Topic: Support, do not criticize. - page 9. (Read 1167 times)

If I had a close friend that addicted to gambling I gonna criticize them first and bully him for a second and then obviously I'm gonna support him so this word Support, do not criticize only works for other people, not to my close friend hahahaha.

But seriously tho if you just know a person who addicted to gamble you guys should support it, I hear there is hotline call to supporting people who want to stop

This is so on point, you can always provide help or support to a gambler who's struggling to break free from their addiction, but if they can't start the change on their own then it might not matter when they don't plan to put in the effort from the start.

There's always someone who will criticize you for what you do and we can't avoid those situations from happening. Instead of taking it to heart, you could view it differently as a form of encouragement or support to start fixing your gambling addiction.

It means a lot to have someone you know you can count on. Oftentimes people addicted to gambling have various psychological traumas that are hard to diagnose and quantify especially in countries without a supportive public healthcare system. And oftentimes outreach programs specifically to gambling are also nearly nonexistent.

People in general need good support systems. So don't be judgmental when someone asks for help. Sure try and come up with solutions but most importantly be there to help. This is what matters and this is what will get people through some of their darker times. Think of it this way, if your brother was mourning, would you be there for them or mock them? Oftentimes people see addicts as an easy victim to kick down while they're at their worse, but support to those people can go a long way. But it's really important to do what you can if you care about someone!

Addiction is not something good, and when we see addicted gamblers, it is good that we try to help them out of addiction through any means that we can. However, it also depends on the gambler, if he is willing to give up is addiction or not. If he is willing to give it up, then that will not be a problem to him because he has determined it. Such gamblers can be supported on how he can stay away from gambling, so that he can be free from addiction. On one hand, if the gambler is not ready to give up his addiction, it will become a big problem for whoever, wants to help him from his addiction state. This means that for an addicted gambler to be free from addiction, he must also help himself, by accepting to give up gambling during that given period of time.

I don't have this feeling that someone can easily becomes gambling addicts without them controlling because gambling addicts come from individual if you say that you can't become a gambling addict then there is no day you would find yourself becoming a gambling addicts, but if they were so carried away by the juicy part of the gambling then it becomes so easily to get addicted without having double taught and, what are the juicy part?

The juicy parts I mean is that always focusing of the profits and how much could make out from gambling and the kind of bonuses being offered to them while gambling, most people are being carried away by either weekly bonus daily bonus or monthly bonus provided that they keeps funding their accounts and playing bets they feels entitled that they would get such bonus at every month so, they ought to wanting and eager to always bet.

Yes I know is not easy but all less a gambler has decided to quit gambling they can never be stored from gambling addictions because when they are still visiting the casino house to gamble it would still increase the urge of gambling. So, the best is to restricts them from visiting the gambling site or the casino house, what they needs is total elimination from interacting with anything that relates with gambling.

You are lucky that you come to this awareness before you put yourself into a terrible situation. Meanwhile, a lot of gamblers are still in the dark place as they chase their losses. It really needs self intervention on this phase of your life. Because no one will actually help you in sincere way but your own self.

Like you all know, I was an addict before. One thing made me stop was when I started to think that gambling is not a way of making money. Instead of me making money, I was losing. I borrowed money to gamble several times. I hardly have money in my bank account at the time. I have not known about cryptocurrencies around the time. When I know that I can not make money from gambling, I stopped after it took much from me. I stopped gambling for a year. If an addict can also realize that, he will stop the addiction by not gambling for a long time just like I did. But an addicted person will always still talk that they see a means of making money from gambling.

I must say, this discussion is something I did not expect to see here in the gambling sections, not written in this way, at least. I have already seen people asking how we are supposed to help those who suffer from addiction: the loving and comprehensible way or the harder rough way. However, the way you open this thread makes me assume you have dealt with someone who is addicted, like in a personal way. Anyways... I understand people who are addicted to gambling and recognize they have a problem are supposed to be given a chance, but one cannot ignore the patience of those trying to help is limited. Who has not heard about someone wanting to change and become better but eventually putting away those who wanted to help because relapses?. Sadly, the image of the problem gamblers is one full of stereotypes and stigma which have been deeply implanted in popular culture and even people who wish to help someone going though that situation have some prejudgments in their mind, contrary to someone who studied psychology to professionally treat those behavioral problems.

I would say, if one has the patience to help then do it, otherwise, direct the person in need to places or people who are more suitable to offer support and help. It would be ideal if mental healthcare was more accesible and widespread around the world.

The truth is that, overcoming gambling addiction is an individual decision and those around can only support the individual to become better.

 they leave without gambling for a while since it already having bad effects on them,  and also as a family instead of compounding the issues by criticizing the addict,  you can rather allow them to make up their mind to leave gambling and some times when you have seen that the gambler want to make a positive change,  all that you need to do is to give them all the mental support that they need instead of becoming harsh on them.

Overcoming gambling addictions is some kind of a hard job,  and since it is easy to become addicted but extremely hard to overcome the addictions at some point, they need all the help they can get to be able to beat the addictions eventually.

If you know anybody trying to stop the addiction of gambling to become better for themselves and their family, try and show them support by not criticizing them. If you observe that they experience some kind of relapse and go back to gamble even when they said they were not going to gamble, try to encourage them to remember why they wanted to stop gambling for the time. It is not an easy decision for some of them to make, and even imagining that they will never gamble again can make it worse for them, most of them need all the support they can get to help them maintain the decision to give gambling some time away. If you criticize and mock them, they may nurse in the heart the mindset that gambling is impossible to stop, or even stop trying to stop gambling because you have already made them feel like they can never do it.