Topic: Gamble Responsibly - page 39. (Read 11382 times)

If a gambler enjoys his gambling game, then there is a possibility that he will become addicted to the game if he failed to have a self-restraint.  We all know that dopamine is one of the reasons why many gamblers who see gambling as entertainment get hooked and addicted to the game.  Since dopamine is secreted when a person experiences pleasure.  While on that connotation, we also know that there is this thing called the law of diminishing return, so the gambler will certainly go for the next level in order to sustain that pleasure feeling.


I believe being addicted to gambling is not about winning money, I agree gamblers keep on playing because they are chasing something but gambling addiction is not only trigger by that factor. 

It's an indication that a person is already addicted if he's always in that urge to play back and try what strategy he thinks that will give him a win and recover those money that he already lost from his previous attempts. It's not a kind of entertainment, but a lust that addicted gamblers feel inside them, and even they are not playing. Their minds are thinking about something that may work to beat the house.

Though there are experienced gamblers who can control their emotions and continue to play with limitations, but for sure, not many have that kind of good control, more on the side where there are many gamblers turned addicted.

A gambler who really enjoys the game he will not become an addict or even addicted, he only gambles for fun, because gamblers who are uncontrolled and irresponsible will always play gambling without rules and don't even have time to enjoy the game. What's on his mind is how to do it. win and beat the casino on the day.

Every addict is usually always anxious when he is not gambling because he will usually feel the urge to gamble and beat the casino to return the money he has lost, which is why addicts don't really enjoy the game. just try to see your friends who gamble, if he is just having fun, he will enjoy every game. but even so, keep reminding anyone to be able to control themselves when gambling so they don't get too deep and become addicted

I have seen many experienced gamblers who are always engrossed in gambling. As with gambling, people naturally enjoy it the most and must be counseled before they become addicted to it. Because a person addicted to gambling always brings something bad because the gambler always wants to get something extra from being engrossed in gambling. So such greed and lust is inside everyone but people have to keep control and be engrossed in gambling then it is possible to win in almost all gambling. And a fully addicted person must be weaned out of gambling or else will continue to face losses all the time.

It is normal for someone to refuse to admit their mistakes because few are willing to admit them. Most people will look for someone else to blame so they don't have to admit their mistakes. But in any case, that person should admit it so that other people can help him if he has a problem and deal with it right away. There's no point in blaming other people while he's still like that. Their reputation had already been completely destroyed. If they refused to admit their mistake, their reputation would be damaged even more and they would have nothing to be proud of. But it all comes back to each person because people want to admit their mistakes and ask for help from the people around them.

That's true because some gamblers don't want other people to know that they have a gambling addiction problem, but unfortunately until now there doesn't seem to be any gambling addiction rehabilitation services and I've never seen one anywhere.
Maybe if there is a rehabilitation service for gambling addicts it can be very useful and can provide assistance to many gamblers so they can recover from addiction.
The government has full responsibility for every service and services for gambling addiction really must be owned by every country.

This is the reason why a gambling addict needs to tell his predicament to his family specifically his parents, wife, or siblings because these people will never make fun of their family and will sincerely look for solutions in order to help the person to get rid of his gambling addiction.  We can also seek help from a trusted friend and not just any other friend since people befriend us due to the benefits that they can get from us and is willingly trash us when the time comes that they don't see any benefits in interaction with us anymore.


I highly agree but it would be awkward to tell our problem to a stranger unless that stranger offers gambling rehabilitation services.  Through this kind of event, strangers helping strangers through counseling and suggestion, often happen on online platforms.

It is vebry important for us to check ourselves and make decisions that will help us to be a better person. Sometimes we can mistakenly take a decision that will have huge effects on us without knowing what to do and if we see someone that is ready to help us stay clean, I to is always good for take a bold step to amend our ways rather than creating problems for ourselves.
Those that understand and have the experience of bad decisions in gambling will never ague when help come to them. We need people around us that can stand for us and help us reshape our bad lifestyle or severe gambling habits.

