why if you are a gambler you should discipline your self and manage your time to avoid addiction because most of the time those who get addicted are those who has a lot of time to play and eventually as time passes by they didn't notice that they are already an addict. That's why always remember play responsibly.

That is a sad reality. Though people know the odds of winning in any kind of gambling, they still choose to go for it rather than to work and earn it themselves through a decent job. This was mostly happening in my country especially on those needy people.
That is the best option. Having a peer or family by your side to monitor and willing to help us to manage our addiction will be a good idea. Paying your attention onto other recreational activities could be helpful as well.

well that's why it's called addiction because people lose already their discipline and self control and it is not them who manage the gambling but it is the gambling that managing them.
do everything you think is best but never think of committing suicide because Life is more valuable than everything in this world.

There are many people who are addicted to altcoins, throw their money there and believe they will win but end up losing everything.
Okay, bad analogy, sorry.

I was addicted to freebitco.in many years ago, my luck is that I depended on my mom to earn some money, so the addiction couldn't survive inside me.
Gambling addiction is like any other drug, it can lead you to commit other crimes to support it.

You will find gambling to be addictive if your system or your lifestyle get use to want or call for wanting it on a daily basis of your life. Addiction on gambling plays a significant role ones an individual have not take any further control on his gambling habits because of the perks it give to him such as instant money when winning and satisfaction gained from experience of fun on playing. There is nothing wrong on playing gambling, it is just that the society told so because of what they see it on the shallow manner. The individual's playing habit is the one making gambling an addictive game for he loose control because of what he can gain from it and not of what he cannot. Playing gambling is a sort of fun thing to do as long as you play on moderation and being disciplined and responsible on the game plays you are engaging. Better look after your gambling habit to avoid getting addicted on playing it.

Nothing can demoralized a gambler than gambling while losing to the gambling casino and still want to chase their losses. Personally, whenever I gambled and nothing good happened while I gamble I tend to quit the gambling because such a day wasn't meant for my winning. Gamblers with the symptoms of gamble to recover loses; should pay close attention for addiction or seek for assistance for help in this regard.

Well, that is what we got from gambling if we are playing too long. We can't make more winning except getting more losses. I think that is happening to many people playing gambling, and the differences are some of them can't stop what they did in gambling. They are still playing gambling, even if they already lost more money.

Yep, I don't get that luck, and I got more losses than to win. That makes me realize that I don't have to be serious when I played gambling.


That is the common mistake that many people made in gambling. They think that if they become more eager to win back their money can give them the chance to win. But they will get the losses, and the funds will not small if they realize. We need to learn from other people's mistakes to prevent that thing from happening to us, and we can know that chasing losses will not always work.

That is why when if you are deep into it, you should get help or you and your family will suffer sometimes it's to late before the gambler realized he is harming himself and his family, he needs a caring friends and family to get him out of here, gambling should be moderated like all the other recreational to much of it will harm you.

Sometimes that is what people need, a wake up call, to tell them they are on the wrong path and that they need to change their ways or they will lose that which they value the most which is their family, I am also glad his wife has decided to give him another chance since it will be a shame that a family gets separated over this, however your friend needs to understand that he really needs to change his ways or something like this may happen again and at that time his wife may not be as forgiving.

Almost any habit is a loss of control. Habits control us, whatever. The more we indulge our habit, the stronger it becomes. At some point, we no longer distinguish our own desire from habit.
This is the main problem of any addictions, because at the moment of habit the brain turns off and we do what we are used to, and only after that we begin to regret it and think rationally.

At the dangerous level, committing suicide is the last exit point from this loop. The addiction has the worst forms which cause the crimes as you mentioned but controlling the daily habits can change this. If the person throwaway altcoins, using these altcoins in the gambling platform is ok until it turns out to be an empty wallet. Some gambling platforms have worthwhile promos and easily attract uncontrollable minds.

It is because some of them cannot control themselves and think unrealistically. Not all people can be easy to forget their losing money in gambling, some still dream to bring again they many by playing more. But in fact, they won't get it back unless losing more. While others, know how to control themselves, and they also realize that the chance to win is too small. Then, they just decide to stop because of financial reasons or thinking about the bad effect.

The key point is how good you can control yourself and think normally. If you just follow your emotion, gambling isn't the right place for you. It is only a place for people who can control themselves. 

I heard that though a gambler decides to commit suicide because of money issues, huge debts that he can't able to pay for it. Suicide is an insane thing to do. I hope nobody will commit that rather relieve their addiction to their family members. It was very difficult when you're getting out of control of our mind, addiction could ruin everything. We either believe that Gamblings makes us millionaire, winning on the jackpot prize, I was thinking this before but I have noticed that it only drives me to fall into addiction.

For them who are in deep addiction, they won't notice that they are in extreme condition because they cannot realize it. But once they are starting to see the bad implications of their own addiction and action, they'll eventually get to understand it.

Right.

It must be moderated and unlike the suggestion of others, they're telling that gambling shouldn't be done because it's addictive. Most activities have their own addictive level base on how the person engages deal with it.

When you do really have that kind of mindset on being a millionaire with gambling then thats the primary motive on where it can really drive you into an addicted person in no time.
There are already lots of situations or instances on someone who do commit suicide due to deep debt caused by too much gambling and we know that this is one of the effects if you do
let yourself consumed with gambling addiction.If you dont pay attention then expect for the consequences.Gambling isnt bad as long you do now to take control of your emotions
and motives in life.Dont be consumed by your greed because it would give no good thing to you.

If your gambling lifestyle boils down to a point that you need to borrow money so that you can gamble, then there is something wrong with you at that point. I always allocate money that I can accept as a loss if I want to gamble and also I only gamble to a game that I play the most and I know I can win which is poker. If we talking about other card games or other gambling games then I don't play them. I just cannot handle the loss in case I lose so much. I experienced that before and I don't want to experience it again.

Sometimes, I dream of getting my money back or turning the time back to the old-time, so I can hold myself to spend the money on gambling. Many people lose their money in gambling, but I consider that it is an important lesson for other people and me. We should accept what we did in the past, and if we can learn from that, we can prevent it from making the same mistake in the future. Although we still play gambling, it doesn't guarantee us to keep the money, especially if we can enjoy the game.

Controlling ourselves will be necessary and important to do if we don't want to get deeper into gambling and lose the money. Only with that we could take care of ourselves and enjoy and have fun in gambling.

Thank you very much for sharing this much needed story of your friend. Indeed, it's the same case for millions of gambling addicts.

Gambling when it goes out of proportion, will have direct as well as indirect effects, which will cause disastrous damage in the person's life. It's alright to bet a few bucks for fun, but not entire monthly wages and money you need to pay for your familiy's well being and feeding. The moment one finds himself under trouble, it's the moment they should take a break and if possible quit it completely.

Yes, the temptation is there that's why even those who quit completely later joins back but then self discipline and determination is what one should have because naturally we human beings are greedy but we can definitely control it, for sake of our loved ones.

This is one of the golden rules for gambling that never borrow for gambling and play only what you can afford to lose. But certain section feels that it is so easy to make money and one can become quick rich in gambling and in the end when it turns otherwise then they realize what mistake they did and by that time it is too late unfortunately.

There are those who wins big time and then with so many money on hand just continues gambling and gambling. All he has in mind is he will able to get more and more money as long as he keeps on putting money on his gambling habit. Until such time that the money is slowly depleting and he is aware that he is losing money but continues anyway until all the money is gone. Sad that many people are doing that sort of habit and I would agree on some sort of regulation to keep them from being addicted.

A lot of the blame is of the sites, while many say: "Come and have fun with our games", others lure you with the promise: "Come play and become a millionaire", or "win a Lamborghini".

that should never be the purpose of these games, or am I wrong to think so?

Yeah it's usually one lucky guy who becomes the millionaire, but they don't tell you how many people have to lose first before one can become the millionaire or win the Lamborghini. A lot of people need to lose so their loss is pooled together for a big win. I mean the purpose of the games is of course to win money, but it should all be in proportion. We need to manage our expectations, if we win it's usually a small amount. Winning big in the lottery is just so unlikely.

I guess that's how it really works, I mean it's a business, so they have to think of something that will definitely make an impact in the market. But what you have said is all true, we should not ever expect something big if we start playing gambling to avoid bigger disappointments. Without disappointment, we'll never be addicted on it because somehow, we understand how gambling works.

You got actually the point but to think that its been part of their marketing though and if you do let yourself get hyped with it then expect that things would really be worst yet this will surely
motivate you to play even more just because you do really believe that you can really be a millionaire or winning up a lambo.Its part of their promotions and we know on how these things
are effective towards to those people who do gamble on this market.Profits do depend on how heavily these players do spend up their money.So its normal that they would stick out
into those promotions or words that will really be effective on luring people in into their site or gambling place.

We always try to ensure that we are okay with gambling and we can bet for something. But it will depend on how we can manage our personality, finance management, emotion, and also control our desire to gambling or betting. If we can't, we will be addicted. And gambling addictive is commonly worse for most people, moreover if he is addicted and he can't meet with what he expects. It may end up in some crimes.

I read an article today about a man killing his wife and burying her in the backyard of his house. Well, he assumed there are many reasons why he killed his wife.

But after researched and analyzed, the judge said here:

It makes sense o the reasons after searching how his financial system and management. At least, the man admits that he is a "high role", primarily on horse racing. What we can see there is that he has lost betting hundreds of thousands of $ at one time. And what makes worse also is that he lost $3 million, probably more.

In this case, I am not blaming betting or gambling. Sometimes, gambling and betting can also make someone successful and they also have very good financial management so that they will not run off their money for gambling. This is what people can manage their desire, emotion, risks, and also finance.

but for those who only addicted and following the desire, it may end up like this, with any crimes.

So, depend on who you are and what you want to be.

Source:
https://www.casino.org/news/wife-killer-ahmed-seedat-gets-10-years-for-stealing-4-million-to-fuel-gambling-habit/

Yes, it is only part of their marketing strategy, it is still all about us if we let their strategy to make us be convinced reaching that goal or become a millionaire through gambling. That marketing strategy has nothing to do with the addiction, it is every gambler's choice or how they handle their greediness. Also, it is really impossible to become a millionaire or win a lambo, chances to earn that is really low.

It depends, if they are not really offering you any way to become a millionaire or win a Lamborghini then you are right and that will be false publicity and depending on the jurisdiction of the casino they could be even sued because of it, however if when they make that kind of promotion they have in place a slots game that will give the lucky winner several millions or a Lamborghini then they are not lying as it is common sense that the rest of the losing player are basically the ones that are paying for the prize and the profits the casino is getting out of this.

Most of us can agree to that, the expense Will be in the shoulders of those gamblers who happened to be addicted to this activities. They are the one who will pay for those alluring offers coming from the casinos.

Gamblers needs to always watch out of their participation within any gambling games that they're involved with. Many attracted offers are being introduced by every casino business.

Be wise and be responsible as in a matter of seconds you'll lose a lot, amount that you are not ready to give up.

It is not just gambling habit that we should pay attention on there are other things that is also addictive that we should consider being cautious.
All things are addictive it only depends on us if we would be addictive to it and something excessive is bad for us and could affect our health.
But I agree that gambling addiction is one of the most common addiction and one of the greatest reason why many people are being ruined not just their own but also their family.

The odds of you winning the jackpot is very low that is why I don't risk too much money in gambling especially in games where the is a jackpot like a car or a huge money and the like.
There are some instances too that the winner of the jackpot made a wrong decision and chooses to gamble again all of his winnings and not thinking of buying anything important to him and ended up losing again. That is pure gambling addiction.

Gambling is addictive. Don't spend too much in gambling. Manage your risks and be disciplined enough.

A gambling habit should have attention because that habit can attract us to go deeper into the gambling games, which we don't know if we can get out easily from gambling or can't leave gambling. The first thing before we become an addict is we do that thing repeatedly for some time, and in the end, we become an addict. That is why we need to have control, discipline, and limitations when playing gambling because that is the key to preventing the addicted to gambling. But there is more key that we should have to avoid the addicting.

We must be aware of gambling-addicted and always remember that we can lose control if we play without limitations. We should not spend too long playing gambling because that can attract us to forget when we need to quit gambling.

Everything that you used to do that was above your limitations and sometimes may cause you not good in your health may classify as addiction. To be honest there is a lot of things that addiction can be used to in relate to our daily lives but i bet that when we can control it and not excessive this can be called as moderate addiction. But when it comes in Gambling i can't keep away word addiction to it because sometimes addiction in gambling cannot be control once youre really into it. And this the one thing that you should pay attention.

When a gambler becomes addicted to gambling, his family members also suffer because of his activities. I have a relative who had a very good business, he could do great things with that business. But as he became addicted to gambling, he became so addicted that he had to sell his running business. Because he gambled all the money he had saved and the profits of the business. He has become so addicted that he does not even give time to his 3 children. Now that he is in such a condition, he has sold a part of his house.

