I have been gambling for years, maybe I have been addicted to it at some point even though I never noticed, however I'm a little in control of my gambling activities. Something still get me confused regarding gambling addiction that is a hot topic here and I want to get opinion of others on these areas:
- How do you know you are addicted to gambling
- How easy it is to be addicted to gambling?
- Can an addicted gambler work himself out of that addiction without help from anyone, if yes, is it still addiction?
Knowing when you are addicted to gambling is when you can't control yourself until you don't any money with you again, which you have used all for gambling because you are either losing more than your win and you want to recover all your losses or maybe you are winning and yet not satisfied, maybe you want to win a very huge amount of money, this act is as a result of addiction and in this case it will be hard for one to know when to quit or stop and how you can work on yourself when you notice that you are a gambling addict, is by telling your loved ones or a therapist concerning your habit because if it's by your strength alone, you can't possibly stop by yourself which is why it's always advisable for one to gamble responsibly and gamble with what you can afford to lose.
Some of the gamblers its too late to them to realize that they ended up lossing everything and they get too much addicted in playing gambling, well at the first place this could be because of their thinking they have a lot of money, they have assets, there is a salary will come to their balances so they get confident and after that ended up lossing their money because of too much addiction. Now if you want to join with the gambling better make sure you understand whats your limit only, until where you could bring the risk and the game because not all wins are consecutives sometimes its just a reason for you getting caught and trap with the infinite loop of gambling.