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Brendan_UT
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Great question.

I would stop gambling since you admitted that you are not in the best of situations to be gambling. If you are not a problem gambler, the entirety of your circumstances seems to indicate that gambling could quickly become problematic–seems like you have quite a bit of stress and you are using a form of drug to cope with it.

Some people feel that gambling is not a drug, but I am not so sure. For me, I would experience a high–win or lose, because my brain was releasing higher levels dopamine and making me feel good in the short term. In turn, this worked like a temporary band aid to prevent me from having to confront issues and sources of unhappiness that I was/am dealing with. So by all means, for me, and maybe for you, gambling acts like a real drug.

There are posters here that are more knowledgeable and know of more resources to point you towards, but I would encourage you to stop.

Also, you need to honestly ask yourself, would you participate in unethical behavior if gambling was not in the picture? Are you participating in unethical behavior to feed your gambling?

Hope to hear more from you!

-B