Learning from those who have experience

[Rruchi man]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.

Addiction to gambling is not easy to break away from, and anybody that has successfully broken free from it did not do so so easily.

 It is rare to see someone who has fought so hard to break addiction from gambling and then after that the person goes back to say they want to start gambling normally.

It is risky and dangerous because, if you continue gambling after defeating addiction, it is always easier to have a relapse and return to undisciplined gambling if not careful.

I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

You break away properly by staying away from it, and for the time to break away from addiction, it varies from person to person.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Firstly, you need to build the principle of contentment - let that be guaranteed with whatever means you'd wanna try out... Secondly, you'll have to suppress the frequency of gambling urge - that way, you're ultimately in full control of your desires at every point in time.
Thirdly, if the urge is deep - do away with every facility that's gonna connect you to any casino's sever - clear tabs, uninstall apps and caches.
Lastly, don't ever feel entitled to any form of winnings from any casino - for the very fact that peeps are still winning big innit... A time will come you won't even need to gamble anymore.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Wexnident]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

Not really a hard experience, but more on the minor side I suppose. I think why I didn't experience being that addicted to gambling in the first place is due to the habits I have, which was also the reason I was able to move one quickly from my every now and then addictive impulses. I play a lot of games, I also have a few hobbies like drawing, painting, jogging and a bit minor but also sports. I do these lot very actively, and I believe it was because of that that gambling had a really small space in my mind most of the time, because I think of what to do with the others instead. It takes my mind away from it and makes me think of gambling as something small.

So yea, go out and experience other things, find out new hobbies and stuff like that. In the long run it can be a big help. If you can't, then even simply walking outside, taking in that fresh air and thinking about things can help clear your mind a lot.

[anjiitem]

I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

Someone who is already heavily addicted to gambling sometimes they themselves are not aware that they are already among those who experience severe gambling addiction disorder. All they feel is a very strong urge or desire to gamble without thinking about the negative effects.
Most of the people who are around the addict are aware and feel the bad effects that someone has experienced gambling addiction.
If someone has experienced a severe gambling addiction, there are two possibilities that will happen to him.
The first is that he has no family or people who still care about him and he is completely broke, has debts piled up everywhere and has nothing left of his wealth.
The second is that someone has family or people around him who still care about him and do various ways ranging from therapy and restrictions to keep him away from his gambling habit.
In essence, someone who is addicted to heavy gambling cannot easily treat himself but must have family or close people who support him and in my opinion must keep the person away from the place where he is gambling and provide a new, more positive environment and activity.

[alastantiger]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.

Good question up for discussion. I haven't been addicted to gambling because I have been able to take takes when I think that my next gambling session is all I think about. I have a strategy for financial management in gambling. I call it the 321 approach. I split whatever income I receive in half. I save of 40%. 3 percent goes into my daily needs. 2 percent is my emergency funds for unforeseen circumstances and 1% is for gambling. I do not go above the 1%. It helps me to be financially prudent. I have been doing this since the past 1 year now and it has been very helpful.

I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

Budgeting is the first step to break free from gambling addiction. Having someone be in charge of your finance is a step I highly recommend.

[goinmerry]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

No choice but to deal with yourselves. There's no specific thing that keeps us still in responsible act even though we are always gambling.

Being always disciplined in gambling might be tough to do for you but there's no other person who can help you but "ONLY YOU". What's your goal and want to achieve? Stay away from gambling? Minimizing your gambling activity? Taking a break from gambling? Tell us specifically.

The fact that you able to post here at the gambling section about your concern, I'm sure you already know what to do but not just proceeding yet.

[lionheart78]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

Some gamblers are able to break into gambling addiction due to sheer strong will.  I believe these people are yet to be deeply addicted to gambling.  They are able to breakfree themselves because they had realized it sooner that they need to avoid too much engagement in gambling and they should divert their focus to other useful things in order to eat up time and avoid gambling.

For those who are deeply trapped in gambling addiction, help from third-party medical professional is needed and support and understanding from the family plays a huge role.

