Life with a Gambler - Solution!

[sirenmoon]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

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[Juggy777]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I haven’t got that problem at home but an acquaintance I know used to spend too much in slot machines and the solution was self-will and leaving all kind of gambling forever, the same way for an alcoholic the solution relies on self-will and not drinking a drop more for the rest of their lives. Just one drop leads to the same old self-destructive pattern, the same way as just one bet.

I don’t agree with it being called a “hidden disease”. There might not be physical signs or symptoms but someone with a real problem spends too much and that’s clear symptom of a behavioral problem and they cannot hide it for long.

[Oilacris]

I haven’t got that problem at home but an acquaintance I know used to spend too much in slot machines and the solution was self-will and leaving all kind of gambling forever, the same way for an alcoholic the solution relies on self-will and not drinking a drop more for the rest of their lives. Just one drop leads to the same old self-destructive pattern, the same way as just one bet.

I don’t agree with it being called a “hidden disease”. There might not be physical signs or symptoms but someone with a real problem spends too much and that’s clear symptom of a behavioral problem and they cannot hide it for long.

Self will would always matter on here.If you do mean to quit then quit and avoid at all cost any other related things connected to gambling or any addictions in life like alcohol or any related addiction things which do mostly destroy our lives if we decide to engage too much on it. Its not surprising that gambling do always been portrayed to be like that which i do agree on the thing said above. Each one of us do have different kind of handling on any things, some would really be sensible into his actions and some are just carelessly enough.

[SyGambler]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

[artmaker]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

It's call adiction when someone can't stop gambling and its bad or horrible when that someone lose control and ruin his/her life because of it.

[btc_angela]

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Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

No, I don't have the same problem at home. I would categorized myself as not a addicted gambler because I can control when I'm going to play and how much money I wanted to spend(lost). I guess their is no secret it fighting gambling addiction. Just learn how to control your emotions, and try to make your mind think of other things like having a hobby or something or probably really connect ot your family and friends will make this addiction go away.

[sweetbet]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

[semobo]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Yes only few people were seriously addicted to the gambling and then most of them can tackle it even if they were addicted to it with their daily life.
Gambling has lot of positivity too but in most of the world it was just portrayed as bad thing to do,like a sin and sometime even like illegal activities that is why many people afraid to be a gambler even if they wanted to be.

[eternalgloom]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

That is a pretty amazing story, I mean the part where you mentioned that she eventually quite after that one night.
6 months of no gambling is pretty long for an addict, I hope she doesn't re-lapse. What would you do if she does?

Also be very careful that she doesn't do it behind your back. I've read stories of gambling addicts taking out credit cards in their spouse's name.

[Indamuck]

From my experiences gamblers tend to be the most fun people to hang out with.  They are ready to let loose and aren't acting like some party pooper.  Your attitude can bring on positive outcomes in gambling as crazy as it sounds, I believe in things like law of attraction.

[orions.belt19]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

How can you say that gambling is not an addiction? It may be a case to case basis since not everyone behaves the same but it can be definitely classified as an addiction. The situation of others are really worse because there are those who cannot control themselves and has made bad decisions. There are some who don’t even sleep or eat if they don’t gamble. Addiction makes people go to a point where they literally lose everything, even their own houses. It’s humiliating yet those who are addicted can’t control themselves to prevent such humiliation.

[Tigorss]

actually i always take risk in gambling here in crypto and in real life but i'm not addict or whatever you post about gambling OP for me better to understand that we play for past time with so fun then for knowledge and experience although this is very risky another thing we can bet here in affordable for us so that's the solution i think also that you need to remember that if your here in crypto knowledge is the key to earn so always try different kinds of way to learn then use that as your weapon for your future here in crypto

if you really are a gambler and earn a living for your life from gambling if it is true there should be no problem whatsoever if conditions should be like that.

[solarion]

actually i always take risk in gambling here in crypto and in real life but i'm not addict or whatever you post about gambling OP for me better to understand that we play for past time with so fun then for knowledge and experience although this is very risky another thing we can bet here in affordable for us so that's the solution i think also that you need to remember that if your here in crypto knowledge is the key to earn so always try different kinds of way to learn then use that as your weapon for your future here in crypto

if you really are a gambler and earn a living for your life from gambling if it is true there should be no problem whatsoever if conditions should be like that.

How the gambler can be live in the without faciing any loosing in the money mate. Please review about gambler life style first then you can understand that gambler will be finally without any money in their hand mate.

Then most of the time people loosing the fund on using dice, slot roll and poker games.
These all games will be finally take you loose all your money only bro.

[detector]

IMO, environment and religion really affect on gambler's mental recovery.

Gambler is a smart guy but sometimes they are greed and do not want think twice about the risk because for some reason, example : usually economy reason

[Hamphser]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Normal we would see those negative stories about gambling yet we are on a gambling discussion board and talking about other addictions wont really be that much relevant. Majority are just fun and thrill seekers but i do still believe that high percentage or lets say 30% are considered addicted where it do already come to a point that they are already wrecking their own lives. Solution? We should be sensible on actions we do made specially when we do gamble.

[JL421]

I had a gambling addiction problem before but as you stated i start realizing that the money I'm losing is something which might help me in future, it will support me if i have a financial failure, so what i did was stopped logging in on the gambling site and stopped seeing other players profit, instead i started investing on different sites bankroll and started making profits

[sweetbet]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

That is a pretty amazing story, I mean the part where you mentioned that she eventually quite after that one night.
6 months of no gambling is pretty long for an addict, I hope she doesn't re-lapse. What would you do if she does?

Also be very careful that she doesn't do it behind your back. I've read stories of gambling addicts taking out credit cards in their spouse's name.

I went to the casino a few times after that night when she was late coming home from work, but I didn't find her there. The children told her that sometimes we drive through the casino car park looking for her car. She asked me why I do that. I told her that I'm keeping an eye on her because she promised me that she had quit many times before. Now she spends just as much money on clothes shopping which she couldn't afford before. I'm not sure what I'll do if she relapses. I'm taking it a step at a time for now.

[Shenzou]

Well honestly i don't think that gambling addiction is that hard to get over, for me i think that people get that into gambling because they have nothing else to do, nothing else to keep them busy from spending money on it, if they have friends and family who encourage them to do activities and keep them busy from doing so than i am sure they won't find the time to gamble and they will lose their desire to do it, at least that is what i did for my friend when he started falling to it.

[Aleister Crowley]

Well honestly i don't think that gambling addiction is that hard to get over, for me i think that people get that into gambling because they have nothing else to do, nothing else to keep them busy from spending money on it, if they have friends and family who encourage them to do activities and keep them busy from doing so than i am sure they won't find the time to gamble and they will lose their desire to do it, at least that is what i did for my friend when he started falling to it.

alright the best way to find activities that can divert us from gambling. and this powerful 80% way can get us out of gambling addiction. because when we are busy it will be very difficult for us to find gambling activity. look for positive activities outside of gambling. although actually gambling can still be considered reasonable as long as the activity does not harm anyone

[xandra]

I never had a hard time to rid gambling since I am not addicted to it but I know one of my friend who got separated with her wife because he cannot control his self anymore to stop gambling their relationship got miserable his wife cannot take it anymore so they decided to give up and now my friend is so pitiful.

[Natsuu]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

It's call adiction when someone can't stop gambling and its bad or horrible when that someone lose control and ruin his/her life because of it.

That's right and everything that's too much will harm anyone so if something is go beyond our control then it can be called addiction. I see some friends that ruin their relationship in exchange of gambling and it's really upsetting to see what happened to them. I mean we've always give advice to them yet they're the one who doesn't want to change for good. I feel pity for them tho.

[Fatanut]

Well honestly i don't think that gambling addiction is that hard to get over, for me i think that people get that into gambling because they have nothing else to do, nothing else to keep them busy from spending money on it, if they have friends and family who encourage them to do activities and keep them busy from doing so than i am sure they won't find the time to gamble and they will lose their desire to do it, at least that is what i did for my friend when he started falling to it.

Easy for you to say because you don't have gambling addiction. I think your friend is not in that rabbit hole where gambling addicts fall into every single time. In other words, your friend is not really addicted to gambling that much OR you're friend is secretly still gambling after a good day of spending time with his friends. I think gambling addiction, like any other addiction, is a form of escape. An escape from real world problems that actually do matter. Addiction is a symptom of a much larger problem and these people have addiction because they want to avoid facing those problems as much as they can because they are either too afraid to face it or simply don't have the capacity to face it. They say that all problems can be solved that's why God gave it to us. Yes, it has a logical solution but not everyone has the capacity to take action.

[Gaaara]

You don't need to stop gambling because it cannot be stopped easily and besides it somehow helps (if you're winning) all one need is to control it, I am currently controlling my gambling issue by playing games I don't know why but it games keeps me away from gambling even though I wan't to win money so much. Anyways you can always get your attention into another thing to control it but stopping it won't do its like an unscratchable itch of wanting to gain a big amount of profit.

[bitllionaire]

I never had a hard time to rid gambling since I am not addicted to it but I know one of my friend who got separated with her wife because he cannot control his self anymore to stop gambling their relationship got miserable his wife cannot take it anymore so they decided to give up and now my friend is so pitiful.

Many people are passing through such situation, but it does not mean that they are going to separate from their life partner, they try their best to held their partner to change their gambling habits, but even if they are not going to succeed still they do not like to separate from them, they try their best to manage and spend time with them. I think we should try our best to help our life partner to quit gambling.

[ocid]

most people who gamble sometimes can make it a hobby so gambling can be used as a fun activity because it can try their luck, but it is not worth imitating because every day they can spend their time to do gambling. as much as possible we should be able to limit it and can balance with other activities

[maydna]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't have any problem at home and I don't think that gambling is a "hidden disease" because as long as we can control ourselves in the gambling, we are not potential to be an addicting person. but if I have this problem, maybe I will find somebody in my family and I will tell that person that I have a problem with gambling and I really need his/her help to solve this. I am sure that if we really want to get out from gambling, he/she will give some help and always give a suggestion to us so we can solve our problem with gambling.

[audaciousbeing]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

That is a pretty amazing story, I mean the part where you mentioned that she eventually quite after that one night.
6 months of no gambling is pretty long for an addict, I hope she doesn't re-lapse. What would you do if she does?

Also be very careful that she doesn't do it behind your back. I've read stories of gambling addicts taking out credit cards in their spouse's name.

I went to the casino a few times after that night when she was late coming home from work, but I didn't find her there. The children told her that sometimes we drive through the casino car park looking for her car. She asked me why I do that. I told her that I'm keeping an eye on her because she promised me that she had quit many times before. Now she spends just as much money on clothes shopping which she couldn't afford before. I'm not sure what I'll do if she relapses. I'm taking it a step at a time for now.

This is really a deep story though because I never believe that anyone should be judged for being a gambler but based on this, I tend to review my stand and maybe there is another level one has to get to, in other to be referred to as a ''Gambler'' because I also play and sometimes I win sometimes I lose but I never got to the point of not being able to control and even when I could predict the outcome of a game perfectly, the fear of losing sometimes stops me from going ahead with it. I don't know if I qualify to be called a gambler or just someone who likes to try his luck.

In your own case, I think you need to still keep up with your watchfulness of maintaining her activities because its not that easy to just quit without trying it once in a while and also, you need to take charge of the finances. Every money spent needs to be accounted for because for the fact that more money is available for shopping does not mean gambling has stopped rather its could be less money now spent on gambling and that's why you need to still be vigilant. Wishing you the best.

[charina]

i think if one person is already addicted to gambling you must already do something to prevent it before it is too late i knew someone whose been into gambling and everything that he has he sold it just to have money to spend to gambling...everything that he earn after a month of work as early as the day he gets his salary he goes directly to casino to play...he is a hardworker but he cant save plus the bank is always searching for him for his debts

[spiker777]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

[Finestream]

i think if one person is already addicted to gambling you must already do something to prevent it before it is too late i knew someone whose been into gambling and everything that he has he sold it just to have money to spend to gambling...everything that he earn after a month of work as early as the day he gets his salary he goes directly to casino to play...he is a hardworker but he cant save plus the bank is always searching for him for his debts

Nothing would changed in his lifestyle if he does not control himself and will be a gambler forever.He should discipline himself by avoiding all means of gambling so he can move forward and recover all his losses even little by little.He should divert his time into some other profitable hobbies so he will not think anymore of coming back into gambling.

[iv4n]

i think if one person is already addicted to gambling you must already do something to prevent it before it is too late i knew someone whose been into gambling and everything that he has he sold it just to have money to spend to gambling...everything that he earn after a month of work as early as the day he gets his salary he goes directly to casino to play...he is a hardworker but he cant save plus the bank is always searching for him for his debts

Nothing would changed in his lifestyle if he does not control himself and will be a gambler forever.He should discipline himself by avoiding all means of gambling so he can move forward and recover all his losses even little by little.He should divert his time into some other profitable hobbies so he will not think anymore of coming back into gambling.

Control is the solution for many problems, with gambling problem it's same. I don't agree with finding profitable hobby, it's not everything in the money. That's the beginning of many problems, we are materialists and it's always about money, making money, spending money, and in that race many people lose their minds.
Control yourself, control your urges for making more money and when you are spending money. Controling yourself in many ways is the solution for many problems, but to be able to control your emotions and actions you need to have strong character, wrong mind. Many people are not able to control simple things in their lives.
Point is in practice, start easy and sloe and practice ituntil it becomes habit. It's not easy but it's achievable.

