Hey yogambler. I started gambling actively when I was about your age. Video poker terminals. No one bothered to check ID’s back then.
I have a lot of respect for you because you already know you need help. Me it took a lot longer.
Gambling might seem like an ideal escape place, especially if you don’t get along with your schoolmates and your situation at home is not perfect. But it IS NOT. Gambling will offer you no shelter, no comfort, it will fill no void, neither will it solve any other problems you need to address.
Do yourself a favor and stay away from it. You’re too young to be seriously hooked. But if you’re not careful you will get hooked and you might waste your life a way in slavery, addiction and self loathing.
What video games you playing? When I was trying to quit gambling a couple of years ago I started playing StarCraft 2. Must have played 5 thousand games. Tremendous waste of time, but at least I didn’t lose any money during playing. Made it to the platinum league, which is by no means spectacular, but it’s decent given my age 🙂
Kudos on coming here, read a few horror stories, then run away from this place and gambling in general and everything that has to do with it, and never look back kid.