[dothebeats]

I wasn't addicted but I was consistent in gambling every week with the same amount. You might consider that as addiction but I don't view it that way. For me, the first step in curbing this activity and moving away from gambling is recognizing that what you're doing is not okay. I assure you, it takes a lot of convincing yourself that what you do is something out of the ordinary and must be stopped. It took me a while to break free from my scheduled gambling habits and patterns, but I did it anyway.ß

[ultrloa]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

Actually money is the main reason why majority stops or aid their addiction since if you don't have anything to spend and you life became miserable for sure realize all the wrong deeds you do then try to correct it. I experience this so better set some amount you can afford to gamble since by this way we can limit ourselves to became more greedy and by this little discipline we do everyday for sure we get used to it and avoid gamble excessively.

[ralle14]

I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

I mentioned this on older threads, but here's mine. I would spend most of my time doing other activities and sometimes chill together with my friends until I stopped having thoughts about gambling. I can't remember exactly how long it took me to break the pattern, but i'd say around a month or two because it's always easy to go back and develop an addiction.

So yea, go out and experience other things, find out new hobbies and stuff like that. In the long run it can be a big help. If you can't, then even simply walking outside, taking in that fresh air and thinking about things can help clear your mind a lot.

I also had the same solution when I got hooked on gambling and was spending more than I should have every week. I relied on my other hobbies to break the pattern and limit myself to only betting with the smallest bankroll.

[uneng]

I don't consider I've been an addicted gambler, but I felt really close of becoming one when I lost a big sum of money and got tempted to recover that. I couldn't stop thinking about the loss, I couldn't sleep and kept thinking about putting more money in risk to recover what was lost. I think what prevented me from going further was to conclude I wasn't the first one to face this situation and that I was going through the same wrong process many gamblers had already went before me, ending in chaos and misery.

When you feel impulsive to continue betting, even though you have already spent everything you could, think about other gamblers who were on the same situation and how it ended for them. Do you want to pass by the same path of suffering they did? Do you want bad consequences for your life? I don't think so... So, please, refrain.

[alegotardo]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

I came from a time when making money with online casinos was easy, especially when I could include several referrals that multiplied my earnings. Over time the games became more and more difficult and less profitable and then I realized that I was already spending almost everything I had earned in the previous months.

Fortunately I never needed to invest a lot of money in gambling, I just used the profits I got from betting and referrals.

I think that my "salvation" was to have found an alternative in sports games, because I don't know if I would be able to stop betting completely.... with sports games I was able to "slow down", make more sporadic bets while I needed time to analyze game statistics, place smaller bets (always offline) and patiently wait for the results.

Today I'm happy with the discipline gained in gambling and with my responsible bets, but every now and then I still have a few slot machine relapses

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.

What you are looking for does not exist. Someone who has problems with gambling, the way to stop having them is to stop gambling, for good. Like alcoholics.

I was once an addicted gambler but today am no more as I gamble responsibly. How I was able to overcome my addiction was that I quitted gambling for a long period of time,and this made be not to see and understand that gambling is not a means of making profit but for entertainment.

I'd think you were making it up, especially with the number of people who write in this section who don't even gamble to meet their weekly quota, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and think you're the exception that proves the rule.

First of all, it is important to remember that every gambling addict has a different case in how they deal with their addiction problems. One more thing, if someone has recovered from his addiction, he will automatically stop and will not play it again. let's take an example in the case of smoking, someone who is addicted to smoking will stop when he has completely recovered from his addiction. Likewise with gambling, although in the case of gambling it is a little more complicated and complex than cigarette addiction.

Right. I mentioned alcohol before, but tobacco is also useful. Someone who is an ex-smoker, who smoked a couple of packs of cigarettes a day, if they go back to smoking, they will go back to smoking as before, they will not be able to smoke just one cigarette a day or only at weekends, as in the case of ex-alcoholics. The same applies to gambling.

[yudi09]

I want to ask those of you who have a hard addiction experience in gambling and then you can treat it yourself, and today still playing gambling but with the principle of good management and financial management in gambling.
I want to know how you break away from the addiction, you can mention the actions taken or what kind of steps? And how long do you need time to break away from the addiction that has been experienced?

"I want to find out because I think your experience in the case as I mentioned will be useful for readers, especially for me personally"

There is no special drug that is effective to cure addiction quickly other than a strong desire to stop that comes from yourself.
In discussions related to several topics like this there are those who suggest avoiding hanging out with friends that you normally play with the aim of alienating yourself.

