A banking app helped me beat my addiction

[onrise]

One of the ways to fight gambling addiction is admitting that there is a problem for a start. Its until when that happen no matter the method recommended, it will still not be effective. The app only came in handy when the individual concerned is already making frantic effort to quit and when there is a relapse, it came as a way to ensure that control is there to exercise some restraint. With constant conscious effort to quit gambling, it will surely materialise.

Acceptance is the first step to any cure of the problem. Till the time one do not start admitting the solutions will not be the boon for that person. Admitting also help the person to realize that some went wrong and need to work so that in order to come out of it and never repeat the same mistake again.

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[Janation]

One of the ways to fight gambling addiction is admitting that there is a problem for a start. Its until when that happen no matter the method recommended, it will still not be effective. The app only came in handy when the individual concerned is already making frantic effort to quit and when there is a relapse, it came as a way to ensure that control is there to exercise some restraint. With constant conscious effort to quit gambling, it will surely materialise.

Acceptance is the first step to any cure of the problem. Till the time one do not start admitting the solutions will not be the boon for that person. Admitting also help the person to realize that some went wrong and need to work so that in order to come out of it and never repeat the same mistake again.

I agree. Acceptance if the first step of getting out of addiction and even problems in your life. Admitting the fact that you did a lot of mistakes and being addicted to gambling is the worst of them all.

Let the people that care for you knows that you are having a problem, they are the first ones you should talk too. After that, people would be having a time talking to you, consoling you what to do and what can be done to your addiction. If that is still worst, you need a professional to cure your addiction. Addiction is a mental disorder, it is really needed to be treated.

[TheUltraElite]

Acceptance is the first step to any cure of the problem. Till the time one do not start admitting the solutions will not be the boon for that person. Admitting also help the person to realize that some went wrong and need to work so that in order to come out of it and never repeat the same mistake again.

But only acceptance wont help. The person needs to be determined and willing to give up their habits for the better future - for themselves and their family future. Many gamblers do realize the effect that it has on them but few fail to take action. They go into a depressed state where they start doing things that normal humans are not expected to do.

Those who do change or start to change their habits are the ones who need help of such features. For them regular swaying of the mind away from the thoughts of gambling is necessary to break the vicious cycle.

[Capt00]

Acceptance is the first step to any cure of the problem. Till the time one do not start admitting the solutions will not be the boon for that person. Admitting also help the person to realize that some went wrong and need to work so that in order to come out of it and never repeat the same mistake again.

But only acceptance wont help. The person needs to be determined and willing to give up their habits for the better future - for themselves and their family future. Many gamblers do realize the effect that it has on them but few fail to take action. They go into a depressed state where they start doing things that normal humans are not expected to do.

Those who do change or start to change their habits are the ones who need help of such features. For them regular swaying of the mind away from the thoughts of gambling is necessary to break the vicious cycle.

Yes, to give up the habits that probably stop them into addictive on that gambling and accept the reality that gambling won't help them anymore and need to stop. And think that gambling may destroy their lives in the future if they continued chasing there lose in gambling.
Before you embrace gambling on your self just think it twice and putting limitation your self. Indeed I agree on this post.

[Casdinyard]

After reading this article, I would say the main character mentioned in this article does have strong determination to fight against his own gambling addiction

I agree. This is the reason why a lot of people are addicted to gambling and no one is stopping them making them more plunged through in to that addiction and people around them is not giving them some determination, some ray of light that can help them to save that one certain gambler. There are a lot of gambler out there that can't be stopped from gambling but we are mistaken that they can't stop, we can make them stop if we have the determination to do that so. That is also what they need to be given, determination to stop and not determination to gamble more.

In fact people will just learn when they already loss a lot and will realize that they turning to someone that they didn't know. Gambling addiction had ruined their lives and they'll wake up one morning even their love ones were gone. Only that person can change his attitude in life thus nobody can help him if he doesn't help his self the other way.

[FlightyPouch]

Acceptance is the first step to any cure of the problem. Till the time one do not start admitting the solutions will not be the boon for that person. Admitting also help the person to realize that some went wrong and need to work so that in order to come out of it and never repeat the same mistake again.

But only acceptance wont help. The person needs to be determined and willing to give up their habits for the better future - for themselves and their family future. Many gamblers do realize the effect that it has on them but few fail to take action. They go into a depressed state where they start doing things that normal humans are not expected to do.

