Stories – The Truth Behind Gambling

You don’t always lose your money first. Sometimes you lose yourself, little by little, without even noticing. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to become a gambling addict. Nobody places their first bet thinking that one day they might lie to the people they love, hide bank statements, delete messages, or sit alone in… Read more: The Quiet Things Gambling Takes From You— Before It Takes Everything

The signs can be difficult to recognise. Sometimes, the first clue isn’t money disappearing. It’s a child slowly changing in front of you. You know your child. You know when they are excited about something, when they are worried, and when something doesn’t feel right. But what if your child is struggling with gambling? Would… Read more: Is Your Child Gambling? 12 Warning Signs Every Parent Should Know

The question many gamblers ask themselves in silence — and the question their families are desperately waiting for them to answer. “Maybe I haven’t lost enough yet.” You tell yourself you’re still in control. Yes, you’ve lost money. More than you planned. Maybe you’ve borrowed some, hidden some, or promised yourself that this was the… Read more: You Don’t Have to Lose Everything to Stop Gambling

Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness that can have a devastating impact on a person’s life. I know this all too well because it ruined mine. It began when I was in my early twenties, just starting out in my career and feeling like I had my whole life ahead of me. But little did… Read more: Recipe for Disaster: Gambling and Bipolar Disorder

In the depths of despair, many seek solace in the promise of gambling recovery programs, hoping to escape the clutches of addiction. These programs offer supposed redemption, nurturing a glimmer of hope in the hearts of the desperate. However, beneath their façade of salvation, a sinister truth hides. The gambling recovery industry exudes an aura… Read more: Gambling Recovery: The Illusion of Fraudulent Redemption

In a world where high-stake casinos and online gambling platforms beckon individuals with promises of instant wealth, it is no surprise that the allure of gambling has captivated the hearts and minds of many. However, beneath the flashing lights and whimsical charm lies a dark underbelly that reveals the true nature of this activity. Recent… Read more: The Cautionary Tale: Gambling’s Grip on the Human Psyche

Being a new father is a joyous and life-changing experience. As I held my newborn in my arms for the first time, I felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility and desire to be the best parent possible. However, lurking in the back of my mind was a lingering question – should I stop gambling? This… Read more: New Dad’s Dilemma: Should I Stop Gambling

Gambling, with all its enticement and thrill, can easily become a slippery slope. In the beginning, it was a harmless pastime—a way to escape the monotony of life and seek a fleeting sense of excitement. However, as the allure of fast money gripped me, I found myself trapped in its clutches, losing not just my… Read more: The Path to Redemption: How I Regained Control of My Gambling Habits

Gambling, an intricate and captivating world that has fascinated mankind for centuries. I, myself, am not a specialist on the subject, but my experiences have granted me a unique perspective. This blog post will delve into my personal journey into the realm of gambling, exploring its various aspects and the conservative creativity it kindles within… Read more: A Dance with Lady Luck: My Journey through the World of Gambling

In a rapidly evolving digital age, where technology has become an integral part of our lives, addictive behaviors such as gambling have found a new platform to thrive. Recognizing the need for a powerful tool to combat problem gambling and provide individuals with much-needed support, a visionary team of software developers and psychologists came together… Read more: BetGuard: A Revolutionary Gambling Blocker App Transforming Lives

Gambling has always been an integral part of my life, providing me with excitement, adrenaline rushes, and the illusion of easy money. However, over time, what started as harmless entertainment gradually morphed into an insidious addiction that began permeating every aspect of my being. Realizing the grip it had on me, I embarked on a… Read more: The Path to Redemption: Overcoming the Grip of Gambling

Gambling, often seen as a form of entertainment, can easily spiral out of control, leaving individuals burdened with mounting debts. As the consequences of unchecked gambling behavior begin to settle in, the need to pay off those debts becomes a pressing concern. This article delves into five effective strategies that can help individuals regain control… Read more: Taking Control: Five Strategies to Repay Gambling Debt

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, gambling has become an alluring pastime for millions of individuals seeking excitement, entertainment, and even fortunes. However, it is essential to acknowledge the darker side of this industry, which has left many individuals and families entangled in financial ruin and emotional distress. As a strong believer in personal responsibility,… Read more: Taking a Gamble: A Battle Against Gambling Companies

Unleashing the Infinite Potential: When AI Became My Storytelling Partner  Introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has steadily advanced its capabilities, pushing the boundaries of what was once considered possible. As a budding writer, I marveled at the sheer genius of AI within the realm of storytelling. While hesitant at first, I embarked on an experiment to… Read more: When AI Became My Storytelling Partner

In the glittering heart of Las Vegas, a city adored as the epitome of fortune-seekers and dream-chasers, lies a sinister underbelly often obscured by the allure of neon lights and the cacophony of jingling slot machines. Behind the gleaming facade of the city’s opulent casinos, a destructive dance between gambling and mental health silently unfolds.… Read more: A Plummet into Darkness: Gambling and Mental Health

