A call to self-examining our gambling habit.

[qwertyup23]

Personally, the self-reflection comes naturally whenever you have incurred a loss on your part. After experience such loss, you go and contemplate the decision-making that lead to this type of situation. You think for yourself the series of wrong and impulsive decisions that could have been prevented at that time. Like what everyone experienced, we all thought the same phrase of I wish I could turn back time.

Again, this happens to everyone but let us be honest here: we feel this self-reflection only when we lost our money on the bet. Very rarely do we examine our gambling habits out of a positive result where we won money.

At the end of the day, the lesson that we can get here is that people should self-reflect and re-evaluate every time they gamble. Regardless of the result, there is always that invaluable learning experience that we get from these experiences that we should and must apply to our future acts.

[famososMuertos]

Notice how the approaches may be different depending on the individual, until now I do not review my earnings, my skills, my habits, etc.  To determine if I am addicted, I do it to improve my game, my winning expectations and consequently become a better player.

A player discovers that he is addicted when there is no solution, if you want to discover that sooner, go to a specialist, there are tests or even therapies, you are not an expert or to determine that you are an addict or a possible candidate.

[pawanjain]

I think it's hard to self examine because a gambler is always chasing losses. His thought process is just to recover the money lost.
So the chances of him self examining his gambling addiction becomes very low since he would fine every chance to play more and recover the losses.
There should be some kind of strategy so that addicted people has to forcefully self-examine their gambling habits.
Only then, we can potentially see some positive results out of it.

[uneng]

I think if gamblers could take certain step in setting up regular self examining question towards themself it will be helpful to them in their gambling life not to ignorantly be harbouring a gambling addiction or compulsive gambling lifestyle. Quite a number of gamblers are nursing an addictive gambling habit without knowing and for them their gambling life is normal but if they should  genuinely scrutinize or put their habit to test it is possible they could find varied errors to correct and be right on track again.

Self-examination or scrutiny compose a portion of the daily life of every healthy individuals who seek self-development, self-knowledge and self-enhancement on every aspects of their existences. It's necessary to analyze our actions continuously to conclude if they are being benefical or harmful to us somehow, so we adapt our actions accordingly, always aiming personal growth, while also analyzing how our actions are impacting people around us and society, since it's important to remain ethical to live in harmony with each other.

In gambling it's not different. You have to watch yourself constantly. Compare how much money you are spending on this activity to the amount of money you used to spend when you firstly started gambling. Check how your gambling habits are impacting the relationship with your family, friends, social interactions in general and professional career. Conclude what the long term impact of gambling in your life is and adapt the frequency of time and percentage of money you destiny to it after reviewing it.

[YOSHIE]

As gambler when last did you self-examine your gambling habit to create that awareness based on how you are gambling in order for you to be quite sure if you're within a considerable or an acceptable range of a gambling habit that is void of addiction or the tendencies of gambling addiction.

You have to admit that someone's gambling habits are very diverse, maybe some of us are really addicted and others really just gamble, but if you ask me personally I can confirm that at this time and this moment I have never checked my gambling limits, whether I am addicted or not.

But for now I am aware of the gambling activities that I do and for now I can still control where I gamble or stop, I don't think it's very important to introspect myself on my gambling activities, maybe I still limit what will happen and hasn't happened yet.

[Kavelj22]

I think if gamblers could take certain step in setting up regular self examining question towards themself it will be helpful to them in their gambling life not to ignorantly be harbouring a gambling addiction or compulsive gambling lifestyle.

This will only be effective at the beginning of the gambling experience, that is, before engaging in ill-considered behaviors that cannot be controlled later. All gambling addicts indulged in gambling in their beginnings without conducting self-criticism about their behavior and what might result from it. The gaming experience may lead to adverse results if attention is not paid to the danger of excessive practice. The truth is that these victims believed that all their steps were well thought out and that they were too smart to become dependent on gambling games of all kinds.

Personally, I benefited from the experiences of others because I always observed the behavior of patients with gambling addictions and was able to estimate the danger so as not to become a new victim. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to do this.

[aioc]

Quite a number of gamblers are nursing an addictive gambling habit without knowing and for them their gambling life is normal but if they should  genuinely scrutinize or put their habit to test it is possible they could find varied errors to correct and be right on track again.

But will they? All that's playing in their heads is how to beat the house or what's the next strategy to employ, they are preoccupied with these thoughts that they don't care about their addiction and how to correct these errors.

