Have you ever been a gambling addict?

[dezoel]

I see a lot of people here talking about gambling responsibly. Yes, that is something very true, but have you ever been a gambling addict?

To be honest in the past I have spent a lot of money gambling. What I mean here is that I spent all my savings on gambling. Maybe the nominal amount is not that big but it makes me feel like a gambling addict. I spent 5 months of my savings on gambling. Currently I am aware and am in the stage of improving my own financial condition. Have you ever felt like a gambling addict? and how much did you lose in gambling?

It is not good to use our hard-earned savings for gambling. You are tired and worked hard, and then we will just throw away the money from gambling. This is a big mistake that we will make in life, honestly.

Even if we think that when we win, it's a big deal, it will still be wrong because the basis of winning at the casino is just luck, and we know that. I hope that we give value to the effort and time that we have given to the savings that we have made. We should dedicate them to a good and meaningful reason to use them.

It is not good to use any money that isn't extra for gambling, and by extra, I mean money that isn't needed for anything and is left after everything is done. Let's suppose I earn $1,000 a month, $500 out of it goes to my household expenditures which includes grocery, bills, necessary shopping, and stuff, $200 of it goes to my savings that I do every month, $100 for personal expenditures for things that I buy, consume, or maybe gas for the vehicle, etc. Now, the remaining $200 is extra, now it's up to me about what I would want to use that money for, I can gamble with it or add it to my savings.

So, every gambler, big or small, needs to understand that the money they are using should only be extra and not from their savings or the money that they need for their monthly expenditures or it's money that they've borrowed from somewhere because if that money is lost, there is no way they can get it back.

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[Sanugarid]

Gambling has a way of trying to change us totally from who we are to something else. There was a time in my life when I was gambling more than expected. I was gambling with every single penny that gets to my hand. I will rather use the money to gamble than buy food or clothes. There got to a point I started borrowing to gamble and I will lose the money. People around started making jocks with my new gambling habit. My family began to complain about it. It was then I know I was going beyond the lines so I had to make adjustments immediately as there were clear sighs that I was getting addicted. I was spending more time in the gambling place than at home or anywhere else.

It's true that gambling can change a person if you don't have control and limits on yourself, you can get addicted to it. It's good that your family was there and woke you up and made you realize that what you're doing is wrong. You're lucky you weren't too addicted and you got out right away.
It's not bad to gamble, it's really fun to play gambling it's entertaining, you just really need full control of yourself before you enter here.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Gambling has a way of trying to change us totally from who we are to something else. There was a time in my life when I was gambling more than expected. I was gambling with every single penny that gets to my hand. I will rather use the money to gamble than buy food or clothes. There got to a point I started borrowing to gamble and I will lose the money. People around started making jocks with my new gambling habit. My family began to complain about it. It was then I know I was going beyond the lines so I had to make adjustments immediately as there were clear sighs that I was getting addicted. I was spending more time in the gambling place than at home or anywhere else.

It's true that gambling can change a person if you don't have control and limits on yourself, you can get addicted to it. It's good that your family was there and woke you up and made you realize that what you're doing is wrong. You're lucky you weren't too addicted and you got out right away.
It's not bad to gamble, it's really fun to play gambling it's entertaining, you just really need full control of yourself before you enter here.

I think that every human being always has many things they must do, some tastes, and also priorities, sometimes responsibilities, I can say that on some occasions adolescents, or perhaps an 18-year-old adult who does not have any type of responsibility can It could be because he doesn't care about many things and can spend money and money in casinos, either because his parents keep giving him money and they are studying, or maybe he spends the money they have for his job, and well, it's his money and not They have responsiveness, however this is not good, because when people play and spend their money in a casino, they partly do not love each other, because money is essential for everything, and these are the things that we must always put a good focus on. where we are going to have certain legal or entertainment privileges, it is never too late to realize the things that are good or bad, and if something like the game is harming us, we must be aware and control it, not play so much, because It is an addiction without a doubt, and every addiction causes the money that reaches our hands to go away quickly.

In this order of things, the person who leaves or puts his money there, because what he should do is have other activities, I don't know, I always recommend playing sports, going to play soccer all day, the idea is to tire out his body and your mind can rest, as long as people are tired it is difficult for them to use their brain, and even less to play, because their body asks for rest, so things when they are like this do not make them feel like it, also not to completely stop the game but Let him play but in shorter time intervals, if he is a person who has a family, he should stop immediately, because how are he going to leave his family unprotected? Those things when there is family, children, people who depend on you, the person who must have at least 4 fingers of the brain, because they have to respond well to them, I consider that immature and irresponsible.

