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Gambling Addiction is a mental health disorder and is one of the many kinds of impulse-control problems and similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Gambling Addiction occurs when a person has the illusion of getting a huge sum of easy money to solve their financial problems but end up being ruined.
Whether you are betting on sports, buying lottery tickets, playing scratch cards, roulette, poker, blackjack, or slot machines—in a casino, at the track, or online, the odds are never in your favor.
What is a Gambling Addiction?
Gambling Addiction (other terms are "pathological gambling", "compulsive gambling" or "gambling disorder") is an impulse-control disorder.
It is a cycle where a compulsive gambler has a strong feeling that he must win back his losses, and it goes on and on until he is already addicted to this habit.
Gambling Addiction Signs and Symptoms:
You are a compulsive gambler if you keep gambling even if you are down, or broken, or even when it has negative consequences for you or your loved ones.
You are a gambling addict if you keep spending more and more time and money on it, chasing losses, or gambling despite straining your relationships, interfering with your work, and leading to financial catastrophe.
You have Gambling Addiction if you can go all the way to having huge debts and even committing crimes like stealing money, fraud, or forgery, or securing illegal loans to finance your gambling habit.
How to stop Gambling Addiction?
Even if you feel like you have no power to overcome Gambling Addiction, there are a lot of ways you can do to fix your relationships and finances and fully control your life.
The first and most important step to stop your gambling addiction is to realize that you have a problem. It takes a lot of courage to own it up, especially if you lost a huge amount of money and strained your relationships. Don't worry. You can break this habit and be able to rebuild your life.
The following are some ways on how you can stop your Gambling Addiction for good:
Learning to relieve horrible feelings in healthier ways.
Strengthening your support system.
Joining a peer support group.
Seeking help for underlying mood disorders.
Making healthier choices
Finding alternatives to gambling
Visualizing what will happen if you give in to the urge to gamble.
Distracting yourself with another activity.
Overcoming a Gambling Addiction is not an easy undertaking, but you can do it if you help yourself, and you surround yourself with a solid support group. Having your supportive families and friends beside you as you take your path to recovery will help you a lot, and can get you fully recovered. If you were able to get yourself into it, you will surely get yourself out of it.
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