I think being unable to speak out for possible help from gambling of other forms of addictions is more of a hold of the addictions on the victim rather than being shameful about speaking of the uncontrolled addictions tendency,  because if it is about being a shame for the act the won't continue to go out of the way to gamble more,  such as they involvement in disgraceful act such as stealing family member money to gamble with or borrowing money and using it to gamble away.

So if about being ashame,  their won't endurge in such an act,  so it the addiction control over them that control the attitude and character at that point,  and if they have any outer of shame they won't indulge in all those unacceptable things as mentioned above just to gamble,  so to save this kind of people,  those around them must be sensitive enough to notice that character in them and try to rehabilitate them even if the addict can speak out due to the degree of addictions controlling his feeling and acts.

Most people have a very high image of themselves, and when their own actions betray that image they do not want to admit their mistakes as they think this will also affect the image others have of them, this explains why those people despite being in a desperate need of help and knowing it, still choose to not ask for that help, as they do not want to stain the image they have spent years or even decades to create among their loved ones.

Well I understand and indeed it is better and can be one of the best solutions in this problem, because as you said and I have said if we tell someone who has the same problem it can be more devastating in the end, meaning not discussing to find solutions but instead deepening in gambling, this is very possible. Sometimes it takes courage to be able to open up to the family about this problem, and most of them find it difficult to open up to their families because they know this addiction is a very bad addiction in the eyes of the public, so they have their own worries if they have to open up to their families, but if the family can discuss well and focus on finding solutions I think this is better and they will also have a chance to find a bright spot. So the point is that being more open to your own family will be better about this problem, although sometimes there must be shame felt but believe me in the future your condition will be better, because their parents will know better what is best for their children.

As much as i agree with you that it is very important for us to discuss our pressing issues with people for a possible solution, it is also important that to know or note that not every one is qualified to know about our problems, there are people you tell your problem, and instead of consoling you and helping you look  or seek for solution, they will use that problem as a way to get at you or means to mock you at any slightest provocation or misunderstanding, such type of people does not deserve to know anything about our problem because instead them being the source of solution, they will rather be source of more problem for us.

So someone who is addicted to gambling and is serious about finding a solution should be careful who he or she opens up to, whether they be relatives or friends does not matter, because sometimes, even strangers are better in character/behavior than our own family.

Big difference in terms of gambling addiction, some gamblers can discreetly hide everything and can act as normal as there are nothing wrong with them, even they are already suffering they can hide it unless you are close to the person and you can see their finances or you hear things about them regarding to any related financial concerns.

But, if you don't have that capabilities, the only way that you can notice it is when they go directly and ask for some help.

Without them asking, your hands are tight and you don't have any clue on how to help and how you can change the way they look
at gambling, they will continue to push and lose more for sure.

You have to be selective in trusting someone to explain personal problems to the right people, not looking for solutions to people who have the same addiction because they also have the same problem and cannot escape gambling addiction. We must openly explain our problems to family, relatives or advisers and even religious leaders, anyone who is entrusted with keeping personal secrets, I think we don't need to be ashamed if it is related to gambling addiction cases because it is not an act that harms other people and they will definitely help you to therapy to prevent gambling addiction. However, for complete recovery to avoid gambling addiction, your first step must be consistent to improve your life for the better and be free from gambling addiction.

That is true, people who are addicted to the game do not share it because they feel sorry for it, or maybe they are ashamed and they do not want to feel the rejection of their family, friends and any person, the bad thing about this is that it becomes like in disease that is killing the person little by little, that person always has in his mind how bad he is going through, he knows that he will do anything to go play in the casino, it is something that must be very careful, a normal person who If you find out that this person has an addiction, you should help him immediately so that this does not happen to the elderly and the person does not tempt against his own life.