Since he has no more money now and he is responsible for his own bad condition. Now he realizes his mistake, for a few months he has not gambled but I do not know how long he will be able to control himself.

Recently, I highly do believe that those who had been called "addicted" to gambling aren't really addicted into it.
Maybe they have been addicted into it on the time that they constantly win or have won huge prizes on their gambing career.
Winning is addictive, not the gambling itself, you know if you win, most of the time you have a feeling wihin yourself that you want to win more so you will continue.

Those gamlers that lost huge amount of money or huge their savings for themselves or their family, are those gamblers that just wanting to win again, but they just experienced continuous loss.
For me it is the reality that makes most of the gamblers to be bankrupted.
Manage your funds for gambling properly, set stop loss and pause profit everytime you gamble. Do not use all of your funds. ;)

Your relative is categorized as gambling addiction without being able to control himself, and the reason your relative is addicted to gambling is because he has sacrificed his property and even his efforts to play gambling and also disturbs the comfort of his family because of his actions.
and must be completely stopped, and it must be remembered that gambling is against morals and will be hated by those around him because he already knows he is addicted to gambling and must be serious to stop it.
and the question is whether he really realizes after losing everything, and doesn't repeat it after returning to normal.

Your friend is in serious need of help and he should definitely undergo a treatment for it otherwise this addiction could cause him serious problems in real life.
I am not saying that your friend should consult a doctor but may be you can help him to control his gambling habit by doing mediation and learning how to self control.
You guys can go short trips where you guys should not use your phones or laptops until you are on the trip. This will give your friend a break and he might feel better.
Also, he should learn the skill how to manage money since he spends all his money on gambling.
In this situation, only you are the one who could step up for your friend and make him quit his gambling addiction.

Those who become addicted to gambling can understand after losing everything. My relative now realizes his mistake so he is now keeping himself away from gambling. This may be an example, that gambling should always be taken as a way of entertainment. Because if someone becomes addicted to anything, it has a bad effect on him and his family. I hope my relative can get himself out of this situation.

That is really a big problem in gambling. But in the end, it will be based on the person itself on how they should cope about the pressure that casinos are giving. Though, family should also play the vital part to provide advice.


Basically  a simple rehabilitation will not help that much in these cases, he needs to spend time thinking deeply about his losses and the broken relationships he had because of his actions. Missing his children's though, will be the biggest desire he could have to change himself in the future.

There are things that you can do to prevent falling into spiral with gambling in the first place.  The hardest one that I can think of is self-awareness, what I mean by that is fully acknowledging yourself, even the bad traits you have should be acknowledge because the longer you deny it, it will become a pent up emotion that will burst out of proportions. If you think that you can get obsessed with things then you can prevent yourself from falling out. This is just one of the measures that can help you prevent being introduced to gambling, like a cliche, prevention is better than cure.

This is the saddest part when family member become addicted to the gambling their family is affected too . Many family broke because of a person addicting playing gambling.Addicting is our choice if we want to stop it we can as long as you are committed to your promises but if it's lie for sure after few days a person will go back again to their bad habit and that not is not good to see.

So true.

With yourself on the check, I don't think we should even think about being addicted. I think the best way for you not to be addicted to gambling is if you could control yourself. You could be aware of where you are falling but sometimes, there are people that couldn't control their urge to gamble that is why they still fall addicted to gambling. If you are in control, you don't have any problem.

I have tried taking breaks myself. It doesn't work and makes the mind restless. Gambling is like a drug. The moment you leave gambling, you become calm initially, and then slowly the temptation builds up. It grows to the point when you just can't stop yourself anymore. Intense self determination, and intense discipline can help. Because our brains have already adopted to use gambling as an escape option, hence, temporarily it might help to take a break. But to leave the habit completely, one needs to totally give up on gambling consciously.

Yeah everything still in your control if you are not yet addicted that much.
You have to work hard to prevent yourself from engaging to this activities to
the point that you can't control anymore.

Self denial as you said will take you to lose more money, the more you deny that you are already engaged the more danger it will bring to you.

As I mentioned, it's more on yourself and how will you protect yourself from being addicted, as time can flew so quick and harmed your money.

Preventing yourself always  give you the huge edge to decide properly. Play for fun and stick to it.

I am sure it will difficult to take a break for the first time. But if you keep trying to break after playing gambling for some time, you will not feel difficult because you will feel that your mind needs to rest for a while. It needs to build new things to stop what we did before, especially if playing gambling. In those situations, you need to try more and more, and don't let your mind think about gambling because that can make you lose more money. You must have a strong will to leave the habit, and don't let gambling posses you. Otherwise, you will become a heavy addicted to gambling without having a chance to stop playing gambling.

It's really hard, I've seen my friend's father addicted to gambling as well as in alcohol, what a brutal combo isn't it? He said that whenever he tried to take a break and quit gambling for good, he craves for it even more. So I've said to him that he needs full self dedication in quitting gambling and alcohol since it is both bad for him and for his family, but I guess once you got addicted to it, there's nothing that can change your mind.

What they need is real rehabilitation, in a center, in where they would treat it seriously and be taken care of by a professional.

I was once an addicted gambler. It happened few years ago, I cant control myself when im playing. It all started when I play dice because I heard that my friend managed to triple his money through it. Unfortunately im not lucky just like him and lose. From then, I often try to recover what I lost, end me up to a worst situation. Though I overcome those moment its a lesson learned to not enter into something you're not aware of, about the possible consequences. Gambling is addicting but it depends on the gambler itself, if you have control and discipline then you wont end up as an addicted gambler.

But it is not easy to be addicted,sometimes it is our decision but sometimes it is also because we are being lured and not expected.
Family really suffers because they are are the one who's being disturbed from our addicted family member.
i remember a friend who is a good person but when he got hooked in gambling?he has changed and we cannot understand him already.
Now he has changed but it is a hardest part since we did not leave him and supported him all the way of His changing lifestyle.

That's sad to hear, but also a good lesson for new gamblers. It's good you manage to break the addiction yourself. I would assume you never played dice again, or are you still gambling? I read in an article that people suffering from a gambling addiction can relapse very easily. It's similar to an alcohol addiction where one drink can send you back into a downward spiral again. You must be careful with your condition.

I disagree about this.

We know everything we decide, and of course we know what we should expect when we play gambling always, and that's is to the road of addiction, either you're winning or losing. Being addicted on it is easy, but quitting your addiction and losing money because of it makes it hard for someone to decide what he should really do because if he quits, then all of the money he had lost would be ought for nothing, but if he doesn't quit, he'll lost even more money.

And that's where mostly the part addicted gamblers are stuck at, they can't move since they are always torn on what to do to end their misery.

Being addictive is different from being discipline. People that are addict find it difficult to break away from such habit that they are addictive to. Maybe you just wanted to try luck with yourself after you see your friend tripled his money. Well maybe you are lucky to go out easily.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be successful in gambling, it's pretty risky specially if you are new into it.
Do not dive on gambling and bet high amounts if you are a beginner, just familiarize your self first.
Eventually you will get how the game works, and it could give you some nice predictions that you can use for betting basis.
Experience will be a good source of knowledge in gambling, before you decide to went through, think it about it multiple times.
Lossing is frustrating, that's why you have to establish yourself first, ready to accept whatever happens.

That's really the common struggles or reason why gamblers are getting addicted, it's because they are stuck with their losses and can't accept it. Giving their own selves a false hope thinking that by gambling, even more, they can earn back the money they lost which is not really happening in most cases. The more gamblers think/aim of getting back all of their losses, it becomes harder for them to accept it that leads to addiction.

It depends on the nature they have and of course also depends on the determination to quit, because for me a gambling addict will never 100% succeed in leaving gambling even though his addiction has been treated or has been overcome. A gambler will at least come back to gambling but with a maybe better control, this I have witnessed and experienced myself, so I say every gambling addict has a different personality but they will not really be able to leave gambling because we still it is easy to gamble anywhere.

While this is the easiest method to avoid becoming addicted to gambling at the same time it is the hardest, most people have the tendency to see everything they do in a bright light and as such even if they are gambling way too much they still think they are in control when for people on the outside they are clearly not in control, this will not be a problem if they listened to the advice of their friends and family but for the most part people also have the tendency to overvalue their own opinions which means that most likely they will not listen and by the time they realize their mistake it is too late to do anything about it.

Moreover when your loss has reached the highest ever and you can't afford to cover it all , that is the moment you might losing hope to even continue your worthless life , it happens quite often and that kind situation required a special attention from your closest colleagues.

You can't beat the gambling addiction by just stay away for a while. At some point you could make a comeback and get in to the old cycle, a never ending cycle.

I can't imagine how his life with his gambling and alcohol addiction will be too difficult to handle. First, he needs to have money to continue playing gambling, and secondly, he needs more money to buy the drink. He really needs guidance and help from other people to cure both addictions. Perhaps, his family must take seriously beside him, and always remind him or ask him to do something else.

I am not sure if he wants to go that real rehabilitation because he will reject and say that he is okay, and he can control both of his addiction. I hope that his family can take care of him and not let him make trouble with his addiction.

Addicting is not good because it might destroy your life or even your relationship to your family as well also. There is a lot of people who broke their family because they are addicting playing gambling after spending all their money and lost it all maybe an addicted player will do bad things for them to have money they can be able to play a gambling and that is reality there is a lot of cases happened that. Controlling is one of the best you can if you do not want to become addicted because it's help yourself to not do a wrong things just like the others did for money for the things they want.

There are a lot of gambler too hard to quit on gambling in different reason.
1. This is the source of their income
2. They spent a lot of money and too hard to quit
3. This is part of their daily habit

Some of the people  affected on being gambling addicted
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Work

On my opinion and experience too hard too quit gambling if you want to earn more and loss a lot.

Limiting ourself to something really addictive is indeed a tough task. I know quitting gambling can be really hard but it isn't impossible.
Trust me, meditation can really help here since it improves our control over our mind and body. We need to control our mind from gambling frequently.
Meditation has solved many problems in my life as it connects our mind and body and it will surely help you improving your self discipline.

Quitting any addiction is always hard but quitting an addiction that is behavioural in nature is even more difficult and the reason is that gambling is so available these days that it is impossible to limit your exposure to it unless you are 100% committed to stop gambling, after all thanks to online gambling now you can gamble from the comfort of your own home, so even if you somehow blocked all your accounts in the different casinos were you used to gamble a quick Internet search could be all that you need you fall back on the arms of gambling addiction.

Sad story, gambling addiction is a big problem for modern people. Some religions have a strong power of humans to prevent them from committing sin but this is never enough after tasting the sweet winnings. If the person can make the salary less than 1 week, automatically the psychology tempts him to repeat the same circle and get rid of hard work. This is the dangerous point before turning yourself a beast that can't beat without spinning a  slot or betting on horse/football matches. Professional support is essential to stop hurting yourself but the person should accept this before talking to a close circle.

What I noticed is that gambling was not like before, in the paste, there were no much computers and no phones, many people were not having access to gambling sites unlike now, people are using mobile phones and computers to access gamblimg sites now, that is why gambling is now accessible to many people. Like me, I can not gamble outside but I noticed I can pick up my phone and visit a gambling site and be betting, because of this, many people are now accessing gambling sites while gambling is addictive, that is why the issue of gambling addition is very important. Like me, I was ones addicted and lost money and properties, it depressed people and can lead to some people thinking of killing themselves like I ones did. People should be disciplined and never use the money they can not afford to lose to gamble.

How is your friend doing? Did his wife and son come back yet?

I didn't know the difference in English between gambling and betting: in my native language I think that there is no difference, only different "types of bets".

I hope your friend is doing good. Please, provide us some feedback when you have time.

Im sure still not because it will take a long time before they realized the fact that he is not addicted anymore(not unless he doesnt change)
gambling is the game and betting is what you do in each game simple as that.

I would like to know some updates too regarding his friend.
We are replying our opinions here in his thread but I don't know any updates to the addicted gambler.

For me, there is nothing different between too as there are related to each other.
You are betting = you are gambling. Bet is a form of gambling so they are somewhat the same.

Having those kind of motivation will really just lead to such action afterwards if you arent really that good on handling out yourself on such things.Greed is a natural part of
human being and this isnt new but there are people who do really failed to control and just let them loose on what are the things on their mind without looking back
neither its a religion reason or something personal as long you would able to play gambling then that would really be enough.Habit would be molded up if you do make
continous behavior just because you do aim for something.

Your friend is not curse rather he is only dreaming to be mega rich over night. It's very difficult to break away from gambling addiction. The only way the addiction could ever stop, is by taking him far away from the gambling center, where he won't be able to gamble again. Apart from that, he won't be able to stop gambling.
It's a pity he falls so deeply for gambling. Whenever finds no money to gamble, he'll be selling out his property gradually, so as to be able to gamble more and more

It is not really good to fall into gamblinh addiction. It can destroy your life, your relationship to your family, relatives.and even friends when you get addicted to gambling. Gambling addiction can result to debt mostly, selling precious belongings including property and other acts that could degrade yourself when you become addicted to gambling.