I've seen gamblers denying that they are addicted to gambling and I at one point denied that I am addicted to color games in our fiesta even though I was early by one hour before the betting table opened up.

[Beparanf]

I think it's hard to self examine because a gambler is always chasing losses. His thought process is just to recover the money lost.
So the chances of him self examining his gambling addiction becomes very low since he would fine every chance to play more and recover the losses.
There should be some kind of strategy so that addicted people has to forcefully self-examine their gambling habits.
Only then, we can potentially see some positive results out of it.

Addicted gambler is beyond saving and not applicable to this matter. I believe OP is addressing this topic to those regular gambler that is still not addicted since you can self-examine your gambling habit whenever you lose some so that you can develop a strategy or practice to control your gambling or to improve your strategy so that you can’t be tempted to play more when losing.

I’m always doing this naturally whenever I loss since I’m always thinking where did I go wrong for my game turn to lose and most of the time I conclude it’s due to greediness on chasing huge win on a short period of time.

[Ever-young]

I think it's hard to self examine because a gambler is always chasing losses. His thought process is just to recover the money lost.
So the chances of him self examining his gambling addiction becomes very low since he would fine every chance to play more and recover the losses.
There should be some kind of strategy so that addicted people has to forcefully self-examine their gambling habits.
Only then, we can potentially see some positive results out of it.

When a gambler is in the grip of addiction, their thinking can become so muddled by the desire to recover losses that they lose sight of the harmful nature of their conduct. The urge to recover losses drives their behavior, and they lose sight of the greater picture.
 Gamblers suffering from addiction might become locked in a vicious cycle in which their losses devour them entirely. They're so concentrated on recovering their money that they lose track of everything else in their lives. The more they strive to recover, the more losses they sustain, and the cycle continues.

[Wakate]

Notice how the approaches may be different depending on the individual, until now I do not review my earnings, my skills, my habits, etc.  To determine if I am addicted, I do it to improve my game, my winning expectations and consequently become a better player.

A player discovers that he is addicted when there is no solution, if you want to discover that sooner, go to a specialist, there are tests or even therapies, you are not an expert or to determine that you are an addict or a possible candidate.

There are people who approach gambling to be something of less concern, we can't blame them because they may not understand all it means by saying someone is gambling addicted. Whatever way we want to see it, we should always read meaning to it because people are just not understanding the effect of gambling addiction. We should be ready to focus and do things that would never trigger us to go into gambling completely.

There are people that are trying hard to leave gambling but there is nothing they can do because the spirit is always attractive and making them to see opportunities in every gambling activities. We need define what we really wants from gambling and focus on how to achieve that.

[Belarge]

There are people who approach gambling to be something of less concern, we can't blame them because they may not understand all it means by saying someone is gambling addicted. Whatever way we want to see it, we should always read meaning to it because people are just not understanding the effect of gambling addiction. We should be ready to focus and do things that would never trigger us to go into gambling completely.

There are people that are trying hard to leave gambling but there is nothing they can do because the spirit is always attractive and making them to see opportunities in every gambling activities. We need define what we really wants from gambling and focus on how to achieve that.

We can continue to gamble but it do comes with easy tasks, never back out because gambling takes over everything when it comes to earning vast profits by staying home. The only thing that can save most of us is simply ensure you don't you don't overstep your measures and never gamble above your available means, most important, know when to stop. There are people that are fighting really hard to exits the gambling space and there are people that are willing to do everything within the space to ensure everything comes smooth from the system.

[Shamm]

Actually it is very important to not chase more losses and  also we need Tobe careful in gambling cause once got a mistake then we will loss a lot of money. That's the reason why we have sayings that. We must use our money bro gamble which is we gonna afford to lose. Cause if we are playing for sun then we don't think that we will gonna win much bigger in short we are contented in small winnings.  But if we gamble for profit then it's a big loss if we chase more losses.

[darkangel11]

I think if gamblers could take certain step in setting up regular self examining question towards themself it will be helpful to them in their gambling life not to ignorantly be harbouring a gambling addiction

So, like an audit?
These things don't work.
An addict is inherently incapable of being unbiased towards themselves, therefore it's impossible for an addict to assert a mental health condition.
In other words, a psychoanalysis has to be performed by a third party.
No I don't o it for 2 reasons. One, I'm not an addict, two it's impossible to do by definition.

