Topic: Is Gambling addiction a disease? - page 12. (Read 29953 times)

I'm thinking the same if you really have to overcome the need of moving on and reducing your addiction. But I'm also considering what Betwrong said about unexpected things that we don't want to happen. That's it, you have to do something so you won't suffer with the consequences that being an addicted in gambling is. Also you need to consider personal life matters so it depends on how you would adjust yourself and take concern of others.

This is bullshit. So you are saying that the environment affect your addiction into gambling?? 

First of all, you and you are the one who decides and that includes if you want to gamble or not. If you are gambling everyday, that is your decision and getting addicted into gambling is high. Other gamblers are not a factor on gambling addiction. You can get addicted if you are playing every day for a long time.

You would find many people in the world who would have lost money in gambling rather than making money and despite knowing this facts still people fall in this trap of playing to make money from this gambling instead of enjoying the fun and entertain them self .

I disagree. I think that leaving such an environment wouldn't be the best you could do. In most cases this environment consists of your friends and/or you relatives. If they are in trouble you shouldn't leave them thinking that you can get in trouble too if you stay with them, but rather you should try to help them to get out of trouble. Such actions like explaining the dangers of gambling addiction to your close ones can be beneficial for you too because you can learn some interesting facts while looking for good arguments and become more competent regarding gambling issues. There are cases when professional help is needed, but they are rare. In most cases a good talk from a close friend can help.

True, when we live in an environment surrounded by gamblers, of course the chance to become an addict will be higher. And that will not only affect us alone. The people closest to us are certainly very vulnerable to follow them. Leaving such an environment is the best way even though the costs can be very expensive.

I'm guessing you are pointing the surroundings? And mostly those people that are influencing you to gamble, right? I'm thinking faraway from your explanation about the environment because it's the nature that you are living with. You can't just eliminate the surroundings and the people you are living with. The best is to go away from them and don't go near them if you really want to eliminate addiction in your life.
It's the best for someone who wants to move on and change his lifestyle.

I agree with your point of view, gambling addiction and investing too much money on it will lead to huge monetary losses. My friends are the ones who lost their homes with gambling. So I think people should not be addicted to gambling because the benefits are almost nonexistent.

One thing you need to be clear that gambling is not a disease only the addiction can be considered as disease since our mind lose the mental control over something and keep asking that thing again and again even it knows that it is not right thing to do and as @jacee it is not like a viral disease which is going to spread also to you when you are hangout with them.If you don't want to be addicted make yourself away.

This is illogical mate. Just because you're surrounded by gamblers, that doesn't mean that you will be addicted to gambling as well. Those gamblers are not the one responsible whether you decide to gamble or not. It's purely based on your decision if you want to do the same thing as what the other people in your surrounding is doing. It's not a viral disease which you can get just by looking and smelling the same air that those gamblers smells.

yes, including environmental diseases. because the environment there is a lot of gamblers, so many other people will also be affected and eventually get addicted too. if you want to really eliminate the addiction, then the environment must also be eliminated from gambling addiction.

In one sense we can consider it as a disease, but I think that it is totally depend on you. If you can play gambling in a limit and do not try to exceed your limit then no doubt that gambling is not a disease but can be consider as entertainment.

It is not a disease but it is like a disease. A patient will also die if his disease get out of control and a gambler will also ruin his life when he becomes gambling addicted and lose all his money and other property if he has. In my view there is not a big difference between gambling addiction and disease. In one doctor will take all your money and in the other casinos and online sites will take all your money.

Yeah you are right that disease can be covered by taking medicines and gambling cannot be quit with anything, just strong decision and determination will make you able to quit gambling addiction forever. A person can think about the verdicts of gambling before going into this world. One difference between these two is this that other people will take care of you if you have some disease, and if you have addiction, some people will hate you.

It is more that youngsters who follow what their friends does and want to replicate the same thing. They see that some one has won big money in gambling and think even they can win and in that anticipation keep on losing money till the time they win some money. It more of the replicating what others are doing forgetting that they are not that person.

Well since you said it that way, it also can be considered as a disease for those that are deep in addiction already that it requires professional help. We have to accept that as a fact. Heavy addiction needs all the professional help it can get along with the help of family and friends.

Yeah it is like drug addiction but I want to say that addiction no matter drugs or gambling is not like disease. Disease is limited to your body but gambling is evil for the whole of society. Most of the gamblers in the world are also gangsters and criminals and it is a fact, I am not joking. Therefore I can say that gambling is the founder of crimes and criminals as well.

Actually gambling addiction is a mental issue, so psychological advice may help people who are suffering from gambling addiction as you said.

It is actually a disease if we really want to look at it in the literal sense and in this case, I would say it is a disease of the brain and mind. Disease can be referred to as someone who is actually in a disorder, have specific symptoms that affects a specific location which in this case is the mind of the addict as well as the brain. As long as something is adversely affecting someone and the person is finding it hard to get rid of it, my brother, which is a disease and a very crazy one that can lead to someone's destruction actually if care is not taken. It all has to do with how ready you are actually, but to get rid of an addiction; you really need to be able to talk to your sense of reasoning.

Honestly, looking at the fact that something is hurting someone, they know it is hurting them and they still let it be anyway is a typical way of looking at a disease. Literally, disease according to the dictionary can actually be defined as a particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people and in that case and with that definition, that obviously makes gambling addiction or whatever form of addiction a disease. I guess with such a definition, I do not think we should even be debating whether it is a disease or not.

Just like any form of addiction, gambling can result to one's dependence and lack of control towards gambling even if this could result to more losses than winning. It's a mental condition. The mind has been conditioned to play more as this triggers a positive effect to the gambler. And just like any form of addiction, it has to be controlled before it could become uncontrollable and result negatively.

In my opinion gambling is an addiction and not disease, because you cannot quit gambling and when your disease accedes it will not leave you till death. One you cannot leave and the other does not leave you. This is the difference between addiction and disease. Therefore I can say that gambling is an addiction because you cannot leave it until it destroys you.

Well it's quite possible to take pleasure in things that are addictive, for example drug addicts tend to enjoy the drugs they are addicted to, and don't see it as a problem until it is too late.

Gambling addiction is similar. Everybody can agree that gambling is perfectly fine up until a point, but once you start damaging yours and everybody elses life, then it can be considered an addiction, particularly if you make efforts to stop, but you simply cannot due to the dependency.

A lot of gambling portals now take it upon themselves to block or bar those suspected of being addicts, similar to how a bar might cut you off after too many drinks. I think it's for the best as really external intervention is needed for some of these cases.