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.
Well, long time ago actually, and if I still remember well, it should be around 2015 or 2016, I used to have a very close friend who was frequent gambler, initially, I thought he was just playing those games simply because he had the money to spend on them and he enjoys doing it, but I realized that he was actually addicted to gambling the very moment he had some crises with his then girlfriend who he planned to marry, they were living together and working in the same place.
Things became a bit rough after a child came in-between them, expenses in the house increased significantly that my friend usually started struggling to save out money to use for gambling, but in other to keep gambling, he started stealing from his girlfriend, and when the issue blew out, I called him and asked him why he would disgrace himself in such a manner, he then opened up to me that he had initially planned and tried to stop gambling, but he discovered that he can't bring himself to stop.
Unfortunately though, I tried to help him in the best way I can, but I couldn't do much since unforseen circumstances made me relocate to another state far from him, and it's also unfortunate that the girlfriend (supposed to be wife) later left him; taking their baby along with her, due to his addiction to gambling.