[adidasdub]

So I’m new here. For quite some time, I was lying to myself that I had my gambling habit under control. Last night I burned through around €8k in an online casino and now one of my credit cards is maxed out at €14k. I gambled awayy a savings too. I am going through what I call the grief phase but I know that in few days time, I’ll try to chase my losses, which willost likely put me into further debt.The worst part is that just last week, I won over €12k, sent it all back to my account only to gamble it all away the very next day.
I am sick at myself and don’t know what to do at this stage. I gamble on slots and even if I win big, I’ll end up gambling it away anyway. I’d really appreciate all tips or feedback on how to get under control.
Have a good weekend everyone
Luke

[kin]

Hi adidasdub,

These people used all the right words to describe what has happen to me.

The worst thing that ever happen to me was winning some money, I ended up spending more money trying to replicate the feeling. ~ Slot-machine Addict.

Once you interact with these machines, the dynamic changes, and what you get out of these machines is not necessary the excitement and thrill of winning but the pleasure of being in this rhythmic zone. ~ Assistant Professor Natasha Schull

It was like a trance that came over me ~ Slot-machine Addict

When you are sitting in front of that machine, you are intoxicated. You have not taken a pill, you have not taken a drink, you have not put something into your vein, but that doesn’t mean your brain chemistry haven’t change. ~ Dr Robert Breen, Director, Gambling Treatment Program, Rhode Island Hospital

In 2001, Doctor Hans Breiter and colleagues at Massachusetts General hospital conducted an experiment comparing the brain of a cocaine addict receiving a dose of cocaine and a healthy control subject playing the game of chance.

You look at the brain images of the activation of the primary reward system in the center of the human brain when they are a cocaine addict expecting a cocaine infusion vs a normal control subject expecting a monetary win, we saw the same thing, they are nearly identical, I could not distinguish who have receive cocaine and who have won a gambling task. ~ Doctor Hans Breiter, Director, Motivational and Emotional Neuroscience Center, Massachuset ts General hospital

The US national gambling impact study commission called these electronic gambling machines the crack cocaine of creating new addicted gamblers. ~ John Kindt, Professor, Business and Legal Policy, University of Illinios

The Gambling industry members talk about how to keep the people playing the machine longer, faster and more intensively and the way they speak about their aim is an aim of player extinction. Keeping the player there until their budget is thoroughly exhausted, until they have zero the player out.

[kin]

If you ask me to stop gambling, I will feel overwhelmed.
It is easy to stop gambling, anyone can do this.
The difficult part is staying stop.

But if you only ask me to stop gambling today, I will find it doable and achievable.

I only need to stop gambling today.
Tomorrow, I do the same.
I do it one day at a time.
I seek progress in recovery.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by kin.

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