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,Continue reading “Problem Gambling, Youth and the Internet”
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Gambling’s impact on families
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 wantContinue reading “Gambling’s impact on families “
Online gambling will harm your eyesight
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 everContinue reading “Online gambling will harm your eyesight”
How to trust the gambler
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,Continue reading “How to trust the gambler”
You Can Beat the Odds
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 struckContinue reading “You Can Beat the Odds”
Letter to Money
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 badassContinue reading “Letter to Money”
Young People, God Loves You – Do Not Gamble with Your Life
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 realityContinue reading “Young People, God Loves You – Do Not Gamble with Your Life”
You don’t need to keep it to yourself
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,Continue reading “You don’t need to keep it to yourself”
“Gambling Addiction Recovery – 5 Powerful Ways You Can Support Your Partner”
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 asContinue reading ““Gambling Addiction Recovery – 5 Powerful Ways You Can Support Your Partner””
Don’t use Cash while in Gambling Recovery
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 yourContinue reading “Don’t use Cash while in Gambling Recovery”
Activities A Gambling Addict Can Do In 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 ofContinue reading “Activities A Gambling Addict Can Do In Recovery”
How To Regain Trust of Loved Ones After Gambling Addiction 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 saidContinue reading “How To Regain Trust of Loved Ones After Gambling Addiction Recovery”
Can You Deal With The Problem Of Gambling On Your Own?
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 thisContinue reading “Can You Deal With The Problem Of Gambling On Your Own?”
Part Two: My Partner is a Gambler
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 ourContinue reading “Part Two: My Partner is a Gambler”
Why Gambling Is The Worse Form Of Addiction?
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 withContinue reading “Why Gambling Is The Worse Form Of Addiction?”
Online Gambling- A New Face Of Intense Gambling 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 effectsContinue reading “Online Gambling- A New Face Of Intense Gambling Addiction”
I Lost My Partner Because Of Gambling
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 youContinue reading “I Lost My Partner Because Of Gambling”
How To Find Out Your Partner Is Gambling Addict and What Can You Do To Help
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 noContinue reading “How To Find Out Your Partner Is Gambling Addict and What Can You Do To Help”
How Gambling Addiction Affects Family and Friends
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 theContinue reading “How Gambling Addiction Affects Family and Friends”
What are the benefits of Group Therapy?
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 actualContinue reading “What are the benefits of Group Therapy?”
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