Ways to recover from being addicted in gambling.

[boyptc]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

[erep]

They need to assess themselves with the help of professional. Because they need to address the root cause of why they are being addicted in gambling. The reason why they got into gambling in the first place and addicted with it. If they can't address the root cause, it would be hard to totally remove the desire of the person from gambling. He will go back again and again.

Agree, it's important to investigate the root cause because it affects the level of healing, motivating yourself and counseling with professionals will quickly help you undergo healing from gambling addiction.

[Captain Corporate]

 I think family plays a big role as well for people to realize their mistakes as well. If you are not really doing very well and have a problem and you do not realize it yourself, maybe there should be some people around you who love you and care for you, those people could tell you that you have a problem as well. I know that most of the time it will not work, when you have an addiction you will not listen to anyone and you will do what you want to do without caring about anyone else, however if you have people who love you and try to help you, that might help just a bit, or maybe not help everyone but some people may get better response to it? I don't really know the role of family in these matters but I am sure it is better to have people telling you to stop than no people at all.

[TopT3ns]

 I think family plays a big role as well for people to realize their mistakes as well. If you are not really doing very well and have a problem and you do not realize it yourself, maybe there should be some people around you who love you and care for you, those people could tell you that you have a problem as well. I know that most of the time it will not work, when you have an addiction you will not listen to anyone and you will do what you want to do without caring about anyone else, however if you have people who love you and try to help you, that might help just a bit, or maybe not help everyone but some people may get better response to it? I don't really know the role of family in these matters but I am sure it is better to have people telling you to stop than no people at all.

indeed the family can be the main role of the change but I have a number of cases around many household heads who gamble so that he does not think of his family, if it has reached this stage it will be very difficult to return to normality as a normal human being has very addicted to gambling.

maybe another step is to look directly at the losses that will be overflowed and there must be someone who is aware of himself directly from the heart and a little advice to try to be better and not addicted anymore.

[pixie85]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

It's like trying to make an alcoholic stop drinking by showing you the empty bottles he drank in his "career".

They say that a chain smoker uslally spends so much money on cigarettes that he could buy a new luxury car but all he gets for those money is cancer.

Addicts are self-destructive and you won't change that by showing them their past mistakes.

[romero121]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

It's like trying to make an alcoholic stop drinking by showing you the empty bottles he drank in his "career".

They say that a chain smoker uslally spends so much money on cigarettes that he could buy a new luxury car but all he gets for those money is cancer.

Addicts are self-destructive and you won't change that by showing them their past mistakes.

If one has the mind to choose one of the possible solution based on his comfort and convenience to get out of addiction, he isn't an addict. In simple terms an addict is a person who hasn't got the mind to control himself. This can be of alcoholic, smoking, gambling and various other activities.

To get out of addiction the better choice is to practice himself to have control. With anyone's intervention this isn't gonna get to a conclusion.

[AakZaki]

Anyone who will teach mental health to an addict feels difficult to really stop it.
Addicts themselves are faced with two choices between wanting to stop or continue.
If you want to stop being addicted, you really have to be determined from the bottom of your heart not to repeat it.
if none of that is done, the addiction will continue to exist.

[boyptc]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

It's like trying to make an alcoholic stop drinking by showing you the empty bottles he drank in his "career".

They say that a chain smoker uslally spends so much money on cigarettes that he could buy a new luxury car but all he gets for those money is cancer.

Addicts are self-destructive and you won't change that by showing them their past mistakes.

Alcohol and cash are two different things.

You can buy as much as alcohol as you want when you have money and drink all of it getting drunk as the benefit. But it's painful to watch that you are losing money and count it all of your life how much you have lost instead of saving.

[michellee]

Anyone who will teach mental health to an addict feels difficult to really stop it.
Addicts themselves are faced with two choices between wanting to stop or continue.
If you want to stop being addicted, you really have to be determined from the bottom of your heart not to repeat it.
if none of that is done, the addiction will continue to exist.

I guess an addicting gambler will continue to gamble as they don't see their reason to stop unless they faced a dead end. What the gambler scare to stop gambling is making the first step to stop gambling. They will feel something lost from them, and they think it's too tough to do that. If they have someone that can remind them, that will be a good thing for that gambler to try to stop gambling.

[Debonaire217]

It is simple to cure addiction in gambling. You need to become poor. Poor in what sense? You should do whatever it takes to stop gambling. Because as long as you are free to bet, no matter how you want to stop betting, you will not be able to do it, you need someone to force you not to bet, or the other way around which is to limit your bet starting from the amount you usually bet, and reducing it over time. This is like the way how to cure addiction to smoking, till you reach the day when you will not experience the fun in gambling because your bet amount is too low.

[noorman0]

Want to get out of addiction does not mean you want to quit gambling and not all types of gambling cause addiction right? An addict must move from the addiction zone. Start by choosing a new type of gambling that doesn't require you to continue any longer.
I think sports betting is the right zone, where bets are only made once in one match (or several times when considering rounds, etc.). All gamblers will stop when the match is over. There are no more bets.

