During the gambling experience we’ve managed to get the idea that gambling can lead to winning. We’ve experienced winning. We know its possible. Before we started gambling it was just a try. We were curious what will happen, while knowing people said gambling is bad. When we did win, we didn’t understand the thought that gambling was bad, until we made our first (big) loss.
There’s one mindset that makes it easier to stop gambling and that’s “winning is worse”. Our experience has thought us that we can win gambling, but as we’re recovering gambling addicts we know that it actually leads to losing everything.
Why winning is worse. Because this only leads to more emotional pain and more time loss. If winning is worse and we gamble to win, then we’re trapped. This means we gamble to feel worse. Every time we gamble we feel worse and that’s also the reality.
A gambling-session only stops when you’re broke. The moments you leave a casino with money, you’re still in a rush. You cannot focus and cannot sleep, you go back the next day and lose it all.