Take for example being told you can only eat one taste of your favorite dessert. That's the whole problem with addiction, right? Some individuals may think, "Hey, just one more turn on the roulette wheel or roll of the dice." But occasionally, one becomes a hundred. It's interesting how a straightforward action may turn into a routine, then a habit, and finally an addiction. Similar to how water falling on a stone initially seems harmless before gradually wearing it away
Your concept of a target makes me think of enclosing a playground with a fence. You can play inside the fence, sure, but don't go outside of it. Sounds sensible, but what if the fence is constructed of marshmallows? Self-awareness and understanding when to fold are better than targets. Who wants to be a lifelong member of the "I Should've Stopped" club, after all?
For sure it is better never not to have a taste of an addictions tendency, than to try to fight it, because a lot of pleasure comes with addictions and that is what got many hucked won't in most cases.
These are very correct words. And that's why I always advise you to look for hobbies, so that at least those people who come to gambling out of boredom can occupy themselves with something else, not gambling. Each of us is individual and good at something of his own, and we need to do this, earning money and growing as a professional. Then we will get all those emotions caused in the brain by chemical reactions (serotonin dopamine, etc.). Gambling is a curve and a simple path to getting these emotions and chemical reactions. But what is the price? Interest in games is able to outbid all other interests, taking away all free time, money and even personality.
It is good to get anything that will get us out of addiction, it is a very serious problem, only those who are experiencing it and have lived it are the ones who can say how difficult that is, to do a good solution is to eliminate it little by little Being able to have another form of entertainment , a sport, going to a theater, going to the movies, sharing with friends, the important thing is that the player does not feel the need to go into a casino to play to feel completely good, because he will see it as a dependence, it is just like drugs, you need that to be able to be well, it is difficult when it comes to this, I would recommend going quickly to a professional to help you with recommendations or medication.
I reviewed a lot of interviews with former gambling addicts this fall, and I want to say that all of them were helped by their families. Someone's wife, someone's father, and someone's mom. They noticed in time that money was starting to disappear from the house. If a dependent lives in a rented apartment, he usually sells all the furniture and appliances from it, if his condition is very bad, and he has lost the last self-control.
But just now I was thinking - what if a dependent player doesn't have good friends or family?
But such people are the majority.
Such a person is practically doomed to do such things that there will be no way back to normal life.
Of course, the closest relatives, family members and close friends are the most reliable helpers, one might say in a sense even doctors, to help a person who becomes addicted to gambling get rid of such addiction. In addition, close relatives can quickly notice and understand that the money that began to disappear uncontrollably from the family budget is spent by such a player on gambling in a casino. This is a powerful signal for relatives to begin taking appropriate measures to counteract such a person’s addiction to gambling. And I agree, most gambling addicts recover precisely because of the adequate and timely efforts of their family members.
As for single people, this problem is indeed more complicated for the reason that such a person, turning into a gambling addict, begins to actually borrow money from strangers, but does not give it back. But this quickly ends because no one will lend him anything, knowing that he will not give the money back. He starts stealing and turns into a criminal. And leads a social lifestyle. Unfortunately, for such people, only some kind of forced isolation is possible. Either he can go to prison, or, at best, to a hospital for gambling addicts. And this, by the way, becomes the cost of local budgets for the maintenance of such institutions. Sometimes there really are sponsors, but I think there are very few of them.
And this ultimately becomes a problem for the state. I think that, in particular, this is why many legislators prohibit the operation of casinos in their countries. It turns out that such bans save budget funds, even if we take into account that higher taxes can be levied on casinos. Probably the balance of money here is not in favor of the state.