Yes, I do agree with OP and hopefully this is an eye opener to all the gamblers here and outside the forum.

I do not think that technology has something to do with addiction. Even if you lack access, once you get a taste and you become addicted, you will find ways to get your fix. Gambling has been a problem ever since, it is just that at this age of information and technology, they bridged a toxic culture that crippled people's finances and broken up familial bonds. It is not necessary to blame technology because an individual is responsible for his/her actions. Rehabilition that have an effective aftercare is the key in making sure addiction is slowly but surely obliterated in our society.

Well, putting or staking something, usually money is betting. If you bet something that means you are gambling.



Not all of those addicted gamblers want to be rich that quickly. There are gamblers that just wanted to get back losses they've had but they just kept on losing in the long run. Taking your distance in gambling won't solve your addiction, you need to face it and accept that you are addicted. If you will just put yourself away like that, your desire to gamble will just build up and will blow up in time.

Indeed. That is what we need to concern about when we are playing gambling. Gambling addiction can be a danger if we don't have control and discipline to ourselves because when we lose that thing, we will not have a chance to have money. All of our money will be gone in a short time, and I don't think that we can recover the loss because we don't have any money at all. We can learn from this lesson, so we don't have to get the same experience.

This is a true sequence when someone is already addicted to gambling. I know someone that already been addicted, and he is now selling his properties to sustain his gambling habit daily. All of his properties are already sold, and only his house is not sold yet. If you know someone or you have a friend that already addicted to gambling try to rehab them. I think there is a rehabilitation center for addiction to gambling.  

Players like that, should seek professional help, in order for them to be introduced in other ways to earn money. Because most of them are just desperate to make money that's why its really hard to get pass compulsive gambling unless you can change your mentality to earn in different ways, and only play gambling with the money you can afford to loss. That's how, i've stopped treating gambling as income stream, because i know the money i play is for entertainment not for financial needs.

The temptation is hard to resist especially when you already have some friends who always play in the casino that always update you on what's going on in that place. You will keep your mind thinking about the possible winning result which not gonna happen when you finally found your sit in the casino. It really depends on the people who will he follow, if he still insists to play even after he suffered a fatal loss, then whatever the result might be, that's his own choice he won't have anyone to blame for.

Aside friends being followed, there should be discipline. In this world we are now, people will have friends that are gambling because most people in the world like to gamble, some people know how deadly it can be and are very disciplined not to use the money they can not afford to lose to gamble. Nowadays, it is not also only about friends, the mobile phones have made gambling accessible to people. Be it friends or no friends, gamblers should be disciplined in order for it not become a problem for them.

People might not believe it but it is true.

Some people think that it is just a thing that we would say or they would read but it is true that people can actually go in these lengths just to gamble or just to bet. My friend's cousin is actually selling his house because of the debts that he has losing on betting. He's not that rich but his house could be labeled as something a rich man could live.

Your friend is in extreme addiction. At least he siad all that happened with him. Recently in my country one person ended his life losing everything out of gambling, he took money from the office and spend on gambling to recover the losses. Fortunately he wasn't able to win, and the same made him end his life. Once you find a person addicted take necessary action to get them out of it, atleast try to make them realize the impact of gambling.

So if we have time to fix an addiction make sure we really do that, it affects all not only the money but the relationship to your relatives.
If a person want to change their bad habit in playing they can get a help fo his family if they already uncontrolled.
Wasting time and your money is not good because instead of playing you spend it to the business or investing that can help you to build yourself for good future.

Once gambling encircle your whole mindsets there's nothing that you can think away from this activities.

There are people who suffered from heavy addictions and part of the major side effects is to sell anything that you own in order to sustained and continue playing, heavy addictions needs a very deep attentions, a person who have this needs proper cure and attentions, rehab and continuously guidance will help to open his minds and help himself to move away from this addiction.

I always believe in the story of those who got into debt a lot because of their bad gambling habits.

Gambling can basically provide good benefits such as profit and entertainment, but if you can't control your lust then greed will only dominate you.

stopping before it is lost a lot is a quick step you must take when winning or losing gambling.

If there is someone who doesn't believe that gambling habits can put people into debt, I'm sure that person has never played gambling.
I am sure all of us who have played gambling, surely know that not being able to control ourselves when playing gambling will be addictive.
If you are addicted, you will usually have a lot of debt, and if you have a lot of debt, I'm sure your life can be chaotic. So don't make gambling
a source of income, but make gambling as entertainment.And limit yourself when playing gambling that will help us not become gambling addicts.

I am suffering today because not being able to control myself lost 250 Euro in my preferred slot machine.I started out well going from 11 to 255 Euro and then greediness got the best of me trying to win the jackpot and in less than 15 minutes all lost.What I want to say is that it is very difficult to stop when you are winnjng rather than when you are losing.Also if you chase your loses it is the biggest mistake anyone can make in gambling.

I promise here to the world that I won’t touch any slot machine again with hand and I swear to God for it.

Sorry for the loss dude, I had an opposite fortune today on slots.
I have won some nice amount in USD.
I'm new to slots, but I think if you will be betting 11 Euro or that horrifying bet of 255 is a bizzare idea specially if you have limited Euros on your wallet.
In mycase, I prefer betting less than $1 on any slots as I have small amount of money to bet.
Luckily, sometimes I hit huge multiplier.

Goodluck to your next bets, this should be a lesson to you. ;)
Haha I said this because I think you will still bet on slots.

that!
I talk often about how gambling (and even video-games) can throw your neurotransmitters totally out of balance.
dopamine will rule a lot of things in our life, including your motivation to do daily tasks or difficult work.

as an example:
It's better to use gambling as a reward for something difficult or a relaxing moment after a hard day of work than to start the day gambling.

Also:
watch your thoughts because they become actions, and your actions because they become habits.

once they're habits it's automatic...

How many times have you already made this pledge?  Will you swear it to your family, friends and work colleagues, or is this really the first time you've ever made this pledge?

I think this is all about awareness and education. For me personally gambling is literally a waste of time and money. Perhaps your friends is trying to find a refuge from life in gambling. I think a psychologist and a support group is the best way to go for him if he is not able to find the will to quit in himself.

He must value his time and money, not even talking about his family. If he was my friend I would meet him and have a meaningful discussion with him through which I would make him realise what is really important for him: playing a game or having your life decaying day after day?

The Internet has changed our lives, for the most part is for the better but there are scenarios in which this is for the worse, as you say in the past when gambling was illegal if you wanted to gamble you needed to go to the ugly part of the city and know where the underground casino was, many people refused to gamble simply because they did not wanted to take the risk of being seen there, but now that you can gamble from your own home, gambling has been legalized and any kind of stigma towards gamblers has disappeared then it is no wonder more people gamble and as such we have more people addicted to it.

Indeed! nowadays is easier than ever to gamble; too easy, maybe.

In my country they were advertising almost all the time on the TV. A few months ago the Government wrote a law so now advertisements about gambling websites, apps, etc. can only be showed at night, and I agree with that: we have to defend the most vulnerable: the under-age.

I find very interesting how the world can change so quickly in just one generation, I still remember that back when I was younger most people had a negative attitude towards gambling to the point that those that liked the activity had to hide it even from their loved ones, but now people do not care and it is not rare to find people in social media sharing pictures of themselves at the casino, or at least they did before the pandemic forced them to close their doors, and they get a lot of likes and almost no one judges them for it which is quite refreshing if I am being honest.

Easy in theory but in fact, your advice will not be easy to apply for gambling addicts. Gamblers have different backgrounds in life and if that gambler gambles for an income, then as long as that gambler doesn't earn better than gambling then in the end any advice will be of no use to him. Indeed, if gambling is only seen as about losses and losses it would give an assessment of gambling that is a waste of time, but would the winning side and those with high luck gambling still be said to be wasting time? There will always be good and bad sides, so I think as long as gambling players feel comfortable doing it, I don't think it is a problem, in contrast to gambling players who have lost control so as to harm people around them and do other negative activities, then gamblers like this must be helped by many ways.

Technology advances, the fast-growing internet, and the evolution of the lifestyle have made this possible. In the past, some people were embarrassed or hard to have access to play gambling, because at that time gambling activities were not something that needed to be shown up and there were not many platforms that provided gambling services.

But at the moment, even though gambling services have developed, there are still some countries that do prohibit gambling, for example in my country, it is illegal to carry out gambling activities.

Gambling is not addictive for all. Because I am also a gambler though, I have small funds. But I can claim that I am one of them who is relatively related to gambling for the last few months. I heard about gambling from my friends and then I decided to do it in my free time for entertainment. I am doing it with small funds and I am not regular. I saw many of my friends who are addicted to gambling. Some of them have huge funds and some of them already lost many. So it is not only a habit but also considered as greediness.

Addiction can neither be severe or in just on average level where things can really be done unexpectedly to those person who had been affected much by addiction on severe manner
where hurting somebody around him or do illegal things like stealing etc. just for him to play gambling.

Its really on case to case basis because not anyone will having the same level of control on oneself, some might be really strong-willed and some will really be just easily been hooked up
and do commit foolish mistakes and decisions.

In earlier time where if you do find out yourself too impulsive towards gambling activity then it would be much better to quit while its still early rather than
letting yourself go.

I think the problem with addictions in gambling comes from the fact your habits start you change slowly over time and you might not really notice it. If you gamble for a few months yet I would say you are not at risk to be addicted. Maybe after 3-5 years of gambling I would make sure you can still control yourself. Being open about your gambling hobby with friends and family is definitely helpful because they might detect any changes in your habits before you.

Yes, still I am a newbie at gambling. Because I don't spend much time. I just involved a few weeks ago and still learning. At this time, I make some profit though. Greedy people always want more and I don't have any hurry to get more. If I know the tricks then I can make it easy definitely. Before grabbing this, I need to spend time in this to understand but I am not doing it honestly. Because I just take it as entertainment which I already mentioned before.

I am also not so engaged in gambling i'm afraid that i'll lose my bets, afraid to lose money. I know how risky gambling was and the mere fact that some gamblers who frequently gambling were somewhat being addictive to it makes my fear goes strong. We can't blame others who are so engaged in gambling been sometimes called addict to it because they are being obsessed to get a high return if ever they win. Can't blame them also for the mere fact that gambling has a high reward for the winners.

well maybe for now you are not too addicted, but I am sure when you have made a lot of profit from gambling then you will be addicted and it is difficult not to gamble, some people here are like that, although it doesn't matter if you are addicted to gambling. gambling place as long as you still don't have a very important need use the available money for fun.

If that is your attitude then better never gamble for life because in gambling there is a win but mostly losing.
at least you have idea what is riskier part of gambling.
No one has the right to blame anybody unless they make bad on you but if this is just about your stupidity in gambling that you lose,then better blame yourself .

I disagree.

To be honest, quitting while you're winning is easier than when you're losing, you just think it's harder because of the greed which I could say that could easily neglected by our conscience rather than the pride or ego when we're losing. So, it depends I guess on a person, if he's a simple minded one then it's a fact that it's harder to quit when winning than losing. But on the other side, if a person is a critical thinker, then it's the other way around.


Hopefully this is true, because mostly, it would just take a day or a couple before yourself convince you to gamble again because you might be able to win again just like what you did before.

You may disagree with other people's opinion about gambling habit. For people who don't have a winning target then I don't think they will just stop after winning because most of them want more than that. I think they realized that the habit was a form of greed. But what do you think of the day when someone could win a lot after they won (lucky day) ?

I hope this isn't a temptation for him. LOL

Promises are made to be broken I'm not urging you to play again it's just you have don't have to blame yourself to what happened it can happen to anybody here, it happens to me when I was just a newbie, but I never made a promise I just take my time, take a vacation and think of what happened, realization is the key that gambling is just for entertainment and you should only bet what you can afford to lose, once you fully realize that you can play again with no pressure.

Greedy people wanted to make money instantly or getting rich but this seems impossible in gambling and so to have this attitude.
Gambling is entertainment for others but many gamblers make this a major source of income. Do we need to blame them because of their addiction? No, they choose this kind of life and they leave comfortably with it. But if you are particularly not wanted this thing to happen, we need to change our mindset, gambling habits could be controlled if we want to.

We appreciate your advice but still for some of us it is still hard to control ourselves and lead to addiction. Of course it would start for fun and once you've experienced winning I doubt your greed always be there and will start by little until it consumes you. For me I controlled it after I realized that I lose more rather than my winnings and now I tried to play in sports betting rather then in casino games.