[charina]

he already tried to stop but after for a month or two his wife told me that he returned into gambling maybe i think it is also because of the people who surrounds him...friends co-workers who is also into gambling...it is easy for us to say to stop but i think if one person is surrounded by these factors it is not easy...especially if you work with you see them everyday and after work they asked you to go with them...he stops when there’s no more money to spend to gambling or he can’t find someone to lend him money for gambling...and now his wife is thinking of sending him into a psychiatrist to seek help...not that he is insane but to help him to forget these sort of things regarding gambling...

[joebrook]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Gambling becomes an addiction whenever people tends to overdo it and that is when they start to spend all their money and time gambling instead of doing other important things. Gambling in itself is no problem but when it becomes extreme and addiction there is when the problem begins.

[ethereumhunter]

he already tried to stop but after for a month or two his wife told me that he returned into gambling maybe i think it is also because of the people who surrounds him...friends co-workers who is also into gambling...it is easy for us to say to stop but i think if one person is surrounded by these factors it is not easy...especially if you work with you see them everyday and after work they asked you to go with them...he stops when there’s no more money to spend to gambling or he can’t find someone to lend him money for gambling...and now his wife is thinking of sending him into a psychiatrist to seek help...not that he is insane but to help him to forget these sort of things regarding gambling...

people which around us can give a bad experience to us especially if they are often to play gambling, soon or later, we can attract to the games and we will difficult to leave the gambling. and if this is happening, maybe he needs to quit his job and search for another job because he cannot reject his friends to play gambling. but if he realizes that he doesn't have to follow with his friends then he can stay with his job and he needs to always reject if his friend wants to ask him to play gambling.

[kiloiko]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

But I am against this point. Reason is, why to involve families in this harmful game. Once you have decided to make fun of yourself and trying to ruin your own life, then why to grab shoulders of your family too? Don’t do this. Take good care of them and don’t let them down by doing this harmful gaming. Better to pledge on right way and that owl only lead you to best gate out.

[sana54210]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

Nice story, I really enjoyed. I have also a friend who is regular gambler and I also visited with him for many times, but I just look out and never gamble because I have no experience of gambling. I have never seen him winning big money and took it to home, he always lost and not only he but all other gambler also lost money. Only the owner of the place collects money.

[agentx44]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

Nice story, I really enjoyed. I have also a friend who is regular gambler and I also visited with him for many times, but I just look out and never gamble because I have no experience of gambling. I have never seen him winning big money and took it to home, he always lost and not only he but all other gambler also lost money. Only the owner of the place collects money.

I have also experienced going home without any winnings in gambling and i get really upset when i lost all of my money in gambling, but i do not get addicted in gambling because i only play when my friends just ask me to play. Only my friends who are a regular that almost every night they play in the casino and always expecting to win a huge profit.

[Ewinsane]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Yes only few people were seriously addicted to the gambling and then most of them can tackle it even if they were addicted to it with their daily life.
Gambling has lot of positivity too but in most of the world it was just portrayed as bad thing to do,like a sin and sometime even like illegal activities that is why many people afraid to be a gambler even if they wanted to be.

Man, you are the only one here I think who is saying this. Gambling has a lot of positivity? Where it is? Why this positivity is not seen to us? Why people are getting so much negativity in gambling and why they are not making themselves beneficial with this positivity? I think this all is just a loss of mind. You are out of your mind or somehow you better become blind with greed for money.

[buwaytress]

Like all forms of addiction/affliction, pain or suffering, it's actually really difficult to empathise if you've never experienced it before. As I grow older, I am more open to trying to understand things, no matter how insensible they seem to me. I can't ever see myself losing control in gambling, but perhaps I've never really made myself vulnerable to such situations. I do find shades of irresponsibility within my limits - countless times losing a bit more than I intended to, a few times depositing more when I promised not to, just to chase back losses. But perhaps on worse days, less desirable personal situations, I could have gone a few steps farther, and then it's hard to say what could have happened next.

Living alone is always going to be difficult, no matter the rigours of self-discipline. It's good to see the recognition that having friends and family help keep an eye on you, having first being open about the problem, is critical to keeping that addiction at bay.

As audacious suggests above, perhaps keep control of finances. Bitcoin makes this a bit easier. Keeping the private keys on savings and income, and funneling whatever you're comfortable with to her, until she can trust herself again.

[Maddinson100]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't have any problem at home and I don't think that gambling is a "hidden disease" because as long as we can control ourselves in the gambling, we are not potential to be an addicting person. but if I have this problem, maybe I will find somebody in my family and I will tell that person that I have a problem with gambling and I really need his/her help to solve this. I am sure that if we really want to get out from gambling, he/she will give some help and always give a suggestion to us so we can solve our problem with gambling.

Playing gambling in times will make you become dependent on it but also the people who tried gambling for two to three times in their lives only, they also would become addicted to it because gambling is more addiction than the addiction itself. When the person starts following gambling, no other substitute can be found of it for the people.

[TheGreatPython]

Well honestly i don't think that gambling addiction is that hard to get over, for me i think that people get that into gambling because they have nothing else to do, nothing else to keep them busy from spending money on it, if they have friends and family who encourage them to do activities and keep them busy from doing so than i am sure they won't find the time to gamble and they will lose their desire to do it, at least that is what i did for my friend when he started falling to it.

Easy for you to say because you don't have gambling addiction. I think your friend is not in that rabbit hole where gambling addicts fall into every single time. In other words, your friend is not really addicted to gambling that much OR you're friend is secretly still gambling after a good day of spending time with his friends. I think gambling addiction, like any other addiction, is a form of escape. An escape from real world problems that actually do matter. Addiction is a symptom of a much larger problem and these people have addiction because they want to avoid facing those problems as much as they can because they are either too afraid to face it or simply don't have the capacity to face it. They say that all problems can be solved that's why God gave it to us. Yes, it has a logical solution but not everyone has the capacity to take action.

Everything works when is done or used in some limits. That’s why when we buy some new electronic appliance, there is a note printed somewhere on that thing with precautionary measurements written on it. These precautionary measures are basically the limits of that thing which means that beside these circumstances, this thing will not work.

[bitcoinrays]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Yes only few people were seriously addicted to the gambling and then most of them can tackle it even if they were addicted to it with their daily life.
Gambling has lot of positivity too but in most of the world it was just portrayed as bad thing to do,like a sin and sometime even like illegal activities that is why many people afraid to be a gambler even if they wanted to be.

Man, you are the only one here I think who is saying this. Gambling has a lot of positivity? Where it is? Why this positivity is not seen to us? Why people are getting so much negativity in gambling and why they are not making themselves beneficial with this positivity? I think this all is just a loss of mind. You are out of your mind or somehow you better become blind with greed for money.

I don’t have any gambler friend because i think that gambling is a bad thing and so the gamblers. I do not gamble because I do not want to lose my hard earn money so easily. So when I think that gambling is bad think how can I have a gambler friend? If he forces you to visit casino with him and you go with him, one day you will start gambling.  Keep avoid of such friends.

[changcloy]

I had a gambling addiction problem before but as you stated i start realizing that the money I'm losing is something which might help me in future, it will support me if i have a financial failure, so what i did was stopped logging in on the gambling site and stopped seeing other players profit, instead i started investing on different sites bankroll and started making profits

We mostly have the same scenario mate , I can say that I have addiction problem also before ,there were times that I cannot control myself I always look ways to gamble, but like you I just realize one day that there is more important thing that I can use my money , for my future and for my kids. It is hard to stop if you already used to gamble but if you are willing to earn you will stop wasting your money in gambling and think for brighter tomorrow.

[jrrsparkles]

I had a gambling addiction problem before but as you stated i start realizing that the money I'm losing is something which might help me in future, it will support me if i have a financial failure, so what i did was stopped logging in on the gambling site and stopped seeing other players profit, instead i started investing on different sites bankroll and started making profits

We mostly have the same scenario mate , I can say that I have addiction problem also before ,there were times that I cannot control myself I always look ways to gamble, but like you I just realize one day that there is more important thing that I can use my money , for my future and for my kids. It is hard to stop if you already used to gamble but if you are willing to earn you will stop wasting your money in gambling and think for brighter tomorrow.

Gambling is just for fun,if you can't afford to it then we have to stay away from it because many people will going to lose their money in gambling that is how the system being designed.But if you still want to earn money from ambling better being an investor on it the odds of making profits is high but the percentage will be less,so it is like passive income from your money.

[ethereumhunter]

I had a gambling addiction problem before but as you stated i start realizing that the money I'm losing is something which might help me in future, it will support me if i have a financial failure, so what i did was stopped logging in on the gambling site and stopped seeing other players profit, instead i started investing on different sites bankroll and started making profits

We mostly have the same scenario mate , I can say that I have addiction problem also before ,there were times that I cannot control myself I always look ways to gamble, but like you I just realize one day that there is more important thing that I can use my money , for my future and for my kids. It is hard to stop if you already used to gamble but if you are willing to earn you will stop wasting your money in gambling and think for brighter tomorrow.

Gambling is just for fun,if you can't afford to it then we have to stay away from it because many people will going to lose their money in gambling that is how the system being designed.But if you still want to earn money from ambling better being an investor on it the odds of making profits is high but the percentage will be less,so it is like passive income from your money.

but still, many people still curious about gambling games and they still come again on the other days but the result will be the same as a few days ago. they need to realize that gambling cannot be as a source of income and it is only a game that we can enjoy without spending too much money. maybe they can try to invest their money with the gambling site and I think this will more effective than they are playing gambling.

[darkangel11]

I know a guy who used to be an addicted gambler and according to him you can't really help an addict. You have to make him touch the bottom and realize that if he doesn't change his life will be over. Only when he starts being afraid of his addiction will he be able to start fighting it.
That guy that I'm talking about was borrowing money everywhere and even sold his car to have money for gambling, but he survived and recovered. If you know an addict, don't let him drag you down with him or you will only extend his fall and make it all hader for both of you. I know it sounds harsh but it's the truth.

[quality.crypto]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't have any problem at home and I don't think that gambling is a "hidden disease" because as long as we can control ourselves in the gambling, we are not potential to be an addicting person. but if I have this problem, maybe I will find somebody in my family and I will tell that person that I have a problem with gambling and I really need his/her help to solve this. I am sure that if we really want to get out from gambling, he/she will give some help and always give a suggestion to us so we can solve our problem with gambling.

Playing gambling in times will make you become dependent on it but also the people who tried gambling for two to three times in their lives only, they also would become addicted to it because gambling is more addiction than the addiction itself. When the person starts following gambling, no other substitute can be found of it for the people.

Yes, that's why there are many people afraid to gamble because once they start playing definitely they will start making money in the beginning, this makes them invest more money in gambling. So it is always good to stay away from the gambling once after losing in gambling.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

I use to tell most people who want to join gambling that 'if you are not psychological stable or strong,  don't bother going into gambling. It's painful and frustrating to drag your love ones into the mess you create for yourself when gambling. Like OP has said, it's really a silent killer and you care about should not suffer because of your greed.

Yeah that's right, I have a friend and he has an unstable psychology, I mean he always focuses on something he wants even if he really likes what he wants then everything he has done before just a moment will he forgeten. Until now he gambled without time and even he forgot the needs of his family. This is the worst situation experienced by a gambler, and I am concerned about it.

[ricardobs]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

Nice story, I really enjoyed. I have also a friend who is regular gambler and I also visited with him for many times, but I just look out and never gamble because I have no experience of gambling. I have never seen him winning big money and took it to home, he always lost and not only he but all other gambler also lost money. Only the owner of the place collects money.

This is the main problem in touch with gambler. After some time you will also start gambling because of the community. I think before you become addicted of gambling you should leave their company. Bad habit and bad people have bad impact on your life. I try to keep avoid of such people and such game. I don’t want to be dis respected in my surroundings.

[ethereumhunter]

I use to tell most people who want to join gambling that 'if you are not psychological stable or strong,  don't bother going into gambling. It's painful and frustrating to drag your love ones into the mess you create for yourself when gambling. Like OP has said, it's really a silent killer and you care about should not suffer because of your greed.

Yeah that's right, I have a friend and he has an unstable psychology, I mean he always focuses on something he wants even if he really likes what he wants then everything he has done before just a moment will he forgeten. Until now he gambled without time and even he forgot the needs of his family. This is the worst situation experienced by a gambler, and I am concerned about it.

I think if he is your best friend, maybe you can talk to him and give some advice to him. maybe he will listen to you and slowly he will change his mind and he will think to stop gambling. usually, if someone has the closest friend, he will listen to his advice and will do what his friend suggest and he will change as the suggestion has given.

[jrrsparkles]

I had a gambling addiction problem before but as you stated i start realizing that the money I'm losing is something which might help me in future, it will support me if i have a financial failure, so what i did was stopped logging in on the gambling site and stopped seeing other players profit, instead i started investing on different sites bankroll and started making profits

We mostly have the same scenario mate , I can say that I have addiction problem also before ,there were times that I cannot control myself I always look ways to gamble, but like you I just realize one day that there is more important thing that I can use my money , for my future and for my kids. It is hard to stop if you already used to gamble but if you are willing to earn you will stop wasting your money in gambling and think for brighter tomorrow.

Gambling is just for fun,if you can't afford to it then we have to stay away from it because many people will going to lose their money in gambling that is how the system being designed.But if you still want to earn money from ambling better being an investor on it the odds of making profits is high but the percentage will be less,so it is like passive income from your money.

but still, many people still curious about gambling games and they still come again on the other days but the result will be the same as a few days ago. they need to realize that gambling cannot be as a source of income and it is only a game that we can enjoy without spending too much money. maybe they can try to invest their money with the gambling site and I think this will more effective than they are playing gambling.