[348Judah]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

[Westinhome]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

The gambler who doesn’t know how to control their emotions in the gambling will get addicted to the gambling to regain their loss money.The gambling addicted person will loss their money in huge quantities because he keep deposit of the funds to recover the loss again and again.The gambler who get addicted to the gambling with the reason of regain their loss money in gambling.Some gamblers will get addicted by the many dollars winnings from the gambling site.So both the win and loss will made the gambler to get addicted to the gambling site.The gambler who move on with the loss may win big money one day.

[Hispo]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

You got the right idea, but do not underestimate the power of addictions, specially gambling addiction. In the beginning, no one expects or wants to be a gambling addicted person. If people could manage their situation as easily by saying those things, then there would not be gambling addicts on this planet.
No one needs a reason to be addicted,.as you imply when you say you do not like others getting into it for "no reason", it is just about the instinctive seek for thrill or money, one does not need a back story or justification in order to fall for abuse of gaming games, alcohol or substances. Otherwise, we would not seen successful people and super starts also suffering from those situations.

[Docnaster]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

I think I have a different experience in gambling compared to yours because I for a fact was addicted to gambling years ago and suffered gambling addiction for long while before I finally took the decision not continue with my addiction and that has been one of my best decisions as an adult. Gambling addiction isn't good but easily becomes part of gamblers who failed to control their activities in gambling. Also one thing I'll want to clarify here is that most of gambling addicts of today never wanted to be addicts from the onset but were forced to become addicts by their greed and desire to win big in gambling

[Quidat]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

You got the right idea, but do not underestimate the power of addictions, specially gambling addiction. In the beginning, no one expects or wants to be a gambling addicted person. If people could manage their situation as easily by saying those things, then there would not be gambling addicts on this planet.
No one needs a reason to be addicted,.as you imply when you say you do not like others getting into it for "no reason", it is just about the instinctive seek for thrill or money, one does not need a back story or justification in order to fall for abuse of gaming games, alcohol or substances. Otherwise, we would not seen successful people and super starts also suffering from those situations.

When addiction hits you then there's no way that you could really be able to get out until you would really be having that devastated finances and this is why we should really be that careful
when it comes on dealing up with things. You wont really be that making yourself that get addicted if you are really just that sensible on the actions that you are making because if you dont
then expect that you would really that get addicted with it. So far im able to quit up and able to control my addiction back in the past on which i do really have a hard time on doing so.
You wont really be that making yourself that easily to get rid of it because once greed would be controlling you then it would really be that hard to have that control and it does
really need that kind of extreme discipline and control.

[uneng]

I think I have a different experience in gambling compared to yours because I for a fact was addicted to gambling years ago and suffered gambling addiction for long while before I finally took the decision not continue with my addiction and that has been one of my best decisions as an adult. Gambling addiction isn't good but easily becomes part of gamblers who failed to control their activities in gambling. Also one thing I'll want to clarify here is that most of gambling addicts of today never wanted to be addicts from the onset but were forced to become addicts by their greed and desire to win big in gambling

Thankfully you took the decision of stoping till the end until overcoming your addiction. I think that is the most important aspect in every stories of overcoming addictions: decision. If you don't have this, then you can have all the external support you can imagine, but it will be worthless, because the main and essential element has to come from yourself, from your free will and desire to achieve a better life. On the other hand, when the person has decision, but doesn't have any external encouragement, it can be also hard to make it till the end, but not impossible like it would be on the opposite scenario. The lesson is: be strong, fortify your mind and keep focused on your aimed goals!

[Nerdy doctor]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

It’s nice to see someone with a strong conviction against gambling addiction. But a lot of people who eventually ended up being gambling addicts probably taught they couldn’t become addicts themselves until they did.
An addiction has never done anyone good and it doesn’t plan on starting soon. It would always leave one in ruins and shambles leaving the person to pick up the pieces and start all over again. It is nice to have a plan laid out for the future and also to remember we’re the cause of the consequences that follows every action taken knowingly.

[Vaskiy]

I was addicted and slowly I've come out of it. I've shared my story of losing big in gambling Be a Responsible Gambler. During those days I know I was losing, but I don't have control and lost big. Even today I was running hard for what I've lost, only then I can able to settle the debts and come out of financial issues.

[boty]

It's true that gambling can change a person if you don't have control and limits on yourself, you can get addicted to it. It's good that your family was there and woke you up and made you realize that what you're doing is wrong. You're lucky you weren't too addicted and you got out right away.
It's not bad to gamble, it's really fun to play gambling it's entertaining, you just really need full control of yourself before you enter here.