It's easy to say promises not to do something anymore because we often do that when we are in our extreme emotions like things did not work out well. But to be honest, if you have been gambling for quite some time now, it will be hard to just suddenly stop because you will keep on looking for it. One day, he might forget about this promise and play the slot machine again. I agree with you that it takes time to calm yourself and to prevent extreme emotions, we also need to control our greed when gambling.

It'd be truly interesting to see gambling websites implementing some easier ways for users to control their time gambling
kind like instagram that limits the amount of new posts you have on the timeline, it's not infinite scroll anymore.

of course the probability of being implemented is low because it would act somehow against the economic incentives of the website.

but this is the kind of really interesting dillema.
where economic incentives shouldn't surpass incentives to make good for humanity (but most of the times they do)

Some gambling sites have got their own forum for discussion. Gambling sites can create separate threads for winning and losing stories. Maybe some users will go through it and spend some time. By the time there is chance of some gamblers to come out of addiction understanding the impact of gambling in their life positive and negative.

That is why when it comes to those that are addicted to anything it is way more important to watch their actions since we are dealing with a person that could do anything to satisfy his habit and if that means lying to his friends and family members then so be it, this is what causes many people to leave behind the addicts, they still love them but they no longer trust them as their trust has been betrayed many times with all those false promises, this is why if we know a person that is addicted to gambling we need to get them professional help as the addiction is not going to go away on its own.

My advice is to try to block all types of online gambling sites and completely shut down all access to all forms of casinos or other gambling, there is a chance that serious handling can end your habit and divert it to positive activities that can forget gambling and in addition seek professional help.
and the characteristics of gambling addiction, in my opinion, cannot stop playing and try to cover losses by playing again and continuing to play, emotions become unstable and gambling is the top priority and trying to find capital to gamble in any way and so on.

Yes I agree, it would be a very good idea.
I'm not sure casinos and gambling sites will implement that themselves but countries could include that in their laws.

the thing is that many internet websites are "above the laws" of the countries (but this is not listed on the laws itself, of course).
Snowden says that laws takes 2 to 3 generation to keep up with technological development.

the big issue is that techonology develops faster than human ethics.
and habit forming products have asymmetrical incentives (better for owners than for users, a % of users will always have a propension to addiction).

That it sounds harsh dude!
Gamblers will find their way to access them again and I can't say that it was the best thing to do just save us from being addicted. A gambler will remain a gambler, that is what I thought. They can't stop themselves from gambling habit because that is how they live happily, could help to please themselves or a stress reliever. I think such instances and I heard that reasoning also in other people, maybe they are right and nothing has to stop them either.

It is difficult to block all types of online gambling sites because a gambler will search for another way to still playing gambling. I am sure they will get one or more ways to continue gambling, even it seems they don't have the way to gamble. The gambler needed help from other people who will be beside them every day, and that people can ask the gambler to build a new habit.

Once the new habit can run, sooner or later, the gambler will have a chance not to think about playing gambling. Even better if those people can go to the professional to ask for help to solve the addicting.

That is why that gambler needs a helping from other people always to watch him and always remind that gambler about the addicting danger. Maybe the gambler will feel annoyed with that person, but that for him.

What if the addicted gambler is the one that also tries to block those casino websites? He knows to block and he knows how to unblock it. That doesn't make sense if he wants to gamble again. It's all a matter of controlling himself if he really wants to abstain from casinos and avoid further losses.

You can't control yourself anymore and it's becoming harmful to your living because you spend money that much be spent on other things which you shouldn't be.

Completely blocking all of those sites? Its futile because once you had smartphone and internet connection then you'll surely have an access anytime.

The thing here is to divert out yourself into gambling if you've seen that it will trigger out your addiction.Its just a matter of good self control and discipline for you to
be successful on avoiding addiction.

Its easy to suggest but actually its hard to be done when you are on the actual situation that's why this situation will vary to each person.

Just like quitting in smoking. Hard to quit from your old habit. So yes, find a certain activity or hobby or sports that you really like and divert your attention to that particular activity. It is really hard for the first days, but slowly if you also form a habit to the new one, it may take you away from the old habit. Take one day at a time. It surely needs willpower from your side.

BTW, what happened with Basey?

Many of us empathised with him but we still don't know how the story is going on. His is a good story with a moral for many gamblers, but I would prefer things to go well for him after all.

Anyway, it seems that he's got a real good friend in the OP, but that's a burden you shouldn't take on on your own, and a good wife's company would be the best cure for him IMO.

I agree, finding another habit can change the old habit. If the gambler has no time for gambling, then the psychological process has already begun in the background. Only a few websites offer the limit account function which is used for limiting the betting activity and the gambler can beat this destructive habit with few clicks. Blocking the gambling websites is not a feasible solution because it can cause additional problems too.

Yeah, if you want to solve addiction, then you need to improve your self-control. Or if you fail, then you will have a problem with your finances. I definitely agree that it is about how to control yourself. Even you are not an addict, self-control is also needed. It is a fundamental thing to master if you still want to gamble for a long time. You can't enjoy the game once you have a problem with self-control, instead it leads to potentially harmful things.

The hardest part is finding or creating a new habit, and I think many people have that experience, whether it's related to gambling or not. The real limitations will come from the gambler because they need to be responsible for themselves and their money. Perhaps, the gambling websites can offer the limit account function, but not many gamblers like that feature because that can't make them spend the money they want.

The limiting feature has a good reason for the gambler, but the addictive in gambling still there at the gamblers. The problem will be at the gambler itself, and without having a will to solve the addicting, that gambler will not have a chance to reduce the addicting.

It's hard to make this a lifestyle if you are not a very rich person and you are just an average income earner you will end up losing everything you've got and you will become miserable, you will end up at the hands of the psychiatrist only those with big money can afford to make this their lifestyle but even them are not safe from the misery, once they started losing a lot.

If a gambler goes to a psychiatrist he still has money left.

But with what experiences that I have heard. Others can't even get a consultation because they don't have anything left.

That is so true.

It is not that easy to divert doing things especially if you are used to doing that. Things like it have been a part of your life for some time now. It won't stop that quickly that is why you need to take these small steps. Willpower is the first one since you should also admit to yourself that you are addicted since if you will be denying that, you will find no reason to avoid gambling.

Gambling is one very hard vice that one needs to control, otherwise it will control you. I have seen many stories of failed ambitions to be rich, broken families, riches to rags stories, and many others that are very unfortunate and very sad to think about. If you are unable to control this vice and be able to gamble strategically, then maybe it is time to quit gambling altogether. Find other sources of entertainment, get a very busy hobby, learn a new skill, and also share experiences to other gamblers that might need assistance in quitting.

That it sees that gambling addiction has a lesser chance to get out of hell. Just like what @Twinkledoe said, even quitting smoking is really hard how much more if we are deeply addicted to gambling.

All of these are base on our control. If can prevent it at first, can't fall into that grave of addiction but if we let it happens it sure there is a place for us. That diversion still depends on how we seriously changing our old habits into a new one. It needs effort and patience, and that it need also support from family and friends.

But unfortunately many gamblers do not know how to pay attention, they just keep on going very confident that they are going to win and on every roll, their luck is coming until they realized in the end that they have lost a lot of money, butt hey will just deny and just promised to come back to recover their losses.

The first thing that we have to consider before entering the gambling world is how we could handle our emotions. We should know when to stop and when to continue. As for me, your friend needs to seek professional help already, or else he will lose everything that he has if he'll continue doing his routine. He needs to fix his lifestyle as early as possible before he regrets things.

The two posters before me have hit the nail on the head why children (not even teenagers) should be allowed to gamble.  It may sound a cliche but becoming an adult means you have a little of the maturity needed to decide if you are going to gamble and indeed how much to gamble when you do.  Even socially much-less professionally.  Many people who have a gambling addiction have it because of character flaws that have made them weak to the point they rely on a quick fix when they have a win (no matter how fleeting).

Some may need some family or relative support but there are people whom much prefer on solving the problem on their own which it is truly on oneself to get rid of his own addiction.

If you do find out that you do have a hard time then its time to seek out for someones help.Also when the first time you do step into gambling then we arent kids that isnt aware on the risk of addiction.

We do have that will and awareness on what are the things that can possible happen but when the time comes that you are already on the verge of addiction then all of those controls in mind
will really be trashed away and this is what commonly happens to those people who do fall in addiction.

Control is a must thing but it isnt easy as it sounds.

Yes, gambling could be very addictive we are all aware of that. From my point of view the problems ć is to recognise the point where gambling from passion turns into addiction. Many miss that point and then often becomes too late.
If you notice that your most important thing is gambling, that you can't imagine your day without gambling and that every loss you try to cover with more gambling then it's the moment to stop.

We want to find the solution how to prevent gamblers from playing more and more due to high addiction levels and you can see the same symptoms happen on our bodies on Youtube gambling videos which streamers show how much they have lost on the Blackjack sessions. The Beastgames and Foss streamers have lost more than $20000 in a single Blackjack session and they tried to chase the losses on the same table. Crazy decisions led to the recovery of loss and many gamblers will blindly follow the footsteps of these YouTubers due to lack of experience.

It is really an important thing to be known by other gamblers who can't control themselves. Even if they're trying several strategies on how to avoid gambling but they can't control themselves, they will still be able to gamble. Without self-control, they can still access the casinos.
Blocking it will help somehow but as I've said, if you're the one who did it and if you know how to block, you also know how to remove it.

That is a lot of money. If many gamblers follow the Youtubers without improving their Blackjack skills, they will only lose more money without having a chance to win. Since Blackjack is gambling games that need skills, there is no other way you can win without having skills and luck.

I hope all of us here don't follow those people, and we can always remember that stop for a while and take a break is not a bad idea to save your money from a big loss. Other people can't find the solution or help the addicting gambler without that gambler have a will to solve the addicting. We need to be responsible for ourselves in gambling, and using gambling limitations will help us avoid the big loss.

Though we think that they are old enough to think and decide if that is right or wrong, but it also depend on their mindset which is a factor that could affect their decisions.

But if we can assess and take a look at the ages that people come into casinos, they are most likely at legal age and they are also the once that fall into addiction than these young guyz who aren't seriously dealing gambling in there life.

I've been to seven Casino's in Australia and New Zealand and they all give you the once over and if you look more youthful they check for I.D.

In saying that, the Star Casino in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast (and presumably the Sydney Star Casino too) since reopening after Covid now require all patrons to be registered members of the Casino (i.e. a membership card that has your photograph on their issued (on the spot) card), so everyone entering their venue can be both contact traced in the event of a Covid outbreak, but it ensures all have been age verified. 

When you play on any table, your card is swiped and your photo comes up on the Croupier's tablet.  I don't doubt the same occurs elsewhere.  e.g.  The Crown Casino in Melbourne (pre Covid) encourage all patrons to have a similar "Club" card.

When I first started out with gambling I immediately got addicted. Fortunately, after some bad losses I managed to adjust my strategy and became much more conservative with how much I was willing to risk. Sometimes I get tempted and try some risky method which seems like it might be more profitable but if I lose a percentage I'm not comfortable with I immediately change course and adjust.

This is what most experiences in gambling  i believe  that at first you will really addicted because of the beginners Luck and it is irresistible specially the momentum and the Thrill .

But good for you that the realization comes early not like in many that they need to lose jobs and family first before that realization comes.

People use aggressive method like all bet is mostly lost . your lucky if you win but its not always works, if you win you need to adjust again and lower your bet if you continue that way of playing you are more likely to lose instead of winning the games. that is the problem of gamblers they can not control their emotions by betting especially when they lose one after another .

I don't think the opposite of being aggressive will deliver a better outcome though, there are some arguments here where gamblers diversify their bets to different gambling games including sports betting, slots, and cards. IT turns out that it will still depend on your luck and your time to conduct research on the best team for sports betting. In addition, you need a skill for skill-based casinos in order to have higher odds of winning. Thus, it all falls to your time and availability to learn and improve your gambling skill. How does it base on luck now? What I am saying is that you can somehow reduce your risks of losing but overall, it will be your luck to determine your fortune for a day.

Talk about beginners luck tempts many new gamblers to play gambling longer than the other gamblers because they think they have more luck in the gambling games. They don't think about how if they lose all of the win money in just a second. That makes them can not stop playing gambling, and instead think about stopping playing gambling after some winning, they still use their time and keep playing the game. But well, their luck will not come to them again after some rounds, and they become curious about their luck. The longer they try hard, the more money they will lose in the gambling games.

He realizes that moment before it's too late, he can change his gambling style and adjust the money and other things to play gambling by a conservative. If we can do that every time we gamble, we can reduce losing the money.

It is quiet understandable if you lose in gambling once, twice or thrice and then got your guts to quit gambling or just playing moderately and have already a self control. I have some common friends, and some who i met once who were being so hooked up in gambling. I feel worried about them on how they can afford to lose such a huge amount of money in gambling sometimes their money stays in their hand for a while and then by just a click of gambling lost it all at once. I am not totally a gambler, i played once but worst case got lose at once that's why i told to myself that maybe i am not a lucky person meant for gambling.

