Where to seek help if you need; concerned with gambling addiction.

[xSkylarx]

You need help to stop gambling but you are not willing to help yourself.I think the first help you can actually seek is to help yourself.Self realizations is the most important step to take while seeking help.It is after you have realised yourself and decide to quit gambling that you will also be willing to accept help from outside.

I believe he needs help because he can't control it and it's affecting his life. I'm not addicted to anything, but I believe it's similar to a computer or mobile game where we get hooked and can't stop thinking about it whether we're in bed or out of place, but it's just a hypothetical example. Those professionals are the ones who are most likely to assist you, but I believe it is costly, but it is acceptable because it will improve your situation.

[pawanjain]

Until and unless our mind isn't prepared to have control over our activities, even on getting medication nothing is gonna change. You've felt the bade about addiction, and now it is your time to have control or quit gambling. As suggested think about each and every loved ones who are ready to support you on all hurdles of life. Move away and make an alternate way to spend your time.

Well said. Control on our mind is absolutely necessary to quit any habit. The mind controls our body and if we develop the ability to control our mind we can easily quit any addiction.
Mental peace is received if we meditate regularly. Mental peace can help anyone to have a control on his mind.
A person needs to have a lot of patience if he wants quit a habit. Here, to quit gambling, my best advice would be to cut down internet and spend more time with family members.

[Betwrong]

Oh, I see, you meant they were not supportive, and pessimistic about his ability to quit. That's actually not that bad. Much better than being encouraged to gamble, or being ignored at all.

Understood.
When I read some dudes posts where they tells that spent 10-20 % of the income on gambling - i'm sure that they have such kind of family

Yeah, that, or they are addicted gamblers and hide everything gambling related from their close ones. This is a common case too, unfortunately.

People, especially your close ones, often say "You will never succeed" actually hoping that you will.

Maybe you have a point here. But sometimes they just don't care.

Anyway, as i said above, really good family will force you to go to specialists.

That's the best option possible. Hopefully - to real doctors, not some Voodoo specialists tho.

~ A friend of mine has the same case. His parents are addicted to drugs that they weren't able to work to sustain his studies but he made a different path by making studying possible on his own. He didn't try drugs even once. It still depends on an individual. We could change our future by creating a better path. Gambling addiction couldn't be cured easily yet we can take small steps to correct our actions.

I'm not personally acquainted with such people, but I'm sure there are many families with so called "professional" gamblers inside. All they do, they lose money, and their kids don't want to be like them, fortunately.

[bitzizzix]

Until and unless our mind isn't prepared to have control over our activities, even on getting medication nothing is gonna change. You've felt the bade about addiction, and now it is your time to have control or quit gambling. As suggested think about each and every loved ones who are ready to support you on all hurdles of life. Move away and make an alternate way to spend your time.

Well said. Control on our mind is absolutely necessary to quit any habit. The mind controls our body and if we develop the ability to control our mind we can easily quit any addiction.
Mental peace is received if we meditate regularly. Mental peace can help anyone to have a control on his mind.
A person needs to have a lot of patience if he wants quit a habit. Here, to quit gambling, my best advice would be to cut down internet and spend more time with family members.

Independence in overcoming addiction will be more effective because we ourselves know and feel the reaction, and most importantly do it with full confidence and seriousness in living it and leaving all activities related to gambling.
And besides that it is best to get closer to the creator and do what He commands and stay away from what is forbidden as best as possible, and do positive activities such as following religious activities and so on that can change you for the better. that way you will recover from addiction.

[Wawa2013]

Until and unless our mind isn't prepared to have control over our activities, even on getting medication nothing is gonna change. You've felt the bade about addiction, and now it is your time to have control or quit gambling. As suggested think about each and every loved ones who are ready to support you on all hurdles of life. Move away and make an alternate way to spend your time.

Well said. Control on our mind is absolutely necessary to quit any habit. The mind controls our body and if we develop the ability to control our mind we can easily quit any addiction.
Mental peace is received if we meditate regularly. Mental peace can help anyone to have a control on his mind.
A person needs to have a lot of patience if he wants quit a habit. Here, to quit gambling, my best advice would be to cut down internet and spend more time with family members.

