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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Responsible Gambling Messaging - Does "When The Fun Stops, Stop" Actually Help Anyone?.saw those messages thousands of times over seven years... not once did one of them change a decision i was making... not once... the...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread What Would You Bet On If Money Was Completely Irrelevant?.interesting question because it exposes something i don't like admitting... if money was irrelevant i don't think i'd bet... not...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread UK Gambling Act Reforms - Affordability Checks Are Coming. What Do You Actually Think?.i'm the person these checks are designed for... so i should probably say something honest about whether they'd have helped... at my...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Has Betting Ever Made You Genuinely Happy? Not Excited. Happy..no... not genuinely happy... excited yes... relieved sometimes... temporarily less bad occasionally... but happy... thinking back...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.yeah... should have asked him how he did it... genuine regret about that... just a conversation i didn't have because i was too busy...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.yeah... the room being empty is its own kind of problem... working on filling it with something... slowly... different kind of...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.the lad from the shops... successful quiet winner i turned into a fraud in my head... he never knew... just kept quietly winning...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.watched most of my losing bets alone... that's probably relevant... no counterweight... just me and the loss and the in-play...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.that's uncomfortable but probably right... my contempt for the consistent winner was about not being able to imagine being one... if...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.the bet being live somewhere in you regardless of where you are... that's the constant state for me during bad periods... not just...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.felt contempt for a winning bettor once and it took me years to understand what it actually was... bloke i knew from the shops...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.i watch everything... every second of every losing bet... can't look away... part of me thinks if i look away it definitely loses...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.yeah... been thinking about the after for a while now... the number would have been easier... the after is harder... but i think the...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.never had a shared number with anyone... but the therapist question is sitting with me... what would fill the space... slowly getting...
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DDublinDegen replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.therapist asked me about a stop number once... i said i didn't have one... she asked what i'd need to feel like stopping made sense...