How can we overcome our gambling addiction!

[Polar91]

In my places i know someone who already being an addicted gambling and he was sell all of his wealth from motorcycle until his house until have nothing but he can able to over come his addiction because of family helped and good environments so i think this way can be tried to those who addicted gambling that do not be shy to asking help to the people especially your family if your addiction want to be healed

What if time comes and we don't have families to rely on? With that, I probably think that the most effective way to overcome our addiction is to spend time with people who really doesn't play gambling until we totally help ourselves to limit our gaming rate per day. But it is impossible if it was online because no person would have an idea that we're playing, so with this, we should learn to do other things such as trading cryptocurrency, which also involves risk, but definitely lowered down the risk that we need to take in order to make a profit. In addition, it is somehow controllable (profits) unlike gambling where you definitely have no idea if you will win or not.

[boyptc]

Application, willingness and will power is a must if someone wants to overcome gambling addiction.

Easy to say isn't it but if there's no application and there's no action being done, forget about the goal of overcoming the addiction. You actually don't have to quit, you just have to minimize and reduce the exerted time.

[mirakal]

Application, willingness and will power is a must if someone wants to overcome gambling addiction.

Easy to say isn't it but if there's no application and there's no action being done, forget about the goal of overcoming the addiction. You actually don't have to quit, you just have to minimize and reduce the exerted time.

No application would happen if the person is not willing for a change.
The saying is correct that is "no man is an island" because without other people an addicted person will not realize his mistake.

We have the plan but we dont have the willingness to put it in action, its like a business plan without implementation.

[jhonjhon]

Actually, it depends on the person itself on how will he manage and control himself to avoid ending up into that horrible situation. Personally, I think that gambling isn't the problem, it is people who doesn't know his own limitations. It will not be easy if you're used to do it every single day and it's the reason why people should take a look at themselves and ask how gambling affects their lives. Maybe gambling is fun, entertaining and sometimes profitable but you can't literally assure yourselves that it will be worth it because gambling can guarantee you nothing. You can't just rely on other people's way of thinking to change your mind and decisions, try to explore yourself because sometimes we are the reason why we are suffering and feeling remorse.

Good point, the only person who can truly self the addicted gambler is themselves, no matter what you do, what advice you give them, they will not appreciate it or they won't care so long as they themselves don't want to quit for good. Addiction is all in the mind, if you have strong mind and strong control over yourself then you will not end up being addicted.

[boyptc]

Application, willingness and will power is a must if someone wants to overcome gambling addiction.

Easy to say isn't it but if there's no application and there's no action being done, forget about the goal of overcoming the addiction. You actually don't have to quit, you just have to minimize and reduce the exerted time.

No application would happen if the person is not willing for a change.
The saying is correct that is "no man is an island" because without other people an addicted person will not realize his mistake.

We have the plan but we dont have the willingness to put it in action, its like a business plan without implementation.

The help of peers will certainly do.

But there are addicted gamblers that managed to overcome it on their own.

[Gheka]

Actually, it depends on the person itself on how will he manage and control himself to avoid ending up into that horrible situation. Personally, I think that gambling isn't the problem, it is people who doesn't know his own limitations. It will not be easy if you're used to do it every single day and it's the reason why people should take a look at themselves and ask how gambling affects their lives. Maybe gambling is fun, entertaining and sometimes profitable but you can't literally assure yourselves that it will be worth it because gambling can guarantee you nothing. You can't just rely on other people's way of thinking to change your mind and decisions, try to explore yourself because sometimes we are the reason why we are suffering and feeling remorse.

Good point, the only person who can truly self the addicted gambler is themselves, no matter what you do, what advice you give them, they will not appreciate it or they won't care so long as they themselves don't want to quit for good. Addiction is all in the mind, if you have strong mind and strong control over yourself then you will not end up being addicted.

I agree that each individual's psychology will be the best medicine for the complete treatment of gambling addiction, although everyone's advice is quite helpful and gets straight to the point but most of these tips only come from people who aren't addicted to gambling, and when we're not in someone's situation, don't understand their mood, that advice would never be helpful and ingrained in their minds. Another problem, even if we have a strong mentality, don't let this arrogance ruin our lives, so many confident people have fallen into gambling addiction.

[FlightyPouch]

Application, willingness and will power is a must if someone wants to overcome gambling addiction.

Easy to say isn't it but if there's no application and there's no action being done, forget about the goal of overcoming the addiction. You actually don't have to quit, you just have to minimize and reduce the exerted time.

No application would happen if the person is not willing for a change.
The saying is correct that is "no man is an island" because without other people an addicted person will not realize his mistake.

We have the plan but we dont have the willingness to put it in action, its like a business plan without implementation.

The help of peers will certainly do.

But there are addicted gamblers that managed to overcome it on their own.

I don't about that since addiction is not that easy. If they can stop it by themselves, I can day thay it is not really an addiction but something like a vice or a past time. If he is really addicted to it, I don't think he can do it in his own. Its been years but I still can't stop gambling, though I can control myself now, I still can't stop gambling.

[Assface16678]

Actually, it depends on the person itself on how will he manage and control himself to avoid ending up into that horrible situation. Personally, I think that gambling isn't the problem, it is people who doesn't know his own limitations. It will not be easy if you're used to do it every single day and it's the reason why people should take a look at themselves and ask how gambling affects their lives. Maybe gambling is fun, entertaining and sometimes profitable but you can't literally assure yourselves that it will be worth it because gambling can guarantee you nothing. You can't just rely on other people's way of thinking to change your mind and decisions, try to explore yourself because sometimes we are the reason why we are suffering and feeling remorse.

