Louise's Diary

Back at my diary from 2 years ago and reposting something I found very helpful, just for myself.

I understand how difficult it is to be in your situation, as I have had bad experiences from gambling as well. But I would like to give my opinion of gambling, and maybe that would also help you clear everything in your head.

A few years back when my gambling was getting very extreme, I called the gambling helpline, and after the first few minutes of conversation, all I was hearing from her was "Gambling is a disease, gambling is a disease, and you need to be cured", you see at first I looked at it that way, and it did not help at all. Let me just say it, Gambling is not a disease Leo, and no matter how many times, or how they tried to convince you that you are suffering from a "disease" don't believe it. I know, it might sound a little weird, and you might say "what do you know?" but to explain it, all I can say to you is that, to stop gambling you need to believe that you are strong enough to do so, and when somebody tells you you are diseased, the only thing it could mean is that you are not strong enough, no matter how of an expert that person might be, DO NOT believe him/her.

Just try to see the bigger picture, if you were one of the owners of one of the casinos, or one of the owners of the whole gambling industry, and you realise that you are ruining many people's lives, what would you do? would you just convince yourself that those whose lives are ruined by gambling are just "addicted" and are just "diseased", well tell them to name you ONE person who has benefited from the gambling industry apart from themselves...?

I don't believe that there is any such thing as a "conspiracy theory", as what you might think im suggesting, but I believe every theory has a truth in it, and here is my theory...

If you called the gambling advice hotline, or you had counselling sessions, and they told you to "have yourself limits" or "Gambling is a disease" Dont believe them, because if you do, by the time you manage to cure your "disease" you would lose all the money you have, so as long as you believe that gambling is a "disease" and as long as you try to cure your "disease", you will keep losing more and more and more...

It worked for me and many other people who I spoke to, so I think the best thing for you to do is;

Firstly; Dont be so stubborn and believe the fact that gambling is NOT an entertainment, and it is NOT fun, and it is NOT based on luck (if it was luck you would atleast have a 50:50 chance, so if you lost one day, you should be winning the next day...)

Secondly; Believe the fact that NO BODY who gambles ever wins any money, and NO BODY who gambles ever benefits from it

Thirdly; Believe the fact that Gambling is NOT a disease, and DONT think that by putting yourself "Limits" or "Daily Limits", you can "control" your gambling, they just tell you that so if they cant have all your money at once, they could have it little by little, and they tell you gambling is a disease because they dont want to help you get stronger, they want to keep you in your fantasy world so you keep gambling. If they wanted you to quit they could say "FACE REALITY, GAMBLING DOESNT MAKE MONEY FOR YOU, IT MAKES MONEY FOR THE OWNERS..."

Fourthly; Just stop. It is as simple as that and dont ever believe anybody who says "its difficult" even if its yourself saying it. Believe me, once you start opening your eyes and once you start looking around you, and once you start seeing the reality and the bigger picture you will realise that all those 26 years of feeding money to those machines, you were feeding the owners, when you thought you could win some money. Come on, face the facts, if you ever created a fruit machine, or any other gambling machine, would you let people win money from it??!! You would try to make as much money from it as possible... the creators of those machines didn't create them so that you could go and make money from them! its only to make money for themselves...

Finally; Just wake up one day, have yourself a nice breakfast, watch the news and see the real world, while your putting all that money in that silly fruit machine, many many people are struggling to pay for a day's meal....

I really do hope this helps, it helped me, so I sincerely hope it helps you....

Omid