Gambling addiction is a mystery because you may not realize that you are getting addicted or even after severely got addicted.
Let us try to find how safely we have been into gambling so far.
Level 1 to level 3: (beginning levels)
1. New gambling ideas flashes in your mind even you are too busy with your studies or work or with friends/family.
2. Already lost in hundreds still you are strongly believing to recover them by innovating new strategy.
3. Made $50 then why not $100 or $500.
Level 4 to level 6: (intermediate levels)
4. Allocating 10% to 25% for your monthly gambling expenses from your regular income stream.
5. Forgetting your regular responsibilities and giving gambling the high priority.
6. Lost most of the friends as they are not supporting your view on gambling. You want to prove them how genius you are in gambling.
Level 7 to level 10: (severe levels)
7. Planning to be a full time gambler because your day job is not supporting you to live as you wish.
8. Facing problem of debits even you are into a highly paying day job.
9. Your spouse warn you about divorce or your family member discuss abut rehabilitation centers behind you.
10. You already became a Warren Buffet of gambling still not sure what is going on around you. You must need 50 hrs per day to fulfill your gambling needs.
Beginning level of gambling addiction do not need any treatment but taking break from gambling may cure you. If you are unable to take break then you are already into intermediate level ask help from friends to keep you busy.
Severely addicted category must need to visit doctors to change their life style. For this category gamblers, taking break from gambling temporarily solve addiction thirst but professional guidelines will help to recover completely. Rehabilitation centers will be the ultimate destination when everything else fail.
Find yourself where you are doing and get back to level zero.
Level 0:
Gamble while gamble and may forget it for months. Gamble only with friends and gambling is not an option to kill boredom.
For now, I can say that I am a level 0 gambler .
Before when I was a high school student, I always do gambling, I am the one who always approaches my classmates to gamble. We do tong-its, Lucky nine, and other gaming cards even though I often lose the game. Those are the things that I am doing when I am bored, but for now, I can say that I am not like that anymore, I changed my lifestyle into better, in a way that when I get bored, I do not play any gambling sites. Still, I instead read books and play online games. I became so passionate about reading books because it gives so much information on me. It has a good feeling when I complete reading inspirational books. I became motivated about what I will be going to do.
I consider myself being on a level zero because I usually gamble with my friends to enjoy and entertain myself. I just play and satisfy myself without the thoughts of looking for another strategy to win the game because I know that gambling won't assure you the possible result. I restrain myself for having a a mindset of getting back the money I have lost because it can possibly lead in addiction if I don't control and limit myself.
Indeed, there are many ways to satisfy yourself or to remove your boredom in an excellent idea that won't lose a lot of your money, like spending your time with your family or to your friend, that is better than being addicted to any gambling sites.
Having self control in many things is a good thing for everyone in any other aspect of life, it is an essential character of a person.