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You don't need to become an addict first in order to experience a behavioural change. Then, losing isn't alone that can cause for our behaviour to change, (but also winning does). Indeed that being addicted in gambling can affect other aspects of our lives. It's because when we are addicted in to something, we will now have less or no time to do other things.
Indeed, changes in behavior and attitudes do not wait for someone to become addicted to gambling first because even if new gambler experiences certain conditions such as losing large amounts of course he will experience changes in attitude.
But for an addict, the changes may not be so visible because they will tend to remain silent and try to recover the situation and use what they have to achieve this achievement.
It just that I found something different about gambler who has quiet attitude or behavior in his daily life, he gambles, experiences big losses and becomes quieter person, even for some time he just locks himself up in his room.
This is completely incomprehensible difference.
We can also lose our money that is supposed to be allocated for something which can be more important than in gambling. It is easy to spot an addicted gambler even that gambler didn't tell about his bad habit. We need to do something like give them an advice, because some are only shy or afraid to ask a help about their problem.
Of course in gambling whatever money you have can be used up without any remaining if there is no control or good management, especially for an addict who will give it up and then regret it later.
And just giving advice will not be useful or even just useless, the first thing is that they must first have awareness of their activities which have bad impact.
That way it will be easier to overcome addiction problems.