Many lessons can be taken from the story in the opening post. That the habit of gambling if not controlled or restricted can make us addicted.
If we are addicted it will hurt us, not only do we run out of money, but our lives can also fall apart. Hopefully the members of this forum can
control themselves when playing gambling, so they are not addicted. I also now only play gambling every weekend, and provide a special budget
for gambling, so it doesn't interfere with other needs.

Tbh, money has a great part in a person's life, and it's hard for us to risk money since we use it for survival. That's the reason why gambling addiction can ruin the lives of people because it involves money and destroys the mentality of humans. Once a person is full of debt because of gambling addiction, financially unstable, he might regret those and thinks that he has lost a good future in life.

And it is even more difficult now with the pandemic, after all even if we are not in a  lockdown anymore people are still taking many precautions to not get the virus and this means that your opportunities to distract yourself and use your time constructively have go down significantly, after all if you are on your home and you have almost nothing to distract yourself outside your home then online gambling will be there to tempt you to gamble again even if your intention is to leave it and taking into account how necessary the Internet has become to our everyday lives it is not as if you can just disconnect your Internet connection, so the temptation is always there and many fall because of it.

Money is a bigger essential than any of us might think. Without money, we will not survive in a capitalist driven world like what we live in today. So gambling can be one of those get-rich-quick schemes that gets a lot of notice, but what really gets you going in this industry is how long you can stay level-headed be it in a winstreak or a loss. If you can keep your cool and be able to stick to your plan, you'd be earning lots and lots in gambling.

Although gambling is one of those get-rich-quick schemes, we don't have to use gambling to make money because the chance to lose our initial money will be bigger than to win the money. Many people still try to win money by using their money, which is not recommended because if we lose, we will lose our money.

But staying cool and stick to our plan will not always work because we often see that we need to change the plan in the middle of the game. The gambling itself will change, and we can't depend on one plan because we can lose more money. It is better to limit the money, and don't try to chase the win if you think it is difficult for you.

I heard that Betnomi may conduct a Poker tournament sooner so you can use your skill in this game,Better let us see how good your strategy at all.

But remember what OP tackles here,it is our addiction must be prevented and never let yourself go deep down just because of Poker.

consider this as Funny habit and not for Bread and butter for living.

There are more serious risks here. Gambling leads to the release of the hormones adrenaline and dopamine. In normal doses, these hormones are very beneficial. However, their excess leads to depression. A person ceases to be interested in the world around him. He sees the whole World in gray tones. The person does not want to live. It's scary😞

Yes I am agree with what you said. There are a lot of risks that we need to bear in our minds not just for our health but also in other aspects of life. We should control ourselves and play gambling moderately inorder to avoid addiction co'z addiction may lead to some serious situations like for example death.

That's why I got too much excited when posting my prediction on our local board and keep thinking about it until the next morning. After I lost my prediction in the NBA championship games, it felt so heavy in my heart. This is what the other gamblers felt every time they lose and it really hurts. depends on how much they have lost in the game. It's a surprise how they managed to forget such a feeling because it is not as simple as you imagine. Losing a huge amount of money will get yourself a lot to imagine at night.

Try to diversify your life.  Gambling is a part of your life.  However, there are many interesting things in life.  Not only gambling.  Sports, lifestyle, communication, flirting, sex, nature, sleep, learning, work.  Gambling is nothing more than games. :)

It's hard to follow these while you gamble regularly. I used to be regular gambler, but recently I have stopped gambling. Though I do it sometimes but not like before. I have always tried to play with the money what I can afford to loss, but finally it feels bad after losing money. I spent a lot of time in gambling. It is another reason to avoid gambling. Personally I haven't meet with anyone who have struggled like your friend for gambling addiction. These kind of people need proper consultation.

that is a good approach, to try to identify habits while they're forming and to always pay close attention at your thoughts.

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regarding to "the urge for changing people's habits" OP has:
this is a never ending fight.
we cant change other people, we change ourselves, people change themselves.
it's just life.

I feel you, man. But if we keep thinking that way, remembering those losses every night, every time that we are alone, it makes you hard to forget and can't move on. Gambling could have that losing and winning ends but at first, before we decided to put our bets we actually decide also to accept the result, and that is not a reason to keep thinking because we'd lose big. It was scary if we entirely lose our minds because that, making other stuff might help to divert our minds and forget the past.

Yes, by having many activities, at least you can minimize the chance of addiction to a certain activity like gambling. As you have many activities, you won't focus on one activity only. The chance to get addiction will be higher if you only have few activities, moreover if mostly of your activities a day just to play gambling. Go outside of your room, then do easy activities like helping others, gathering with family, socializing with neighbors, or other else.

But some people consider it as their jobs, mate.
So, they do much effort to gain money from gambling. Even worse, once they get losses, they do everything to get back their money. Then, it becomes one of the causes to be addicted to gambling.

Unfortunately, that isn't the case for some of the gamblers out there.
They are gambling because they are hoping that they can get money thru it in an easy way.

Gambling has been designed that people will lose their money whatever they do "unless" you know when to exit if its needed but aside from that, 100% you will lose your money into it. Having a plan like you said will help but having a discipline would be better at least for me. Self control is still the top important trait that a gambler must have if they want to gamble.

Yes, they are gambling because of the money attraction and from the story by other gamblers who can win the money. They think that they should try playing gambling, and they only think that if they just throw the dice, wait for a while, and their number will come out. It's not right if they still think like that because they should learn and know that getting money from gambling is not that easy way.


Indeed. Self-control and discipline will help a gambler avoid the big loss, and although he is still playing gambling, he can manage his money to be used for playing gambling. Besides that, he will know when he must stop gambling and leave the site/place. We should treat gambling as a fun activity and not use gambling to be like as a job that can give us money.

Addiction on the other hand is no joke.

I never experienced it but in other countries, this problem is so bad that they are ruining their lives because of that and they really need a professional help to save them. Gambling itself is just a game, a way for people to risk their money for them to be entertained, not for them to risk their money and their lives to it and entertain the world of how bad gambling made their lives.

Gambling addiction is a form of gambling when the game becomes more than the joy of the game when the game is immersed in all personal family social or economic activities then it is no longer just a game becomes addicted. Gambling addiction is the creation of an impossible and uncontrollable need for gambling it is very difficult not to meet that demand this demand cannot be controlled in any way. In exchange for anything the addicted person wants to meet that need and wants to gamble the victim does not control the gambling needs but tries to hide the gambling behaviors.

I have heard that someone becomes homeless just because gambling. If you and your friends can't control yourself to gamble, then you must seek a help like someone who can help you to go through this. I mean gambling addiction is really hard to remove if you do it by yourself if you are really addicted. You don't want to become homeless so you can stay away from gambling, right?

Yes, it so hard to change to change towards gambling addiction. It is just like a drugs that you always wanted to do. I agree that the best way to change is to seek help from a professional or to your family. I can recommend to buy for a pet, Dogs are always adorable and it always be the best way to get time pre occupied. In that way sooner or later gambling will be forgotten because pets do take time especially in taking care of them.

Compulsive gambling is a behavior that deserves professional help. Gambling habits that turn into addictions can cause someone to lie frequently, spend a lot of money without thinking about the risks, and even steal. This is a progressive disease that must be cured because it can cause mental problems, bankruptcy, and even attempt suicide.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to temporarily closed and caused many people to lose their jobs. Situations like this can trigger someone to gamble because the allure of instant money that can be obtained from gambling can be a motivation (moreover, gambling can be done from home at the moment). If more and more people get caught up in gambling, then gambling disorder and gambling addiction will also increase.

Unfortunately there are too many people in the world who get the heights of gambling world just once and spend years chasing that high once more and that is not something you can get it out of a person without any help at all, there should be a professional help in order to get them out of that zone.

You could spend 100 bucks and make it to 20k once, and after that you could lose tens of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars since that moment and you still wouldn't be stopping if nobody helps you. But, if you could just learn to limit yourself, I have 50 bucks deposit per month rule for myself for example, if you do that, there is two options, either you will lose that 50 bucks and stop, or you will make some and continue to profit in the end.

Dopamine rules the world around us.

Besides seeking for professional help from a psychologist.
There are many good habits and practices in life that may help:

Going out on the sun
Walking
exercising and carrying heavy things
sauna
the ocean
not eating junk food
limiting exposure to social media and electronics (this can really mess up with neurotransmitters)

I think it is not simple as you think especially if the certain gambler became so addicted to it wherein it formed a new habit. We should be aware that what we are doing in everyday in our daily lives  is just basically pattern that been developed and turned in to habit. If a certain gambler who is addicted to gambling pay attention on his own pattern wherein he is aware on what he is doing and what thing triggers to him to spend money in gambling. If he know that trigger and he managed to change or stop it, there is a high possibility that he can escape the addiction through gambling.

I think if it was that easy as Dopamine rules us then the fix should have been found with some legal drug to lower the dopamine our brain produces.I think dopamine is the final step toward gambling addiction and the first and foremost reason is human greediness and the fact that many of us cannot accept so easily losing any certain amount of money.

It's not someone else business to stop you in playing gambling, it's your responsibility alone that you should know in the very beginning the moment you played gambling. Relying that to someone just simplified that you're not strong enough to make a stop if you've hit your limit on gambling, or the worst thing is that you don't even know what's your limit in gambling, that's pretty screwed up.

The most easiest way for me to be able to survive gambling is quit when you won (no matter how small or big it is) means you should know that as long as you have a profit, it's better than not having one. The other one is to stop betting if you know you're losing too much money in a row (you can never beat the house).

Really if you're not playing for fun you are doing it wrong and you're going to be really disappointed sooner or later, it's not only gambling either, over all anything that relies on luck(instead of effort) to work is not a proper way of making anything that is guaranteed and lasts for a long time.

Gambling is more about the excitement and the dopamine rush that it gives you more than anything else and looking at it in anyway as some sort of a source of income is totally wrong, of course always there are going to be some people that made it big by just gambling but by just looking at the number of those people that got a very good money out of gambling alone and the other group that did not gain anything significant out of it you should get some kind of a clue that this mindset about gambling is not the right one and it can hurt you both mentally and financially if you are going to be that ignorant.

You said it right from your first statement, people who already been drag to this activities and become too much addicted needs professional help, there's no way that they can suppress addiction by themselves.

The needs to of having someone who fully understand how to control this kind of problem which only professional can really assist the proper ways.


That's the trick their. You can win and it's not impossible but for sure you'll be back thinking that you can do the same from time to time, that's the time where house will hit you back over and over.

You only realized that you already addicted when you your savings are all emptied.

Maybe it could be that simple, maybe not.

big pharma is not interested in solving human problems, all they want is to get more "subscribers" or their recurrence model.
that's why we see more and more people addicted to allopathic medicine.

e.g:
Some doctors already understand that depression shouldn't be treated with heavy medicine in all cases, because:
1. it's not so effective.
2. it can create bigger problems on the long run.

But alternative usefull treatments like with psychedelics don't have that much investment. Why would a company want to develop a treatment that is one dose only if it won't give them the money?

Totally worth checking Sidarta Ribeiro's work on that (Brazilian neuroscientist).

Unfortunately once a person becomes completely addicted to gambling then gambling becomes their whole life, they disregard their job, family, friends and anything that was important before it, this is why addictions are so dangerous because the person will stop being who he is and was just to become a slave to his desires, so while I enjoy gambling at the same time I am always very careful about how much time and money I spend each week in the activity and if I think I have gambled too much I just stop for a long time just to prove myself that I am indeed the one in control of my gambling.

Gambling, sex, sports, communication, nature, sleep etc are part of life but how to diversify all this things is what causes problems for some people because everything in life needs to be put in check that's why some gambling site of these days have some features which help gamblers to put their buzz in check.

This era, we are lacking of self control in things around us. There are many people who have failed to exercise and eat some healthy foods because we now live in a society where diet and physical fitnesses doesn't exist. We live in a world with technology and other leisure things such as online gambling. Although, there is no directly effect on ourselves today, there is an effect when we become addict in games or gambling in a long run. Let us all change our lifestyle and prevent ourselves in falling down under gambling addiction.

The present generation does have tougher challenges in carrying out life, it is very difficult to live healthy in the current situation.
We all don't realize every day the food around us is junk food, because people are increasingly lazy to spend time cooking healthy
foods and choosing to buy unhealthy instant foods. Not to mention that there is no longer time to do sports, because everyone is
busy working. And their spare time is used to play gambling and games for entertainment. If we are not careful without realizing it,
it can turn us into a gambling addiction, because habits that are carried out continuously can be difficult to change our bad lifestyle.
So we have to be able to dare to make our own life better.