Independence in overcoming addiction will be more effective because we ourselves know and feel the reaction, and most importantly do it with full confidence and seriousness in living it and leaving all activities related to gambling.
And besides that it is best to get closer to the creator and do what He commands and stay away from what is forbidden as best as possible, and do positive activities such as following religious activities and so on that can change you for the better. that way you will recover from addiction.

I agree that the effective way to overcome gambling addiction must be from ourselves, because a strong will and intention to recover from
gambling is indeed the first step to recovering from gambling addiction. It can be started by changing our lifestyle, which is followed
by increasing positive activities. That way we can live a more productive life, because gambling no longer interferes with us doing other activities.
We must be able to limit ourselves when gambling, so that we play gambling appropriately and not excessively.

[Rengga Jati]

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There must be continuity and cooperation from the person itself, the closest people, treatment, and various other factors. Must begin with strong desires and intentions to stop and regardless of gambling addiction.
Furthermore, there must be honesty from him to be delivered to the nearest person or who helped him in this matter, because it began with honesty that Treatment would be easier to do.
Next is there must be support from the closest people, at least the person he loves and he believes. Then, there is a special treatment of experts so that the process can really take place well and right. And there are also factors from their environment.
That's why I say if there needs to be good cooperation and sustainability of all.

[hello_good_sir]

Beginner's luck is really a curse, huh.

You should NEVER, ever treat gambling as a way to get rich quick. If that was the case, then wouldn't everyone be billionaires by now and casinos would all be broke? Once you truly realise that there will be no prospect of addiction.

The casino that you play on operates a game that is mathematically skewed towards their favour and there is nothing that you can do to possibly change that. If you want a long term way to "gamble" with positive EV, either look into arbitrage betting, or invest in the bankroll of a casino.

[Reatim]

Beginner's luck is really a curse, huh.

it is not a curse mate because i believe that this is intended , meaning the what so called Beginners luck in Online gambling usually a treated occasion in which casino houses sets up tot hose account that newly created.

but not like in real life gambling in which this is really happening .

You should NEVER, ever treat gambling as a way to get rich quick. If that was the case, then wouldn't everyone be billionaires by now and casinos would all be broke? Once you truly realise that there will be no prospect of addiction.
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there are many that looks at gambling to be the way of making a Million , but it is the shitmost thing that we will think.

[fortunecrypto]

Beginner's luck is really a curse, huh.

You should NEVER, ever treat gambling as a way to get rich quick. If that was the case, then wouldn't everyone be billionaires by now and casinos would all be broke? Once you truly realise that there will be no prospect of addiction.

The casino that you play on operates a game that is mathematically skewed towards their favour and there is nothing that you can do to possibly change that. If you want a long term way to "gamble" with positive EV, either look into arbitrage betting, or invest in the bankroll of a casino.

Fortunately for me, I have a bad start in gambling and realize early that gambling should not be treated as a cash cow and should only play with spare money or money that you can afford to lose, beginner's luck are the easiest way to deceive yourself that you are born with gambler's luck until you realize that it's not but you are too late to find this out, it's better to read information and all sides of it, on gambler's perspective and the casinos before starting to play if you are a newbie.

[Lordhermes]

Beginner's luck is really a curse, huh.

You should NEVER, ever treat gambling as a way to get rich quick. If that was the case, then wouldn't everyone be billionaires by now and casinos would all be broke? Once you truly realise that there will be no prospect of addiction.

The casino that you play on operates a game that is mathematically skewed towards their favour and there is nothing that you can do to possibly change that. If you want a long term way to "gamble" with positive EV, either look into arbitrage betting, or invest in the bankroll of a casino.

Fortunately for me, I have a bad start in gambling and realize early that gambling should not be treated as a cash cow and should only play with spare money or money that you can afford to lose, beginner's luck are the easiest way to deceive yourself that you are born with gambler's luck until you realize that it's not but you are too late to find this out, it's better to read information and all sides of it, on gambler's perspective and the casinos before starting to play if you are a newbie.