The earning from the gambling site is not that much high when compare to gambling rewards but we have less risks because we knows that the house has more odds to win.People just want quick money and become millionaire over night is the reason fro gambling addiction and losses.

[qwertyup23]

Ahhh, I'll never forget what I experienced before 4 years ago when I was still living at my grandmother's place. I have an uncle who was well-off before. He used to treat our family with stuff and unexpected surprises, not to mention his lovable and caring attitude. He had this wonderful girlfriend who cherished him for 7 years until the day came that he lost his job. At that time, everything started to fell and his life revolved around vices like drugs, gambling, and other relevant stuff. Our family tried to support and help him despite his downfall but the ultimate decision on whether he would fix himself relies upon him only.

Last July 6, 2013, I almost got killed by my own uncle who tried to stab me using our kitchen knife JUST because I did not let him borrow any of my money to pay off his debts due to gambling. Unfortunately, I did not tell my mom about the whole story as it may aggravate the situation (he was living inside our house and mom's house was beside- we have one lot and land) and I might get myself into trouble as he threatened me. As years passed by, we tried to help him by putting him into REHAB and by providing him with all the necessities and things are getting back to normal. Although slowly, but the current was going through that kind of positive light.

The moral of the story: despite any difficulties and hardships, when people are at their lowest point they judgement becomes clouded and makes them irrational and indecisive of the decisions that they do. Although I am not invalidating and defending him from what he did to me, continuous support from your family and UNDERSTANDING from both ends would result relatively to a positive impact.

[btc-facebook]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

[jrrsparkles]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

The gambling is addiction to most of the people but if we realize our family situation and our future then we may don't get too much interested in the gambling the only people who hate life or just alone or have money which has no purpose for now will attract attention towards the gambling.Even though we didn't win any big rewards we will hope to win that on someday.

[Freshmen]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

[coolcoinz]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

No family - no family meltdowns - no problem! You're right.
There's really no way to live with a compulsive gambler. He'll be throwing tantrums all the time and going from one extreme to another. One day he'll win and he'll take you to dinner with flowers, movies whatever and when he loses he'll either get enraged or will visit the bar and come back looking like a beggar. Living with an addict of any kind is like a torture.

[Rembedful]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

The gambling is addiction to most of the people but if we realize our family situation and our future then we may don't get too much interested in the gambling the only people who hate life or just alone or have money which has no purpose for now will attract attention towards the gambling.Even though we didn't win any big rewards we will hope to win that on someday.

This is the point that addicted gambler do not of their families. They just do what they want and don’t care about their families. Gambling addiction is like drug addiction and death is the final penalty for them. My brother is also drug addicted. We tried our best but he doesn’t try to quit drugs addiction. Although he is government employee but doesn’t think anything.

[0xBitcoins]

I use to tell most people who want to join gambling that 'if you are not psychological stable or strong,  don't bother going into gambling. It's painful and frustrating to drag your love ones into the mess you create for yourself when gambling. Like OP has said, it's really a silent killer and you care about should not suffer because of your greed.

Yeah that's right, I have a friend and he has an unstable psychology, I mean he always focuses on something he wants even if he really likes what he wants then everything he has done before just a moment will he forgeten. Until now he gambled without time and even he forgot the needs of his family. This is the worst situation experienced by a gambler, and I am concerned about it.

In my opinion the solution for life with a gambler is that try to keep them quit gambling and tell them it will destroy your life and your family as well, and if they do not quit gambling let them alone. If they have any sense that friends are leaving him because of gambling he will quit gambling, if not never make any relationship with him.

[Findingnemo]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

The gambling is addiction to most of the people but if we realize our family situation and our future then we may don't get too much interested in the gambling the only people who hate life or just alone or have money which has no purpose for now will attract attention towards the gambling.Even though we didn't win any big rewards we will hope to win that on someday.

This is the point that addicted gambler do not of their families. They just do what they want and don’t care about their families. Gambling addiction is like drug addiction and death is the final penalty for them. My brother is also drug addicted. We tried our best but he doesn’t try to quit drugs addiction. Although he is government employee but doesn’t think anything.

These kind of behavior arises only when they hate their life completely the reasons for these are many like loss in business or love failure or some other like that.But the addictions can be only cured when the addicted person really want to get away from that or there is no way that we can help them to stay away and finally death will happen as you said.

[Gameroid]

I use to tell most people who want to join gambling that 'if you are not psychological stable or strong,  don't bother going into gambling. It's painful and frustrating to drag your love ones into the mess you create for yourself when gambling. Like OP has said, it's really a silent killer and you care about should not suffer because of your greed.

Yeah that's right, I have a friend and he has an unstable psychology, I mean he always focuses on something he wants even if he really likes what he wants then everything he has done before just a moment will he forgeten. Until now he gambled without time and even he forgot the needs of his family. This is the worst situation experienced by a gambler, and I am concerned about it.

In my opinion the solution for life with a gambler is that try to keep them quit gambling and tell them it will destroy your life and your family as well, and if they do not quit gambling let them alone. If they have any sense that friends are leaving him because of gambling he will quit gambling, if not never make any relationship with him.

And if he is not going to quit gambling then ?

[Ansdaoust6]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

As many gambler I have seen in my life have been disrespected even by their families. They cannot fulfill their needs because they lose all their money in gambling and have nothing left for their families. I hate gamblers therefore I have no gambler friend. If you continue friendship with gamblers you will also start gambling one day. Better to leave their society.

[kurian]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

As many gambler I have seen in my life have been disrespected even by their families. They cannot fulfill their needs because they lose all their money in gambling and have nothing left for their families. I hate gamblers therefore I have no gambler friend. If you continue friendship with gamblers you will also start gambling one day. Better to leave their society.

I don't know why gambling is portrayed negatively everywhere. There are people who made big fortunes from casinos. It's all about patience, control and mainly the ability to control our greed. Someone who gamble his/her life savings is an idiot anyway. Always play with what we can afford to lose. We are paying to watch movies, play games and for other entertainment purposes. So, see it as an entertainment platform. Have the mindset to accept your losses.

[Finestream]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

As many gambler I have seen in my life have been disrespected even by their families. They cannot fulfill their needs because they lose all their money in gambling and have nothing left for their families. I hate gamblers therefore I have no gambler friend. If you continue friendship with gamblers you will also start gambling one day. Better to leave their society.

I don't know why gambling is portrayed negatively everywhere. There are people who made big fortunes from casinos. It's all about patience, control and mainly the ability to control our greed. Someone who gamble his/her life savings is an idiot anyway. Always play with what we can afford to lose. We are paying to watch movies, play games and for other entertainment purposes. So, see it as an entertainment platform. Have the mindset to accept your losses.

Right.Gambling may only become  positive and even profitable if a person involved knows how to handle enough his winnings and losses.Cause if not,better to get away from gambling now or else it will only cause damages in your own personal life in the latter part.

[nydiacaskey01]

I don't consider gambling can be addicting but yes there are people out there who are very much into gambling, not a single day will pass without gambling. If you consider your self as addicted to gambling, you need the help of your loved ones to support and help you not to gamble anymore. I have a relative who was banned in a casino as per request of her husband.

[Sukut]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

some of them are not problems at all. they happen.

let him have fun. it's not a huge deal

[DaughterOFbitcoin]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

Life with a gambler is very difficult. You will try your best to protect him from regular gambling but he will not quit gambling and this act will get you angry. I have no gambler friend because I know that these people will never listen you and will do what they want. So it is better not to make friendship with such people otherwise you will also lose your respect.

[St4yInTh3D4rk]

I don't consider gambling can be addicting but yes there are people out there who are very much into gambling, not a single day will pass without gambling. If you consider your self as addicted to gambling, you need the help of your loved ones to support and help you not to gamble anymore. I have a relative who was banned in a casino as per request of her husband.

Gambling is also one of the most addictive thing next to drink,smoke and porn addictions so we need to be careful while gambling.As you said if someone can't pass a day without gambling then he should realize that he is getting addicted and he need to get out now to live the remaining future better,still it is not going to be an easy thing.SO prevention is better than cure in gambling too.

[jhongzjhong]

I don't consider gambling can be addicting but yes there are people out there who are very much into gambling, not a single day will pass without gambling. If you consider your self as addicted to gambling, you need the help of your loved ones to support and help you not to gamble anymore. I have a relative who was banned in a casino as per request of her husband.

Gambling is also one of the most addictive thing next to drink,smoke and porn addictions so we need to be careful while gambling.As you said if someone can't pass a day without gambling then he should realize that he is getting addicted and he need to get out now to live the remaining future better,still it is not going to be an easy thing.SO prevention is better than cure in gambling too.

A person makes addicted on gambling because of chasing loss or chasing money in gambling that makes gamblers become addicted to it. If you know how to handle with it you can avoid for the possible addiction. I like the way that I bolded above on your post, yes, you can avoid and prevent is better than cure and make worst in gambling.
The solution to this has a self-limitation if you are going to a casino or gambling site.

[NeoMyHero]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't have any problem at home and I don't think that gambling is a "hidden disease" because as long as we can control ourselves in the gambling, we are not potential to be an addicting person. but if I have this problem, maybe I will find somebody in my family and I will tell that person that I have a problem with gambling and I really need his/her help to solve this. I am sure that if we really want to get out from gambling, he/she will give some help and always give a suggestion to us so we can solve our problem with gambling.

Playing gambling in times will make you become dependent on it but also the people who tried gambling for two to three times in their lives only, they also would become addicted to it because gambling is more addiction than the addiction itself. When the person starts following gambling, no other substitute can be found of it for the people.

Yes, that's why there are many people afraid to gamble because once they start playing definitely they will start making money in the beginning, this makes them invest more money in gambling. So it is always good to stay away from the gambling once after losing in gambling.

In my country gambling is not allowed and regular gamblers find illegal ways to gamble. That’s why I want to keep avoiding company with such people, because they have no respect in society. They have negative response everywhere even in their homes. Friendship with a gambler means that ordinary people would think that you are also a gambler.

[el kaka22]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

No family - no family meltdowns - no problem! You're right.
There's really no way to live with a compulsive gambler. He'll be throwing tantrums all the time and going from one extreme to another. One day he'll win and he'll take you to dinner with flowers, movies whatever and when he loses he'll either get enraged or will visit the bar and come back looking like a beggar. Living with an addict of any kind is like a torture.

A real time torture. I remember far back in higher institution having a gambler as a roommate. He goes out in the night, comes back later drunk, tired and angry saying rubbish like he will never try to gamble in his life again, how he has lost all and so many other bull shit, only to go back in the next few days after getting hold of some money.

Good thing he eventually came around but it took a whole lot of work even on my own part to see that get done, most especially when he begged that he needed help. It is not an easy thing for them too even though it was their fault they let it get to that extent in the first place.

[darkangel11]

A real time torture. I remember far back in higher institution having a gambler as a roommate. He goes out in the night, comes back later drunk, tired and angry saying rubbish like he will never try to gamble in his life again, how he has lost all and so many other bull shit, only to go back in the next few days after getting hold of some money.

Good thing he eventually came around but it took a whole lot of work even on my own part to see that get done, most especially when he begged that he needed help. It is not an easy thing for them too even though it was their fault they let it get to that extent in the first place.

That's exactly the same as having a drunkard for a roommate. They are getting wasted, puking all over the place, waking up in the morning hungover and all sad and converted. They'll never drink again, not a drop! Then you casually ask them if they want a beer a couple days later, the answer is still the same - no, they're not drinking ever again. Then, a month later you find them sleeping wasted by the door. There's no moderation with those guys. It's either all or nothing. An addicted gambler will play like that. When he starts losing he'll take a loan, borrow from friends and bet his watch.

[coinfinger]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

Nice story, I really enjoyed. I have also a friend who is regular gambler and I also visited with him for many times, but I just look out and never gamble because I have no experience of gambling. I have never seen him winning big money and took it to home, he always lost and not only he but all other gambler also lost money. Only the owner of the place collects money.

This is the main problem in touch with gambler. After some time you will also start gambling because of the community. I think before you become addicted of gambling you should leave their company. Bad habit and bad people have bad impact on your life. I try to keep avoid of such people and such game. I don’t want to be dis respected in my surroundings.

Yeah we can say, gambling comes out to be integral part of your life just because you are having bad company. When this company just flew away from you or you get apart from them, may be things get better. And if this is of some little surety, believe me you are good to go for this. Make it your concern and learn out this gambling company because they are ruining their lives and yours too.

[feelivent]

Actually when gambler start to get addicted, the religion and the family environment able to recover them for fast rather than using hospital because gambler's mental is difficult to recover !
Luckily, I'm never got addicted too much although I'm ever experience huge winning on the single bet on last world cup match final !

The gambling is addiction to most of the people but if we realize our family situation and our future then we may don't get too much interested in the gambling the only people who hate life or just alone or have money which has no purpose for now will attract attention towards the gambling.Even though we didn't win any big rewards we will hope to win that on someday.

Life with a gambler is very hard and you will afraid of people in your community that they will also think that you are also a gambler. I have some friend in my past, but I leave them all because they are the worst people of the society. Friendship with them is not good at all. Now I have earned my respect back and now living a normal life without gamblers.

[wuvdoll]

Everything works when is done or used in some limits. That’s why when we buy some new electronic appliance, there is a note printed somewhere on that thing with precautionary measurements written on it. These precautionary measures are basically the limits of that thing which means that beside these circumstances, this thing will not work.

As long as you go beyond limit in most cases, you are always going to be bound to enter deep shit most of the time with gambling not being an exception.  A lot of people believe that gambling is going to give them the financial freedom they have always dreamt of and then totally forgot that this is just a game of luck and in most cases, luck is actually something you do not want to rely on all the time, all in the name of wanting to gamble.

