Topic: Gamble Responsibly - page 15. (Read 11276 times)

I don't know what does "head of the family" mean, but you are right about this: if we have people that rely on us, we shouldn't let them down. We should drink responsibly because as overdrinking is not only bad for the health, but for our budget too. Same with gambling. Excessive gambling is bad for our mental health and it's usually bad for our budget.


Exactly. It's a very delicate question, and it's better to leave to the professionals then.

The most common way the addiction was not felt by them,they get addicted by the gambling,drinking,smoking.Until their friends point out the same to their friends,they won’t consider this as the addition.Actually they never feel it’s as te addiction,we come to the drinking addiction.Until your friends mention the drinking expenses made by yourself.You never feel that much money was spender on the drinking.So it’s better to avoid addiction in all sector like drinking,smoking and gambling.The gambler can use all this in the limited way to enjoy their life with some fun into their life from their earning money.

Admittance is the first step to take and being able to follow your decision to quite feeding your addictions is what guarantee you a total freedom as long as gambling addiction or any form of addictions is concerned,  sometime we have many addicts who come out to denounce their addictions,  and also make themselves available for any form of treatment,  but after some time,  you begin to see the tendency of the unwillingness in them and also their pattern of action also effects them a lot...

But then we shouldn't allow our minds to be overclouded so much so that we may be found wanting when it comes to credible approaches to exit addictions along the line of actions and decisions.

This is probably, the most frustrating aspect of any addiction, every single person that has ever known the addicted can tell they have a problem and they are in a desperate need of their help, but if they cannot take the first step and admit they have a problem then there is nothing anyone can do for them, and if anything trying to do so will only create friction between the two of you as they will think you are trying to take decisions over their life you have no business taking.

Realizing that he is sick is the most important thing so that he can complain about it to a hospital or rehabilitation centre so that a psychologist can help him find the right solution to cure him. Otherwise, he will not be able to get a solution from a psychologist or even from other members of his family.

This requires concern from his family members to make him aware that he has a gambling addiction and must immediately get professional help. Otherwise, his gambling addiction will get worse and will disrupt his life. It will indeed be very difficult to make him aware, but this depends on his family members so that a gambling addict can be aware and willing to follow their advice to cure himself who is addicted to gambling.

Yes, leaving it alone might be possible,, but if there are family members who still care, he might still take a different approach than he has done because, he is still part of the family.

Perhaps people who want to help gamblers who are addicted to gambling should take various approaches that might be successful in making the gambling addict aware. Most gambling addicts who close themselves off from other people will not open up to other people easily, so this requires a different approach than what has been done. And of course, it will also take longer because those who help will try many different approaches.

This approach will help gambling addicts open themselves up to talk more so that people who want to help them can start to sit down and listen to the real problem. After that, they can discuss what the gambling addict can do to start healing. And of course, gambling addicts would prefer it if their gambling confidentiality could be maintained properly while healing.

Yes, gambling addiction has a solution, and that is why people who want to help must be able to help and support gambling addicts to cure their gambling addiction. And if necessary, they can go to a professional to ask for treatment and find a more suitable method for their gambling addict.

I agree with the fact that it depends on the people who wants to help the addicted gambler cure his addiction, firstly coming with a judgmental approach make the gambler less responsive to solutions, when you judge him and exact all blame on him for been the reason everything happened to him/her, the gambler becomes less Open and will conceal most information that's need to help for fear of been judged and blamed again.

Approaches matters a lot as this will determine to a good extent how responsive the gambler who needs help will be responding to solutions offered them. They have to be treated with care and a good level of confidentiality especially for one who has hidden their gambling habit for a very long while, if they don't sense confidentiality they will open up less, but if the security of their information is sure they will speak up more.

Gamble addiction is not a plague and has solutions so we should learn to treat people who suffers this addiction with love, care and hope to get better after. I think professional help dose the job better because they know how best to offer solutions that will be tailored to various levels of addiction and how well to fix it fast enough.

First, let me say that it takes someone who is sick to first and foremost, realize and accept that he or she is sick, before he or she can proceed to visiting the hospital for possible tests and medication based on what the doctor found out through the test, to be the ailment the patient is suffering from.

What am i saying in essence?, A gambling addict who have refused to accept that he or she is addicted, helping such person can most of the time be just you wasting your time, because addiction have everything to do with the mind, and if the gamblers mind have not come in agreement with you that he or she is addicted and truly needs help, trust me when i tell you that, trying to force help on such individual is a waste of time.

Better to leave such a person to go on with whatever he or she is doing, hoping that one day, the person will indeed realize that he or she needs help, this is when your help can indeed yield good result in the gamblers life.

Creating open communication will require awareness from the gambling addict to want to open himself up and accept the presence of other people who will help him cure his gambling addiction. But if a gambling addict denies and doesn't want to admit that he has a gambling addiction, it certainly won't work and he will still have difficulty curing his gambling addiction. His denial may prevent other people from knowing what a gambling addict should do and how to help him.

But it will depend on the people who want to help him because if they still care about the gambling addict, they will try various ways to divert his attention to gambling. Maybe they won't do it openly because it can keep gambling addicts away. But they will use other approaches to make the gambling addict aware that he has other things he can do.

That open communication can speed up the process, even how tough it is but if both sides are willing to work hand in hand that addiction can be eliminated in a much quicker time frame, I see that there are addicted gamblers who are always denying that problem making it hard for someone to give the help that they needed.

If they can just let it go and try to do other things that may divert their attentions, other activities can lead them away from any gambling related practices.

How I wish they will listen, people who gamble are blind by greediness and they're hoping and anticipating that one huge win will come and it will cover for all the losses they have encountered.

Even all these betting platforms normally said bet small to win big but these days reverse is the case. See the kind of amount people are using to bet which at the end will still cut by one game. The best thing is to stop it and stop for good, there are better things to do than gambling but people are eager to have money not knowing that there are steps to follow which requires alot of patience.

Desist from it because gambling actually ruin and a bad career to follow.

Once the addiction enters the head of a person, it's difficult to control it, which is why you see people surprised about what some gamblers are doing, it would be so out of senses. Well, I don't blame them anymore when they get into it since they are already mini-mad, it's people around them who could stretch out their hands for help. I only blame them as to why they let their guard down to the point of gambling irresponsibly and doing what is practically unwise. The family instance is still small compared to what some people are doing, liquidating property is little, and some will go to the length of collecting huge loans just because they want to bet. This is why all gamblers should be vigilant from the beginning and be extremely careful if they are of weak mind.

Every process you go through will be tiring and provide a lot of experience. But it is worth doing if everything works together to cure his gambling addiction. When the gambling addict can recover from his gambling addiction, it will be a touching moment because it turns out that what they did was successful, and it was not in vain that they struggled together.

Yes, it requires openness from the gambling addict to tell his problems to the people closest to him. That way, they can work together to find a solution and get started so that the gambling addict can see that there are many things he can do besides just gambling. And when more things can be done, and he is serious about doing them, he can solve the problem well.

Extraordinary indeed, most of the time it's a long process as there are stages of addiction and if both the one who provide help and the addicted itself succeed both side will really rejoice and celebrate that kind of win against this problem that they manage to resolved.

That is why if a person who is addicted to gambling can tell his problem to the people closest to him, including his family, he can get first aid, who will find a solution to overcome the problem. And this will speed up the identification of the root of the problem so they can start helping him. But if not, he will have difficulty solving the problem because he doesn't want to talk about the problem.