A Gamble in Time: Unveiling the Innovative Horizon of GamblingIntroduction:In a not-so-distant future, the realm of gambling underwent a metamorphosis, transcending the conventional limitations of space and time. A titillating fusion of technology, innovation, and creativity birthed an unprecedented gambling experience that revolutionized the industry. This post explores the remarkable ups and downs of this… Read more: Gambling Future

Casino Is Not Your Friend. Once upon a time in the bustling city of Las Vegas, there lived a young man named Ethan. Ethan was a hardworking individual who had just graduated from college with a shiny degree in finance. He had always dreamt of making it big and becoming successful, and he thought he… Read more: Casino is not your friend

Gambling has become popular recreational activity and constantly growing at an unprecedented rate over the last few years. Everybody has their reasons to gamble. Most people gamble to win money, to socialize, for excitement, or to pass time.  There are many different ways to gamble which include lottery tickets, casino games, betting on horse racing,… Read more: Problem Gambling, Youth and the Internet

After being more than 2 years free from gambling activities, I noticed that I still have a huge problem with lying to my partner. It became a habit and somehow I can’t stop lying to my partner. Someone once said to me that for as long as you lied to your partner, expect them not to believe you for the same time after you stop lying. It will hurt when they question you when you are telling the truth, you will be surprised because you never even thought to lie.

Statistics say that 80% of Americans have tried gambling and 5% of those players will end up with a gambling addiction. The problem with statistics is you don’t know what it’s telling you. For me its’ just a number. It’s always only a partial representation of the thing you are trying to understand. I do not want… Read more: Gambling’s impact on families 

The eyes are the most important organs that allow us to perceive the world. However, many factors can harm them. One of the biggest problem is online gambling.  Combination of online gambling innovation and smartphone usage is proving increasingly toxic. For millennials, betting via their mobile phones has become very popular choice. Have you ever… Read more: Online gambling will harm your eyesight

I will be honest with you – it will be very hard for you to trust the gambler again, but it’s not impossible. It takes a lot of time, good communication skills, dedication and effort.  One of the things that helped me and my partner were sessions with a therapist. In one of the sessions,… Read more: How to trust the gambler

Someone far handier than me with a calculator once worked out that the chances of any of us existing anywhere in the cosmos are one in 400 trillion. That’s the kind of odds that, by comparison, make winning the state lottery seem as easy as buying a ticket.  What about the odds of being struck… Read more: You Can Beat the Odds

I started an experiment at the beginning of this year where I wanted to listen to at least one book every month. So far I’ve listened 3  books in 2021.When I started my audiobook adventure this January, I didn’t have any high expectations. But one day I discovered interesting  audiobook called “You are a badass… Read more: Letter to Money

Three card poker, slot machine games, roulette, blackjack, sports betting, bingo… there are so many games available for persons to participate in, not just for entertainment but many are also involved in gambling.  These games can be accessed not only at casinos but also online.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and the sad reality… Read more: Young People, God Loves You – Do Not Gamble with Your Life

Young people may go into gambling as a result of idleness during the lockdown or even because of peer pressure “My friends gamble so I decided to try it then I tried another one and the next and I just couldn’t stop anymore” Most people are addicted to gambling and don’t even know they are,… Read more: You don’t need to keep it to yourself

Gambling is an addiction that is dangerously easy to hide. Unlike alcohol or drug abuse, you might not necessarily know someone was a gambling addict on the surface. We see examples of gambling everywhere we look online and within the thousands of casinos in public spaces. Yet society still does not identify gambling addiction as… Read more: “Gambling Addiction Recovery – 5 Powerful Ways You Can Support Your Partner”

If you run out of sources to finance your bad habit, you can’t play anymore. Logical!? But what to do? Trust your money to a partner or someone you trust. Cut your credit cards and close the accounts. Under no circumstances should you even try to borrow more money! Let your loved one cover your… Read more: Don’t use Cash while in Gambling Recovery

Gambling addiction often starts as a fun activity, and it can be adopted by anyone from any class and line of work. You start it as a form of entertainment, but it begins to root in your mind, and soon you find yourself addicted to it. Gambling addiction is just like any other form of… Read more: Activities A Gambling Addict Can Do In Recovery

Winning back trust takes time, be patient, look for opportunities to win it back and if the love is still there, the trust will follow in time. You have to work a bit harder to  make sure you follow through with everything you say, even if its just turning up at the time you said… Read more: How To Regain Trust of Loved Ones After Gambling Addiction Recovery

Gambling is worst in all forms, but online gambling is destructive in a literal sense. With no monitoring, no limits to gambling and no need of physical location online gambling slowly take over control to your mind and eventually your life. Pathological gambling is the most dreadful of all forms of gambling because, in this… Read more: Can You Deal With The Problem Of Gambling On Your Own?

Written by my fiancé My fiancé agreed to write about how finding out about my addiction was for her. I think this is the only proper and honest way my readers can have the full picture on how a life of a family gets ruined by a gambling addiction. This is her side of our… Read more: Part Two: My Partner is a Gambler

There could be thousands of reasons why people adopt gambling, and even psychologists don’t know why people gamble? It started as fun for some persons, and for some, it was meant to escape their sorrows. But in the end, the result was always the same; Gambling Stops Being a Diversion and Becomes Addiction. What keeps people stick with… Read more: Why Gambling Is The Worse Form Of Addiction?

