What's funny is that gambling isn't even contagious. A contagious disease is something that can be transmitted to another human by contact. I've never heard of a story where someone accidentally touched a gambler or drank in the same glass as the gambler and suddenly he became addicted to gambling. Initially, we all had a choice in addiction. You can live in a family where everyone does marijuana but you can be that someone who thought it was wrong and so never tried it.
After watching documentaries about addicts, drugs, gamblers, alcohol, and food addicts, it opened my eye. Those people are simply hurt. They are using their addiction as a way to momentarily escape life. But it's gotten to the point that what they had to cope to was so huge that they had to rely on these vices in order to carry on with life. Girls flirt with men and then leave them just so they can feel better about themselves. Men crash their wive's skulls just because they had a bad day at work. Now, why are we ashamed of the addicts, those who chose to harm no one but themselves?
In order to help someone, you have to understand them. That's why I never really judge people. There's always an explanation as to why they are like that. An addict is more than addict. They are humans who are hurting inside, just like us. They just have a different way of coping with it. Something not socially acceptable unfortunately, that is.
Very nicely put! I just want to add that to understand someone you should have the same experience. That's why the best therapists for drug addicts are former drug addicts. And the best therapists for people who have a post-war syndrome or any post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are those who had been in similar situations in the past. As far as we are gamblers, and as far as some of us were addicted at some point, we can help the current addicts to overcome the addiction. I was addicted more than 2 years ago and it lasted not more than 3 weeks, but still I remember the condition and I remember how to withdraw yourself from it.
Just imagine if doctors were ashamed of sick people instead of helping them. That's not how it should be.
It's good to think that those who have PTSD and those who were once an addict are those that are helping those needs help. It's nice to think that the people in the medical field are the ones who once needed the help, was helped by someone, and now they are devoting their lives to helping other people.
Those who have been in a similar situation in the past as the patient, they are the ones who can truly empathize. It's also more believable to them. To the patient, it's like finding a person who's in the same specie as him. And he can think to himself, "if he was able to survive that, and so can I."
Sadly there are those who work in the medical field that are there for the money. Some are there because they are a family of doctors and he was basically forced to follow his parents' steps.
some people can do like what you did and the other feels shy in gambling places and for the first time, they only watching the games without join in one table. but I agree that we can use self-confidence to prevent shyness in gambling so we can try to play the game like other people. this is what happens if we are playing gambling in the casino because we are meet many people which we don't know.
But why does shyness have to be addressed by meeting people in a gambling casino? There are tons of ways to overcome it and if you overcome shyness in a casino, then perhaps you're putting yourself in a box. You might end up being not shy in a casino but very shy in a different social situation. This might raise a question to yourself, "Have I really overcome shyness or have I just become confident inside the casino as I'm now familiar with the people?"
There are things you can do like challenging yourself to talk to 3 strangers a day or maybe get yourself one friend at a time.
