Letting the cat out of the bag

[Davidvictorson]

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I may be wrong and stand to be correct but those who are addicted to gambling are those who live a secluded lifestyle. They have no friends, social life, hobbies, relationships. They are introverts. These are the folks who are at higher risk of getting addicted to gambling. They find comfort in it.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Cool beans. The OP can proudly beat his or her chest and reply when ask what is their contribution to making the society a better place. They'll reply and say that they have been able to help some gamblers recover from their addictions which they have struggled with for so long.

[DaNNy001]

I've never helped anyone who was addicted in gambling to stop his addiction and I don't think I can even help anyone do it because as far as I'm concerned, the only person who can stop a gambling addict from his addiction is the affected person. I've been a victim of gambling addiction before and no one was able to help me out of it until when I decided to help myself.

Gambling addiction normally is something of self discipline and determination so I believe that what you said that it's actually the affected person that can help himself stop this act. Most addicted person that I know are very hard to give advice to and even if you give them advice they usually tend to do what's in their mind and that's why only the person that is affected can help himself. But most cases I have seen too, the affected person usually get some help from family and friends, especially people that have gone to the extreme with their hobby.

[Fiatless]

If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

We should know that gambling is not for the underaged so we have to identify that we are dealing with adults. Every adult knows what is good or bad for him or her and we should always respect people's privacy. You don't have the right to intrude in someone's personal life until you are invited or you have clear evidence that such a person needs help. 

Most gambling addicts don't always accept or believe that they are addicted or need help. And even they know about their problem they tend to keep it to themselves because of societal stigma. People always see gambling addicts as untrustworthy even when they are free from addiction. This is why some of them prefer to die in silence. Some of them might also keep it secret because they don't trust anyone and there is no counselor or addiction therapist in their location.

But I will always tell people suffering from gambling disorders to seek help from reliable friends, family, or trained personnel. They shouldn't be ashamed of stigma or discrimination because their health is more important than the shame they are avoiding. They can also seek help online if they want to protect their privacy. We should also help these challenged people anytime they come to us for any form of assistance that will make them break free from addiction.

[stomachgrowls]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Things get better after they voiced out about their addiction and they are able to get help, any gambling addicts you know of? what method works for you when helping them?
If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

Actually when gambling addiction hits you or really have that kind of situation then it wont really be that becomes severe if you are really just that having that control of your senses or awareness on what things happening around. People who dont really share up their condition specially into their family doesnt mean that they cant really be able to do so, it is really just that we are really that afraid that things becomes even more messier
or simply we dont really like to see on whats happening to us even if we do speak about family. We dont like on getting teased or being that scolded or being that discriminate basing up on what we have become.
Somewhat it would really be that giving that kind of shameful feeling whenever you do see that you are really that down. When gets addicted then expect that you are really that on a tough situation
in speaking about finances.

Actually we could really be able to save up ourselves in our own if we are really just that having that will and control on quitting on everything that you are currently experiencing now.
Nothing beats out on human brain if you do really just persevere on quitting because you would really be that normally be finding ways and methods for you to be able
to resolved out on whatever problems that you are facing right now.

[topbitcoin]

If we are able to have the courage to dive into gambling and start betting, then we must also be brave and ready for all the risks we will face, including the problem of gambling addiction. And we ourselves have decided to gamble, so we ourselves should be able to get out of the gambling activities that we do. However, it seems that the problem of gambling addiction is not as easy as we think, so we need help and the role of other people so that we can be truly aware and get rid of this gambling activity.

And when someone has entered the gloomy valley of gambling (addiction), then that person is actually in the most difficult time of his life. And when you enter that gloomy valley, only a few people will try to help you get out of that situation and for the most part, they will just laugh and wait for your destruction. so it is very difficult to find people who really care about the conditions we are experiencing.

[macson]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Things get better after they voiced out about their addiction and they are able to get help, any gambling addicts you know of? what method works for you when helping them?
If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

The title of your topic really caught my attention lol, when you have an addiction problem, it's good if you tell it to people you trust, surely the people closest to you will help you with all the experience they have.  Don't keep any problems that you can't handle, you're just hurting yourself slowly. There are many methods that can cure someone from addiction, and one of them is by consulting a party you trust or a gambling addiction healing counseling agency. Don't let your gambling addiction drag on too long, be careful with that.

[348Judah]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

That is if someone can even have any around that is a gambling addict, then talking about change, it is that an easy task to just say it by mouth on changing others, maybe we should first start talking about changing our own self first before thinking of changing others, gambling addiction is not easy to deal with, it's a big task to help in seing tht we change thise addicted to being a regular gambler, but how many people are willing and ready to give the demands needed on seing this change come to happen.