Addiction originally comes from Latin, where it is mean “Enslaved By”. It’s true actually because one who has suffered from addiction can tell you about it’s sturdy and prolonged grip on mind and body. It damages personal and professional life and challenges your senses to be reasonable. The world was already suffering from terrible effects… Read more: Online Gambling- A New Face Of Intense Gambling Addiction

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.   Reference:  Hunter S. Thompson At first, you will find yourself head over heels deep in gambling habit. It will act as an anchor point to keep you away from difficulties of life. It’s an approach to… Read more: How To Handle Gambling Stress?

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows when to rise and go home. Reference: John Milton Hay Indeed, a wise man always knows when to quit. Gambling addiction is well known as The Silent Killer; it pushes you towards the edge and then sits aside to watch you… Read more: I Lost My Partner Because Of Gambling

A Gambler Is Nothing But a Man Who Makes His Livings Out Of False Hope Reference: William Bolitho Take it from a person who had experienced the severe effects of gambling addiction- just stay away from this hellish play. It starts as fun, and as you indulge in it further, it becomes a nightmare. There is no… Read more: How To Find Out Your Partner Is Gambling Addict and What Can You Do To Help

Most people don’t have a gambling problem, but I do and now im trying to get out of gambling debt. In two years of active gambling, I took seven bank loans. There are many different types of loans. Easiest to get for me was Instant Cash Loans. It was fast way to get money for my… Read more: Getting out of gambling debt: The Definitive Guide

Gambling is like a fatal disease, it kills you slowly, but you’re not the only one suffering. You may be addicted, but the whole family suffers with you each day. Gambling addiction has a particular impact on family members because of the debt it causes. Stumbling and staggering I reached at the door in the… Read more: How Gambling Addiction Affects Family and Friends

According to research by the Scientific American, around 2 million Americans have a gambling addiction. Around 1 in 165 men will experience gambling addiction in their lifetimes compared to 1 in 500 women. An estimated 98% of action gamblers are men. The number of people addicted to gambling is quite significant, and this is an actual… Read more: What are the benefits of Group Therapy?

If you are a compulsive gambler, then you most likely “borrowed” from credit cards, family, friends – anywhere where money was available, hoping to fund one more bet that gets you back on track. I know, because that is exactly my story. I didn’t get the big win to get my money back, but instead… Read more: Will I Ever Be Able to Watch Sport Again?

Friends and family are often key to encourage loved ones with gambling problems to seek help. I was lucky to have my fiancé, who was pushing me to seek professional help. She didn’t give up on me (yet), and she wanted to know everything about the addiction, that was destroying our relationship. After trying to… Read more: Interview with Justyn Larcombe

Online payments and loans are such an abstract representation of money. You can’t feel money in your hands, but instead, you just see some numbers that most certainly you cannot understand the value of as good as you would with cash. Betting online and paying with loaned money didn’t feel real for me. It felt… Read more: Credit Card Ban Could Be The Solution

You should be proud of yourself! I know that I am, because statistically only roughly 5 percent of people with gambling addiction are seeking treatment. Relapse is going to be a big part of our healing process.  I had one relapse, after being “clean” for a few weeks. I received an email from the betting… Read more: Why Recovering Gambling Addicts Fail

Imagine this: you are sitting on the porch of your cottage on the Saturday morning. There is a  morning breeze and you can hear birds singing. Your wife is making pancakes in the kitchen and you can hear kids’ laughter while they are playing with the dog. After the breakfast, you start walking towards your… Read more: Betting Companies Are Ruining Our Lives

Written by my fiancé My fiancé agreed to write about how finding out about my addiction was for her. I think this is the only proper and honest way my readers can have the full picture on how a life of a family gets ruined by a gambling addiction. This is her side of our story, the first part:

My life was amazing. I was working as a chef where the income wasn’t that good, but l managed to make savings and afford almost everything I wanted. I am ambitious and have always wanted to achieve a lot in my personal and professional life. If I had opportunity to study or take extra courses,… Read more: Telling to My Fiancé

Did you know that Tesla and Dostoyevsky were also gambling addicts? Tesla lost his tuition money, had a nervous breakdown and dropped out of school. Dostoyevsky’s “Gambler” is semi-autobiographical.*Learning that such great minds had the same problem as me was somewhat comforting, it made me stop questioning my intelligence and made me realize it is… Read more: Becoming a Gambler

According to National Council on Problem Gambling the average gambler may have personal debts up to $90,000. I owe to banks €50 000, but their high interest rates and charges are likely to make the situation worse. Taking loans online is extremely easy, at least in Finland. If you provided the bank with a pay… Read more: Neck Deep in Debt

I was born in Estonia, in the beginning of ‘80s. I really want to skip the part where we were living in soviet times, when there were no possibilities to travel abroad or to buy groceries without a coupon. My childhood was happy, especially because we didn’t have mobile phones or computers. Life was somehow… Read more: My Life Before a Gambling Addiction