Do you or someone you know have REAL gambling problems?

[JuRen15]

So my mother in-law is a nurse, makes good money, but she lives check to check all because she gambles and loses. Its like clock work, the week she gets paid, shes asking us if we need anything and always wanting to go out to eat. By the weekend she aint picking up the phone and we dont hear from her again till she gets paid again. fast forward

Last Thursday she called talking bout she hit and won $32,000! I was happy for her, she was finally up

Monday night she called and asked to borrow $100

She gambled all that bread away in a weekend brehs . 32 thousand in 4 days . shyt is sad

If you do gamble:
How do yall deal with losing?
How can you not feel like a dummy for keep going back?
What in your mind makes you think you can win this time?

Anyone with fam that gambles:
How you deal with it?
How do you help without enabling?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

My buddy gambles on almost everything just for the hell of it. He was getting summer league games without knowing the roster

 

[RubioTheCruel]

If you do gamble:
How do yall deal with losing?

Never bet what you can't afford to lose.

How can you not feel like a dummy for keep going back?

It's my only vice. I don't do drugs, rarely drink, have no other really bad habits. It's my hobby

What in your mind makes you think you can win this time?

A lot of people's issue with gambling is they have no discipline. When they win, they think they'll keep winning. You have to set goals and stick to them. Pigs get slaughtered.

 

[Devilinurear]

I bet you I don't have a problem.

 

[FUPA]

My uncle. Really bad addiction to Horse Racing was at the track every weekend. While he worked his whole check went to that. Then as he got older he pulled 200k from retirement and blew thru it. Got so bad he even owned a Horse at a point that never won anything. He also got my cousin addicted and hes on same path. Every weekend its at the track and online.

 

[JuRen15]

My buddy gambles on almost everything just for the hell of it. He was getting summer league games without knowing the roster

thats crazy

 

[JuRen15]

Never bet what you can't afford to lose.
It's my only vice. I don't do drugs, rarely drink, have no other really bad habits. It's my hobby
A lot of people's issue with gambling is they have no discipline. When they win, they think they'll keep winning. You have to set goals and stick to them. Pigs get slaughtered.

 

[JuRen15]

I bet you I don't have a problem.

i'm mad i laughed

 

[ba'al]

 

[1thouwow]

My best friend. They built a casino near us a few years ago and it’s been a downward spiral ever since. I barely talk to him now bc I ran outta sympathy and guidance.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

My best friend. They built a casino near us a few years ago and it’s been a downward spiral ever since. I barely talk to him now bc I ran outta sympathy and guidance.

It's tough man. I've seen people gamble away their mortgage/rent money, huge sums of cash that would've taken them months to work for in one sitting( > $10K)... someone once asked me which I think is worse, gambling or drug addiction and I truly don't know. They're almost on a par with each other

 

[JuRen15]

 

[JuRen15]

My best friend. They built a casino near us a few years ago and it’s been a downward spiral ever since. I barely talk to him now bc I ran outta sympathy and guidance.

thats what she does, the casino. She'll drive an hour and a half with no money , just for a free play at the casino

 

[JuRen15]

It's tough man. I've seen people gamble away their mortgage/rent money, huge sums of cash that would've taken them months to work for in one sitting( > $10K)... someone once asked me which I think is worse, gambling or drug addiction and I truly don't know. They're almost on a par with each other

her son, (my bro in-law) calls her a crackhead. like says she might as well be on drugs and its doing the same harm to her life

 

[NinoBrown]

Many family members, including my close uncles and aunts who had pension from the government and disability checks which is around 8 racks....

They hit AC or Parx and the shyt is gone...

I remember my parents doing it when I was a kid and lost everything. My Grandma had to wire them money because they didn't even have enough money to get out the parking garage....A young breh just wanted some tokens for the arcade. They often left me in the lobby to go gamble since I was just a kid...

FF, As a man they still didn't learn their lesson, so unfortunately I cut them off in some aspects of my life as I won't enable their BS...