Gambling should be practiced in moderation, too much of it leads to addiction and for you to stop the habit, you need serious psychiatric intervention. If you’re a serious gambler, how will you know you’re addicted to gambling? Here are obvious signs.
- You are always logged in to a betting site
If more than half of the day you’re logged into a betting site and actively placing your bets, then you’re addicted to gambling.
The less addicted gamblers login to the betting site once or a couple of times a day, sometimes they don’t.
- You bet daily
Addiction is when you do something repeatedly. If you realize that no single day passes without you placing a bet, then you’re addicted to gambling.
- Your thoughts are always dominated by Gambling and winning big
What you think of makes you who you are—if you always think of gambling, then that’s what you’re addicted to, if you always think of your shop, that defines you and if you always think of music, you’re addicted to music—and if you always think of stealing, then you’re addicted to stealing. In a day,your mind should not focus on one thing and if it does then you are addicted to that thing.
- You loss too much money yet you can’t quit
When you’re not so much addicted to gambling, you quit immediately you lose a lot of money at once. But for addicted gamblers they will lose Ksh 100,000 today and still bet the following day—they never give up. If you’ve reached this stage, then you’re addicted to gambling.
- You go extreme to get Gambling money
Gambling is not something you must do but there are individuals who go to the extent of stealing, selling assets and even spending their school fees to gamble. If you regularly do this, know that you’re addicted to gambling.
- You gamble with more and more money
When you start gambling, you only dedicate few coins into the activity but as you continue gambling,you invest more and at the end of the day, you lose everything. I know some individuals who started with Ksh 100 per day, increased the stake to Ksh 200 and are now gambling with Ksh 10,000.This is a true definition of an addicted gambler.
Gambling is not leisure activity but your career
When you find yourself quitting your job and even business so as to venture fully into gambling, then addiction is your other name. Gambling was meant for entertainment but when it goes beyond that, the gambler is serial addict.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in this situation is to look for an alternative entertainment activity. Also, change your friends and the environment you reside in.
Gambling can lead to serious mental and psychological effects.It can even lead to suicidal death through suicide.