Exactly.No matter how hard you try to win,in as much as this games was skewed in a way to favour them,you cannot win a huge amount to the level you think you can win it. There is luck to win once or twice,but to win them completely is impossible. We just need to be cautious on how we go about gambling,because the moment we become addicted,it will be very hard to stop it.

[perla]

I just want to make clear, is it free? If it's free I think this hotline can be very helpful for people who are addicted to gambling but I think there are some alternative ways to get out of addiction, one thing is to ask your family for help it's much better if you will be helped by family member but also if you have some money you can probably hire a therapist to control your gambling addiction.

[pauloaragaomelo]

I just want to make clear, is it free? If it's free I think this hotline can be very helpful for people who are addicted to gambling but I think there are some alternative ways to get out of addiction, one thing is to ask your family for help it's much better if you will be helped by family member but also if you have some money you can probably hire a therapist to control your gambling addiction.

The role of family members is very helpful to get out of the story of gambling addiction but if the relationship between your family is not human it will be very difficult even if you hire a therapist, the last step is to realize who you really are and why you were born on earth then you will judge if your behavior is completely wrong.

[RealMalatesta]

I do not know where to seek help, but I know that in any addiction the first step is always to accept you have a condition. If you can accept that which means you have already started the very first step and you will be fine. I know it sounds scary at first, but there are so many people who do not accept the fact that they are addicted and they keep gambling and losing money, if you keep doing that and not accept it then you are not going to be able to find the help.

Moreover, if you have a supportive surrounding, family and friends, they will not just hate you or resent you, they will be helping you but that is not easy to find because when you are addicted it is easy to see how everyone tries to hate you, it is easy to hate an addicted person, it is hard to help them. So, if you have family that is there to help you get over it, that is going to make it so much easier.

[dunfida]

Are we invariably saying that gambling is not good? Why then are promoting it here if you answer is yes. OP, in your submission above, you said gambling is an easy way to make money which I don't believe is true because gambling is even more difficult and risky than trading crypto currency and stock. For those who are addicted and want a way out of the addiction, one of the way out is to get yourself busy with something else that you love with that action you will be free from addicted to playing gambling.

Majorities perception and views would be likely to be "YES" without even minding that most of those people who said are advertising gambling sites which is totally ironic on what they've been saying.

Addiction is a personal problem and this doesnt limit out on gambling alone but on other things as well.When you do get addicted then it simply means about personal decisions that you had made.

Gambling isnt bad if you dont make yourself addicted and make out things which would really make yourself get compromised or put you into a big problem.

[Betwrong]

I do not know where to seek help, but I know that in any addiction the first step is always to accept you have a condition. If you can accept that which means you have already started the very first step and you will be fine. I know it sounds scary at first, but there are so many people who do not accept the fact that they are addicted and they keep gambling and losing money, if you keep doing that and not accept it then you are not going to be able to find the help.

Technically, I'm one of those people: I like to gamble, I enjoy the process a lot, and I keep losing money, and I don't want to quit. Do I consider myself an addicted gambler? No. But then again, most of the addicted don't. So, why do I think, nevertheless, that I can keep playing? That's because I don't lose more than I can afford to. The money I lose to gamble worth it, every cent, because I'm having so much fun.

So, the fact that "they keep gambling and losing money" doesn't necessarily imply they are addicted gamblers, until we know what part of their, say, monthly budget, they are losing.

[Fredomago]

I do not know where to seek help, but I know that in any addiction the first step is always to accept you have a condition. If you can accept that which means you have already started the very first step and you will be fine. I know it sounds scary at first, but there are so many people who do not accept the fact that they are addicted and they keep gambling and losing money, if you keep doing that and not accept it then you are not going to be able to find the help.

Technically, I'm one of those people: I like to gamble, I enjoy the process a lot, and I keep losing money, and I don't want to quit. Do I consider myself an addicted gambler? No. But then again, most of the addicted don't. So, why do I think, nevertheless, that I can keep playing? That's because I don't lose more than I can afford to. The money I lose to gamble worth it, every cent, because I'm having so much fun.

So, the fact that "they keep gambling and losing money" doesn't necessarily imply they are addicted gamblers, until we know what part of their, say, monthly budget, they are losing.