[Jaycoinz]

As gambler when last did you self-examine your gambling habit to create that awareness based on how you are gambling in order for you to be quite sure if you're within a considerable or an acceptable range of a gambling habit that is void of addiction or the tendencies of gambling addiction.

Yeah it would have been necessary to do but the issue is that the moment you even think about this then it means your habits are still in check because I believe crazy  gamblers that are very wild with their gambling habits will never think about this because they even in a second tell their self that they need help. Well I suppose this is not for everyone because some gambler do need to access their habit because they can easily play past their limit even the one they have set for themselves.

[goaldigger]

Once you have your monitoring of you activities you can easily check this one and it’s always advisable to revisit your activities and know what went wrong why you lose that much of money. I don’t have any problem with my gambling activities because I do gamble occasionally but still, I always make sure that I gamble responsibly because on mistake in gambling can still leas to addiction, so be cautious for your every decisions.

[Findingnemo]

Self examining is not really possible in my opinion because we always try to make the desired outcome as we wished to be so if there is any program that examines our addictive quality then it's good or else just keep remembering ourselves about the responsible gambling and what can be the outcome of you derail from the track and you can keep yourself updated with real life experiences to give yourself a warning why you shouldn't do that.

[irhact]

I think if gamblers could take certain step in setting up regular self examining question towards themself it will be helpful to them in their gambling life not to ignorantly be harbouring a gambling addiction or compulsive gambling lifestyle. Quite a number of gamblers are nursing an addictive gambling habit without knowing and for them their gambling life is normal but if they should  genuinely scrutinize or put their habit to test it is possible they could find varied errors to correct and be right on track again.
Don't you think so?

Many individual just gamble without realising that they're gambling like addicts, they don't know that they're addicted as addicts don't know that they're addicted too. They think that the way that they're gambling is normal as they wouldn't see things wrong with what they're doing but if we self examine ourselves, we'll realized that we're doing things that only addicts are supposed to be doing. Many of use are gambling above our limit but we don't know this as we aren't observing how much we're spending when gambling.

If we're to observe, we won't be spending that much money as we know we can't make it back from gambling as gambling has more of losses than winning. The amount of money that we have lost gambling, if  we didn't spend them on bets we would have been able to invest that amount and made alot of profits for ourselves but as we think gambling is the easiest way to make profits but we're losing more money.

[Wiwo]

The thing about self-examination and restriction is that they save you a lot of stress and possible loss because sometimes you can be over-gambling and at the same time the ability to put a stop to it at some point,  what I do mostly and each week is to time myself to see how many times I have gamble beyond my limits.

And if I discover that I have gambled too much in a week,  I put effort into staying off gambling totally for a while and then resume back with a limit that is lower than what I used before.

[Slow death]

In my case, I constantly evaluate myself to maintain my self-control of the game, I always follow my game plan, in a week I only have 1 to 2 days in which I analyze the games and place my bets and after I place my bets I I don't go into the casino to play, I just go into the casino for less than 5 minutes to check how my football bets are going after the games, this way I stay far away from the casino and avoid becoming dependent on gambling, when the person If you don't have discipline, you will hardly last long in gambling without becoming a person addicted to gambling, I've even talked about it here on the forum, that a person who spends many hours playing every day in a casino, eventually this person becomes addicted to gambling

because this person starts to make gambling his only form of entertainment and forgets that in the world there are many other things he can do to have fun and live without having illnesses related to depression. even if a person says they only play 1 hour a day, man this person is still playing every day which is not normal, that person should ask themselves if they can go 1 month without playing, if they can't then that person has become dependent on games of chance, in my case, for example, in a week I just spend 1 to 2 days analyzing the games and place my bets and I don't bet again, and even in those 1 to 2 days when I analyze the games, I don't take many hours, also during the period when there are no games I also stop placing sports bets, this helps a lot with my self control

[entertheabyss]

Self examining is not really possible in my opinion because we always try to make the desired outcome as we wished to be so if there is any program that examines our addictive quality then it's good or else just keep remembering ourselves about the responsible gambling and what can be the outcome of you derail from the track and you can keep yourself updated with real life experiences to give yourself a warning why you shouldn't do that.

Don't give yourself much pressure, rather beckon on aiding more sources of streaming profits from the system.Experience will take us far in the system, we can never regret our actions when we have already planned ahead of time and having key moments to entrapped the system to our own favour. We all have problems to deal with this season and there's absolutely no better way than enhancing the system with appropriate technique. Gambling is not for weak, keep emphasizing on this statement because there's a whole to achieve in the system.