Your friend probably needs counselling or a help of an expert since he’s gambling habits is out of control. Gambling will ruin everything if you let it control you, it shouldn’t be or will never be part of someone’s lifestyle.

I also encountered people that are very addicted to gambling and their life is already in real messed. It really destroys life and family, so before someone wants to engage in this habit should proceed with extreme caution of the consequences.

Everything in life when its already too much then it would really create some devastation into your lives and one of it is gambling.It isnt really bad to get involved with it but doesnt mean that you would go full scale with it when it comes to engagement or too much focus on it.We do live once but doesnt mean that we will live to the fullest into things that do entertain us. Gambling does mean money and once you have lost it all or spent then you would really be having a hard time to recover or continue to live since you wont really have that much to sustain your living which is totally a mess.If you dont like for that thing to happen then better think
up towards your actions.

When you say compulsive, it only means that a certain gambler really obsessed to play gambling games no matter if there is pandemic or any different scenarios out there. You can call a gambler as compulsive if his/her life is circling around gambling, what do I mean by that? You can observe that his/her actions are becoming strange where his time is only focusing on gambling even if he or she continuing to lose money there.

The only solution for that is to seek help from professionals, I am not a professional when it comes to mental health but if we really need to overcome that kind of addiction, we should really take an action that will save us from that kind of state. Our family and friends can also help us for sure especially for those afraid to visit psychologist or psychiatrist.

It is really difficult to seek help from professionals if they don't have the will to do that. We can't force him to go to the professionals without he agrees. We could only suggest to him and remind him that he has addicting to gambling, which he needs to solve. If he finally decides to go to the professionals and needs us to go with him, we can help him and help him solve it. Gambling addiction is really hard to solve, and we already see many cases of addicted gambling, which end by losing all of what he has.

And also the mere fact that seeking for a professional help may required you to produce your professional fee that sometimes was costly too. Truly that gambling were addictive and we should be responsible for ourselves but for me the only cure for that addiction were in the gambler too. She/He was the only one who can cure himself/herself by just controlling his/her habits. I do gamble too but i see to it that i follow my own schedule. Yep i set my own schedule for gambling, and having a twice a month i guess were not bad but of course if i have a capital to gamble with were on top of my priority in terms of gambling.

the average gambling addict doesn't care anymore about their family because all they have in mind is "gambling profits''...

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if you are just starting out gambling you should make a commitment not to sacrifice the family economy, because which will definitely feel the suffer most if you are really addicted to gambling is your family.

I think it's hard because your mind's thinking if you will gambling more or will stop, it will just stress you out. Gambling addiction is difficult to cure, at that point, even yourself can't do it unless you've encountered some situations that might change you because of your wrong actions. The best solution is to seek help from your loved ones, they're the ones that will help you to cure and will make you entertain to forget gambling. Once you're addicted to gambling, it's very hard to manage and schedule things because you will only seek is gambling.

it's not difficult to live healthy nowadays:
it's a matter of choice.
simple like that.

thoughts become actions
actions become habits.

if someone has time to games and netflix they could be exercising.

that old story:
easy choices, hard life.
hard choices, easy life.

too much comfort can kill us.

Another factor when such person wanted to cure himself, it's needed for his self will, undergoing to professional attentions cost you money but it won't be successful if the person itself don't want to help himself.

It will be a waste of time and money as the chance that he will just comeback and be exposed to gambling is more higher than he wil stay out and change path.

That's why i do believe that seeking for the help of professional will be useless if the person didn't wanted to get cured. What i mean was she/he was the one who didn't want to cooperate and not his will to cure himself. It only simple as that thing, that's why until we don't too much associated and engaged with gambling have a self control. Set up your monthly schedule in gambling, have a limitation and limit your money bets.

It is a psychological addiction similar to alcoholism or drug addiction... The main thing is for a person to realize that it is impossible to live like this... If he himself does not understand the problem, no one can help him!

It all depends on where you live as well obviously, in my country if you feel like you have a psychological problem (anything) you could get to a doctor appointed my government, you go to your regular doctor and tell your problem and they will forward you to that doctor which will see you about once a week.

However in under developed nations like USA you might have to pay for it or just not get help, unfortunately not every nation is as improved as others and in places like USA people are unfortunately left to die if they do not have enough money to go see a doctor. However I am sure if you are smart enough to realize that you have a problem and see a professional, I am sure you could look for online for someone who can speak English or your language to help you pro-bono if you are lucky.

The comparaison you have just made between gambling and alcoholism or drug addiction is completely false, imo.
In psychology, it's called "Behavioral addiction". Gambling is an activity and not related to our hormones like did the alcohol/drug.
With alcohol, you will get sober by visiting the doctor or joining helpful communities. While in gambling addiction, it's like a natural dilemma where there is no clear solution about what/where/when to do in order to forget about gambling 

Yes, addiction looks a little different, but the principle of action is the same - getting pleasure affects the brain... Anyway, I think so because I have seen both drug addicts and gambling addicts...
You cannot forget about gambling and drugs alike - because it becomes a way of life that ends at the social bottom...

These correlations are very correct and I'm sure gambling is addictive but, this is made so based on the reason backing your gambling habits, like,

Why do you gamble?
Are you working currently?

These two questions plays a big role in the addictiveness of an individual to gambling. It's not wrong that people with jobs or a regular source of income do gamble but then, it's often based on a pressing need or a want that need serious satisfying or just a desire to double your account size. Either of these reasons play a role and can be easily checked. Where it gets worst is the unemployed gamblers because, they are fund of pumping in steady money and view it as a source of income which drains them and the trend continues because, it has hope attached to it.
That's how addiction builds and it's bad.

Sometimes, I ask myself about seeking professional help that could require us to pay the fee, which can be costly. But I understand that when someone gets addicted to gambling, he will not directly visit the professional, but he only says that he is okay. It's really a big problem for that person if he is addicted to gambling, especially if he can't realize addiction. Gambling can easily make us addicting, even if we say that we are not addicted to gambling. Playing gambling twice a month or less than the five in a month will not be a problem, as long as you can always controlling yourself in gambling.


Not many people want to visit a professional and ask for help with gambling addiction because they don't want other people to know that they have addicted to gambling. Perhaps, they have the money that can be used to pay the professional, but they don't visit that professional. I guess that will happen if that person doesn't have other people who can help and stay beside him while he is on the psychiatric. Perhaps, he feels not right to visit that professional.

The mindset of a gambler is to redeem himself from lost and to gain as much as he could. There is this false reality in them that they could use gambling as a shortcut to success and escape from loss. We have to remember that there are still gamblers that can handle their greed, I've seen people who make gambling as a leaving and looks like they don't fall in addiction since they can still control it.

That is so true.

Usually, as far as I know, these professionals explain that to make their patients better, these compulsive gamblers need to know that they must participate in this therapy not because they needed to but because they wanted to. This will be very hard without the will of that certain gambler as it might have no effect in the long run without their will.

Going to a professional consultant won't help much if it doesn't start with changing routines and stay in the same environment. It is like giving external factors a chance to resist the urge to quit an addiction.
Addictions are tough and even difficult to start practicing new habits in a new environment.

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Exactly.

It's just their imagination that's it's both hard, gambling addiction and seeking professional help, because once you started the process, you'll see that it's more worthy to spend your money on your self rehabilitation rather than to spend it on your gambling addiction. In addition, if you're not afraid to spend your money in gambling, you should not be afraid even more in curing your addiction for your peace of mind.

Seeking help to your love ones is not really helpful at all because there are some cases in which their families judge them instead of giving them a hand to help them rehabilitate themselves in their addiction. So instead of having a positive mindset, some gambling addicts decided to not go out of their closet and continue playing gambling.

Usually casino set up is very entertaining and once you are there you can easily get tempted to try and that is the start of being you gets enjoyed and entertain to gamble. There is nothing wrong to because that is really the design of the casino to help you enjoy your time with them. You can and also you get losses until such if you are greedy then that will be the time that you get attached to gambling that could lead you to huge losses. So to all new in gambling be wary about things that you have done for you might get addicted to gambling and you lose you more money than enjoying the play.

and that is the strategy why gambling sites and even casinos offering many things to Look favoring the gamblers but the main objective is to maintain them playing completely in fun while getting their money little by little.
But the problem is His friend become addicted things that OP is main concern,He wanted us to learn something that we can resist the call of betting to keep our self safe from addiction.

Play gambling with sense it will help you to go far in the system. Many people think play gambling every day without calculate the money spending in each betting look gambling as a bad game. I don't spend big money on bet because two things involved either win or los
Many gambler that are still gambling to understand the principle of gambling that no matter how you lose your bet a day is coming you will recover all the money you have spend.

that is something to take into account.
even if its just a thing you do for fun, it may be a wise decision to at least keep notes on how much money you separate for gambling, and maybe track your wins/loss ratio.

not so difficult to do.

It depends on how far they have let their addiction go, someone that is just on the beginning stages of addiction can recover with the help of their family and by using their own will, but if a person has spent years being addicted to gambling and he has lost everything then that person needs professional help and there is the possibility that even that is not enough and that person will be addicted to gambling for the rest of his life, which is one of the main reasons why you should never allow yourself to become addicted on the first place.

It's easier to handle addiction at the very beginning, that is true. The problem is because sometimes it's hard to recognise the signs of addiction or addicted gamblers just ignore them.
It's crucial to seek help when it's not to late and to be aware that we mustn't allow gambling to rule our lives. Gambling should be fun at the first place.

Problem here is that people do have in that in mind that they arent addicts but the thing that theyve been doing is already signifying that they are on the verge of addiction or really heading there.Its just rare for someone who do accept that they are already addicted and most of them will just simply deny and do keep telling that they are still in control until they do mess up things already and thats the time they do
make out some regrets when they do already had experienced hardships in life due to getting wrecked because of gambling. Pay attention and be attentive into your actions.Dont get hooked too much on
money making kind of mindset because this will really just mold up that kind of motive which would really be hard to remove once you are already get hooked into it.

However, not all addicts can realize it themselves. They need others to remind them about it. The first one who has the responsibility to advise and remind them is the family. Then, if it still doesn't bring any effects, the family needs to accompany the addicts to visit experts or specialists. We cannot let them solve the problem alone, they need us that can advise them.

The level of addiction matters, but it's still the person self will that can help him to avoid doing things over and over. There are many addicted

gamblers who sufferer from this problem not just themselves but also the lives of those people around them. Much better to assist your friend

to avoid being too much engaged and completely lose his control and suffered more after.

A willingness from the patients will be the power to getting better and succeed in the therapy. That will help the patients try to participate in every therapy program because that is what they want to solve. It is hard for them, but there is no other solution to get rid of addiction. In this matter, their family presence will be necessary because the family can support that patient to strong enough until the program ends, and the patients are declared cured by a professional.


If the patient can participate in the therapy, they will get many solving problems for addicting people in gambling, which can help them create a new habit or enlightenment. They will have a lesson about changing routines as soon as possible to resist their addiction. It needs the power to start a new habit and change their old habits with a positive habit that can change their whole lives.

You only recreated his statement, but just make it longer. The moment that someone reminds an addict that he is addicted, there would be times that he/she will be in the state of denial, and that enters his statement that "If he himself does not understand the problem, no one can help him". willingness to accept the reality is what will make them realize that they're addict. Yes, this will take time like any other, but you can let him decide for himself if he will realize it after people remind him about the situation. Afterwards, the medication will proceed, seeking help from professionals, changing habits, and diverting attention to other activities will eventually happen.

Honestly, I also keep my records in every time I play, so I can see if I am losing in a row or I am winning as well. I put it in excel file so I can check my budget and income statement. It is also the file I use too track my current earning in work so I can see if I am having an extra money to be add in my gambling budget. It will make you addictive yes, but it is all up to the gambler, if he will go all in let him suffer even though there's no money left.

To be honest I am not doing the tracking or monitoring of the wins and losses whenever I play because there are times that if you are tracking your winnings and losses everytime, there are a chance that if you have a lot of losses then probably you have ashamed to stop betting by that you will not be able to gain your losses. In fact the best way to do is to just limit the amount of your bet anytime that you are betting so that you will be able to know if you are losing a huge or winning a high.

That will depend on his friend because some gamblers don't want to let other people know that he is addicted to gambling. They will keep it for themselves and pretend that they are okay with playing gambling because they can say that they control themselves. Maybe we need to check what he is doing every day if we really care about him, so we know if he is addicted or hiding the addiction.

yes, there's no right or wrong way to do it, some people will prefer not to track and just use the money for fun, without a need to keep notes or something like that.

some other people will just blow up their accounts too because they think they don't deserve the money for some reason

But I believe the strong family communication and connections could help this kind of matter and help of an expert is just secondary option. If the family cares about the person they will not give up on him and help him realise that its time to stop and he should live his life in a meaningful way.

I agree on that everyone should be very careful when gambling. If it turns into addiction, it can cause too many bad things happen in that person's life. You should be very careful about this. If you lose the control, you may lose many things you have in your life.