[Westinhome]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Things get better after they voiced out about their addiction and they are able to get help, any gambling addicts you know of? what method works for you when helping them?
If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

The possibility of the getting away from the gambling addiction was possibly 50-50 percentage,but the gambler should need of self acceptence of gambling addiction to the gambling.So the gambler will set their mind to get away from the gambling addiction,this was the reason for the mentor of the gambling addicted person will ask their gambler to accept their addiction to the game.The gambling addicted person will do some crime to generate the money for the time when they don't have money to gamble.The experienced gambler will do the game more then the gambler,but they do the game in the planned way and play the next game with the profit from the previous game.So they mostly withdrew the funds of the deposit after they made many win in the gambling sites.

[Fatunad]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Things get better after they voiced out about their addiction and they are able to get help, any gambling addicts you know of? what method works for you when helping them?
If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

The title of your topic really caught my attention lol, when you have an addiction problem, it's good if you tell it to people you trust, surely the people closest to you will help you with all the experience they have.  Don't keep any problems that you can't handle, you're just hurting yourself slowly. There are many methods that can cure someone from addiction, and one of them is by consulting a party you trust or a gambling addiction healing counseling agency. Don't let your gambling addiction drag on too long, be careful with that.

There are only 3 things which i do see that you would really be needing for you to quit up addiction
and it would really be in order basing up on how you would really be doing accordingly.

1. Control to your self/Self will/Discipline
2. Help from loved ones
3. Professional help when it comes to gambling problems

You wouldn't really be putting up yourself on such condition if you are really just that responsible towards your gambling. People do usually make some learnings on the time that they do experience
unfortunate conditions or situations on which it would really be just that a normal reaction. Dont let yourself do experience unfortunate conditions first before you would be tending to avoid things.
As much as possible you should really be needing to have that control over things so that you wont really be coming into this point.

People do really make out learnings on the time that its already too late, dont come into a point that you would really be giving out that huge impact or effect into your
finances before you would really be considering on stopping or having that good control towards your gambling activity.

[uneng]

I only know addicted gamblers virtually. People close to me have never been on this situation before, so all the experience I have about this is regards people I have met on the internet. We always try giving good advices to these people, but since we aren't close to them in a daily basis, it's hard to know if they take every advices seriously and adopt the hints received for their lives. I would to believe so, because sometimes the only thing people need is some legit attention, to have the assurance there is someone listening to them and interested on their problems for real. If they feel cared, they will tend to change their habits for the better.

[Johnyz]

I only know addicted gamblers virtually. People close to me have never been on this situation before, so all the experience I have about this is regards people I have met on the internet. We always try giving good advices to these people, but since we aren't close to them in a daily basis, it's hard to know if they take every advices seriously and adopt the hints received for their lives. I would to believe so, because sometimes the only thing people need is some legit attention, to have the assurance there is someone listening to them and interested on their problems for real. If they feel cared, they will tend to change their habits for the better.

Recovering from addiction is not easy, but with a help of the system and someone close to you it is still possible to go back to your normal life. I personally know someone who are addicted in gambling before and now living a better and a happy life. I’m not an addict but there are times that I gamble beyond my budget, well I do recover from this by punishing myself not to gamble got a month depends on the money that I’ve loss. I believe this is all about being responsible and stay within your budget, gambling addiction can be cure so don’t lose your hope.

[Jemzx00]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

Throughout my gambling endeavors, I've encountered a lot of gambling addicts not only on physical casino but also on online gambling platforms. Out of all the people I've encountered and befriended, I can only confirm I was successfully able to help only 2 of them on their gambling addiction. One of them is my friend way back on college and he got addicted with online gambling, whereas, I was the one who introduced it to him, fortunately I was able to get it out of his system by getting him addicted with something else which is collecting sneakers. Another person was one of my previous gambling friends on my local casino, he financial fit but has trouble managing his gambling activities and I was able to convince him on doing something else and, right now he has a business where he met his girlfriend.

If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

It's really hard to predict how gambling addiction can affect oneself and it can be a good idea to reach out to someone for help and it's never easy to try ask for help for something you're suffering on. As for me, luckily even without someone else help I was able to stop myself with my gambling addiction however it was because I felt lost and down during those times and the only option is to stop my gambling activities.

[TimeTeller]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

That is if someone can even have any around that is a gambling addict, then talking about change, it is that an easy task to just say it by mouth on changing others, maybe we should first start talking about changing our own self first before thinking of changing others, gambling addiction is not easy to deal with, it's a big task to help in seing tht we change thise addicted to being a regular gambler, but how many people are willing and ready to give the demands needed on seing this change come to happen.

Luckily, I don't know anyone who is addicted to gambling on a personal basis.
I have seen online gamblers who are addicted but hard to change their stance if you don't know them personally.
It is better to influence somebody if you know them personally as you can truly give a sincere advise to them.
However, one should not be aggressive in giving their advice as they need to evaluate the situation first of that addicted gambler.

