How can I get rid of gambling addiction?

[Zlantann]

The fact that you recognize the problem is already good, it would be much worse if you denied the addiction. The first you need to do it to warn your loved ones that you have a problem and together to look for a specialist who will help you figure out what to do next, if there are no loved ones, look for the hotline of the psychological Support should be unequal and abnormal, act! The sooner you begin to get rid of the problem faster.

Most people who are suffering from gambling addiction, usually live in self-denial. They would hardly accept that they have a disorder. The first step towards recovery is accepting that he needs help and I am glad OP has opened up.

To avoid stigmatization, you can decide to seek professional help in another location that is far from your residence or consider an online platform. There are many online professional addiction counsellors that could help you work through the path of recovery. OP should also ensure that he avoids everything that triggers his urge to gamble. It could be friends, advertisment,  or even the environment.

[Stepstowealth]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Sorry about your experience, there are many gamblers having the same challenge and are quiet about it, some still battling to admit it that they are in need of help. So for first having the courage to admit it, and seek help is brave of you. Trying to break free from gambling addiction may not be the easiest thing to do at once, it may require that you slowly reduce the number of times you gamble and games you gamble on until you no longer gamble. The process will take a while and you have to be patient and disciplined all through.

[Wexnident]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Go do something else. Maybe make someone force you to do something else. Not like, physical. Just tell them to create the initiative and you just follow along. People who do things alone usually just needs that one push and that one push can be as simple as being invited by someone else. I reckon it should move on from there? Gotta do it constantly though otherwise you'd end up going back after a couple of days really.

Some samples to do may be playing some sports to the point where you get home tired and can't play anymore. Or maybe something artsy, requiring you to submit some form of output every day or two. There's a LOT of things that can be done imo, just a matter of initiative. Or somones.

[Rockstarguy]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

I know it is not easy to fight addiction but you don't need to give it a chance, you just need to try your best and do all you can to see you have control over it, if possible avoid opening gambling sites on the Internet or avoid going to gambling shops.

Some people became addicted to gambling just because to generate money from gambling, it will be better if you can look for something that serves as a job that bring income and can also take your time to keep you busy it will also help. Try to look for something else that can be fun to you.  It is not easy but just believe in yourself that you can make it work for yourself. Their are people who have been in this challenge but they had no choice than to strive to make sure they overcome it.

[Z_MBFM]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Considering your case, it appears that you are really deeply addicted to gambling. You have to commit to yourself first to get out of it even though your emotions will try to take you there again and again. But always you keep your money in a place from where you can't easily use instant. And on the other hand you keep yourself busy on some other work. But the thing is that our mind is very weak towards money so of course you have to have a good amount of money coming from the work you keep yourself busy with so you can be able to keep yourself away from gambling through that.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Well, first of all, you have to ask yourself how you got to this level, find it out and try to retrace your steps, you can get free from your addiction to gambling if you really determine to, it's all in your hands, your personal decision to quit is the most important thing, for if really you have not made the conscious decision to quit, no body, not on this forum, not even family and friends can help you, but if actually you have decided enough is enough, then do whatever you have to do to set your self free.

It is a good step to have decided to voice out your concern on this forum, we all can advice, but none can actually render any physical help because we don't see or know each other in person, if at any point you feel you can no longer do it on your own, please discus with trusted family and or friends to get physical help from them.

I wish you all the best, and hope you get through this very soon, even sooner than you think.

[bias]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

It seems that you haven't learned anything all your life, and now you are at the bottom. You are already learning the hard way, but you still insist on doing it.
Just stop it ASAP and seek professional help, group or individual. Here isn't the place for such kind of help.

[Marykeller]

The most ways to get rid of addiction problem is to get busy. Find something doing that will keep your body and soul busy. Many at times what makes us to be addicted to gambling is when we are less busy, to focus on recovery our loses when we are to gamble with less expectations that we must not have a win from gambling, instead to gamble for fun. And gambling when it is not our leisure time.

