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Gamblers please look at how you live. I think in being generous too and gamblers spend years of their lives despread, angry or anxious as a result of sometimes only one bad loss. Is it worth living a life where you're happy for one day of the week, and having 6 bad ones just to roll the dice and throw money away? You have to live at the life you live properly and understand what ...

I'm reaching out to look for advice on how to help someone who is totally entrenched in their gambling addiction.

Some background - this individual is 32 years old, a male and a family member. He is one of the types who has - so far - been able to keep it seperately from his work, so it hasn't impacted his job yet. But when he gambles, he does it aggressively and usually on the ...

Hi all,

I have created a post here a few years ago promising I'd quit, but of course, I couldn't like so many others. I am back again to share my stories and hopefully also find a solution to this madness..

Intro
Ever since I hit 18, I started to try out gambling.

I realized that it is truly a devil's game, you can never beat it. The devil gives you an opportunity to experience ...

I lost it all. I lost my last financial aid check. I have no job. I'm being evicted from my apartment. I have 100k in debt to loans, banks, credit cards, family, and friends.

I'm tired. I'm close to giving up on life. I've lost it all.

Around this time last year I came here bc I lost 100k in 1 night playing online blackjack. Less than a week ago I lost 120k+ in vegas...in one night.

At this moment I feel numb. Nothing feels real. When I lost the 120k in vegas I was drunk out of my mind and for the first time in my life...I was truly suicidal. I went back to my hotel room and googled painless ways ...

I binged terrible this weekend, spent over $3k of money that wasnt mine (loan from someone for something else that I was supposed to pay) ugh. I am sick with anxiety and I need this to stop. I was telling myself out loud to go home, then I could just feel out of control! I do not want to feel like this any more and I cannot get that money back, but I need to ...

Folks,
If you self=excluded from brick and mortar casinos did that significantly help in your recovery?
I keep thinking will power can do it, but it does not work for me for long periods. Always eventually go back. Logically self exclusion sounds great, but it requires a serious decision.
Maybe the better question is Does anyone regret self excluding?

Ok guys, so since I posted here about thinking that I have an issue with gambling, it's gotten worse. I seriously go from like, winning 2-3k to losing it all on one damn machine, to losing more, to winning more, to losing it all again.

I make around 85k a year and I seriously live like I make 15k a year. It's stupid. It's wrong. I don't understand why I can't stop. Every time I'm ...

I don't know what to do. I am extremely hooked to this gambling thing. Right now, it is specifically baccarat that keeps reeling me back in. It doesn't help that I am jobless and my rent is sky high. I find myself in desperate situations so I take my money to the casino/cardroom and end up losing it all playing baccarat. The dragon bet and payout is so addicting to me. I end up losing ...

The past 58 days have been a rough roller coaster ride -- the worst so far in all my efforts to quit. I have been struggling to figure out why this time feels so hard, asking questions of my counselors and group, wanting to know when it will get easier, praying for the urges to just go away.

Then, last night, I decided I would stop struggling against it. I would ride the tide and ...