Those who do change or start to change their habits are the ones who need help of such features. For them regular swaying of the mind away from the thoughts of gambling is necessary to break the vicious cycle.

If you know that you are addicted into gambling or anything, maybe on drugs or other things, you should really admit it to yourself since you will not have the will or the determination to push yourself out of that addiction. In the past, I am so close from being addicted into gambling, I am so lucky I have my wife watching over me, admits that I am using our money into gambling and will change for our children's future. They helped me overcome my addiction and it is thanks  to my wife and my family. It is not easy to stop your addiction, there will come a time that even if you are stopping yourself from gambling, you are more getting addicted to it.

[Wete]

Various ways for someone to overcome their addiction. Actually all depends on our intentions, you can limit the number of your bets every day. if the allotment of bets has expired, you should stop not forcing to play again because it will make your money run out.

[maydna]

Various ways for someone to overcome their addiction. Actually all depends on our intentions, you can limit the number of your bets every day. if the allotment of bets has expired, you should stop not forcing to play again because it will make your money run out.

Making limitations is the good way we can do to prevent from losing big money although it does not always work especially if we can win much money. But at least, we know when the time to quit playing gambling so we can leave the places. And with that app from the banks, I think it can help us not to spend much money, and besides that, we can learn about how to manage our time in gambling games so we can leave the game in the right time.

[TheUltraElite]

Yes, to give up the habits that probably stop them into addictive on that gambling and accept the reality that gambling won't help them anymore and need to stop.

They do know about the reality and they do realize that the addiction is destroying them. But they fail to take any action regarding it. Observing something and intervening into it are two different things. With time every gambler realizes that they are not going to be able to "beat the house" because nobody has done so without cheating. But to stop themselves from gambling is another question.

They helped me overcome my addiction and it is thanks  to my wife and my family.

Having someone watch over you is good to keep your habits under control. Thats why every man needs a woman to help them through life.

[Supercrypt]

Sometimes, it just only takes something to draw us back, as so many people know they are addicted, but their actions is just something they could not help, but having something to draw your attention to the negativity of what you are doing, and then not being able to access some funds will limit you by force and that is the idea, but really, you have to want it.

That is the real catch here. Without the real interest from the addicted gambler, no thing could bring differences with them. They must need the recovery from their heart not just in words for the sake of others compulsions. Most of the times, addicted gamblers do join into rehabilitation centers with no actual interest and then never finding any differences in their hunger to continue gambling.

In my view a new habit which should be chosen by the addicted gambler by his own interest and then the external help from friends and family may bring the desired results. OP's case must be good lesson from many fellow gamblers here but unfortunately we, the gamblers are not recalling these scenarios at the right/required timing. Forgetting most useful things at most wanted times, is major problems for most of the people across globe.

[onrise]

Banking app? Whoa that's quite unheard of, I know there are so many personal growth app out there that do help but never thought that a banking app will do the job perfect.

This is really great news I would say till the time it is helping people to get rid of their addiction and get back people on track. This way it would help people also to come out of addiction and have a good life rather than get stuck in the money making process from gambling .

[bisdak40]

It is crazy to see what gambling addiction can do to someone lookong at his story. Addiction is actually one hard thing to get out from and to know an app can really be of help is quite amazing. What do you think?

Gambling addiction really destroy someone's life. As a gambler myself, quitting/controlling is a hard thing to do if you don't have that determination. I found the story amazing as it is the financial institution that helps it clients to get out of gambling addiction. Here in our country, gambling addicts usually commits crime like robbery or thief just to have money to satisfy their desire to gamble. Sounds funny but it is really happening in our country and that is what gambling addiction does to a person. 

[dupee419]

Wow, I can't believe that an app can actually be a cause for fighting addiction, nonetheless it helped out the addicted gambler, and this is the side effect of what gambling can do to us if we don't become cautious and be blinded with money that we can afford or lose, I need to know more about this app, I have a friend that is addicted to gambling as well, he almost spent 75% of his earnings through gambling and earned 20% out of that 75% that he spent on the casino and online gambling, I need to try this out for him before goes crazy and go total bankrupt.

[Kakmakr]

The problem with blocking or banning yourself is that you can unblock or unban yourself. People can just open up a new account at another Bank and transfer gambling money from the one Bank that are blocked to the other Bank that are not blocked.