However, since you have realized that you are being addicted to gambling, you have to take the advice given to you seriously because addiction to gambling is not what to take on light note because it can break you, to leave frustrated.

[Awaklara]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

It seems that you haven't learned anything all your life, and now you are at the bottom. You are already learning the hard way, but you still insist on doing it.
Just stop it ASAP and seek professionalhelp, group or individual. Here isn't the place for such kind of help.

it seems like OP really needs professional help to overcome his addiction. A problem like this can't be solved just by listening to advice. but the intention to overcome the problem must be strong and it is based on his own desire. if he is still in a state of addiction then it will be quite difficult. he must have a professional to accompany him in the recovery process.
if he succeeds in getting through this problem, he will get a lesson in his life.

[Gaza13]

One thing I can tell you is that it’s not going to be easy. What worked for others might not work for you. This is why you really have to know yourself and know what could help you the most. Other people seek help from professionals. But if you don’t want to do that nor can you, just try to avoid all triggers.

It would be difficult to do it all at once so I would say you can take it slow. Decrease the amount of time you gamble compared to your usual one. Over time, decrease it over and over until it goes to zero and you have accustomed yourself to less and less gambling.

When you get the urge to gamble, find other hobbies that could substitute for gambling. Sports or other activities that may stimulate you almost as close to how gambling can.

When you entered the game, you definitely realized that, right? That this game is full of risks of losing your assets, namely money. Why do you continue to play it, do you want to earn income from there, if you are looking for a source of income there I think that is something very ridiculous.

To recover from gambling, each person has a different path to leaving this addiction, it must require a strong commitment to leaving it all behind. I think that the person you mentioned can actually heal without having to get help from professionals, you just need to spend a little time or think back to yourself what happened before, how did it happen to you? You can take valuable wisdom or lessons from there.

[uneng]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Good that you took the first step towards getting rid of addiction, which is to accept you have a problem, that you need help, and mostly important, that you want to be helped! However, this forum isn't the right place for you to find guidance and support. It's advisable that you seek for professional help, so you can start a therapy focused on your gambling addiction. It will be much more effective for you that way, as the human contact is important in this case, so you know you are being listened and that there is someone concerned and attentive to your situation on the other side of the conversation.

On the other hand, here at bitcointalk forum, you will just read messages from random accounts from different people around the world who aren't specialized on the matter of treating an addiction, what means there isn't a genuine connection between you and them to develop an efficient treatment in order to achieve the goal of overcoming the addiction.

[crwth]

I believe there are a lot of topics concerning this, and you could easily search it in the search bar.

Anyway, I think that you know the step already and being aware is already a great step. It's important that you should have a great support system that you know that would guide you to the right place and someone who could really offer you good advice. I don't think it's better to have advise here in the forum. I believe it's better to have someone that you know and guide you to the right system and have that breakthrough that you want.

I have seen people dwell into new hobbies in order not to get occupied with their bad habits again, like gambling.

[Cantsay]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Sorry to hear about your situation, and as most people here have already mentioned gambling addiction is not something that cannot be fixed easily it’s going to require your dedication and commitment to wanting to get rid of your addicting habit.

I have meant several people who were once addicted to gambling and were lucky enough to have gotten out of it and most of them had different stories how they left it so I will urge you not to get discouraged if you try out a technique here and it doesn’t work for you - just keep trying and you’ll eventually get on that is the right fit for you.

I know I’m not in the best position to offer assistance or advice but one thing I’ll tell you is that you should try cutting off your gambling budget, reduce it to the minimum and each time the urge of gambling comes to your mind try as much as possible to do something else and just try telling yourself that “I can’t gamble now until I’m done with what I’m doing” and once you’re done look for something else to occupy yourself with, don’t just stay idle because if you do you’re most likely going to be tempted to return back to gambling.