As day goes by and they started noticing that they were wrong, it would only take them to get out of it only if they can overcome the impulses of not wanting to go ahead.

[noah tall]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Yes only few people were seriously addicted to the gambling and then most of them can tackle it even if they were addicted to it with their daily life.
Gambling has lot of positivity too but in most of the world it was just portrayed as bad thing to do,like a sin and sometime even like illegal activities that is why many people afraid to be a gambler even if they wanted to be.

I do not agree with you. I have seen many people who ruined their lives due to gambling. Many people committed suicide due to debts in gambling. I have seen that richest people lost all their properties in gambling. I have seen that drugs addicted people ruined their lives but didn’t affect their families but I have seen that gambler addicted destroyed the lives of their families.

[kotajikikox]

actually i always take risk in gambling here in crypto and in real life but i'm not addict or whatever you post about gambling OP for me better to understand that we play for past time with so fun then for knowledge and experience although this is very risky another thing we can bet here in affordable for us so that's the solution i think also that you need to remember that if your here in crypto knowledge is the key to earn so always try different kinds of way to learn then use that as your weapon for your future here in crypto

Right mate i agree to your thoughts the most important things herein cryptocurrency besides from the knowledge as a weapon to earn money need also the self discipline to avoid addicting in the very risky gambling site, playing of gambling aren't a source of income as you said is for fun.

[Aleister Crowley]

actually i always take risk in gambling here in crypto and in real life but i'm not addict or whatever you post about gambling OP for me better to understand that we play for past time with so fun then for knowledge and experience although this is very risky another thing we can bet here in affordable for us so that's the solution i think also that you need to remember that if your here in crypto knowledge is the key to earn so always try different kinds of way to learn then use that as your weapon for your future here in crypto

Right mate i agree to your thoughts the most important things herein cryptocurrency besides from the knowledge as a weapon to earn money need also the self discipline to avoid addicting in the very risky gambling site, playing of gambling aren't a source of income as you said is for fun.

probably everyone will agree with this ,, because the risk of addiction is very frightening .. if you have been gambling, gambling. I am convinced that addicts can not get away from gambling before they go bankrupt ... this is an event that always happens to gambling addicts .. and in the future if we have been able to control the learning and running every game, my victory will come

[ocid]

actually i always take risk in gambling here in crypto and in real life but i'm not addict or whatever you post about gambling OP for me better to understand that we play for past time with so fun then for knowledge and experience although this is very risky another thing we can bet here in affordable for us so that's the solution i think also that you need to remember that if your here in crypto knowledge is the key to earn so always try different kinds of way to learn then use that as your weapon for your future here in crypto

Right mate i agree to your thoughts the most important things herein cryptocurrency besides from the knowledge as a weapon to earn money need also the self discipline to avoid addicting in the very risky gambling site, playing of gambling aren't a source of income as you said is for fun.

probably everyone will agree with this ,, because the risk of addiction is very frightening .. if you have been gambling, gambling. I am convinced that addicts can not get away from gambling before they go bankrupt ... this is an event that always happens to gambling addicts .. and in the future if we have been able to control the learning and running every game, my victory will come

some people will realize the risk of addiction in gambling when they lose a lot of money he has staked (bankrupt). they should look for other activities that can make money even if the income is small, it is intended to be able to return the capital that has been issued. they will realize that gambling is not the main source of income. but for acute addicts, it's hard to avoid gambling because they can apply gambling to have fun and earn money quickly.

[onrise]

There is no one solution to this. Gambling is an addiction, so the best course of action is to be supportive towards them and offer ways to re-engage with something else, or perhaps hold a discussion about possible therapy sessions?

As far as one can stay away from it is the best solution. Once you start gambling then ensure in life you play for fun and to make yourself entertain and not for just making money. Also always set the goal in a day max loss you can take and if it reaches you just leave the gambling for that day or month etc.

[coolcoinz]

There is no one solution to this. Gambling is an addiction, so the best course of action is to be supportive towards them and offer ways to re-engage with something else, or perhaps hold a discussion about possible therapy sessions?

As far as one can stay away from it is the best solution. Once you start gambling then ensure in life you play for fun and to make yourself entertain and not for just making money. Also always set the goal in a day max loss you can take and if it reaches you just leave the gambling for that day or month etc.

Are you for real? A guy with a gambling site in his sig says that it's best to stay away from gambling? Gambling is good in moderation like any other thing. Alcohol, caffeine and other things are also good in moderation, let's not go into extremes.
If someone close to you gets addicted it's best to talk to him and make him realize that he's wasting his life. If it doesn't help cut him off his gambling money and if this still doesn't change him cut any ties until he recovers.

[coinplus]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

The problem people usually have with gambling is concentrating on it too much. Gambling is not something that should be done in a long time frame and it should always be some short term thing which is the reason why any gambler should always have a pocket and time limit when it comes to gambling. Not placing these limits in the first place is what makes a whole lot of people to mess up big time when it comes to gambling.

Limiting ourselves with gambling will solve most of the problems as well it will help to prevent problems. Gamblers getting into addiction is happening slowly that is the reason why they are not realizing what they are actually doing, also addiction will not let gamblers to realize that slow progress. Gamblers are getting themselves busy with other activities whereas gambling kills them like a slow poison.

You cannot find a perfect solution solution in very short time frame itself as getting out of gambling problems also must need lots of time because that also your slow progress.

[Aamir1]

My partner was a gambling addict for many years, and I put up with it as much as I could for many years. We had talks about it. We had fights about it. Sometimes we went for weeks without speaking to each other. Many times after promising to quit, she'd quietly go back there and lose more money. The children would stay up until late into the night waiting for their mother to come home. Where's mommy? They'd wake up tired for school the next day. One night after she came home, something inside me snapped. I had enough!! I told her to get the F out of my house and to take all her crap with her. I told her that I'm going to divorce her and take the house and the kids. I told her that I have copies of all her bank statements showing how much money she's been squandering at casinos and that no judge in his right mind would give a gambling addict custody of the children, besides she was always broke. I was seeing red and I was fully prepared for the ugliest divorce and custody fight ever. Do you know what happened after that night? She quit gambling. It's been 6 months or so since that night, and I have to say thanks be to God for answering my prayers and bringing this whole ugly problem to an end. I've never been that angry with her before, and I guess that is what she needed to see before she quit. I showed her the brick wall that she was heading for and she slammed on the brakes.

Nice story, I really enjoyed. I have also a friend who is regular gambler and I also visited with him for many times, but I just look out and never gamble because I have no experience of gambling. I have never seen him winning big money and took it to home, he always lost and not only he but all other gambler also lost money. Only the owner of the place collects money.

I have also experienced going home without any winnings in gambling and i get really upset when i lost all of my money in gambling, but i do not get addicted in gambling because i only play when my friends just ask me to play. Only my friends who are a regular that almost every night they play in the casino and always expecting to win a huge profit.

Life with a gambler is a bad experience especially in my country because gambling is prohibited and is illegal. If the police or other law department raid on the gambling place and arrest you with gambling money, they will put you in jail and if you have a gambler friend who force you to stay with him in that place, they will also arrest you even you do not gamble.

[Mastsetad]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

But I am against this point. Reason is, why to involve families in this harmful game. Once you have decided to make fun of yourself and trying to ruin your own life, then why to grab shoulders of your family too? Don’t do this. Take good care of them and don’t let them down by doing this harmful gaming. Better to pledge on right way and that owl only lead you to best gate out.

Life with a gambler is very bad experience of my life. In my country gambling is prohibited and police raid of the place of gambling. If they found you on that place although you are not playing they will arrest you because you are setting there with gamblers. They will out you in jail. Your friends, neighbors and family will think that you are also a gambler.

[jestbenen8]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

But I am against this point. Reason is, why to involve families in this harmful game. Once you have decided to make fun of yourself and trying to ruin your own life, then why to grab shoulders of your family too? Don’t do this. Take good care of them and don’t let them down by doing this harmful gaming. Better to pledge on right way and that owl only lead you to best gate out.

Life with a gambler is very bad experience of my life. In my country gambling is prohibited and police raid of the place of gambling. If they found you on that place although you are not playing they will arrest you because you are setting there with gamblers. They will out you in jail. Your friends, neighbors and family will think that you are also a gambler.

I also have a very bad experience of that. Life of a gambling is no doubt very difficult restricted and always in trouble, they always face financial problems and even create financial problems for people who are living with them. I will play that God may protect people to spend life with an addicted gambler.

[Baofeng]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

But I am against this point. Reason is, why to involve families in this harmful game. Once you have decided to make fun of yourself and trying to ruin your own life, then why to grab shoulders of your family too? Don’t do this. Take good care of them and don’t let them down by doing this harmful gaming. Better to pledge on right way and that owl only lead you to best gate out.

Life with a gambler is very bad experience of my life. In my country gambling is prohibited and police raid of the place of gambling. If they found you on that place although you are not playing they will arrest you because you are setting there with gamblers. They will out you in jail. Your friends, neighbors and family will think that you are also a gambler.

I also have a very bad experience of that. Life of a gambling is no doubt very difficult restricted and always in trouble, they always face financial problems and even create financial problems for people who are living with them. I will play that God may protect people to spend life with an addicted gambler.

I guess everyone, not necessarily addicted gamblers, even casuals, have sort of experience difficulty once they got into gambling. That's why others tend not to go again in a casino because they know where they going to end. But others choose otherwise, then to live the life of a gambler and suffer financial problems that most of the time didn't end well. I myself, have experienced it, but I stil gamble and became more mature and learn how to control my emotions and just bring enough money that can I afford to lose.

[Symphonized]

I think that there should be a notice on the front of casinos that actually provides this kind of supports for families. I know that some countries have mandatory requirements to inform guests about the risks of gambling, but there should definitely be some measures taken. I know that it's a rare case for gambling to become a problem, but there should be some attempts to reducing this issue, as it has a negative impactive on the gambling scene as a whole.

But I am against this point. Reason is, why to involve families in this harmful game. Once you have decided to make fun of yourself and trying to ruin your own life, then why to grab shoulders of your family too? Don’t do this. Take good care of them and don’t let them down by doing this harmful gaming. Better to pledge on right way and that owl only lead you to best gate out.

Life with a gambler is very bad experience of my life. In my country gambling is prohibited and police raid of the place of gambling. If they found you on that place although you are not playing they will arrest you because you are setting there with gamblers. They will out you in jail. Your friends, neighbors and family will think that you are also a gambler.

I also have a very bad experience of that. Life of a gambling is no doubt very difficult restricted and always in trouble, they always face financial problems and even create financial problems for people who are living with them. I will play that God may protect people to spend life with an addicted gambler.

Well i don't agree with you, Not ALL (so not everyone as you made it stated there) have financial problems.
For example Doug Polk is a very successfully Poker Player and doesn't have those sorts of situations.

[vennali]

Well honestly i don't think that gambling addiction is that hard to get over, for me i think that people get that into gambling because they have nothing else to do, nothing else to keep them busy from spending money on it, if they have friends and family who encourage them to do activities and keep them busy from doing so than i am sure they won't find the time to gamble and they will lose their desire to do it, at least that is what i did for my friend when he started falling to it.

Nah, mate. It might be easy for you but Gambling addiction is a real thing which can be really hard to get over. Just like alcoholism, a lot of functional adults who have regular jobs get into it and generally lose money out of it. It just might have been easy for you and you are luck with this regard but a lot of people arent.

[Dontme]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

Very well said, being honest with your partner or your love ones is much more important because in the end they are the only people who left in your side no matter what happens. Sometimes, problems can be solve with your family or together with your family.

[Kprawn]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

[Finestream]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

[JanpriX]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

[Fatanut]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

Addiction should always be addressed right away. It's like a little plant at first, not really taking up that much space. Every time you gamble, you're watering that plant. Until one day, that plan has become a tree. And the roots are a lot more deeper. And the trunk and branches of the tree are thicker than ever. Mental health is an issue that's been around for a long time. People think that gambling addiction is a phase and everyone has had it. Everyone did gambling in their lives, but not everyone got addicted to it. Up to now, addiction is still an issue that a lot of people are talking about, but not really fixing. Mental health is just as important as physical health, probably even more important. Funny because it was only recently when a law in my country was established about getting help with mental health.

As a gambler, you should realize that your life isn't just a life for yourself. Your life is also for your family and your friends. You might think that they aren't affected by your actions but they really really are deeply affected by it.

[rickadone]

Like all forms of addiction/affliction, pain or suffering, it's actually really difficult to empathise if you've never experienced it before. As I grow older, I am more open to trying to understand things, no matter how insensible they seem to me. I can't ever see myself losing control in gambling, but perhaps I've never really made myself vulnerable to such situations. I do find shades of irresponsibility within my limits - countless times losing a bit more than I intended to, a few times depositing more when I promised not to, just to chase back losses. But perhaps on worse days, less desirable personal situations, I could have gone a few steps farther, and then it's hard to say what could have happened next.

Living alone is always going to be difficult, no matter the rigours of self-discipline. It's good to see the recognition that having friends and family help keep an eye on you, having first being open about the problem, is critical to keeping that addiction at bay.

As audacious suggests above, perhaps keep control of finances. Bitcoin makes this a bit easier. Keeping the private keys on savings and income, and funneling whatever you're comfortable with to her, until she can trust herself again.

Well, it is a good thing that you cannot see yourself losing control in gambling and probably that is because you already know anyway that there is really nothing you should be expecting so much from it as long as you know the possibility of losing is high anyway.

With respect to empathizing, I sure do know how it feels since I have someone who was close to me and ended up an addict because deep down, there is just no way you will not feel for them. It is like someone who is inside a deep well and trying to get out but just stuck. It is hard to describe but it takes a lot to be able to get out from it just the same way as drug addiction.