Usually people who have addictions will be more open to people who have addictions too. It's like an environment, because maybe they are too embarrassed to tell people who don't gamble at all. However, they feel that if people who have the same addiction they also have the same problem. In fact, it will not solve the problem at all or even they will be even crazier because they have friends who if they are destroyed they will be destroyed together.
Usually if their friend has the same problem such people don't want to let their friend get better and avoid addiction. And they try to stay in the same hole.
The real problem comes from ourselves, not from others. It's up to us to realize that and make it a boundary so that we don't continue to be in situations that make us difficult.
If we're already at that point, maybe our addiction only lasted 3 or 5 months, but we have a very long way to go.
I have witnessed someone who was successful in his business can fall in a very short time, even leaving debt, He started a business from 0 and I was the one who witnessed it, many people gave appreciation including me, because his hard work paid off sweetly. But in a matter of months, the business that he had been building for years went bankrupt.

Well, i can partially agree with you because what you said can be indeed attributed to some gamblers, the truth of the matter is that, as humans, we all have different personalities, behaviors and attitude to things around and in us, when addicted to gambling, some of us are indeed able to keep it to ourselves, and also have the ability to not let the addiction drive us into doing other things that can be harmful to our body system, like taking drugs and drinking alcohol.

But for some other people, being addicted to gambling go hand in hand with doing drugs and alcohol, they tell you that after loosing so much to gambling, the only way to calm their self down and not think too much about the loss is by getting high on drugs and alcohol, we have so many of such people in our different societies.

On this point I agree with you, it is very true. Gambling addiction is very different from other addictions such as drugs, which is clear by just looking at the person we might already know he is a drug user, but for gambling it is not like that. Gambling operates below the human consciousness, and the effects of addiction are also barely noticeable. It involves the feelings and psychology of each person, only they know about their addiction, and maybe their close friends also know but not for others. I am an active gambler but not too much, and I have a friend who is very ambitious and gambling, he is so addicted that he seems to consider gambling as part of his life. I'm sorry to see him when his finances really fall apart because of gambling, I will always try not to get too far into gambling. So the point is that only the person themselves will feel the impact of their addiction and other people will not be able to see something that they are suffering from because it is not the physical impact that they feel but the mental and psychological.

That is for sure. Specialist doctors and even their families will not be able to help gambling addicts to cure their addiction if there is no awareness of the gambling addict. They will have difficulty finding where to start because gambling addicts don't tell the truth about their problems, so specialists can't find a suitable method to help them recover.

If they are not invited to develop new activities, they will return to gambling sooner or later. And even though they have entered a rehabilitation centre, it may take longer to find the source of the problem, and the process of recovery from the addiction will not happen without a desire to recover from the gambling addict.

Indeed, very little is due to the lack of openness from the gambling addicts, so their families cannot do anything even though they feel that something has changed about the gambling addicts. Those who become gambling addicts will keep their gambling activities a secret from other people so that the people around them will not be able to find out but believe me, as someone close to a gambling addict, they will know something is wrong with that person.

That's for sure.  Indeed, unlike a drug addict, where the symptoms of addiction are usually clearly visible to everyone, and especially close people at certain points in the line of behavior of such a person, a gamer practically does not differ from all normal and ordinary people in his behavior and it is possible to find out about this person’s gambling addiction only by  disappearance of money from his account or from the family budget.  This definitely makes it difficult to detect the disease at an early stage.  Usually, at first, relatives are simply surprised and grumble that this player spends too much time at the computer or on the mobile phone, playing some kind of games.  Often they do not even realize that the game is for money and not just what is called "out of interest".  Such a player usually does not want one of his relatives to watch how they play and oppose this.  But someone close to you should still show interest and see how he plays.  And keep up with the player, because of course he will be dissatisfied and will drive away such an observer. 

This is elementary advice for those who have only recently noticed that their loved one is already very addicted to gambling.  Perhaps you will help to avoid serious consequences in gambling addiction.