If we don't control ourselves when gambling, of course this will have a very bad impact on our lives in any case. Other people who make someone aware of a gambling addiction will not have any impact if the person who has a gambling addiction doesn't want to stop gambling. , they need to make efforts from themselves and support from other people, of course they will be able to stop so they can slowly reduce and even eliminate these bad habits.

[dansus021]

I see a lot of people here talking about gambling responsibly. Yes, that is something very true, but have you ever been a gambling addict? and Have you ever been a gambling addict?

Totally yes that is the reason why there is a bunch of thread that talk about gambling responsibly or how to get rid of gambling addiction. I think one of the reasons why I am addicted to it is that I don't want to lose; I just want to win and when Im win big greed is coming and I want more and more but when Im losing the fear kick in and I want my money back.

[pinggoki]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

You can never say that because people that have tried alcohol, cigarettes and drugs said that same thing too and now they're a part of their habit and they can't shake it off and whenever they're not doing it, the addicted ones are itching to get them again and again until they don't have the money anymore. Don't blame them for being addicted though, it's not like they really have control over their addiction, if they did then they would've stopped a long time ago, by disliking or being distant to them will only lead to nothing but continuous usage and the proliferation of addiction, in a way it's the responsibility of other to at least give the helping whenever someone asks for it.

[len01]

I think I have a different experience in gambling compared to yours because I for a fact was addicted to gambling years ago and suffered gambling addiction for long while before I finally took the decision not continue with my addiction and that has been one of my best decisions as an adult. Gambling addiction isn't good but easily becomes part of gamblers who failed to control their activities in gambling. Also one thing I'll want to clarify here is that most of gambling addicts of today never wanted to be addicts from the onset but were forced to become addicts by their greed and desire to win big in gambling

Thankfully you took the decision of stoping till the end until overcoming your addiction. I think that is the most important aspect in every stories of overcoming addictions: decision. If you don't have this, then you can have all the external support you can imagine, but it will be worthless, because the main and essential element has to come from yourself, from your free will and desire to achieve a better life. On the other hand, when the person has decision, but doesn't have any external encouragement, it can be also hard to make it till the end, but not impossible like it would be on the opposite scenario. The lesson is: be strong, fortify your mind and keep focused on your aimed goals!

a strong urge to want to get out of addiction all of this requires self awareness and he may have a strong desire to quit his addiction so he can try and get support from anyone to help him quit the addiction.

excessive things have bad effects such as addiction and I have also experienced the black world of gambling and it all started with excessive things when I gambled using a budget that I couldn't afford just to chase the money I had to get to the point of ignoring the bad effects of addiction. this and self awareness and strong commitment can help anyone who wants to leave their addiction and from this, hopefully many gamblers will realize that they dont have to overdo it in gambling to avoid addiction.

[Silberman]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

You can never say that because people that have tried alcohol, cigarettes and drugs said that same thing too and now they're a part of their habit and they can't shake it off and whenever they're not doing it, the addicted ones are itching to get them again and again until they don't have the money anymore. Don't blame them for being addicted though, it's not like they really have control over their addiction, if they did then they would've stopped a long time ago, by disliking or being distant to them will only lead to nothing but continuous usage and the proliferation of addiction, in a way it's the responsibility of other to at least give the helping whenever someone asks for it.

We must acknowledge that anyone can become addicted to anything under the wrong circumstances, it is because of this that we need to always be very careful with any activity in which we engage that has a long story of producing those kind of behaviors, and even if I consider gambling addiction to be way more rare than an addiction to a substance, we still need to reevaluate our behavior from time to time and change it as soon as we notice that we may be heading towards that path.

[uneng]

a strong urge to want to get out of addiction all of this requires self awareness and he may have a strong desire to quit his addiction so he can try and get support from anyone to help him quit the addiction.

excessive things have bad effects such as addiction and I have also experienced the black world of gambling and it all started with excessive things when I gambled using a budget that I couldn't afford just to chase the money I had to get to the point of ignoring the bad effects of addiction. this and self awareness and strong commitment can help anyone who wants to leave their addiction and from this, hopefully many gamblers will realize that they dont have to overdo it in gambling to avoid addiction.

What I think to be the most interesting part of your personal experience with gambling addiction was the moment your goals completely changed from chasing losses to realizing you should stop playing with a budget you can't afford to lose.

As we can see it's mainly about a personal strong decision the individual makes, at least at the beginning of the process of getting rid of addiction. Gambling addicted are lead by noxious goals, and can't see widely outside the bubble they created for themselves. A bubble made of irrational, senseless and short term goals which feed the addiction and make it dominant on their lives.

