Making Better Choices Regarding Gambling Activities

Preventing Compulsive Gambling Addiction

When It Stops Being Fun

PROBLEM GAMBLING: describes gambling behavior that ranges from: anxiety over your gambling, to gambling behavior that disrupts or damages your families and vocational pursuits, to pathological gambling that is no longer under your control. Only you can make the decision as to whether your gambling has become a problem or not.

SOME OF THE SIGNS THAT GAMBLING HAS STOPPED BEING FUN AND BECOME A PROBLEM ARE: thinking constantly about gambling, increasing your bets for a bigger thrill, gambling to escape your problems, chasing your losses, lying to conceal your gambling activity, financing your bets through illegal acts, jeopardizing relationships with your family and failing in your efforts to control or stop gambling.

PROBLEM GAMBLING PREVENTION EDUCATORS: are available in Tioga County (and many other communities) and can help you clarify and understand whether your gambling has stopped being fun and become a problem.

Persons who have "crossed over the line" and become pathological or compulsive gamblers will need help to stop their destructive behavior, it isn't a matter of will power at that point. Fortunately, this help is also available.