[BabyBoss]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

Addiction should always be addressed right away. It's like a little plant at first, not really taking up that much space. Every time you gamble, you're watering that plant. Until one day, that plan has become a tree. And the roots are a lot more deeper. And the trunk and branches of the tree are thicker than ever. Mental health is an issue that's been around for a long time. People think that gambling addiction is a phase and everyone has had it. Everyone did gambling in their lives, but not everyone got addicted to it. Up to now, addiction is still an issue that a lot of people are talking about, but not really fixing. Mental health is just as important as physical health, probably even more important. Funny because it was only recently when a law in my country was established about getting help with mental health.

As a gambler, you should realize that your life isn't just a life for yourself. Your life is also for your family and your friends. You might think that they aren't affected by your actions but they really really are deeply affected by it.

The true happiness is comes in an honest words. In order for you to solve the problem you need to become honest with what you feel and be honest to your self. There is no other that can solve it but its your own.

[swogerino]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

[Caladonian]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

The consequence that first and foremost which is needed to be think deeper before dealing with such activity, being too much engaged to gambling even you will keep denying to yourself that you are already suffering from being addicted into it will reveal you from the results that it will brought to your life, being stress and put away important things in life just to satisfied your lust of playing resulting to nothing but being burned and empty.

[maydna]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't think that I have a problem at home because so far, I can manage my time between work, playing gambling, and with my family and I can do this with good. I don't play gambling too often like other people and I can hold myself from playing the games in every day because I know that it's not good for me and I can lose my money. I think it's because we have another thing that we need to do in the daily life so our mind is not thinking about gambling. and if we can do this, you can prevent your mind to think about gambling and you can prevent from being an addicting person in gambling. and yes, I know it might be difficult for every gambler to do this, but as long as they have a will and they really want to change their life, I am sure that they can do like what I did. so this is about you and about how to control yourself.

[el kaka22]

My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

I don't have any problem at home and I don't think that gambling is a "hidden disease" because as long as we can control ourselves in the gambling, we are not potential to be an addicting person. but if I have this problem, maybe I will find somebody in my family and I will tell that person that I have a problem with gambling and I really need his/her help to solve this. I am sure that if we really want to get out from gambling, he/she will give some help and always give a suggestion to us so we can solve our problem with gambling.

Playing gambling in times will make you become dependent on it but also the people who tried gambling for two to three times in their lives only, they also would become addicted to it because gambling is more addiction than the addiction itself. When the person starts following gambling, no other substitute can be found of it for the people.

The dependency is actually attributed to the mindset you bring into it in the first place which most of the time those who actually think it is something they can depend on in terms of making money, earning income, getting rich always end up getting beaten and by the time they started realizing they have been living in fools dream, they are already so addicted from trying to recover their losses without being able to find a means to even get out. Life of gambler can be smooth like a heaven if they limit everything but emotions make everything collapsed which leads to disaster even in life threatening level too.

[onrise]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

[kurian]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

I heard it is so hard to get rid of gambling addiction. I've seen people spending all their money in gambling. Alcohol and drugs fuels the situation as they lose control of their emotions. In India gambling is illegal however, there are lot of people who are addicted to gambling.

[Symphonized]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

I heard it is so hard to get rid of gambling addiction. I've seen people spending all their money in gambling. Alcohol and drugs fuels the situation as they lose control of their emotions. In India gambling is illegal however, there are lot of people who are addicted to gambling.

Maybe because they can't find themselves in some sweet spot in real life?
Such thing for example a real life solid job to win some gains.
Or because India have any economic crysis?

[Forever_F7]

A lot of people who gamble sometimes can make it a hobby so gambling can be used as a fun activity because it can try their luck, but it is not worth imitating because every day they can spend their time to do gambling. as much as possible we should be able to limit it and can balance with other activities.

[rugrats]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

That's very true. Discipline is key when entering the world of gambling. This works because you have a balance between work- family- gambling and you're not tied to just gambling as your everyday thing. Balance and order in life is important.

[BlackPanda]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

[Soots]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Don't think all people with no future only consider gambling. More individuals with higher level of life status had more fun times with gambling, rather that other activities particular on sports. Other frustrated persons might be leaving gambling for good but, after all sorts of pain recovery they tend to go back the usual habit. Happiness in gambling cannot be measured specially a person who wanted to live life to the fullest.

[noah tall]

we keep seeing topics coming about the negative side in gambling , it's a fact that there are really few percentage that are addicted to gambling but the majority are fun seekers and professionals

I don't see someone coming with topics like getting addicted to video games , or getting addicted to watching movies

I have seen many people who ruined their selves with different types of addictions , but never seen a person who was affected from gambling

the problem does exist , but it's really rare and I guess the majority know the risk and also know the reward

to be honest living in Syria I realized that gambling is the minimum risk that the human being can take

Yes only few people were seriously addicted to the gambling and then most of them can tackle it even if they were addicted to it with their daily life.
Gambling has lot of positivity too but in most of the world it was just portrayed as bad thing to do,like a sin and sometime even like illegal activities that is why many people afraid to be a gambler even if they wanted to be.

Man, you are the only one here I think who is saying this. Gambling has a lot of positivity? Where it is? Why this positivity is not seen to us? Why people are getting so much negativity in gambling and why they are not making themselves beneficial with this positivity? I think this all is just a loss of mind. You are out of your mind or somehow you better become blind with greed for money.

I don’t have any gambler friend because i think that gambling is a bad thing and so the gamblers. I do not gamble because I do not want to lose my hard earn money so easily. So when I think that gambling is bad think how can I have a gambler friend? If he forces you to visit casino with him and you go with him, one day you will start gambling.  Keep avoid of such friends.

Well, the thing is that most people who have realized that there is nothing you are really going to be getting from gambling than losing anyway, will know there are other things you can do to have fun if you really want to have fun without almost giving yourself high blood pressure trying to win some money out of luck.
I pity those who come into gambling with the wrong mindset because gambling itself comes with an impulse that wants to control you and giving up that control before even starting with wrong mindset makes it even worse for such a person.

[Kirito-kun]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

[Lady Coquet]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

[crwth]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

No matter the situation, you should never consider gambling as a good way to earn. Probably people tried gambling because they never know where to start. I'm talking about people who have not yet understand how to earn bitcoin etc. Probably the rich are the ones who really enjoy it but sadly, they are the ones who easily get addicted. Don't you think so too?

[maydna]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

yes, it is better to search on other sources to earn money because we can get the money and we can also collect the money and I think we have a small risk if we can get that jobs. so in the gambling, we need to handle our emotion to not become frustrated and like you say, gambling is only a ways to enjoy our free time but I am sure that there are many other things that we can do to enjoy the time.

[Flagship11]

I mean seriously, living life with a gambler can have its major downfalls, but I can think of many other types of addicts that I would 100% not be able to share a roof with.
Gamblers won't steal from you to gamble; unlike a drug addict who will steal and lie to get their next fix.

[Fatanut]

I mean seriously, living life with a gambler can have its major downfalls, but I can think of many other types of addicts that I would 100% not be able to share a roof with.
Gamblers won't steal from you to gamble; unlike a drug addict who will steal and lie to get their next fix.

Those are probably addicts who are addicted to substance or alcohol. But how come those people are going to steal from you and gamblers won't? I don't understand since gamblers feed on burning money in order to gain more money. What's a better scenario than them being in a place where they can take someone else's money without that person's knowledge and be able to gamble with it? I have met some substance and alcohol abusers in the past and they take pride on being an addict but they can afford it.

Gamblers, on the other hand, no matter how rich they are, they can never afford gambling. Some would think that a rich person can gamble and lose money but not worry about it because he's rich, but what happens when he starts betting higher? The higher the bets, the more thrilling it is to gamble. What happens when the person starts going all in, starts gambling with the things he owns (properties, cars, etc)?

Honestly, I would be able to stay under the same roof with people that are addicted to substance. They are just people like you. The only difference is that they are using gambling, drugs, and alcohol to escape reality. If you don't do that, then I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you don't have to resort to doing those things. But you have to understand that this people are just trying to carry on with their lives without destroying anything but themselves. They are not to be disgusted of.

[izanagi narukami]

I mean seriously, living life with a gambler can have its major downfalls, but I can think of many other types of addicts that I would 100% not be able to share a roof with.
Gamblers won't steal from you to gamble; unlike a drug addict who will steal and lie to get their next fix.

You're wrong, some people at my place steal their parent's money because of gambling debt.
And for the worst case, someone ever got killed !
As long as you can control the gambler, they should not get any trouble

[Thanasis]

I mean seriously, living life with a gambler can have its major downfalls, but I can think of many other types of addicts that I would 100% not be able to share a roof with.
Gamblers won't steal from you to gamble; unlike a drug addict who will steal and lie to get their next fix.

You're wrong, some people at my place steal their parent's money because of gambling debt.
And for the worst case, someone ever got killed !
As long as you can control the gambler, they should not get any trouble

This is due to different kind of addiction levels,if someone can't control their mind without gambling for days then they will do anything to play sometimes even dare to kill someone who is resisting them from entering into gambling.

[krishnaverma]

When I got addicted to gambling, I was living alone. It took me a lot of time to recover and getting back to the family was also a helping hand in that. However, I do agree that some addicted players are burden for their family members. One of my friends used to loose a lot of money and his parents used to pay for his expense like rent and food.

[reflector]

When I got addicted to gambling, I was living alone. It took me a lot of time to recover and getting back to the family was also a helping hand in that. However, I do agree that some addicted players are burden for their family members. One of my friends used to loose a lot of money and his parents used to pay for his expense like rent and food.

Addictions are there in many things dude. If you have big addiction over the gambling field you need to wait for better solution in other investment option before you go to invest on it buddy. Life of gamblers is completely fed up kind of thing.
I see most of the gamblers getting rich in mid way and as fast as they won and sudden fall will be back to the market buddy.
Hence I check the gambling site which is relay on tactic kind of investment on this platform.

[jacee]

I see most of the gamblers getting rich in mid way and as fast as they won and sudden fall will be back to the market buddy.

The saying "easy get, easy to lose" fits so well when it comes to this situation.
Gambling addicts usually gets addicted to the part where they can earn "easy" money if they could just win but what they don't realize is that they lose more through the process.
Unless, that is if he's a very lucky guy whose odds are always in his favor.

“Hard Work Is The Only Shortcut To Success"
Gambling addicts should be thought on how to make their lives more productive.

[wuvdoll]

When I got addicted to gambling, I was living alone. It took me a lot of time to recover and getting back to the family was also a helping hand in that. However, I do agree that some addicted players are burden for their family members. One of my friends used to loose a lot of money and his parents used to pay for his expense like rent and food.

I just read in other discussion that being lonely and being dissatisfied in personal or official life may lead to gamble more and then get addicted to it. Hence you are not an exception. Life of a gambler is smooth and fun filled only when "everything under control". If you ask an addicted gambler, he also must say that he is having full control on his spending and with every part of gambling still he must be spending more than what he is earning from other sources and making from gambling.

The thing with gambling in general is that you actually are prone to not getting anything from it but instead, you are prone to losing a lot. Even at this, a lot of people still believe that gambling is a way they can just easily make huge money out of the blue and with this mentality, they are just busy screwing themselves every single time as they keep expecting the best from gambling but instead getting the worst.

[tbterryboy]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

I am happy you understood it so early. Basically everyone should think of the results that are to come from efforts you put in something. Now, as we talk about gambling, it is neither a source of income nor it is any entertainment hub or where people bring their friends and have good times. When you lose even from entertainment point of view, then what is left for you then?

[Hiltohen]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

One person out of thousands is able to break this circle out and live a happy life even being in gambling. Mostly, we do listen such complaints and even observe this physically that people come in this world just for fun and entertained seeking but their end is alarming. They don’t come out as same innocent bodies that went in there. Their mind becomes victim of this greed.

[henmark]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

No matter the situation, you should never consider gambling as a good way to earn. Probably people tried gambling because they never know where to start. I'm talking about people who have not yet understand how to earn bitcoin etc. Probably the rich are the ones who really enjoy it but sadly, they are the ones who easily get addicted. Don't you think so too?

This is a delimit that we don’t want to leave this gambling thing. Most of the times when people think they must earn money and need some good earning source, instead of joining bitcoin world, they mostly prefer gambling. Why this is so? Because they are greedy. Their greed took over all their mind capabilities and assign it to go for such easy earning money source.

[nydiacaskey01]

Do you have the same problem at home?

I don't have this problem yet at home. I don't consider myself as a gambling addict because I play occasionally and I do it privately, not where other people can see me playing. I don't even allow my kids to be open or exposed on this kind of games yet. Not until they can earn their own money for themselves. My spouse somewhat knows that I play, but I assured her that the money that I am using is not part of our household budget.

[tailwate07]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

No matter the situation, you should never consider gambling as a good way to earn. Probably people tried gambling because they never know where to start. I'm talking about people who have not yet understand how to earn bitcoin etc. Probably the rich are the ones who really enjoy it but sadly, they are the ones who easily get addicted. Don't you think so too?

Gambling can never be good source of money. It is even not good source of entertainment as well. Mostly we read here people start their career in gambling just when they came here for entertainment seeking purposes. But later, their greed start triggering, and they get to know about other wasteful methods of earning. They start it, risk their tenure and then definitely lose at the end.

[hulla]

I see most of the gamblers getting rich in mid way and as fast as they won and sudden fall will be back to the market buddy.