But once they burst the bubble, they can start seeing the world outside again, its possibilities, especially regards long term goals, which demand them to rupture with the addiction in order to become true. That is the perfect moment to take the decision and work towards freedom of mind and spirit, once again.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

It's good that you think that way, because being addicted to gambling shouldn't be nice. At first I was very attached to the game, I don't deny it, I would do anything and go into the casino to see if I could win, I thought a lot about the things. strategies that I was going to apply, little by little I brought my balance to something very respectable, but one of those things in life that one does not control oneself and starts to play and bet hard thinking that it could make me a lot of money and no, it I lost everything, I had a job for about 3 months and from one moment to the next everything went away, that was something that I suffered very sadly, but since I am a person who does not like to feel bad or sad, well, I learned many things, which I do not I could go crazy betting, I had to have intelligence to do things, not just the things I could have and do in a casino, but what I could achieve, that's when you realize that in a casino you can't invent a lot, that whatever the system reminds you that you are a simple player who can leave it at zero.

I have seen cases of people who suffer from gambling addiction and it is something that is very difficult for them to get out of, it is something that I cannot believe how they can be so involved there, but simply when things are on track for a bad truck, those are the consequences, there is no other way, that is why in the game we must apply intelligence, be reasonable with what we play, how much we play and how long we can play, if each game session is profitable and if each game session we can get something positive, like money in a positive balance and because we are doing good things, and we are not playing without control, that is something beneficial, we are not playing and we are not falling into an imminent addiction like the others, So we must make a difference so that people do not fall into an addiction because living addiction is something that I do not wish on anyone, I have never experienced it, but it is something strong.

[maydna]

I was addicted and slowly I've come out of it. I've shared my story of losing big in gambling Be a Responsible Gambler. During those days I know I was losing, but I don't have control and lost big. Even today I was running hard for what I've lost, only then I can able to settle the debts and come out of financial issues.

Your story teaches everyone how tempting gambling can be for them so that they can lose control and gamble a lot of money. Perhaps it wasn't a lot of money for a while, but after they lost, they started depositing money, and this time, they deposited more money than before. Unfortunately, good luck was not with them, so they lost all their money. And that doesn't stop them from gambling but from continuing to deposit more and more money. At that time, they had started to lose their responsibility in gambling because they had deposited more money than they could afford.

Even if they win, they don't immediately stop gambling because they still want a bigger win. They become greedy and want to get more money, which makes them chase their winnings. This is what makes many people end up losing a lot of money and being irresponsible with their gambling.

[Dewi Aries]

I've never been a gambling addicts before and don't think i will one day turn to be that nasty on addiction no matter how am craving for the satisfaction in gambling, same also, i dislike seing other people getting addicted for no reason, addiction has no better benefits than to make one useless at the end after being a successful gambler for years, the target is about the end of a gambler and not how he has began, that's why we should always think about the future consequences of every actions we are taking today, they must have a future plan for our own sake.

You can never say that because people that have tried alcohol, cigarettes and drugs said that same thing too and now they're a part of their habit and they can't shake it off and whenever they're not doing it, the addicted ones are itching to get them again and again until they don't have the money anymore. Don't blame them for being addicted though, it's not like they really have control over their addiction, if they did then they would've stopped a long time ago, by disliking or being distant to them will only lead to nothing but continuous usage and the proliferation of addiction, in a way it's the responsibility of other to at least give the helping whenever someone asks for it.

We must acknowledge that anyone can become addicted to anything under the wrong circumstances, it is because of this that we need to always be very careful with any activity in which we engage that has a long story of producing those kind of behaviors, and even if I consider gambling addiction to be way more rare than an addiction to a substance, we still need to reevaluate our behavior from time to time and change it as soon as we notice that we may be heading towards that path.

Basically, gambling addiction can come at any time and with any indication, whether it is what you think is right or not, addiction cannot always be guessed about where it started but certainly if you already know that an action must be avoided then obviously that means that the action can greatly trigger addiction. That is why we need to remain careful and apply full firmness to the boundaries we have, it is not impossible because as I have said above that gambling addiction can come from anywhere including without you realizing it, I think for all the bad effects that exist in gambling is no longer strange, or that means most people who are not even gamblers themselves know about the bad effects.

I think awareness has a very important role in this, especially to prevent everything that is not wanted from happening, by having awareness then obviously you will be able to make the right considerations as a result of thinking using common sense, and another thing is that awareness can also prevent something that turns out to be an indication or trigger for worse things to happen.