Topic: An Unusual Story that Reflects the Current Gambling Addiction Reality - page 2. (Read 522 times)

If the man is a gambling addict, then the woman is right for not sending the money into his account, because she knows that he will use part of the money, or if not all the money to gamble, and that has killed the purpose of giving the money to the person in need, when it is not used for the right purpose. Addicted gamblers are not to be trusted with money, because they will end up using the money to gamble, thinking that they can double the money to make more profit, as this is what use to be in their thoughts.

I know this lady that was so addicted to gamble, and she was finding it difficult to control herself. To the extent that she do beg and come up with various lies whenever she wants to gamble, because addiction gas eaten her deep to her bone marrow. She came to me the first time that her son is sick, and he is in the hospital, that she needs some assistance from me, which I helped her with some money. Unknown to be that she was looking for money that she wants to use to gamble. It was later that my friend told me that she is a chronic addict, and that is how she goes about telling lies with the name of her son that is sick, so that people can sympathize with her, and give her money. This is why it is good that you make sure that when you are rendering help to someone, you make sure that the money is used for the right purpose, and we should not be deceived.

Each person should responsible with what they do but if they already addicted to gambling, his family will take that responsibility by helping the addicted person to the rehabilitation center. The government facilitate the rehabilitation center and brought those who addicted to that place and trying to heal them. But if addicted person or his family don't take anything necessary and tend to just let it be, the addicted person can't get a right solution. If it comes to gambling, we must really take responsibility by always limit ourselves playing gambling, both money and time so we can prevent addiction comes to us. But if someone lie about something because of he needs money to playing gambling, his family must take him to the rehabilitation.

Yes, gambling knows no boundaries, we might be sitting in our room with the laptop or desktop and browsing the forum. But on the other side of the globe, there could be someone who's falling for gambling and becoming addicted to it. So it's really very hard for everyone now, unless you are not introduce to gambling, but for those who have been playing almost all their lives, very hard to quit and there could be bout of we have recovered and then fall to gambling back again and then the cycle continues. Unless we really have that bad experience that we promised not just ourselves but our family as well that we are going to quit for good. And we can only hope that our children will not gamble and not repeat the same mistakes that we did when we are young.

But who are those to take this up as a responsibility for the addicted ones, when the government are not in support of this, the casinos are not making any tangible efforts, individuals too are somewhat busy with their daily encounters and those ready and interested in doing that could possibly lack the financial aid to facilitate doing so, we have to maintain the orderliness of being responsible for ourselves, especially when it comes to gambling, we need to do it responsibly before it gets out of hands, the last hope is for any one found under this category to rely on his family for help.

You know, those situations and the fact people is willing to lie so blatantly about their family health is one of the things which have made me wary about both gambling addiction and lending money to people I have known, before introducing myself to the world of gambling, I would have easily been deceived by those stories and lies from people who have a serious problem with their gambling habits, but not anymore.
At the very least, you are aware of that person addiction, hopefully he can get out of it and continue to hold his position at his job.

I have been told here in my country, people who try to lie to others for money usually just go saying they lost a family member and they do not even have cash to pay for the funeral services or not have money to go visit their family in their old town. Whatever... It is just one of the saddest and things which one can opt to do as a addicted person.

If the person asking for help is clearly a person who is addicted to gambling, of course the person providing the help will become suspicious if the account number provided is not in the name of his wife, and the donor must be aware because he could be cheated and use the excuse of his wife who is sick to be able to get funds for gambling even though it looks very evil but usually addicts will not consider their actions evil other than thinking how to get money for gambling.
It would be better if the aid funds are directly given to the accounts of people who really need it and this step is much more appropriate, even when we make donations to foundations or people we trust sometimes it can be misused even though it is not for gambling but for other things that are profitable and not accepted by the people who need the help.
Gambling addiction stalks anyone involved in gambling, therefore all gamblers should be aware of this, even casinos warn of this because it is real.

There's nothing new to this; the effect of gambling on people can be severe, and a gambler who is in deep addiction can do severe and unimaginable things, such as steal or, at worst, commit a crime, because of the urge to gamble more. The thing is, even a good person can commit a grave sin just because of an addiction, and it's been proven in numerous studies that humans tend to do bad things or go beyond their character just because they can't control themselves. I also know that because, as a gambler, I've committed some mistakes and sins because of gambling, like stealing money or tricking other people in order to have funds to gamble, but before it is too late, I control myself and wake up from my addiction. So before it's too late, those gamblers should be able to control themselves before turning back, because if you miss the chances of turning back, then you prefer to suffer the consequences.

Gambling addiction has been a common problem in our society. It has caused many problems in a person's life, such as money losses, or issues with family and friends, etc. It's important to support and help people with gambling addiction to overcome it. We should all always be open and not afraid to ask help or give help they need and live better lives.

I have experience with people who are addicts in gambling and they do make excuses to something to borrow money in order to fuel their gambling stuff. A coworker of mine asked me if I have extra cash that I'm not using, asked that it's for his daughter because she was in the hospital. Upon closely noticing his facial expressions, it seems that he isn't bothered at all and that's when I felt like he is probably gonna use it for gambling. I'm just really worried about his addiction.

There are many addicted gamblers and it is very possible that this very charitable individual who was willing to give out money for medical support has come across a few addicted gamblers in the past who he had tried to help and they diverted the money into gambling or they even lied about their situation just to get financial aid. I even commend the giver because the experience he has had in the past did not stop him from trying to give but has helped him to have principles and be wiser while giving.
Addiction to gambling is becoming very common in our environment, because there are now more options to gamble and more people gambling. When you deal with a person who you know is addicted to gambling, you have to be careful with them in things concerning money, because they can lie or scam just to get money for gambling.