The saying "easy get, easy to lose" fits so well when it comes to this situation.
Gambling addicts usually gets addicted to the part where they can earn "easy" money if they could just win but what they don't realize is that they lose more through the process.
Unless, that is if he's a very lucky guy whose odds are always in his favor.

“Hard Work Is The Only Shortcut To Success"
Gambling addicts should be thought on how to make their lives more productive.

Yes, the success ones don't work hard for ones won't know the worth of it cause it will be spend in a lavish way with that aside. In my opinion I believe what usually cause gamble addiction in most gamblers is the "easy and fast to get" thought and gambling with the money ones can't afford to loose and the only way to stop gambling addiction is to first  admit having a problem and wanting help as OP said and also desist from things that connected ones to gambling all time.

[Symphonized]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.
Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler and meanwhile streaming and meanwhile trading cryptos.
So where your statement steps into him?

[Turst1974]

Once you become an addicted gambler it is almost a guaranteed thing that you will lose your job or lose your family soon afterwards. The key consist to never become addicted by following simple gambling guidelines you can find many of these guidelines in many different websites accessible to all by just doing a google search.

Being a strong person mentally is a necessary step in order to not become addicted nor to gambling nor to anything else, like drugs, alcohol etc.

If somebody can control their emotion then chances are that they can break this circle and come out of it. For that one needs to have a discipline in life which can sort out many things and they would not be losing much money and family as well.

I heard it is so hard to get rid of gambling addiction. I've seen people spending all their money in gambling. Alcohol and drugs fuels the situation as they lose control of their emotions. In India gambling is illegal however, there are lot of people who are addicted to gambling.

That is really true. I have my own experience about it, I already lost a lot of money in gambling, after losing money for every time I decided to stop play gambling anymore. But unfortunately I still cannot overcome my addiction and still continue to play gambling.

[AMNA NAZ]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.
Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler and meanwhile streaming and meanwhile trading cryptos.
So where your statement steps into him?

these are exceptional cases i think, but as a whole i do not think that most of the gamblers are too much successful in gambling. I do not think that there is any better future for most of the gambler.

[bitcoinveda]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.
Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler and meanwhile streaming and meanwhile trading cryptos.
So where your statement steps into him?

Don't compare with the single person my friend there are many people who lose their money while gambling. If you compare with the looser where will the Doug Polk will stand, in gambling most of the people will lose their money in a short period of time.

[just_Alice]

No, I didn't face such problems at home, one member of my family does gamble (more than me, everyday for hours), but I don't consider this as a problem and I don't think people should go so crazy about gambling addiction. It's not a problem while this doesn't harm or bring discomfort to others, including the gambler himself, like spending too much money or time on it, or thinking about casinos too much so that hinder normal living. I think it's unfair to blame gamblers for spending too much time and money on playing, if one can afford it, why not? We all have addictions, like social networks, internet, some like computer games and don't forget about the wives that complain about their husbands gambling addiction, but don't consider their shopping, plastic surgeries or abundant beauty salon visits as an addiction.

[MinerHQ]

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.

Definitely yes. You can't depend on gambling earnings because most of these games are depends on your luck even though some of them increase winning chances based on some calculations.

Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler

This kind of thinking mostly lead to gambling addiction. I do agree some people might have made a huge money in gambling by luck but compared to losses this percentage is very less. So one should know how much they need to spend on these risky games to check their luck instead of going after it for an easy money.

[Caladonian]

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.

Definitely yes. You can't depend on gambling earnings because most of these games are depends on your luck even though some of them increase winning chances based on some calculations.

Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler

This kind of thinking mostly lead to gambling addiction. I do agree some people might have made a huge money in gambling by luck but compared to losses this percentage is very less. So one should know how much they need to spend on these risky games to check their luck instead of going after it for an easy money.

In general, yes the percentage of those lucky gamblers who able to gain decent money from their winnings is far lesser than those who keeps losing because of their addictions, engaging with this activity can ruined your life you need to find strategy that will work and will combined with your luck in order to win, and we knew that there's always the other side where you might stress yourself for being upsets of defeat.

[Janation]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.
Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler and meanwhile streaming and meanwhile trading cryptos.
So where your statement steps into him?

these are exceptional cases i think, but as a whole i do not think that most of the gamblers are too much successful in gambling. I do not think that there is any better future for most of the gambler.

It will all depends on what you want to do with your life. Most of the gamblers hope for a great win that will predict their future but the thing is that their gambling activities is the one that will bring them down.

Though they are all hoping to be rich via gambling, not all of them want to be the one who bets  in the casino some of them wants to have their own casino where he earns money that maybe he can use himself to gamble.

[Aikidoka]

I, once, made a thread and I said that if you want to quit gambling, you should quit yourself. What I meant by "Yourself" is that you should be the exact opposite of yourself. If you are a gambler, then you should not be a gambler. It is quite too philosophical to fathom. But it really helps if you truly know yourself. Added to that, every addiction has a cure. If you cannot cure yourself, then how can you cure others? How can you sit down with your loved ones and listen to their problems without advising them?

[Dodoymabs]

I, once, made a thread and I said that if you want to quit gambling, you should quit yourself. What I meant by "Yourself" is that you should be the exact opposite of yourself. If you are a gambler, then you should not be a gambler. It is quite too philosophical to fathom. But it really helps if you truly know yourself. Added to that, every addiction has a cure. If you cannot cure yourself, then how can you cure others? How can you sit down with your loved ones and listen to their problems without advising them?

Addiction is a very strong word which is also a very hard to disconnect. Finding the cure about addiction seems to be hard to find because I think only discipline is the proper solution to solve the problem.

[FlightyPouch]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

So you're saying that you can't get a better future from gambling? That's just ridiculous and your statement is false.
Doug Polk is a gambler, and he still has a future as gambler and meanwhile streaming and meanwhile trading cryptos.
So where your statement steps into him?

these are exceptional cases i think, but as a whole i do not think that most of the gamblers are too much successful in gambling. I do not think that there is any better future for most of the gambler.

That is certain. Gamblers don't ensure a win every time they sit on a gambling table, they do experience a lot of times that they had lost and regretted that they did gamble. I gamble sometimes but I am not a gambler, I know that myself the reason I don't understand most of the gamblers view on their gambling activities but I do know that they have a goal on their gambling activities the reason they are pushing hard to win. I guess having your own gambling place is the best solution for you to have a great future in the gambling industry.

[iMark]

I see most of the gamblers getting rich in mid way and as fast as they won and sudden fall will be back to the market buddy.

The saying "easy get, easy to lose" fits so well when it comes to this situation.
Gambling addicts usually gets addicted to the part where they can earn "easy" money if they could just win but what they don't realize is that they lose more through the process.
Unless, that is if he's a very lucky guy whose odds are always in his favor.

“Hard Work Is The Only Shortcut To Success"
Gambling addicts should be thought on how to make their lives more productive.

Yeah thats what addicts say, they say that gambling can give a lot of money quickly and even many player use gambling
as their main income. it's true what you say that just working hard is the key to success not by risking your money using luck.

[wxa7115]

I haven’t got that problem at home but an acquaintance I know used to spend too much in slot machines and the solution was self-will and leaving all kind of gambling forever, the same way for an alcoholic the solution relies on self-will and not drinking a drop more for the rest of their lives. Just one drop leads to the same old self-destructive pattern, the same way as just one bet.

I don’t agree with it being called a “hidden disease”. There might not be physical signs or symptoms but someone with a real problem spends too much and that’s clear symptom of a behavioral problem and they cannot hide it for long.

Unfortunately a friend had the same problem with a member of his family, casinos are very attractive places and it can be very fun to spend a night there but there are people completely unable to control their impulses and then they become addicted to gambling, the problem is like most addicts at first they do not recognize they are addicted and try to deny it, my friend told me that his family member only recognized she was a addicted once she lost her family and almost all her possessions.

So the only possible solution for a person like that is to never gamble again, it does not matter if the bet is small in a casino or if it is a low stakes poker game with friends, a person like that should never gamble under any circumstances.

[SushiMonster]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

[krishnaverma]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

Yes, there are different solutions for different people like :

1) If a bachelor has got addicted to gambling, he should find a partner. He will be busy spending time with the partner and thus have less time for gambling.

2) If a student is getting addicted to gambling, he should be made to go for things he likes more like gaming to keep his mind occupied.

[Finestream]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

It could be a helping tool too.Divert your time into something new like engaging into sports,arts or business that will surely make yourself engrossed with that.I know you will learn to love it as time goes by.But of course you also have to help yourself to get away from gambling if you really want to change and make a new and healthy lifestyle.

[BeGoods]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

I think the psychic of every addict is almost the same, they want to continue playing because they are already familiar with that activity and they think that they can get big profit from gambling, actually we can use the same method for all addicts but not everyone can come out because of the desire and intention to healing in each person is different, that's the difference. I agree with you maybe you can focus more on your hobby or what you like and spend time in it, until you forget about gambling

[Hiluxury Bitcoin]

Usually when a gambler gets to gamble a lot and start to lose all his money to gambling and if he has a family than there the problems start. I have never seen someone gamble away their life savings and not have a family meltdown, mostly ending up in divorce. Gambling is the sport of single people. You can't have a family and gamble recklessly, there is no way. You have to be careful, even if you want to gamble, just gamble the money you are willing to lose and can afford to lose.

As many gambler I have seen in my life have been disrespected even by their families. They cannot fulfill their needs because they lose all their money in gambling and have nothing left for their families. I hate gamblers therefore I have no gambler friend. If you continue friendship with gamblers you will also start gambling one day. Better to leave their society.

I don't know why gambling is portrayed negatively everywhere. There are people who made big fortunes from casinos. It's all about patience, control and mainly the ability to control our greed. Someone who gamble his/her life savings is an idiot anyway. Always play with what we can afford to lose. We are paying to watch movies, play games and for other entertainment purposes. So, see it as an entertainment platform. Have the mindset to accept your losses.

Right.Gambling may only become  positive and even profitable if a person involved knows how to handle enough his winnings and losses.Cause if not,better to get away from gambling now or else it will only cause damages in your own personal life in the latter part.

These things are like bookish ones. Nobody can control his mind when he is seeing people earning from gambling just for few bucks. They are investing in so short among and in return their luck companions them and results are outstanding. But later on, they don’t even know what has happened with that person who was earning? They are living a miserable life.

[KenChanYu]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

I think the psychic of every addict is almost the same, they want to continue playing because they are already familiar with that activity and they think that they can get big profit from gambling, actually we can use the same method for all addicts but not everyone can come out because of the desire and intention to healing in each person is different, that's the difference. I agree with you maybe you can focus more on your hobby or what you like and spend time in it, until you forget about gambling

The solutions can be so intense, but for furthermore developments to happen as a gambler we should learn how to move on in times of failures. One way of that is to overcome our bad habits and control the situations which leads us to addictions. Self control must be learned so that we will be able to withstand the current struggles, and if you wanted to get away with gambling always think about your family and future financial security.

[btcjocan]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

I think the psychic of every addict is almost the same, they want to continue playing because they are already familiar with that activity and they think that they can get big profit from gambling, actually we can use the same method for all addicts but not everyone can come out because of the desire and intention to healing in each person is different, that's the difference. I agree with you maybe you can focus more on your hobby or what you like and spend time in it, until you forget about gambling

The solutions can be so intense, but for furthermore developments to happen as a gambler we should learn how to move on in times of failures. One way of that is to overcome our bad habits and control the situations which leads us to addictions. Self control must be learned so that we will be able to withstand the current struggles, and if you wanted to get away with gambling always think about your family and future financial security.

How can we control ourselves when we're addicted with gambling for long period of time mate, I guess that's a worst case to handle as gambler.

With regards to the solutions, I think we need to be more accurate and don't ever be negative about the possibility that as gamblers it can be a long process to stay away from it. It took a lot of adjustments and self rehabilitation in order for an addicted person to avoid massive gambling activities.

[avikz]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

You have got good writing skill so keep using it. I just want to add my 2 satoshis here,

Please change the thread subject as "Life with a loosing Gambler - Solution!"

Because an winning Gambler's family/loved ones usually lives a way better life than anyone here combined!

The problem starts with loosing and excessive addiction and it is curable. Look at the below link to know more about possible cures,

https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/en

Hope this helps!

[Symphonized]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

I think the psychic of every addict is almost the same, they want to continue playing because they are already familiar with that activity and they think that they can get big profit from gambling, actually we can use the same method for all addicts but not everyone can come out because of the desire and intention to healing in each person is different, that's the difference. I agree with you maybe you can focus more on your hobby or what you like and spend time in it, until you forget about gambling

The solutions can be so intense, but for furthermore developments to happen as a gambler we should learn how to move on in times of failures. One way of that is to overcome our bad habits and control the situations which leads us to addictions. Self control must be learned so that we will be able to withstand the current struggles, and if you wanted to get away with gambling always think about your family and future financial security.

I've kinda feeling that you said what that was need to say.
Just pure self control will in fact provide such solution that you can determine / decide your future gambling style if quiting or not.

[AirFlame]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

Addiction should always be addressed right away. It's like a little plant at first, not really taking up that much space. Every time you gamble, you're watering that plant. Until one day, that plan has become a tree. And the roots are a lot more deeper. And the trunk and branches of the tree are thicker than ever. Mental health is an issue that's been around for a long time. People think that gambling addiction is a phase and everyone has had it. Everyone did gambling in their lives, but not everyone got addicted to it. Up to now, addiction is still an issue that a lot of people are talking about, but not really fixing. Mental health is just as important as physical health, probably even more important. Funny because it was only recently when a law in my country was established about getting help with mental health.

As a gambler, you should realize that your life isn't just a life for yourself. Your life is also for your family and your friends. You might think that they aren't affected by your actions but they really really are deeply affected by it.