For some experiences, the method for some can be effective, for me based on the experience that I have practiced is to go through everyday association as usual with them in the usual place but I am busy with other activities that are different from them even my existence is currently in the same table Together with those who are cool playing PG and Pragmatic Play.

[retreat]

I was at a level where I couldn't control myself enough to gamble, not yet at the addiction stage but already getting there. I have used several methods, such as limiting internet access and setting the minimum deposit to be able to control my gambling. Initially it was quite difficult to control the desire to gamble, because the temptation to gamble was still there, especially if there was a match that was quite interesting to gamble on. However, with my strong desire to reduce the intensity of gambling, it really helped me to overcome this problem, even though it took me a long time to control myself.
The point is that it's all up to you, if you have a strong desire to reduce or stop gambling, you should be able to, because whatever method you use, if you don't have a strong desire to stop then it's useless.

[Kakmakr]

My best advice to you and other people having the same problem is this :

1. Find the reason why you are gambling and then find alternatives to replace it. (Example : Boredom = replace it with some other activity like Sport or some new hobby)

2. Find psychological reasons for the addiction.... (Example : Depression / compulsive behavior = Go speak to professional people to find some ways to deal with that)

3. Ask family and friends for support (They can keep you busy with something else or you can talk to them, when you get the urge to start gambling again)

4. Try to delete your accounts and use self exclusion mechanisms provided by some casinos to stop you from accessing their sites.

5. Block all communication and promotions that are coming from gambling related sites. (Also use Advertisement blockers on your browser and phone)

Good luck.... I hope you can get some help and that some of my advice will help you. 

[bitbollo]

I have never had a gambling addiction, but I had a close friend who suffered from this problem.

In general, I think there are some "tricks" that could be implemented immediately to avoid bigger damages:
- Every bettor must ask himself and understand for himself why he bets. From this evaluation he can change this way of playing and avoid compusive plays.
- last but no least, have no money available for gambling (cold wallet if he play in crypto).
- try to find an alternative to gambling (like an hobby etc etc...)
- don't feel bad if you get addicted. just recover from the situation, and avoid any damage that could arise from compulsory betting.

[asriloni]

My suggestion for you to spare some minutes/hours to read whole of threads related to the gambling addictions. There have been so many people were also explaining how to do that in the various explanations.  
I am gonna wait for another gambling addiction thread to appear soon.  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461874.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465315.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5463504.0

[danherbias07]

IMO, I don't think you will see those who you say as "hard gambling addicts" in this forum. It will be difficult to tell the truth about it.
I can see a lot of gamblers but I don't know how to identify what is hard addict from just a normal addict. Judging from the different experiences they shared, most of the time members here know when to stop or not.
I am not an addict but I do run my computer 24 hours sometimes in automatic. That's for the wagering and the chance for a jackpot. There will be a time it's not much fun unlike when I do it in physical gambling. Being on your own at your own desk at your own house in front of a computer is not an enjoyable feature.
I don't think you get easily addicted when it comes to online gambling. It actually becomes boring in the long run especially, if you experienced playing in physical casinos.

[borovichok]

I don't consider I've been an addicted gambler, but I felt really close of becoming one when I lost a big sum of money and got tempted to recover that. I couldn't stop thinking about the loss, I couldn't sleep and kept thinking about putting more money in risk to recover what was lost. I think what prevented me from going further was to conclude I wasn't the first one to face this situation and that I was going through the same wrong process many gamblers had already went before me, ending in chaos and misery.

When you feel impulsive to continue betting, even though you have already spent everything you could, think about other gamblers who were on the same situation and how it ended for them. Do you want to pass by the same path of suffering they did? Do you want bad consequences for your life? I don't think so... So, please, refrain.

Losses are unrecoverable, we should make sure our winnings exceeds the proportional ratio of losses. Refrain from the activities that would be harmful to our personal aides, I'm talking about gambling that tends to liquidate our accounts. Addiction happens every day, we just have to stick to plans that will make us gain quite a lot from the gambling system. Experience will actually make us remember our past mistakes and techniques of addressing them. It's always possible to have important strategies in advance because recording substantial losses will undoubtedly bring us back to the very scratch that we have been avoiding.