Gambling addiction can be very terrible and frustrating that it affects both your financial and emotional wellbeing. There are lots of gamblers out there in the open struggling with gambling addiction wishing to share their pains with someone who could understand, but they don't actually know the right person(s) to confide in about the pains they bear as they fear that they will be judged, criticized and the rest.
I had this conversation with a stranger today, he had to tell me a few things he's struggling with with his gambling habit and how he had tried to put an end to it but finds himself going back to same habits thereafter. And he felt that talking to somebody about it will help his state but instead the person he felt comfortable talking to about was so judgemental towards him which had made him resort to self-help but nothing has really changed.
Has anyone gambling addict shared his situation with you and how did you handled it? please come clean about it let's learn from each other.
Having both be in the receiving end and the position where I was the one giving out the gambling addiction story, One thing that I notice is that there's just so much pressure when things get a little crazy and the guy's on a roll oversharing his shit, which is also something that I did in the past. I had this conversation with a stranger today, he had to tell me a few things he's struggling with with his gambling habit and how he had tried to put an end to it but finds himself going back to same habits thereafter. And he felt that talking to somebody about it will help his state but instead the person he felt comfortable talking to about was so judgemental towards him which had made him resort to self-help but nothing has really changed.
Has anyone gambling addict shared his situation with you and how did you handled it? please come clean about it let's learn from each other.
One thing that I oftentimes do in situations like these is just shrug the story off, not in the sense of dismissing it or anything, but just disregarding it enough that I don't have to stay up at late at night thinking about the story some random bloke in a McDonald's parking lot just shared with me over a cig.
In your case I would say you just shrug it off but keep it in your head as a reminder to never go off to the deep end when you're gambling. Take his story as a cautionary tale that you could use to always scare yourself off of gambling too much and in the wrong manner. That way, you don't end up like him
