Compulsive Gamblers

I am a Compulsive Gambler.If you are in the same shoes, or your friend / loved one is: you are in the best place. You can find informations, toughts and experiences about the addiction – and help in general.

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Compulsive Gambling and Depression

Compulsive Gambling and Depression: people with a gambling problem were twice as likely to be depressed and 18 times more likely to experience severe psychological distress than people without a gambling problem.

Most people, whether they have a problem with gambling or not, can relate to the idea that people get excited when they win, and feel disappointed when they lose.

Beyond the initial feelings of sadness from losing, when someone has a gambling problem they may feel depressed, as well as perhaps experiencing feelings of shame and guilt.

Signs of depression may include:

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Mental Illness

Mental illness is a general term for a group of illnesses that cause major changes in a person’s thinking, emotional state, behavior, and ability to work or carry on personal relationships.  

Mental illness can be triggered by:

Physical illness

Stress due to personal relationships, bullying, getting married, separating and/or divorcing, and important events (ex. cultural celebrations that…

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Good Stress versus Bad Stress

Good Stress versus Bad Stress

Good Stress: A certain amount of stress is considered ‘good’ because it motivates us; For example, we might feel our stress levels increase, as we work towards a deadline. Good stress challenges us and helps us to be productive and happy.

Bad Stress: When we experience too much stress, or have no relief from stress, it ceases to be a challenge; instead, tasks become more draining than…

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Mental Health, Stress and Mental illness

Mental Health, Stress and Mental illness

Problem gambling (Gambling Disorder, Compulsive Gambling) is a mental illness – here are some facts around Mental Health in general, just for better understanding our situation.

Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual can realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and make a contribution to his…

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Stay in control - Wayne Rooney

Stay in control – Wayne Rooney

A conversation about problem gambling with Wayne Rooney https://twitter.com/dcfcofficial/status/1214524585451745280?s=20 Stay in Control featuring Wayne Rooney, discussion about problem gambling https://twitter.com/GamblersGlobal/status/1214537379043782657?s=20 Anyone can fall into this compulsive gambling trap, even famous people have problems

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It is not impossible to drop your gambling habit

It is not impossible to drop your gambling habit

It generally takes about 21 days to break a habit or to develop a new habit.

To focus on developing new habits rather than trying to break the old ones is a good strategy, because when you focus on the positive, it overrides the negative.

Gambling is a big fat lie, that catches your whole life in no time, and it is not easy, but anyone can completely break themselves free of that addiction.…

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Meetings can make it

Meetings can make it

When a problem gambler finally admits his / her addiction and lucky enough ends up in an anonym compulsive gamblers meeting.

Based on my own experiences only these meetings are the most successful help as the recovery process going on, let me explain why do I tink that:

Finally you are surrounded with same guys, who will understand your circumstances, feelings and problems like no one did…

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Stop looking back

As a compulsive gambler you may struggle at the first stage of your recovery as you keep look back to your past life, burdering yourself with guilt, remorse, money you have lost, opportunities you are missed, or lack of progress at work and for many othere reasons.

To achieve a real recovery progress all these things must be left in the past and you must move on. Guilt and remorse can cripple…

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Problem Gambling = Finance only?

Problem Gambling = Finance only?

The most common misconception is around compulsive gambling that just a financial problem. This is not that simple!

However, a gambler obviously deep dives onto financial losses and often ends up with bankrupcy or even a lot of borrowings on the top of that from various sources, but the real problem is the person’s mental transformation to a completely different one.

I went through on this…

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