Addicted and immature gambler never think about it. They only know how to collect money for playing gambling, even in worst condition they will play gambling with their children’s school fees.  The never think about their family even do not think about his own life.

[Sukut]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

Addiction should always be addressed right away. It's like a little plant at first, not really taking up that much space. Every time you gamble, you're watering that plant. Until one day, that plan has become a tree. And the roots are a lot more deeper. And the trunk and branches of the tree are thicker than ever. Mental health is an issue that's been around for a long time. People think that gambling addiction is a phase and everyone has had it. Everyone did gambling in their lives, but not everyone got addicted to it. Up to now, addiction is still an issue that a lot of people are talking about, but not really fixing. Mental health is just as important as physical health, probably even more important. Funny because it was only recently when a law in my country was established about getting help with mental health.

As a gambler, you should realize that your life isn't just a life for yourself. Your life is also for your family and your friends. You might think that they aren't affected by your actions but they really really are deeply affected by it.

Addicted and immature gambler never think about it. They only know how to collect money for playing gambling, even in worst condition they will play gambling with their children’s school fees.  The never think about their family even do not think about his own life.

It is really sad. Especially people who have children - family should control themselves more than others, because they are responsible for their family too.

[maydna]

It is really sad. Especially people who have children - family should control themselves more than others, because they are responsible for their family too.

people who often playing gambling should not risk all of their money because they need to take responsibility for their family and their life too. they don't have to always play gambling every day and they need to take care of their family and make sure that their family is safe. but the reality, many gamblers don't do this and they forget that they have family waiting for them to back home with safe.

[onrise]

The moment when you put gambling before your family and friends, then you know you have a problem. I gamble for the fun

 and excitement, but I know where to draw the line. Unfortunately not everyone know where to draw the line and then

gambling become a problem. Some people will "ban" themselves from casinos to stop, but it is not possible with online

casinos. The best thing for these people is for them to acknowledge that they have a problem and to stop by themselves. 

Yes.Gambling problems or let's say gambling addiction can only be cured if you admit it by yourself.There are a lot of gamblers today who never acknowledge their problems and so they end up ruining their own lives even their own families.I suggest to gamble only with what you can afford to lose.Setting limitations for yourself might be a great help and of course self-discipline is the only tool to help yourself get out from that big problem you had.

It is very sad to see the families that are ruined by "irresponsible" gambling habits by their family heads and the saddest part of it is that they are unaware of the problem that they have and the root cause of it. Seeking professional advice could also help people with this kind of addiction. Acknowledging it right away will be very hard for them and they will be able to do it if they will be assisted by professional practices.

Addiction should always be addressed right away. It's like a little plant at first, not really taking up that much space. Every time you gamble, you're watering that plant. Until one day, that plan has become a tree. And the roots are a lot more deeper. And the trunk and branches of the tree are thicker than ever. Mental health is an issue that's been around for a long time. People think that gambling addiction is a phase and everyone has had it. Everyone did gambling in their lives, but not everyone got addicted to it. Up to now, addiction is still an issue that a lot of people are talking about, but not really fixing. Mental health is just as important as physical health, probably even more important. Funny because it was only recently when a law in my country was established about getting help with mental health.

As a gambler, you should realize that your life isn't just a life for yourself. Your life is also for your family and your friends. You might think that they aren't affected by your actions but they really really are deeply affected by it.

Addicted and immature gambler never think about it. They only know how to collect money for playing gambling, even in worst condition they will play gambling with their children’s school fees.  The never think about their family even do not think about his own life.

It is really sad. Especially people who have children - family should control themselves more than others, because they are responsible for their family too.

This is the reason feel sad for this people who do not know their responsibility and in order just to win from gambling they waste their so much money and time in betting rather than same money could be used to upbring their children and spend quality time with their family.

[Wete]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

[Digital_Lord]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

No matter the situation, you should never consider gambling as a good way to earn. Probably people tried gambling because they never know where to start. I'm talking about people who have not yet understand how to earn bitcoin etc. Probably the rich are the ones who really enjoy it but sadly, they are the ones who easily get addicted. Don't you think so too?

This is a delimit that we don’t want to leave this gambling thing. Most of the times when people think they must earn money and need some good earning source, instead of joining bitcoin world, they mostly prefer gambling. Why this is so? Because they are greedy. Their greed took over all their mind capabilities and assign it to go for such easy earning money source.

I have same point of view. Those people who choose gambling for making money are either too greedy in the way that they want to have big amounts in a blink of an eye or do not really want to work. Some gamblers realize the reality of this world after few bets but other spend whole lives in their illusion regarding gambling. Gambling can never be an income source due to its randomness.
Most people here share that they started gambling for no reason or for fun but still continuing it among many losing and frustrating moments. Life of gambler is turning due to improper decision making. If we fix that then we all gamblers may have prosperous life like most other people.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Problem gambling addiction its about hobby and behavior. dont let experience big loss coming first to stop gambling. learning from some mistake or thinking wise about managing financial will certainly be very helpful. and also gambling is indeed a challenge for people to want instant money. but the risk must also exist. more often think about factor loss compared to profit will definitely help to reduce this habit.

[Nanot]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

As for me i cant solved problems by means of me but by motivation that i can get and ideas to the others to solved my own problem.i believed that no man is an island but i still believed without everything you are nothing . Yu can solve it by you but you need to udertake  every thought and make it one so that you can solve it. Thingking others do to make it also for you even you dont asked them to helo you were thing of them.

[checkmatesir]

I don't think gambling should be called a addiction it's not something bad or horrible as it's always is portrayed. Not all our alike, not even our fingers are the same size, each one finds a different passion which keeps him sane so I would call it a passion, i believe each person is sane enough to decide for himself, and so I feel each one can make his own choice without being subject to humiliation.

Only people who do not have a future will consider gambling as an interesting thing. The fact that gambling is a bad thing and has no benefits. As people who want a much better future, we must try to leave the gambling game in the fastest possible time.

Indeed, for me, gambling is a worse way to earn a profit and to have fun as well because how will you suppose to be entertained if you are frustrated from losing isn't? And how you can say that is one of the ways to have income if you are always loosing? There's a low chance for you to win in this way, and if you won then I can say that you were lucky enough. But don't get used to it because every time you play the more you come to your worst scenario.

Gambling is really not a good way to earn money because no matter how many times you would win you will end up losing. It depends to the person if he/she enjoys gambling because there are still people who don't get frustrated in losing in gambling because they are already rich.

But to me I think that if rich people will continue playing gambling. He will also lose everything in gambling. I think that if a person is addicted to gambling then it is not so easy to sped some good time with them, it is always hard to spend some time with addicted people.

[onrise]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

If some one has reach to this level means their are some possibilities that already person is addicted to the gambling, have lost huge amount of money, playing to recover the money, does not enjoy gambling for fun but only play for winning and with thus stuff easily all the saving etc will be wiped out if does not take any immediate action of stopping it.

[deppil]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

Yeah the solution for some people is different because they have their own reasons for surviving on gambling and psychological differences also affect. but in many cases your solution is quite helpful. look for other profitable activities that do not have a high risk like gambling just spending your time on there. it made a lot of player got out of addiction in gambling

[FlightyPouch]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

[Caladonian]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

[quality.crypto]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

Yes, this one of the suggestion to gamblers out there because gambling will surely kill us when we are addictive to it and which we cannot able to spend time with the family. It is always good to spend time with families and find other sources of investment, in order to spend some time with the families.

[Findingnemo]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

The greed of the people is the key of the gambling's success since they people want to be rich without much effort they are looking for investment with high returns and also try to bet for making money this is one kind of people and some other people were gambling because of failure in their life so they want to make something considerable among others.

[joyclicks]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

The greed of the people is the key of the gambling's success since they people want to be rich without much effort they are looking for investment with high returns and also try to bet for making money this is one kind of people and some other people were gambling because of failure in their life so they want to make something considerable among others.

It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

[crwth]

Solutions to this problem vary per person. It may or may not have the same effect as to the other but it never hurts to try. I think one of the most effective solutions is to invest on a new hobby (that does not relate or is a far different category to gambling). Once you’ve invested in that, you’ll be able to spend more time to that hobby and to yourself. Little you’d know, you no longer find yourself gambling.

Yeah the solution for some people is different because they have their own reasons for surviving on gambling and psychological differences also affect. but in many cases your solution is quite helpful. look for other profitable activities that do not have a high risk like gambling just spending your time on there. it made a lot of player got out of addiction in gambling

We can never say that they have some reasons that are clearly valid, if you suffer from different mental problems, you wouldn't know that unless they share it. I agree that @SushiMonster has a point on having a new hobby. Definitely nowhere near close to gambling. The wrong thing with it is you could get addicted to that too and you might have a wrong point of view if not treated well. I don't agree that you should gamble anymore if you were once addicted.

 

~snip
It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

I think it's best to take care of your family. For me, it's the number one priority in my life, next to getting rich. lol. I want to be rich and having the right mindset is the way to do it. It should always be like that, not using the budgeted money. I think they wouldn't just lose respect but they may hate you for it.

[himtater87]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

The greed of the people is the key of the gambling's success since they people want to be rich without much effort they are looking for investment with high returns and also try to bet for making money this is one kind of people and some other people were gambling because of failure in their life so they want to make something considerable among others.

It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

The best option is this that you must spend your time and money with your family. By God you will feel mental relaxation when you spend your free time with your family. Family is everything in your life. If you lose money, you can get it back but if you lose your family, you will not be able to get them back. I have seen many people committing suicide due to debts in gambling. They have no care for their families.

[rickadone]

~snip
It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

I think it's best to take care of your family. For me, it's the number one priority in my life, next to getting rich. lol. I want to be rich and having the right mindset is the way to do it. It should always be like that, not using the budgeted money. I think they wouldn't just lose respect but they may hate you for it.

Taking care of family is always going to be the number one priority, there is no doubt about that and it is just a pity that sometimes, certain people tend to get engrossed in their gambling activities, that they let it not only affect their lives, but also that of those who are close to them and in this case, I am referring to nuclear family members.

Gambling is one thing you really do not want to be taking as a regular thing if you are even a family man as that in the end will not even pass a good message, and for the fact that you have so much responsibility and you are gambling the money away shows real act of irresponsibility.

[GregH37]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

The greed of the people is the key of the gambling's success since they people want to be rich without much effort they are looking for investment with high returns and also try to bet for making money this is one kind of people and some other people were gambling because of failure in their life so they want to make something considerable among others.

Well, that greed is certainly what has led so many people into messing up big time when it comes to being able to keep them-selves in check in gambling. Most gamblers always have this mindset of wanting to win at all cost because they believe there is actually something for them in the long run and that is a bad thing to be doing when it comes to gambling.

You really should understand that gambling is just a game of luck and the chances of winning is lesser than losing, which you really want to come in terms with first before even forging ahead.

[Cocesstraable]

~snip
It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

I think it's best to take care of your family. For me, it's the number one priority in my life, next to getting rich. lol. I want to be rich and having the right mindset is the way to do it. It should always be like that, not using the budgeted money. I think they wouldn't just lose respect but they may hate you for it.

Taking care of family is always going to be the number one priority, there is no doubt about that and it is just a pity that sometimes, certain people tend to get engrossed in their gambling activities, that they let it not only affect their lives, but also that of those who are close to them and in this case, I am referring to nuclear family members.

Gambling is one thing you really do not want to be taking as a regular thing if you are even a family man as that in the end will not even pass a good message, and for the fact that you have so much responsibility and you are gambling the money away shows real act of irresponsibility.

Unfortunately people become so much addicted to gambling that they consider it as everything. It is important that we should reduce our gambling activities ups to a limit and should not exceed that limit which then make a lot of problems for them.

[milewilda]

~snip
It is good that you care for your family. Life with a gambler is very hard and your family will feel bad while you lose money in gambling especially the money which is necessary for your family. If you want to gamble you should use extra money and not the money for your daily needs. If you do so you will lose your respect in your family and they will be in depressed conditions.

I think it's best to take care of your family. For me, it's the number one priority in my life, next to getting rich. lol. I want to be rich and having the right mindset is the way to do it. It should always be like that, not using the budgeted money. I think they wouldn't just lose respect but they may hate you for it.

Taking care of family is always going to be the number one priority, there is no doubt about that and it is just a pity that sometimes, certain people tend to get engrossed in their gambling activities, that they let it not only affect their lives, but also that of those who are close to them and in this case, I am referring to nuclear family members.

Gambling is one thing you really do not want to be taking as a regular thing if you are even a family man as that in the end will not even pass a good message, and for the fact that you have so much responsibility and you are gambling the money away shows real act of irresponsibility.

Its indeed a irresponsible thing to be done by someone.I cant imagine on how a certain person would able to see his own family sacrifices because of the mistakes that he had done.I cant see on such situation but same as you said there are really some situations that do like this.People do commit mistakes but we should not let ourselves coming into this point where we know that we are endangering our love ones.

Needs is always been a priority rather than on your own leisure and this thing should really be put up on our mind always.Its hard to resist addiction but if you are aware on the possible effects or thing happen ahead then you will surely think twice.

[gowobonyok]

the main factor is the environment, if the environment where we live is far from gambling, then gambling addiction can be reduced little by little because there are no friends to play. and the economic situation that is falling sometimes can also be a reason for gambling addicts to stop even for a moment.

[onrise]

the main factor is the environment, if the environment where we live is far from gambling, then gambling addiction can be reduced little by little because there are no friends to play. and the economic situation that is falling sometimes can also be a reason for gambling addicts to stop even for a moment.

