Landbased Casinos in general: My gambling addiction is excessive

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bruffl wrote on 17.12.2023 at 09:04: Fierce and sick.
There's not much advice I can give you in situations like this
can give you. Of course you can try to be strong in such situations
to be strong......
You come out of the game mentally down and full of adrenaline,
you resolve not to do it again......
but then the addiction drags you back in.

So: ONLY PROFESSIONAL HELP HELPS!!!

I also had similar phases,
many years ago, one day I went in at 9 a.m. and
and left the Spielo again at 10 pm...
It was a mid 4 digit amount.

If I hadn't had my parents/grandparents to support me financially
financially supported me, I would probably still be paying today.

With the amount you're paying, you definitely need to get professional help.
The best thing would probably be inpatient therapy.


I moved to a small village during my bad phase,
i worked there, then joined the army, which was 5 years without gambling.

I still gamble today, but sometimes with longer breaks in between.
I realize that sports betting is slowly becoming too much for me, and I'm thinking about
about a ban......

Good luck and strength......

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SunSun13 wrote on 17.12.2023 at 10:35 am: Hello needle34, that sounds bad and I also think that you should definitely pull a ripcord now. Not primarily because of your financial losses, but because of your psyche. You seem to be suffering a lot mentally from the addiction and the compulsion to gamble. What else in your life do you enjoy apart from gambling? Do you have a family, good friends you can confide in or do you manage everything on your own? I don't have any clever tips apart from the usual ones such as blocking, accepting losses and not running after them, talking to someone etc. But I wish you all the best in any case and that you take action against the addiction. I once heard that you should always think in small steps, so don't want to quit for a year, but for a day at first. You can do it, every day. All the best!!!

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Dutch78 wrote on December 17th, 2023 at 10:47 am:

You have already recognized the most important thing yourself and can also name and say it clearly, take that as something positive.

Through this self-knowledge alone, you are already much further ahead than others.

What you do with it now is entirely up to you. I believe you when you write that you want to take a one-year break from all gambling and I hope that this decision was not just made out of initial anger and frustration and will last beyond this phase.

You write that you have lost 40,000 euros in the last 5 months, that's not exactly a small amount and I don't know your financial situation, if the money is assets, tick it off, because that's exactly where your trigger lies, you are chasing after your losses, purely rationally this cannot succeed, but you are acting out of emotion.

If the lost money is borrowed money, it is not a sum that cannot be managed, provided you have a medium, regular income in combination with the implementation of your plans regarding your gambling break of at least one year.

If you earn a little less, the sum would also be manageable, but it would then take longer and would certainly be a friendly reminder every month, when looking at what is left over from your salary and the consequences this has on your lifestyle, that you can only lose in the long term when gambling.

Don't look at what you no longer have and don't try to make those losses even bigger in the mistaken belief that it will work.

Look at what you do have.
Are you in a stable and happy relationship? Great.
Do you have real friends? Great
Do you have a good relationship with your family? Also important.
Do you have a permanent job? Nice and not to be taken for granted.
Are you and your loved ones healthy? If so, be grateful for that.

If several of the points apply to you and you continue to play so excessively, then sooner or later and little by little you can say goodbye to them.
The price you're paying now is "only" money, the other would certainly be more stressful in the long run, especially as you yourself write that you're mentally distressed at the moment.

I have always found you to be a nice and communicative user here and at least self-reflective enough to recognize your own problem.
Everything else is now in your hands and if you don't want to go through it alone, you should choose someone close to you and possibly let them in on your plans. "Just" saying in general that you want to change something in your life and that you have realized that you have behaviors in you that you would like to get rid of/change.

I wish you with all my heart that you can "quickly" change the current situation yourself and, more importantly, that you want to do so permanently.
I hope that despite all the current grief and after you have slept on it a few times, you can still celebrate a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones, knowing that what you really need has been around you for a long time.

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schwede666 wrote on 17.12.2023 at 11:56 am: There's nothing that can help now. You have to endure it. If you really want to change something, you have to break your own patterns, preferably with professional support. GUTS !

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frapi07 wrote on 17.12.2023 at 12:20 pm:
Let's ask stupidly: why do you go to an arcade with so much money? The wins are totally limited there anyway. If something comes up, you usually win 3-4k and that feels really rare. Regardless of your Gambling addiction, gambling halls should be at the bottom of the list. Lotto and Scratch cards at the bottom, of course.

It's by no means a motivation to invest in OC, because there's a Risk of losing more, but in my eyes gambling halls are so unattractive.

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