We had a similar situation with people banning themselves from Brick n mortar casinos, where they ban themselves and when they get desperate enough, just unban themselves again or simply switching to another casino where they are not banned. <or to gamble online>

Go to the real root of the problem and address that problem, before you start banning yourself or blocking your Bank accounts. 

[Get-Paid.com]

The problem with blocking or banning yourself is that you can unblock or unban yourself. People can just open up a new account at another Bank and transfer gambling money from the one Bank that are blocked to the other Bank that are not blocked.

We had a similar situation with people banning themselves from Brick n mortar casinos, where they ban themselves and when they get desperate enough, just unban themselves again or simply switching to another casino where they are not banned. <or to gamble online>

Go to the real root of the problem and address that problem, before you start banning yourself or blocking your Bank accounts. 

You're right it's best if the gambling industry will simply destroy itself but it's just not going to happen, isn't it?

This is a good feature that helps people in the heat of the moment, and of course they can always bank elsewhere or find other solutions to bypass this block, but if they self-exclude, use this App and block all sites and ask by email from every website they go to that they want a permanent block and closure etc. etc. - then it could be a very effective tool against gambling addiction.

Don't underestimate what Monzo did please.

[iv4n]

I don't like this "so called" apps that can help with gambling addiction, or any other addiction. I don't gamble for some time already, after so much gambling with bitcoins and fiat. Cure is other activity, I'm so busy that I can't allow myself to spend couple hours sitting and gambling when I have so many things to do, when I'm free I can't wait to lay down and sleep, I rest when ever I find some free time.
You can talk about stopping, but if you don't find anything else to take your energy there isn't app that can help you. Find some activity where you will spend time, energy and you will stop with gambling.

[bitcoinisbest]

I don't like this "so called" apps that can help with gambling addiction, or any other addiction. I don't gamble for some time already, after so much gambling with bitcoins and fiat. Cure is other activity, I'm so busy that I can't allow myself to spend couple hours sitting and gambling when I have so many things to do, when I'm free I can't wait to lay down and sleep, I rest when ever I find some free time.
You can talk about stopping, but if you don't find anything else to take your energy there isn't app that can help you. Find some activity where you will spend time, energy and you will stop with gambling.

Not everyone has that willpower to stop by them self and due to which we have cure therapy etc so that they can bring such addicted people out of it else and anything related to it be an app, online based some learning or techniques which will help people to have self control is extremely important.

[maydna]

I don't like this "so called" apps that can help with gambling addiction, or any other addiction. I don't gamble for some time already, after so much gambling with bitcoins and fiat. Cure is other activity, I'm so busy that I can't allow myself to spend couple hours sitting and gambling when I have so many things to do, when I'm free I can't wait to lay down and sleep, I rest when ever I find some free time.
You can talk about stopping, but if you don't find anything else to take your energy there isn't app that can help you. Find some activity where you will spend time, energy and you will stop with gambling.

Not everyone has that willpower to stop by them self and due to which we have cure therapy etc so that they can bring such addicted people out of it else and anything related to it be an app, online based some learning or techniques which will help people to have self control is extremely important.

That is right, at least with the app, a gambler can trying to learn about how to control themselves in gambling games. Besides that, with that app, I think they have something that will help them to know the limitations for playing gambling, and the best is they can control how much money they want to use for the gambling game.

[slaman29]

Interesting read. I'm always I guess intrigued by these stories of gambling addiction. I see some of my friends in a similar situation, but because there are no casinos here, perhaps it doesn't get out of hand. But I do see that they access online just like me except they use credit card, or worse some mobile casinos let you use top up from mobile credit, so you basically can buy a credit top up, and then reload every time as a form of deposit. They have lost a lot of money and I see their mood goes down, they get depressed, but it doesn't last until next salary. I wonder if this type of app can be linked to any person without that bank?

[TheUltraElite]

Not everyone has that willpower to stop by them self and due to which we have cure therapy etc so that they can bring such addicted people out of it else and anything related to it be an app, online based some learning or techniques which will help people to have self control is extremely important.

Not having willpower is same as being dead due to addiction. I feel everyone can stop their addiction but the time taken will vary from one person to another. A rehabilitative cure might be needed for those who cannot stop gambling but most of the smaller cases can be handled with a mix of support and abstinence from internet.

In fact abstaining from internet access and phones can help a lot of the modern problems of the society. People became modern with new technology but failed to use the technology properly. Instead of relying on an app for everything they should do some self-debate and think about their actions.