[Casdinyard]

Fortunately enough, the only person I was able to save out of gambling addiction (from those that I know are already gambling and are on the verge of gambling addiction) is myself. I've been with friends and people that have been very disciplined when it comes to dealing with vices and the only one that needed help thus far is myself. This is even during our heightened gambling sprees way back in 2020-2021 which went on for hours and hours by the by.

Hopefully however, the advices we put out in this forum goes to those who desperately needs it, words aren't that much impactful compared to hands-on assistance but at the very least letting them know that someone from the other side of the planet cares about them should make them feel less lonely, and less reliant upon gambling.

[uneng]

I’m not an addict but there are times that I gamble beyond my budget, well I do recover from this by punishing myself not to gamble got a month depends on the money that I’ve loss. I believe this is all about being responsible and stay within your budget, gambling addiction can be cure so don’t lose your hope.

I do the same. I have a personal rule that I'm only able to gamble again once I recover the budget I lost gambling through another sources of income. If I don't recover that lost amount through investments or by working, I can't gamble anymore. I'm doing this since always, and it has been working nicely in order to avoid accumulating deep losses and compromising my finances. If you have a solid and prepared mindset to deal with the potential losses you may face, I think you are safe from addiction. You just have to be very responsible and committed with your plannings.

[Wiwo]

Sincerely speaking,  I haven't really taken the time to study how gambling addiction react and how those who are addicted carry themselves,  this is because most times I only gamble in online casino,  and since I don't visit the physical casinos,  so it may not be easy for me to spot any addicts,  but then I believe that when you can call a person an addicts is when their fails to control they gambling excesses and also being ably to limit the urge and time of gambling.

These are both very important aspects that point to a person who is addicted because having those prior watch-out characters will help you to easily spot them and at the same time try to help to clean up.

[Juse14]

When you are addicted to gambling, believe me, no one will care and try to help you from this situation. Because other people will only help us when it is truly beneficial for us personally. If not, then don't ever hope that you will get help from others. Because gambling addiction is a loss.

So if you like and often play gambling, so that you can avoid feeling addicted to gambling, then you should be able to take all forms of anticipation to prevent this by continuing to play within reasonable limits and playing with good self-control.

[robelneo]

If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relief and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

It cannot be on just anybody, because gambling addiction is a sensitive issue if you're going to tell someone it should be someone who knows how to get you out of gambling addiction, not just your close drinking buddies, not your family members who have a high morale, it should be someone who knows what addiction is who have experienced helping others.
When a gambling addict asks for someone to talk that means he is ready to open up and he needs help to get out of his present situation if someone fails to do it, there will be no second chance that the gambler will ask for help again because he thinks he was betrayed, and he'll be keeping it all to himself.

[o48o]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

From my own experience, I get to know that those gamblers who are secretly gambling in their rooms and develop the addiction habit have the biggest problem, gambling addiction is like 'wanting more' and never getting enough, you will have all day thinking about gambling, maybe if you do this or you do that, maybe the result will be different.

I was able to talk sense into two different addicted gamblers and they also get help from family members, but the major reason why they too so long in their addiction is because they don't open up to anybody, they kept it all inside of them and it's killing them.

Things get better after they voiced out about their addiction and they are able to get help, any gambling addicts you know of? what method works for you when helping them?
If you are facing gambling addictions and you are keeping it all to yourself, you are worsening your problem, find someone who is close to you and open up to them, letting it all out will bring you some relieve and hopefully you will get better, don't wait till you hit the rock bottom before you say it all out.

I haven't helped anyone but myself managing their addiction (i don't think you ever really get rid of it, but you can manage it). But lying about it is definitely huge sign. It's a sign that gambler knows that their habits are not going to be approven, or that they are downplaying the truth for themselves so that they can.

Lying to your friends and to yourself isn't going to just make your addiction worse, but it can destroy relationships. And it's definitely not a healthy foundation to build anything on.

What helped me was being honest to myself. Writing out things like what i want and what i need to do to get it. And by being honest, i won't be just writing what i want to happen, but what i need to happen. And that can include wanting to gamble while wanting to quit. That's how addiction works, you need to want the other thing more in order to that happen.

Or you can set up rules for budget, so you can keep on gambling but to keep it check, but if someone is already lying to themselves, those rules most likely don't work. You need to be 100% honest to yourself to be able to obey your own rules.

[klidex]

How many people have you been able to change after they get addicted to gambling? And what is there level of addiction?

So far, it just so happens that my siblings and friends do their gambling responsibly, so I don't lecture them too much in making the decision to gamble because they can limits themselves to the abilities they have.
Gambling addiction does have a very bad impact, especially if our friends or relatives have a gambling addiction, we will definitely do something to help them cure their addiction.
Honestly, I don't know what it will be like if one day I am face with a friends of mine who is addicted because I don't have the right to forbid them if they don't have the desire to stoped, but if they ask me for help to cure their addiction I will help a little with the knowledge that I have, maybe with a method of reducing expenses gradually and we always accompany him through this process.