It is possible that family or your loveones can help you with this kind of situation but it is not applicable to other gamblers who became too much addicted in gambling. There are some cases of gamblers who cannot be stopped even if the family exerts too much effort to lead him on the right path. It would be better if in the first place he already control his desires to gamble. Seeking the hel of medical professional is much better and also with the support of his family.

Family is the first ones that will help you in case you are in a gambling addiction but unfortunately that isn't the case for most of the gambling addicts.

Base on my observation and experience, most of these gambling addicts doesn't have a close relative because of some conflicts between them that is connected to gambling. No concrete evidence though but I know that some of these aren't have a family relative that is close to them because of some reasons.

On the other hand, gambling addicts who helped by their family members to recover from getting addicted are very lucky in a way.

There are many addictions in the world, gambling is one of them. I think if you can control the addiction a little and only gamble with money you can afford to lose it is not a problem. you should consider money that you bet with gambling as lost, and not expect to earn a fortune with it, because you cannot control it, no matter how good your strategy is. Many people start with bank roll management, but when they see that they are losing too much, they want to win back the lost money and things go wrong.

You are right, and people that are addicted started by staking little money, if they win, they will still want to increase their staking capital, in which they will lose everything eventually. Also if they lose, they will still want to put more funds. It happened to me just like this to the extent I prefer to use the money to eat to gamble, thinking to double it but losing and going hungry, selling one or two of my properties were included. The best is to just have control over it.

What happens is that one of the most common human reactions to a problem is denial, when people tell you that you have a problem with your gambling instead of thinking about what it has been said people take offence on the comment and become defensive thinking they are being attacked for something they enjoy and decide to deny it and in many cases attack back, but this is a very unhealthy attitude to have because if the comment comes from a friend or a family member you can be sure they are telling you this not to criticize you but to try to help you.

If the individual players in the gambling sites became addicted to it before others will remind Him/Her the gambler's closest family will be the main person who will give a reminder to the gambler, am I right? And besides, the addicted gambler also is the number one responsible for His choice as well too. Gambling shouldn't be a habit instead, this should only be an amusement only.

Yes, you are right. But the problem is how their closes family will know if he is addicted to gambling. Besides that, if someone gets addicted to gambling, he will not tell other people about his problem, and he will keep the secret to himself. That will need attention for his family always to take care of their family and ask something if he acts differently than usual. By doing that, I think that his family will know if he has a problem and needs help from them. I agree that gambling is just for having fun and enjoy playing many gambling games. Once you think that you slowly become addicted, maybe you can tell your closest person or your family and ask them to help you.

That's the two main problem:

1. The gambler who is addicted will never reveal his secret
~ The reason why is this happening is either his love ones are the toxic type of family or he's too paranoid that if he tell to his family about his addiction, he might be judged or even worst.

2. The Family doesn't even know how to notice something unusual to their members of the family
~ Well, this is connected to the first I've mentioned, if your family is a toxic one then you should expect that they always care less on the family members except themselves, that's why having a healthy family is important to let everyone grows and not drag each other down.

Those two major factors that I've mentioned above should always be neglected in a family. Families don't need toxic traits but instead they should spread love in every each of them, so secrets would never exist and they would just happily open up to each other to seek help when they can't solve it alone.

We are responsible for every move that we do as gamblers.

Just pay attention and always check if you're still on the right track when you're gambling. Very easy to say about amusement and habit but you'll never know how difficult they are tackling that problem.

The struggle of thinking and doing it as what we say can't be done by them easily.

Number one, his family doesn't care about him, so that person needs to find what he likes, and coincidentally, he was introduced to gambling, and he became addicted. If his family doesn't realize that matter, sooner or later, that person will get into big trouble and it is very hard to solve.

Number two, it is happening in this era. Many families don't care about their family members because they are busy doing what they want. They seem careless with each other, and sometimes, they have arguments with each other. They only know if their needs are already filled, they think that it is enough and they will let them use it for whatever they want. They don't think that their family members need affection for each other.

If we are family, we need to take care of each other and always ask or give attention to every family member, so they don't think the family abandons them.

Once that person becomes addicted, we know what will happen to him, and the worst is he can commit suicide like what we know that is happening in many cases.

No one to be blame if you involve yourself into this vice, it's your own decision in the first place allowing things to happened with you.
As instead of being entertained your engagements brings you to becoe heavy player.

Once gambling already inside your minds, it's difficult to removed it more gambling addicts needs attentions to the point of having
professionals to assess and help to recover to start a new life.

Play with responsibilities, never to attached too much.

For me it is all about time and schedule management, we cannot be addicted to gambling if we have other priorities in life like spending many hours in specific habits or work. I'm a gambler but I never consider myself as addicted even though I often playing different gambling games, I think it is maybe because I'm aware to what I'm doing and I also have priorities in life wherein I can sacrifice the gambling for me to just finish the important things that I should do. We are liable to ourselves and for me it is the reason why we should not become addicted to gambling, having priorities and treating gambling as only entertainment can help us to prevent addiction through gambling.

Gambling can be definitely addictive from time to time. I think there are 2 things that trigger starting to be greedy. One of them is winning consecutively and wanting of playing more because of it. The other thing is a losing streak. When you start losing 2 or more times in a row, you could start panicking or being angry with it and try to recover the amount in a very quick way. This means that you started losing the control of the situation. If you don't realize what you are doing, it could end very bad. So, one should be aware of the consequences and decide what to do carefully.

It is addictive due to the way we treat gambling, the fear and greed are drivers for both loss-win streaks. Revenge gambling has higher costs not only as a monetary cost but as an emotional lockdown inside our feelings. The angry gambler is the last person I wanna meet in person because he can even rob the strange person in order to play more and more. The self-control gives power to the gambler when and how to spend the bankroll but the gamblers don't want to think strictly about the future of their own life. Jut my 2 cents.

Just as I've said.

We can give those advices to those addicted gamblers easily. But it is on them and they find it hard to follow it because emotionally, they know what they do.

And they have to do a lot of things for the recovery of it. Following others advice don't matter to them.

Advice for those gamblers who are already addicted won't work. It's hard to cure addiction, and simple advice does not help a thing. Gambling addicts need to change their attention to other activities and need to recover from family treatment. This is why it's so difficult to be drawn to something that's going to ruin your life.

They need to be willing to help themselves.

Doing such help even with their family will only help if they start helping themselves. The habit can't be removed easily but with their own help to themselves, the cure will make it easy for them to moderate it.

In my opinion, there is nothing completely bad, all have two sides of one issue: bad and good. I like so much a quote that: " With everything including investment, if you don't have knowledge, it is all gambling with the ratio 50:50. In the opposite, this is an investment"

Well even that Good portion if we did not treat gambling rightfully then for sure that good part will be converted into bad and there will be a "Completely Bad" Gambling activities.

Once you become addicted in gambling,trust me the whole world seems dropping over you.

people will get rid of you and no one you can lean on because of your money matter as surely you will do everything just to find funds to gamble even if you borrow without returning.

I agree with the title of this topic, we really have to pay attention to our gambling habits. Because if I can't limit myself to playing
gambling, I will definitely become addicted. If we get addicted, it will definitely make our lives fall apart, and it is very difficult to
heal the addictions we experience. I myself only play gambling weekends, and use a limited budget. I don't want what happened
in the opening post to happen to me, therefore I am always careful when playing gambling.

We must limit our time and money to play gambling if we don't want to become addicted. Unfortunately, not many people can do this because after they can feel the excitement of playing gambling, especially on the gambling website, which has many games to play, they can enjoy staying on that site. That makes them forget their purpose of playing gambling, and they spend more time and money without thinking much about the risk.

If you can limit your budget and time, I am sure that you will not get the same experience that other people did in which they lose their money, and even they lose everything on the gambling games.

Some people (those who really care that much about gambling) also make spreadsheets to record their betting history, whether they lose or win to keep track of it. But I think this will just make it worse for our mental health if we are losing too much and we can see how much we already lost in gambling. That is why right from the start, we should accept the fact that we will lose money in gambling, we will not play just because we want to have fun but we accept that we might be bankrupted with gambling in long term. To solve this, we should allocate a small percentage of our funds that we afford to lose and disregard our habits of listing our betting history. Thus, we'll have a happy experience in gambling regardless of winning or losing as our mental help doesn't care about our loss.

Okay you mean you are careful enough while gambling. It is not easy to control addiction if you once lose your money in gambling then you may try to recover your funds that are the actual addiction of getting money from gambling and it's human nature as I believe. So I may consider gambling as addiction to use regularly to win more and more gameplay.

Gambling can really be a bridge to lead you in addiction, especially when you encounter to win n the games several times.
Once you fall on it, that's the beginning of your addiction to playing with it most often. Until one day it will become a habit for you to
play with it in gambling. So, you better be aware of this matter anyway.

Willing to win more about to recover the losses can lead the ultimate looser or gainer. You will get triggered to win again for recovering your previous losses but if you failed to recover it again then what will happen? Can you imagine that? If yes then you will understand what I actually want to mean now. Win more and more can be considered as addiction to gambling sites so far.

Gambling Addiction, also admitted as pathological gambling, compulsive gambling or gambling ataxia is an impel-controlling malady. Compulsive and habitual gambling can knock down a person’s life. He apparently faces personal problems and monetary overthrow, complications while gambling sometimes urge to a life of infraction. Gambling can brace up the brain’s reward manner much like having drugs or alcohol, which in turn urge to obsession. If anyone have troubles with compulsive gambling, they can evermore pursue a bet that leads to mischief, conceal their attitude, accumulate savings, accumulate debt, or even seek theft or fraud to support their obsession. Victims are often incognizant, or in abdication, having a problem. The move unto addressing gambling is acknowledging that there is a problem. For some people, this alertness comes only when they reach the bottom of the rock. It was hitherto a compulsive ataxia and is now gone into an obsession irregularity in the DSM-5. People with pathological gambling behavior frequently have cruxes with alcohol and other substances, and often consider self-annihilation. Hopefully compulsive gambling is treatable. Psychotherapy can aid in the mode of sunder or group appointments. For few people, support groups like the 12-step Gamblers Anonymous are feasible.
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This sequence consents with abstinence policies such as substance abuse and alcohol use. In combination with psychotherapy, individuals can benefit from antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-opioid, or anti-narcotics.

Investment too with knowledge is no guarantee for success. This is saying even life is 50:50 in anything you are doing. Having the idea that we need luck to help our knowledge to make our opportunity become success is great way to think.

Well, some users or players will tend to get addicted once they get the taste of winning because that is one of the best feeling that our brain can record. Habits are hard to remove since those are the things that you are accustomed to and you can get therapy since professional help is really helpful to remove addictions.

Do people really do this, getting therapy for gambling habits?
Well, anything that works to ease or stop addiction is okay. Gambling isn't a bad thing but, getting addicted to it is and it as well goes for other things as concerns addiction. You don't allow yourself to be so drawn or always drawn to a particular thing, you become a slave to it and you really should get help as, it not only saves you of your finances, it saves your life from taking drastic decisions which is likely to be irrevocable.

But in fact, not only winning becomes the reason for people to be addicted but the losing streak or big losses can be the reason as well. Some people try hard to get back their money after they lose it. They continue to do hard efforts every day. Even, they don't know how much they spend money and time to bring back the money. Finally, they get addicted and lose more money day after day.

Addicted to gambling needs professional help advice as long as he is willing to be help and cooperate. When they are addicted, they focus on gambling and make decisions poorly that affects the entire family relationships and financial aspects.I think in some city they have a rehab program on this just like other forms of addiction.

Yes, that's right. Chasing losses can also be the reason why someone could be addicted. But even though we say here that, "never chase your losses," it's actually easier said than done.

From my experience, when faced with a situation where I am at the verge of losing it all, there is really a tendency to bet again with the hope that I might even recover my funds even just a little. And there comes in the feeling of being hooked with the game. Good thing, when I bet, I don't bet alone. I make sure that there is someone beside me to say that enough is enough because if it's just me, then I might lose even more. Worse, I might get addicted.

Not many addicted people in gambling will want to seek professional help advice because they can hide their addiction to other people. They will still play gambling without other people, and they will spend more money just to fills their desire for playing gambling. If their family knows about his addiction, they will try to advise him to go to a professional while they can go together, so that person will not feel that he is alone to solve his problem.

But not all cities can have a rehab program for people who have an addiction to gambling, drugs, and else because that will depend on how serious the government to help addicted people. The addiction to gambling and drug is a serious matter that needs to be solved, but the addicted people who can't solve their problem alone need their family to support them.

its easy to hide your gambling addiction if your playing gambling online because you can go on your own room or other private places that dont have a people around it but if youv been playing orl casino people will notice you when they see you going outside .

 its still up to the willingness of addicted gambler if he want to follow what his family advices to go to the professional for mental help or not , its his own life and no one can force him not even his fam . gamblers are grown up man , they arent kids that they can easily encourage to stop

I think that trying to return the lost money is not the reason for addiction to gambling... Or rather it is only a small part of the addiction! The fact of the game and the prospects of winning money make a person addicted, and the loss of funds gives an incentive to play more!