Good point, the only person who can truly self the addicted gambler is themselves, no matter what you do, what advice you give them, they will not appreciate it or they won't care so long as they themselves don't want to quit for good. Addiction is all in the mind, if you have strong mind and strong control over yourself then you will not end up being addicted.

I agree that each individual's psychology will be the best medicine for the complete treatment of gambling addiction, although everyone's advice is quite helpful and gets straight to the point but most of these tips only come from people who aren't addicted to gambling, and when we're not in someone's situation, don't understand their mood, that advice would never be helpful and ingrained in their minds. Another problem, even if we have a strong mentality, don't let this arrogance ruin our lives, so many confident people have fallen into gambling addiction.

In the world of gambling, we all know that it is easy to earn money because of having excellent skills and knowledge in different games. But the main problem is it is too hard to leave the world of gambling even we already lose a lot of money, the reason why because it satisfies our desire to play the game and to earn money. Sometimes if we already win a game, our passion wants to play more because we know we can get more profit. On the other time, we will experience losing money, and then we want to play again to get back our money with or without profit. Always be conscious of what you are doing in gambling because you need to control your self to avoid loss of money and also having a massive amount of debt because of our desire to play a game if you want to play just set an amount of money that you can use to play.

[Meowth05]

There's a story that my mom told me, it's about my uncle who once became a gambling addict that there comes a time where he sold most of their things in their house just to find money to gamble. The worst thing that my uncle did is to pledge their house just to satisfy his gambling pleasures.

I know it's not easy to overcome this situation especially when you're already in your point that you want to get back everything that you have lost. You keep on gambling thinking you can earn everything back. Actually, we're already lucky enough if we continuously win the game but even our luck has its own limitations. Without noticing it, our wins are slowly turning into losses.

I also know that some of us here will just put their attention on different things to avoid too much gambling. But in reality, it's just easy to say but harder to do. There's no easy way if you really got attached to gambling. But in your opinion or personal experiences, how do you overcome your addiction to gambling?

Well, I am not very sure if this will be effective but I think you should let totally get out from it, leave all behind what you have in gambling and don't ever play again.  I know it seems impossible but you can make it feasible through the help of your family. I doubt that you can manage it alone, diverting your attention to something else by yourself would not totally get you out from it because I do believe it is a human nature that once a person devotes himself to something he wanted to do it would be impossible for him to quit. Thus, support from his family would be essential to move out this harmful iniquity.

[GreatArkansas]

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If he is really addicted to it, I don't think he can do it in his own. Its been years but I still can't stop gambling, though I can control myself now, I still can't stop gambling.

For me, there's a different kind of people that handle addiction on different way, just like what you said; You can control yourself but you can't stop gambling. Well, it's become nature for you for sure to gamble especially you have extra money.
But just like what OP said, the gambler who become addicted was selling some things to just able to gamble and achieve his/her gambling pleasure, that's kinda scary.
Well, it's good for your you can control yourself.

[MI6]

If me, i don't know what actually i will do if i already get addicted.That is why i always think gambling is something that we must not really serious into. I knew someone around me who sometime kill his time with gambling. My strategy for now i kill my free time usually with play games like PUBG which really take long time to play even 1 round. Beside that, i never gambling with a lot of money.

[btc78]

If me, i don't know what actually i will do if i already get addicted.That is why i always think gambling is something that we must not really serious into. I knew someone around me who sometime kill his time with gambling. My strategy for now i kill my free time usually with play games like PUBG which really take long time to play even 1 round. Beside that, i never gambling with a lot of money.

but PUBG can be use as gambling game as well mate.

in my Place?teenagers use this kind of games to Bet with one another,sometimes per Team and sometimes 1 vs 1 so the thing is gambling can be insert in anything that is why our only hope is our self and dedication not to become a victim of addiction.

[doomistake]

Application, willingness and will power is a must if someone wants to overcome gambling addiction.

Easy to say isn't it but if there's no application and there's no action being done, forget about the goal of overcoming the addiction. You actually don't have to quit, you just have to minimize and reduce the exerted time.

If you will only reduce the exerted time you put when playing in gambling, then how could you say you overcome your addiction, this will only become "minimizing your addiction", if I'm not mistaken, and then what, after a while, you're going to berserk again in gambling when addiction kicks in because your body misses the feeling of it. Minimizing will not be able to help you to overcome your addiction, just quit it completely by distracting yourself whenever you have the urge in playing gambling again.

[Ryker1]

If me, i don't know what actually i will do if i already get addicted.That is why i always think gambling is something that we must not really serious into. I knew someone around me who sometime kill his time with gambling. My strategy for now i kill my free time usually with play games like PUBG which really take long time to play even 1 round. Beside that, i never gambling with a lot of money.

but PUBG can be use as gambling game as well mate.

Well, sounds familiar to me. Not just only PUBG also we can make good odds in CSGO and that was very common here in our place.
There's an internet shop who had always conducting tournament on that game, so, if your self diverting to another activity that might you forget gambling addiction much better to overcome. But if you are not alone, for sure there will someone else willing to help you and cure you of that miserable level of life.

[Baoo]

Unfortunately, everyone is searching for the easiest way to get a lot of profit in a short term ( easy money ) and of course that gambling is the one of the worst fields that leads to a massive and contunies addiction.
So how to overcome this addiction?
Simply, we need to change the way of thinking especially when we are in trouble. I see that your uncle has a positive thoughts in gambling, that is the issue despite he literally 
 lost a lot of money. Otherwise, try always to anlyze your situation in different ways ( postive and negative ) and then make a comparison after that you will probably take the right decision.