[TheGreatPython]

Definitely professional help. Without getting any professional help, doing something in this magnitude is not really possible. Can you slow down? Can you stop for a while? Sure you can, but eventually you may end up relapsing and doing again. I know this from myself, I have quit gambling god knows how many times and eventually came back, quit again and come back.

Thankfully those quitting periods takes longer and longer these days and that is good, the longer I don't gamble the less I can hurt my finances but I always go back to gambling eventually no matter how long I give a break. However if you get professional help, they will know the right steps to take for quitting and they will help you much better than you can because they know the path hundreds of people took to quit, you only know your own path.

[michellee]

I guess an addicting gambler will continue to gamble as they don't see their reason to stop unless they faced a dead end. What the gambler scare to stop gambling is making the first step to stop gambling. They will feel something lost from them, and they think it's too tough to do that. If they have someone that can remind them, that will be a good thing for that gambler to try to stop gambling.

But this doesn't solely goes for a gambling addiction. This goes for all forms of addictions, no matter if it's gambling, alcoholism, drug abuse or any other. People have a extremly hard time stopping what they are doing - they just can't stop. Most people get only out of their struggle, if they don't see any other way out or get professional help. This means an addicted gambler will gamble as long as he has absolutely no money left.


If think you're addicted, reach out for professional help, it's not too late.

Some of them don't want to go to the professional because they think that they don't addict. And many of them are back to their habit and make themselves busy with their addiction. That is why they need someone who can watch them closely, so if anything changes from them, that person will know, and they can anticipate the worst thing. Maybe that is happening with one of our family or our friends. And if that happens, you will know what you need to do with your friend or your family.

[Murat]

it's easy to say but it's a very tough job to get rid of Gambling, there would be a lot of ways for this purpose but at the very beginning you have to make up your mind, I think if you think which thing may be harmful to you and your life, like smoking, people know that smoking is injurious to health but they do smoke whatever they know, in this way, people also know that Gambling is a kind of addiction, it kills his or her financial and mental state, lots of negative impact on this side so don't think too much, do just what is good for you, I think it's enough to bring a change in everyone's life.

[kawetsriyanto]

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Yes, it isn't easy to do since playing gambling already becomes a habit for some gamblers. You know, when you want to change your habits, it will be difficult to accept it. I think to recover a severe addict, we need the cooperation of various parties (the addict, family, friends, and an expert). The treatment must be more serious and specific, not the same as the treatment for the mild addict. As treatment goes on, I assume we can raise the awareness of the addict. In this case, the closest people to him (especially family), will have a crucial role.

[Naida_BR]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

This is not the best way to quit gambling.
Sometimes, calculating your losses lead you to gamble even more in order to recover them.
And this activity puts you in a vicious cycle that you cannot escape.

[Zeke_23]

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

This is not the best way to quit gambling.
Sometimes, calculating your losses lead you to gamble even more in order to recover them.
And this activity puts you in a vicious cycle that you cannot escape.

I agree with you. Actually I have tried it before where I think of a possible way to stop playing gambling, but then, calculating all the money I spend in gambling just give me a push to play just to take all my losses back. This won't actually help but will make you dive deeper into gambling.

[Bezobraznike]

I agree with you. Actually I have tried it before where I think of a possible way to stop playing gambling, but then, calculating all the money I spend in gambling just give me a push to play just to take all my losses back. This won't actually help but will make you dive deeper into gambling.

   If you calculate all your loses and they are big all you will get from that calculation is depression.
When someone want's to quit gambling should just stop and turn to something else! If you wish to
lose less just limit yourself, never deposit big money, just small amounts, lower your bets and
gamble for fun, not to win big.
   Winning big is what drives people to lose a lot. To win big you have to bet big, and to have enough
money to try it again and again, if you don't have a lot of money with betting big you will lose fast what
you have.

[l3pox]

seeking professional help in these cases is a must do.

but adding to that some lifestyle changes can also help a lot

going out in the sun
exercising daily
stopping to eat junk food
cultivating good and loving relationships.
talking to friends
finding purpose on life (a business? a personal project?) out of gambling.
swimming on the ocean
doing saunas.

this kind of stuff that makes life much better.
it always help, in all areas.

[LogitechMouse]

Yes, it isn't easy to do since playing gambling already becomes a habit for some gamblers. You know, when you want to change your habits, it will be difficult to accept it.

This is the problem if people started to gambling. There is a huge chance that they will be hooked at it and they will gamble more often until such time that it will become their habit already. This is a wrong habit because huge money can be involve with it and many negative emotions can be felt if you lose your money. That is why I don't want to gamble because I don't want that it will be my habit until such time that I will get addicted into it.

I think to recover a severe addict, we need the cooperation of various parties (the addict, family, friends, and an expert). The treatment must be more serious and specific, not the same as the treatment for the mild addict. As treatment goes on, I assume we can raise the awareness of the addict. In this case, the closest people to him (especially family), will have a crucial role.

Family and the experts will be a very big help for an addicted gambler if he wants to recover.

They are great help but if the gambler himself doesn't want to recover him from gambling addiction, it will be useless. The work of these people will be worthless if the gambler doesn't really want to recover. If a gambler wants to recover, he must put his mindset into a state that he wants to recover and with the help of his friends and experts the process of recovery will be much easier .