Gambling addiction is hard to fight but it's sad to think of men who prioritize gambling over treatment for their wives. Of course the gambler must keep his control or else he will face huge losses financially. His main duty was to fulfill his wife's duties. It is hard to believe that these people do not care about their families when they are addicted to gambling. Thinking about financial loss can help the person get rid of this problem.

Every gambler must of course carry out full supervision of themselves and if they gamble continuously of course they will become addicted to gambling and to be able to get rid of addiction to gambling of course we have to make these rules and have to obey them, because if we cannot get rid of the addiction By gambling, we will have bigger problems in our lives.

If we are sure that we will be able to get rid of the gambling addiction, it would be better if we don't repeat it again, which will cause us to suffer huge losses in terms of our finances and it is possible that we will experience worse things than that if we are still gambling addicts.

This would be something that is actually quite shame because gambling addict asks for help money for his wife but he has another goal by using the money as gambling capital.
However, it is not clear whether it will actually be used for gambling when the money has entered his account because there was no other conversation and you said that everything ended with no further response.
If I were personally asked to provide assistance like that from gambling addict, there would clearly be sense of skepticism because he could blame the money given, here it can clearly be concluded that gambling addict can use various ways to make money.
They have completely lost their consciousness by their own ambition and attitude towards gambling, I sure that people like this will always do the same thing in the future before realizing that it was all mistake.


If he is gambler or worse really is addicted then obviously there will always be concerns, I personally would also have the same attitude and do the same thing.
If it is for medical needs, it is better to visit him in person to ascertain his condition and hand over some money to the person concerned.
No one will ever be able to accept if their good intentions are used inappropriately or misused.

It is normal for someone providing aid to be skeptical because it is very strange, yes, even though they are still in the same family. Why does it have to be his own account instead of giving his wife's account because it is his wife who is sick. If the wife is really sick and cannot do anything and the husband must carry out all his duties it is also necessary to inform the wife and the wife must know how much assistance is to support the hospital costs because after all, sometimes there are people who take advantage of this momentum and they can take most of the assistance for their wife and use it to have fun.

Even though it is her husband, sometimes we don't know what's in his mind because it's usually evil thoughts arise when they are pressing. We really shouldn't just trust people, even if they are friends or family, because there are also people who stab in the back and most of them are people closest to us. Therefore we have to be careful when Having to entrust financial matters to anyone especially if her husband is a gambler, definitely cannot be trusted.

this story underscores the need for greater awareness and support for individuals struggling with gambling addiction. Gambling addiction is real bro because it also happens to me. I'm struggling tho now I always set a budget but when I hit total loss it feel bad and mood swing etc.

Maybe it happened on your story he might use the money to gamble. But I do believe we can fix the gambling addiction

As I read through the OP, the saying that comes to mind is, "once beaten twice shy" which means that we taken caution about another experience from a pleasant experience that we may have had. The lady who wanted to render the assistance in the story is likely to have had an unpleasant experience with a person battling gambling addiction in the past. I fault her for her generalization but I can't blame her.

I can't jump into the conclusion to assume that the man who refusing to send his wife's account details and not continuing the conversation is a sign of gambling addiction. I think that they man could have been offended by the benefactor's requestion. Still, since he needed the help for his wife and is likely to have access to his wife account, he should have for the sake of his wife's health sent the money.

Gambling addicts will do all they can get money to gamble when they are out of funds and they cannot be trusted with money. But because the story is incomplete we cannot tell if this is a case of gambling addiction or not.

Okay that suspicion was rather odd. I honestly wouldn't consider it as something that faults gamblers (or addicts more specifically), probably just a really bad experience by the husband when loaning money to others. While I do think giving out a loan to someone can be bad, at least that's what I think so since I avidly try to avoid giving out loans, there's no particular reason to be THAT specific for a reason unless there's some context behind it, so yea, I believe the husband had some problems, particularly him or someone close to him related to gambling and loans.

As for gambling being more prevalent to males, well, it is a fact that the majority of the gamblers out there are males so it isn't really that odd for addicts to be males.

The prevalence is not surprising to me being among males, there are high number of male gamblers  than the females. For in a gathering of 10 gamblers you may rarely see a single female gambler in that circle that's just a simple example to the extend the males populate the total figure, which is expected that the high rate of addiction should come from the gender with the highest number that gambles.

In this case I sense the stranger who offers to give a financial assistance to their plight must have got an information about the man's gambling behaviour before now and that is what's making her taking precautionary measures by ensuring the money goes directly into the man's wife account than to his as he could be tempted to divert that money into gambling to satisfy his uncontrollable gambling urge.

This story from the op brings to light how evil addiction to anything in general can be and for those of us who are still in control we should strive with all conscientiousness never to fall victim of addiction of any kind. I have heard and seen gamblers who are famished but prefers to use the only money at their disposal to stake a game order that using it to get something to eat to quench their hunger. It's no joke, gambling addiction is real.

the person who offers will of course be worried if the funds given are not used properly, surely the person giving the aid has heard about the husband, that's why he's worried, and it's a very annoying thing if the aid is not used for the proper purpose, p. This is what is known to be very bad for gambling addicts, no one believes it

And I think women are more conscious of showing their obedience to the man who offers help. Disappointing someone like this philanthropist will add to the damage to humanity especially if he learns that the money that is supposedly for the hospitalization is gone due to gambling. He will never give anyone who is asking for help thinking it is a scam.

He knows the gambler didn't prioritize his wife. It wouldn't come to such a situation where she got this terminal illness if the gambler prioritized his wife.