How can you determine whether you are addicted to gambling?
Based on my own experience. I used to be a Gambling addict, at first I haven't noticed it. I engage myself in gambling at a young age, I was a Student when I first held poker chip and play my first game. My friend was the one who taught me about poker and eventually, the one who invited me to play. My first game is so lit I won my first poker game (Believe it or not), They call it the beginner's luck. That triggered me to play more up to the point that I almost lost my supposed Tuition fee. My friends noticed some changes in me, at first they notice that every time I have coins I tend to do the poker chip shuffle (I didn't even notice it, All I think is I'm just playing with my coins), I always talk about poker and any kind of stuff related to Gambling, I lied to them just to go to a poker tournament just to watch and sometimes play, I became uncomfortable whenever they are trying to say something against poker, I developed short tempered, and last I ask for money just to play. It was really hard for me to resist playing poker, I was in the state in which my life without poker is meaningless.
That's how bad I am before I started to rehabilitate myself. There are a lot of ways to determine if you are addicted to gambling or onto something in general:
1. Your day isn't complete without you engaging in that particular game or etc.
2. Developed mannerism
3. Uncomfortable or you always think of that particular game
4. Sudden Breakdown
5. Uncontrollable visit into casino and playing
6. Became too greedy