Look for an hobby and engage in it I’m sure this steps will also help - and combine it with advice from those who have an actual experience with gambling addiction.

[Hispo]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

You can start by self-excluding yourself from most online casinos, all of those you could think may catch your attention in the future, so you won't have access to them on your phone. Next thing you need to do is getting psychological help, talking to a professional psychologist or psychiatrist, so they can prescribe you some treatment.
If you don't have easy access to those things, then move on to talking to family and friends about your problems and struggles, someone you can trust and won't judge you for those flaws you have. You need time and room to recover from your losses and forgive about them permanently, assume they are gone, but you can still continue to earn money from other means, money you can use in other things beyond gambling to improve your life.

[peter0425]

I believe there are a lot of topics concerning this, and you could easily search it in the search bar.

Maybe OP is hoping for a more personalized advice but I doubt any of us here can give him any advice so specific to him when we do not know this person in real life. Only a professional therapist and maybe support groups can really help in a personal level because I would assume you would be sharing a lot more to people you see in your life than strangers on a forum.

I have seen people dwell into new hobbies in order not to get occupied with their bad habits again, like gambling.

This applies to a lot of addiction so you can treat gambling addiction like other addictions as well. If you had suffered from other addictions and have recovered, try to think back how you recovered from that and then maybe apply some to your now gambling addiction.

[Findingnemo]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

Venting out your pain can be a little relief but you need a solution or else this is going to continue further. I am assuming you are already addicted which is why the depression and as a result sleepless nights so you need medical care now such as rehab. Some countries offers the help for free of cost but you have better chance of recovery of private rehab centres so ask someone you trust to contact a rehab centre and explain the situation or do it on your own.

[dansus021]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

I always tell to other people to not get addicted but hey sometimes even myself get addicted and it is frustrated watching all the money go

How can I get rid of gambling addiction?  Seek for help bro in most of casino there is a hotline or email that you can contact with if you take a look at the footer of the website in case of duelbits there is something like this

"Information and Contact
Our Support will help you via email at all time without any additional costs for you:

Email: support@duelbits.com Our Support will of course not give out any information about You without Your consent to anyone else

In addition you also can take a self-test, if You are already gambling addicted at: https://www.begambleaware.org/gambling-problems/do-i-have-a-gambling-problem/

And you can also find additional information about gambling addictions at: https://www.begambleaware.org/safer-gambling/"

Hope it helps

[Ambatman]

Gambling addiction has been a major challenge in my life, and have been given me sleepless night. I have lost so much in gambling and if care is not taking i may learn the hard way (get frustrated) . I find no other place worthy to cry out my pain so I decided to bring it to this thread for assistance. Please, I need help

It's not impossible but not really easy.
You have made the first step realising you addicted and the dangers associated with it.
I would advice you engage in other things you enjoy doing
Because it's harder to resist when you idle.
You can ask for help IRL from family or friends and remind yourself the consequence of not stopping.
It won't be easy, it takes a thing or two and will.
Success on recovery in advance.

[Su-asa]

Gamble addictions is bad and it's hard to get rid of. Just need to be disciplined when you are gambling. Without being disciplined you can not control your gamble addiction. However we are still in the twenty first century so there's a lot of smartphone and the Internet, which makes it kind of hard for you to quite gamble now that you have become addicted to it.
If you are addicted to gamble you need to speak with a gamble advisor for proper tutoring on how to limit your gambling pattern. Like you started gambling as someone that's looking forward on making wealth through gamble?.

[hahay]

If you are still here, then you will not be able to get rid of gambling, because here is also still part of the gambling circle. Because, to escape from gambling addiction you can leave gambling itself and find other activities that really make you able to escape from the bonds of gambling. Not having money can also be a way for you to get tired of gambling because you have gotten too much disappointment. So yes, my advice is for you to find other activities or other activities in your offline world there, you can go on vacation and you can also find a job that does not give you time to return to gambling.