Well some of the gambling addict were indenial stage where they keep on their mind that they are just enjoyed what they do and not relevant to connect to an addiction. They never admit that they need a professional help but the one who can seen it was the people around him. This for me was an alarming stage of gambling. Thats why we should be aware on the action of ourselves and pay attention to whatever our family or friends have been observed to us.

I found a way to minimize your habit of gambling and it's addiction.

Put your hand on the middle chest and speak out aloud " Why you don't want to gamble "
What this does is creates a new belief if done daily then the belief will be more powerful and you'll know why you shouldn't gamble.

Wow! does it really work on you? if so, then congratulations.

However, not everyone will find that solution working, gambling addiction is a serious disease, it will not be healed overnight, it requires a long process to take that addiction from the gambler. Actually its not easy, so it's better to prevent it because it will make ourselves miserable.

Well, I guess everyone has it's own ways and methods however I don't think that the hand on chest could help.
However, strong will and character as well as self control are the most important when gambling. You have to know yourself and your limits and if you are weak person that is easy to influence maybe gambling isn't the good choice at all.
I agree that once you enter into gambling addiction it's extremely hard to get out if you even become aware that you have s problem.

Sure, no one says "it is easy". Sometimes, theory and practice are much different. It also applies to both controlling habits and mind. This is something not easy to do although we have tried many times. However, if we cannot deal with them, we won't be successful to lead ourselves in the right way. That's why it is a must to make ourselves aware of the realistic goals and never try to do a stupid thing like chasing losses.  

I just found out if the hands on the chest can minimize the habit of gambling, maybe it is a simple way that has been used to do and it might work for him. But basically, greater determination and being able to resist the urge to quit gambling is the main factor, no matter you put your hand anywhere and say something out loud like that. Because if you still have a strong desire to gamble, then no way will work. The only way is about cultivating determination, if more effort is required then help from a psychologist will be needed and / or someone closest to guiding it.

Determination, this is the main point. Usually the awareness to stop gambling will arise after most of our money has been spent on gambling. This can happen suddenly without encouragement from other and also requires encouragement. But without a strong determination, his effort will be in vain and will return to doing so. We can say stop at anyone at any time, but without the willpower and determination we will definitely return. This happen very often, doesn't it ?

addictiion to gambling is a serious problem and sometimes people can't solve it and lose all their money. often help comes from friends and family but in some cases there is a need to use psychologist services.

You will tell it for sure if he will try to kill you to get some money for his gambling demon :D

At least this is very common story in my country.


Wise advice, I agree with every word. Personally i'm not playing too much, and what's more important, is that i'm playing for math. To count probabilities, test different strategies. Money here is like booby prize, not main incentive.

luck remains a powerful weapon for success in life...
There have been many cases where those who have high knowledge are not successful because they are less fortunate, so our chances of success are divided; 50% luck 30% hard work 20% knowledge.

Yes, that is the advantage of online gambling, making people like to use online gambling to continue their habit. Besides going to your room, we can play using our gadgets such as a mobile phone or tab in other places, so people will not know what we do. I think many people hide what they did to other people.

We can't force a gambler to go to professional if they don't want because we even don't know if they are addicted to gambling or not. They can pretend that they don't play gambling in front of us, but the fact, they play gambling if they are alone in their room. Yes, they are grown-up men but don't forget, some of them are young people, and we don't know how many of them are playing gambling. But if they want to stop gambling, we can encourage them to stop and support them.

A person may lean on gambling if he really needs money knowing he can win it back all the things he loses, never thinks of the consequences in gambling because he is focused on the goal, my friends also think that way but in the end, the result is much worse ending in even larger debts before you know it, presenting a friend a better alternative is much better than just by telling them to stop gambling, as my father tells me, that in gambling once you lose or win in gambling the urge to play will keep you on playing.

I can't say that some but most of the gambling addiction cases need psychologist to get recovered.

The problem with us people especially these gamblers is that they are always finding for an easy way to get money and they don't think of the possible consequences that they might face whenever the worst will happen. You are lucky if some friends and family members will help you to recover but that isn't the case for most of them that is why they need the help of a psychologist to be rehabilitated.

Just to be sure. Someone who has deep problem in addiction needs to be assessed by a psychologist.

But having both support from friends and family while going through a medication made by a psychologist will make that person recover easily. Moral support that's being showed will make him appreciate that he really has to overcome his addiction.

Totally agree: I do not think that only medication can cure, at least, in most of the cases. What happens when you remove the medicaments from your daily life? and, on the other hand, it may be as bad as gambling to be tied to this kind of medication for one's life.

Love is much better for your mind, for your body, and it is completely free. Friends, family and in the best cases a lucid and patient partner are the best ways, if not the only one, to overcome such a terrible suffering.

"Only he thinks" that he can win but the sad thing is that " We don't have a word assurance" and that is the reality in gambling. That addiction gives us no good but it compromising our life and it gets worsen in the days coming by. I understand the situation that it is really hard to stop gambling when we are already been hooked up by such an addiction.

The habit of gambling commonly same for a person in the situation of success when he get success in gambling it will be a habit for him in most of the time so getting your mind clear will help for get away from this but it will not been a bad habit

There's a process for the medication if a gambler really needs it. It wouldn't take for his lifetime but as long as he hasn't removed it, that will stay.

Both help from those that I've mention will help for the betterment of an addicted gambler.

It is true even you lose or you will you still get addictive, once you started to play gamble because of entertainment and fun you get some of us even we lose we still want to play because we want to get back what we lose already and if we win we want more money it is really hard to control everything when your already in the situation of winning and losing, well your families must accept what you like because you have your own thus if your not if your not legal age then your family stop what you're doing because if you still do so it will affect your family and will be miserable in the future if you cannot control your bad habits in gambling.

That moral support from your family and your friend will help to change your point of view in life,
while you are still engaged to gamblig, there's nothing inside your mind which is not related to
your game, but once the medication start and your family or whoever love ones that beside you
you'll start to realize that there are many things that you can use both of your time and your
money and change your life directions for the best outcometo your life.

But if he uses gambling as a habit, he will get deeper into gambling, and in the end, he can become addicted to gambling. If he becomes addicted to gambling, it is very difficult to control himself to get out of gambling because his mind will think about gambling. You can play gambling, but don't use gambling as your habit because that will posses you to playing gambling without stop, even if your money is run out. I am sure that you don't want to become addicted to gambling, so you need to pay attention when playing gambling.

People are becoming addicted into gambling because they are letting their selves to control by the gambling, addiction in gambling is a problem and usually those who became victim of it do not pay attention on their habits and their mindset. I'm a gambler and I often play slots, betting and dice games but I never considered myself as addicted because I have priorities in life. My family know that I'm gambler and actually I influenced them where my mother is recently open a account in online casino. It is all about having concerns in our daily lives, you can control gambling if you have a balance life where you know when to stop or when to play more.

The statements you state about yourself say that you are a gambling addict but have discipline. Addiction to entertainment doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, although the cons are considerably higher than the pros, it is still much much. And another thing, influencing others to something that is addicting is kind of a bad thing and must not be tolerated. Although if you warn them about the consequences of the actions they would take, it will only be partly your responsibility.

Agree, always keep control of the money and don't be greedy. Don't always think that you'll gonna win because you're blinded by a huge pot. When it comes to gambling, we should have a practical mindset that once you win, it's enough and always take advantage of the situation.

If you experience a losing streak then it's a sign to stop and cool down your mind, if you continue might give you a breakdown.

People need to learn how to take a break, that is the thing about gambling that many people fail and should learn as soon as possible. If you are gambling and you are not making a profit and almost lost all your money (or already lost all your money) you need to just close the tab, log out if you want beforehand, open up a funny youtube video, get some fresh air, watch some movies on netflix and move on.

If you can give a break to gambling for a whole month after a bad streak, you will realize that you do not have the need to keep gambling until you are in profit while making your loss number grow bigger and bigger. Because giving a break for a month makes you realize that gambling is not a way of making money, but a way of having some fun and losing more and more money will make it no fun at all.

Taking a break is the hardest part for many gambler. Most of the gambler have different earning source and they invest a small part of their earnings in gambling. And believe that one day they will win something huge. Actually they loss continuously, and all together it become large amount. But it doesn't effect them as they have lost it gradually, not together. That's why many gambler doesn't take a break. And gambling become their habits. New gamblers become addicted while they start to win. Even after losing their money, they continue to play for achieving various bonuses from casino. Occasionally I listen to music and watch youtube videos after losing small amount to fix my mode and forget about it.

If you use a single bet, but you use too big money, that will be the way to lose the money quickly if you don't have luck. But if you have luck, you will win a lot of money quickly. The gambling will attract you to play longer, and it could make you forget about controlling yourself, so that can lead you to use more money. No matter how much money you use, if you can't control yourself, you will get into the trap of gambling. If you lose money and yourself, you can become addicted to gambling, and that is hard to solve the problem because that will need more effort to set it free.

It will change your perspective on addiction.

It has been proven by those gamblers who have gone through with healing with the help of their relatives and friends.

Gamblers always have the freedom to choose whether to divide their funds and to bet with many amounts or to bet one time but with all in. The advantage of the first one is that when they have more time, they can further enjoy gambling. In addition, it also allows them to use different gambling strategies with regards to betting such as martingale or doubling your bets whenever you lose to win back the money you lost. In the case of the second one, it's advantage is that it will lessen your time in gambling so you could be productive in work in return to less time of entertainment.

In my case, I always choose both, as I believe that if you are lucky for a day, you will really win regardless of how much time you spent gambling unlike those who don't gamble at all.

It is better to gamble wisely in the gambling center,for you not to use all your property to gamble, that will later cause you so many damages in life. I don't go with all my money to gambling center where you will be seeing so interesting game to bet that will make you think, if you play it will be sure for you at the end of the result. Many gambler never still understand that gambling can reduce someone to zero level, if he or she  fail to play with sense in the gambling center.
Since we came out from pandemic, i don't play with big amount of money because I really lose during the pandemic where I was using big amount of money to play gambling holping that, I will win a huge amount of money before the end of the pandemic that was causing me more lost in gambling. Since then I learnt my lesson not to play gambling with big amount of money.

A dangerous effect of gambling in one person was the addiction. That's why we always keep on reminding each and everyone here to be watchful and control themselves. I believe that it is really hard to cure and if even if that person has been undergoing a medication and under psychology assessment can't deny that they may sometimes cheat on. But with the help of the people sorrounds him, moral support and love coming from them they may inspire him to changed its lifestyle towards gambling

If that is for enjoying gambling, I guess that we can manage our gambling time, so we don't have to spend too long playing gambling games. Once you play gambling for a long time, you will spend more money, which will give you have more chance to lose the money. If you really care about your money and only want to search for the fun thing in gambling, you can play for some time, and you can stop yourself from placing the next bet.

There is always a temptation in gambling, whether you realize it or not, and that temp will become bigger no matter you win or lose. If you said that you could double your bets whenever you lose to win back the money you lost, that would not always work, and you should realize that. It is how we can manage our time in gambling to prevent the addiction that already comes to many gamblers out there.

The problem is you don't know when you will get lucky on that day, so that can make you test your chance for playing for more. But that will not guarantee you to win for that day.

You will not notice that you are getting addicted to gambling, it's the people close to you that will notice that, you will defend how you gamble even if you are losing a lot of money here, you will only notice it when you already have a risky behavior and you are acting differently and you are losing a lot so it's very important that we do always take control even on day one.

I always listen to my spirit anytime, I want to gamble in any gambling center which is really helping me not to spend too much in any gambling center like the way some gambler make use of their properties to gamble just because they want to win a big money from the bet. Since we enter pandemic, i gamble with sense which is helping me not to lose too much in all my gambling that is making some gambler look at me that it will hard me to win big money which is making some gambler see me as a new gambler in the gambling center.
Anytime my spirit lead me to any gambling center to play, show that, i will definitely win but not all the game i bet for that day. 

Please correct your Punctuation.
You know, people who are addicted to gambling never realize that they are addicted. They don't realize their addiction until they lose all of their money. People in his family should always be aware of gambling addiction. Highlight its bad aspects. If you have a lot of money, you should spend some money on gambling. But when you don't have money, and you gamble with borrowed money at that time you will realize you're addicted to gambling.

Will power is in need  inside the person to cure themselves from this addiction.

You said it right that even there's already medication and treatment a gambler can still play back and cheat along the way, but if there's a will inside the person it will be much easier plus the support from their love ones who can encourage him/her to live a life away from gambling.