If you are losing an amount that you are aware of and willing to let go, just like how you make yourself as an example. You are enjoying and you value those moments that you are being entertained using the amount that you are aware to lose soon.

It's the manner in how a person/gambler takes his responsibilities. Addiction comes from Un-control actions.

If you already in that situation, best to assess and adjust if it's needed to do so.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I do not know where to seek help, but I know that in any addiction the first step is always to accept you have a condition. If you can accept that which means you have already started the very first step and you will be fine. I know it sounds scary at first, but there are so many people who do not accept the fact that they are addicted and they keep gambling and losing money, if you keep doing that and not accept it then you are not going to be able to find the help.

Technically, I'm one of those people: I like to gamble, I enjoy the process a lot, and I keep losing money, and I don't want to quit. Do I consider myself an addicted gambler? No. But then again, most of the addicted don't. So, why do I think, nevertheless, that I can keep playing? That's because I don't lose more than I can afford to. The money I lose to gamble worth it, every cent, because I'm having so much fun.

So, the fact that "they keep gambling and losing money" doesn't necessarily imply they are addicted gamblers, until we know what part of their, say, monthly budget, they are losing.

According to what you count, you must be careful, because if you do not abandon the game when you lose the danger that exists is that you lose enough capital and that you can neglect your basic needs, a person can allow himself to lose what he wants if he has a good economic condition, but if you see that you are compromising a lot of balance that you have destined for your family or other basic needs, if you have to stop it.

What I recommend is that you can allocate a part of the money willing to lose without regrets, because you enjoy it and because it will not hurt you, if you win excellent, but if you lose, you will still feel good because you will feel that you spent on your own fun.

[AicecreaME]

I do not know where to seek help, but I know that in any addiction the first step is always to accept you have a condition. If you can accept that which means you have already started the very first step and you will be fine. I know it sounds scary at first, but there are so many people who do not accept the fact that they are addicted and they keep gambling and losing money, if you keep doing that and not accept it then you are not going to be able to find the help.

Technically, I'm one of those people: I like to gamble, I enjoy the process a lot, and I keep losing money, and I don't want to quit. Do I consider myself an addicted gambler? No. But then again, most of the addicted don't. So, why do I think, nevertheless, that I can keep playing? That's because I don't lose more than I can afford to. The money I lose to gamble worth it, every cent, because I'm having so much fun.

So, the fact that "they keep gambling and losing money" doesn't necessarily imply they are addicted gamblers, until we know what part of their, say, monthly budget, they are losing.

Gambling urges are challenging and very hard to treat because the person never wants to admit he is addicted in gambling or he never want to confess that he is playing gambling because he doesn't want to be shame by his family or friends, that's why it's harder for them to seek help or to know how to get rid of their addiction.

Science explained why we are addicted to gambling and this is what it says:

Prefrontal cortex
The other brain region that is often implicated in gambling and substance use disorders is the prefrontal cortex. This region is involved in decision-making, controlling impulsivity, and cognitive control.

[l3pox]

that is a really important topic, I had a similar topic deleted on this board in the past so wasn't sure if the discussion was welcome or not, good to see that there's space for that here.

adding to some of the good suggestions and stories I'd contribute with a simple idea:
Seek professional help with a psychologist
Nothing wrong with going for therapy and this can help a lot, regardless of age and moment in life.

[Lanatsa]

that is a really important topic, I had a similar topic deleted on this board in the past so wasn't sure if the discussion was welcome or not, good to see that there's space for that here.

adding to some of the good suggestions and stories I'd contribute with a simple idea:
Seek professional help with a psychologist
Nothing wrong with going for therapy and this can help a lot, regardless of age and moment in life.

It would be the last option if it turns out that helping yourself first or seeking help from your loved ones didn't work because this had always been the case on where they do opt for professional help but to think that this isn't a guaranteed help that you would really be able to solve out your problem.

It is actually on someones mind if he's serious on quitting gambling in the first place.You would really be that serious on doing that and this would help at least.

Addiction is something that cant really get easily rid if you wanted too.It would really require strong will and dedication to fight over addiction.