Family environment do play a vital role in shaping up a child future. If the environment is good chances are that it will help him avoid the cases which will take him to blunder and will be more sorted as compared to other where the environment is not so good.

[ocid]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

everyone must be able to do this, by prioritizing their families and thinking about their future. if we are a wise gambler, of course we must be able to balance between risking money to gamble and prioritizing the family we have. do not let because often gambling family economy will always feel deprived

[Supercrypt]

Family environment do play a vital role in shaping up a child future. If the environment is good chances are that it will help him avoid the cases which will take him to blunder and will be more sorted as compared to other where the environment is not so good.

How you grow, the training you receive while growing up and the environment you find yourself in, will always have a huge part to play with the way you tend to see things naturally, and that is why you get to see some people fashioned in a way that would always be different since we are always from different backgrounds and some of the things you may see as abnormal, someone else because of the exposure see it as something normal.

It is just the way life is fashioned in that aspect, and it is only left for us as an individual to try as much as possible to find a way to get out from that hole that we have found ourselves eventually as we get more matured, and that is if you really decide to get matured.

[prtty2gal2]

the main factor is the environment, if the environment where we live is far from gambling, then gambling addiction can be reduced little by little because there are no friends to play. and the economic situation that is falling sometimes can also be a reason for gambling addicts to stop even for a moment.

Well, in a way, environment can actually get to have a lot of part to play most of the time, and that is simply because what you are exposed to most especially at an early age, can make you to see things that are not normal as a normal thing because of those exposure, and if you manage to find yourself doing things in that lane without some extra caution, the chances of being fully exposed to it will always be there. Life with a gambler is something that can be crazy, most especially when you are trying to make them see reason to reality but they just do not want to.

[maydna]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good, thinking of your love ones happiness is far better than thinking of satisfying your lust for gambling, instead of wasting time and your money better to look forward, investing with anything that will allow your family to benefits at the end will be more enjoyable than continuing to play gambling., always look for more positive side of future outcome.

Yes, this one of the suggestion to gamblers out there because gambling will surely kill us when we are addictive to it and which we cannot able to spend time with the family. It is always good to spend time with families and find other sources of investment, in order to spend some time with the families.

Besides that, we can lose all of our money which we can use for our family and gives them a better life in the future. It is always better if we can thinking about our family because without them, we are nothing and with them, I am sure that we can reach something that we want. So it is a good suggestion for every people which still in the gambling games or for some people who want to quit from gambling games itself. Remember your family, give them a happy, spend your time with them and you will get something that you cannot imagine before.

[emberbekas]

the main factor is the environment, if the environment where we live is far from gambling, then gambling addiction can be reduced little by little because there are no friends to play. and the economic situation that is falling sometimes can also be a reason for gambling addicts to stop even for a moment.

But now online casinos are mushrooming and even though our environment is far from gambling the possibility of becoming an addict remains because online gambling can be done without the need of friends. We should do extra efforts nowadays to make sure our kids won't affected by gambling stuffs and things.

[pixie85]

the main factor is the environment, if the environment where we live is far from gambling, then gambling addiction can be reduced little by little because there are no friends to play. and the economic situation that is falling sometimes can also be a reason for gambling addicts to stop even for a moment.

But now online casinos are mushrooming and even though our environment is far from gambling the possibility of becoming an addict remains because online gambling can be done without the need of friends. We should do extra efforts nowadays to make sure our kids won't affected by gambling stuffs and things.

Doesn't this sound a bit unrealistic and hypocritical? You're advertising a casino, posting on a gambling board, possibly are a gambler yourself, and you're preaching that the rise of online gambling makes it easier to get addicted and that we should make kids stay away from it? Are you joking?
You don't become an addict by having access to a product. You can buy alcohol in every store and it's not very expensive, but less than 1 person out of 100 becomes an alcoholic.

[Panchum]

Although it seems to you that there are no solutions, I assure you that your answer is within your reach. The answer to the question of what you should do cannot be given to you by your friends, families or even experts, but only by yourself.

What I can tell you is that you can not influence the will of your loved one to solve the problem if he/her ever thinks he has it. The behavior of the loved one can certainly indicate that he/her is a gambling-dependent person. Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as - "hidden disease" because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms such as drug dependence or alcohol dependence. Compulsive gamblers usually deny or alleviate the problem, and they do everything that is in their power to hide their problem.

The gambling addiction is the type of impulse control disorders and because of that, the compulsive gamblers cannot control gambling impulse, even when they know how bad and harmful they are. The gambling problem can burden relationships, hinder responsibility at home and at work, and lead to a financial disaster. Although gambling addiction can be cured, every treatment is the key readiness of a person to admit to having a problem and wanting help.

In most cases, the relationship is burdened to such an extent that it also affects the health of the non-gambler in a relationship, and ultimately determines the further course of life that does not go in the desired direction. Blackmailing the loved one to terminate the addiction will not lead to the desired effect, nor the "forced" treatment will. If a loved one is not aware of at the moment that he/her has a problem that needs to be resolved, none of the above solutions will result in improvement.

It is important that you realize what you want and how well you are willing to neglect your own needs, wishes and priorities until your loved one feels he/her has a problem.

I suggest an honest conversation with the loved one, without condemnation and blackmail, which will show you in what way is he/her looking at his/her own problem, and then comes your decision about the further course of the relationship: the willingness to fight with the uncertain end, or the decision to continue your life course in the other direction.



To all of you with the same problem, I wish a lot of luck and courage!



My questions are:

Do you have the same problem at home?

If you have this particular problem are you trying to solve it?

If you have solved it, can you share your "personal fight" flow and outcome here?

Thank you!

Some people are provided to be a gambler because they only hope on gambling.And it is good if you know how to manage being a gambler to profit But if you're become an addict there's no good thing to do in your life.

[maydna]

Some people are provided to be a gambler because they only hope on gambling.And it is good if you know how to manage being a gambler to profit But if you're become an addict there's no good thing to do in your life.

It is difficult to manage our time for playing gambling games because all we want to do is how we can win the games which are too difficult if we don't have a luck. We need to know that gambling will make us become addicting in gambling itself and we have a choice to play in every day or play in our free time. We already know about the risk of gambling but unfortunately, we are tempting to chase the money in the game so we continue to play the games.

[Rruchi man]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good thinking, but have you also thought about the possibility of winning millions from gambling, a substantial amount that will give both you and your family joy?

A better approach for me is keeping the money you spend for gambling in check. This may be achieved by drawing up a monthly or weekly budget depending on how you earn and allocating a certain percentage of your income to gambling and then try to stick to it.

[Lordshiva]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good thinking, but have you also thought about the possibility of winning millions from gambling, a substantial amount that will give both you and your family joy?

A better approach for me is keeping the money you spend for gambling in check. This may be achieved by drawing up a monthly or weekly budget depending on how you earn and allocating a certain percentage of your income to gambling and then try to stick to it.

Yes this is the best way to keep gambling in check.Give a fixed amount to gambling every month and even if you loose all in the very first day then there must be will in yourself that you will not gamble for the rest of the month, if you can do that then it is absolutely fine.

[Zilon]

I have never been addicted to gambling at any point I have been into gambling since 2015 and since then I only gamble what I can only afford to lose and as such I don't tie my source of income to it. I think lack of tangible occupation could be one of the key reasons for addiction which first starts with greed and urgency for quick money. Blackmailing loved ones who are addicted has never helped the problem but talking to them in love can go a long way to help control the addition

[rodskee]

Không có một giải pháp nào cho vấn đề này. Cờ bạc là một chứng nghiện, vì vậy cách hành động tốt nhất là ủng hộ họ và đưa ra các cách để tái tham gia vào một thứ gì đó khác, hoặc có thể tổ chức một cuộc thảo luận về các buổi trị liệu có thể xảy ra?

You reached thi Rank but does not know the rules of forum? never post local language in English board in which this is a section for english posts only.

Reported for deletion and for checking from mods.

I have never been addicted to gambling at any point I have been into gambling since 2015 and since then I only gamble what I can only afford to lose and as such I don't tie my source of income to it. I think lack of tangible occupation could be one of the key reasons for addiction which first starts with greed and urgency for quick money. Blackmailing loved ones who are addicted has never helped the problem but talking to them in love can go a long way to help control the addition

Your attitude is what gamblers need to know and use so they will never become addicted in long term .

[finist4x]

A person is able to defeat any addiction. If he can define it as a problem.
If this problem is noticed by everyone except the addicted person, it requires the intervention of a "specialist".

The sooner the problem is found, the sooner you can get rid of it.

[hahay]

I have never been addicted to gambling at any point I have been into gambling since 2015 and since then I only gamble what I can only afford to lose and as such I don't tie my source of income to it. I think lack of tangible occupation could be one of the key reasons for addiction which first starts with greed and urgency for quick money. Blackmailing loved ones who are addicted has never helped the problem but talking to them in love can go a long way to help control the addition

Agree, when there is a lack of work, someone can become a gambling addict because they think gambling can provide income. Addicts who are a burden to their family or people around are certainly very bad addicts, because some other addicts will not burden others even though they get defeat and that is a control they have. But when the case is that we become people who are affected by the destruction of the addict itself, then our attitude can help him and help him to get out of his problems. But if we can't afford it, then I think we can take a stand to leave it because after all we also have to think about our destiny for ourselves.

[poldanmig]

A person is able to defeat any addiction. If he can define it as a problem.
If this problem is noticed by everyone except the addicted person, it requires the intervention of a "specialist".

The sooner the problem is found, the sooner you can get rid of it.

It's true that we can beat addiction, but in my opinion getting rid of addiction is not easy and of course it takes time, hard work and also a strong desire from them, I personally see in my home environment, if only a few people are able to escape addiction to both gambling and alcoholics and even their families have tried to use the services of a psychiatrist to find a solution to their addiction, but the results only lasted a few days and then the addiction returned.

[imstillthebest]

In gambling we should only use our money, if we run out, we must go home. Don't use children's rationing, our wives to gamble because it must be very painful for them. If you want to gamble, use our personal money.

That is a good suggestion but I will stick to what other people say to me, instead of gambling, why don't you invest your money on your children and family? It is something that made me realize that I am risking my money into gambling while my family has a great future ahead of them than my gambling. I'd rather risk my money into my family rather than use it on gambling.

Good thinking, but have you also thought about the possibility of winning millions from gambling, a substantial amount that will give both you and your family joy?

A better approach for me is keeping the money you spend for gambling in check. This may be achieved by drawing up a monthly or weekly budget depending on how you earn and allocating a certain percentage of your income to gambling and then try to stick to it.

Yes this is the best way to keep gambling in check.Give a fixed amount to gambling every month and even if you loose all in the very first day then there must be will in yourself that you will not gamble for the rest of the month, if you can do that then it is absolutely fine.

controlling ones self to not gamble the next day or straight for almost one whole month can be uncomfortable .
we shouldnt spend all the funds for one day but we should stretch it into smaller parts so that we can gamble most of the times and we can easily survive months and months by just spending less money .
gamblers life is not easy but theres always a solution to keep them going .

[rugrats]

Không có một giải pháp nào cho vấn đề này. Cờ bạc là một chứng nghiện, vì vậy cách hành động tốt nhất là ủng hộ họ và đưa ra các cách để tái tham gia vào một thứ gì đó khác, hoặc có thể tổ chức một cuộc thảo luận về các buổi trị liệu có thể xảy ra?

You reached thi Rank but does not know the rules of forum? never post local language in English board in which this is a section for english posts only.

Reported for deletion and for checking from mods.

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[AicecreaME]

I didn't experience it nor experiencing it right now but I know a lot of people here in my place who are addicted to gambling (cock fighting, poker, and lottery). I thought if they lost their job, they would quit gambling because they don't have anything to bet, but I was wrong. They made a loan to loan sharks, and this is the one they are using to support their addiction in gambling, which leads to disaster.

Gambling addiction will give you a pile of stress and problems if you're not going to solve it, instead you're just making it worst every single day by betting and betting until your debt is as big as your addiction.  

[Vaskiy]

A person is able to defeat any addiction. If he can define it as a problem.
If this problem is noticed by everyone except the addicted person, it requires the intervention of a "specialist".

The sooner the problem is found, the sooner you can get rid of it.

People like me knew well myself as addicted, but I wasn't able to come out of it. This means I've lost control. Most of the time the money requirement is the major factor that drives me to gamble hard and loss everything. Recently I made a good sum out of gambling. Gambled with $850 and made it to $350. Later somehow managed to make it to $840, further I lost control and lost everything in the event of recovering the last $10. In such cases getting a solution is really hard.

[Slow death]

[...]

this is a 2018 thread, although the question OP talks about is something that no matter how many years pass there will always be this problem in the gambling world, I think we should have let this thread die and create another one if anyone wanted to discuss this subject that has been seen in the gambling  world

[Kelvinid]

[...]

this is a 2018 thread, although the question OP talks about is something that no matter how many years pass there will always be this problem in the gambling world, I think we should have let this thread die and create another one if anyone wanted to discuss this subject that has been seen in the gambling  world

That really an existing problem as people had never learned how to escape or to avoid such addiction but they let this thing happen to them, and we have nothing to do with them because that was their choice either. But I think, they are comfortable with their life caught into addiction because, in the first place, they will surely find a way how to stop this, however, they did nothing but just to continue their addiction.

[blackened515]

Some people gets addicted to gambling without even knowing. They see it as a normal thing, but can't let a single day pass without placing a bet. While some people knows, but don't know how to get out of it. I know a man who sold his properties, just to gamble. I think the first step of getting out of gambling addiction, is realising and accepting that you are a gambling addicts, then you have to make the decision of getting out. Although, is not always an easy process. It requires time and determination.