come to think of it, isn't addiction a choice? After reading lots of stories on the effects of being an addicted gambler, I feel it's 100% possible to tell myself that I can never be addicted to gambling and won't ever get addicted.
If for instance, I decide that I'm only going to gamble once a week and that at each time I will only gamble with an amount like $20 based on my current financial strength, would I ever become addicted to gambling? Isn't it because you don't have any plan in place and just gamble as your spirit leads that makes you become careless with your gambling and become addicted to the process?
That’s the thing about addiction, it doesn’t leave much room for you to decide which doesn’t make it more of your choice.
It’s possible to gain a lot of control over how much engaged into gambling you are but for the addict, you completely lack that control over your gambling habit. It controls you and that, that isn’t your fault.
Addiction is where most people don’t want to be but, they eventually find themselves in this hole and you want to get out but, it’s ever slippery.
All gamblers claim that they will never be addicted, meaning that gambling addiction is seen as the negative side of gambling and they actually avoid addiction at all costs, but for those who frequently gamble will easily become addicted with emotional conditions that increasingly change in decisions to determine betting limits, they become more Losing self-control to avoid the risk of loss from gambling, this fact is the main reason why many gamblers increasingly experience gambling addiction and some of them must be treated psychologically to recover from gambling addiction.
No one wants to be associated with a character that is undermining and as such, they try to defend any form of addiction that is attributed to them but, if they all deny it, then the word ceases to have meaning. The truth is, you don’t get to call yourself an addict, the people who sees it does.
