I personally know a few guys with gambling addition (within friend circle as well as within family), and I know how hard it can be to get rid of it. That said, I am not sure whether this is the right time for doing it. Most of the countries are under lockdowns and people are sitting at home without any work. And when the gamblers are idle, then there is a larger chance for them to relapse to old gambling habits.
I agree now is the worst time to come out of addiction and all non essentials activity are closed.A lot of people have lost their work from business closures massively because of this pandemic and we don’t know for how long this will continue.All these things just emphasizes more the desire to gamble in gambling addicts.
But How will people Gamble if you are saying that they Lost Jobs?where they will Get funds to sustain their gambling activities when they need to provide foods for their family and self?
they will find another place where to kill boredom but for sure that is not gambling unless they are ready to get starve with family.
Not all gamblers are poor, and not all gambling addicts are loser, there's gambling addicts that are addicted to winning or just simply addicted to gambling. Personally, I am not addicted to gambling but with this scenario there is nothing to do, so I am just playing for fun and to kill time cause we are now on lockdown. agree with you that the poor gamblers who destroy their lives will not gamble today, but I am sure after they recover they gamble again.
I am also one of those who really like sports betting, but because the corona virus makes all sports events postponed until the crisis ends.
Therefore I cannot gambling now, with this condition it is indeed an opportunity for gambling addicts to learn to get out of addiction.Although
it does not guarantee success, because there are still opportunities to play gambling online. The proof is that I'm used to sports betting, now
finally switch to playing gambling online. It's not easy to get out of gambling addiction, must be accompanied by a strong desire from yourself
to get out of addictions.
To get out of gambling addiction you must take it step by step. You must lower the gambling time as time passes by and you should find another way to kill time and make yourself busy so you will not be hungry for gambling. With this scenario, your gambling activity sudden stop, so I think that will just worsen your addiction. I suggest if you really wanna get rid of your gambling addiction you must take it slowly and do't force yourself to stop in a sudden moment.
Basically, the gambling addicts number will be lower in this situation but, we all know that if you are gambling addict you will still find way to continue your addiction. It's depends on the people if they really wanna stop. I think gambling addicts will be lower somehow and lot of them will go to online casino just like what we are doing haha. LOL