Hi everyone, i trust ya all having a great day...
Like the subject of this topic say, its a question i am putting out to you all, as a member of the gambling community, what do you think can be done to reduce the gambling related issues like --
- Substance Misuse problems
- Depression
- Personality Disorder
- Fear and Anxiety
- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Attention Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The above issues can some or most times results to the complications below, and they are --- Financial Problems
- Relationship[/Family Problems
- General Health issues
- Low Self Esteem
- Legal/Social Problems
- Poor Performance at work or Job Loss
And worst of it all --
- Suicidal Thoughts/Attempts
And finally --
From one
article i was reading this morning, the UK government officially stated that there are more than 409 suicides a year in England which results from gambling problems.
Here is a quote from an
article i read this morning --
On a summer’s day in 2015, Joshua Jones put on his suit and headed to his gleaming office block overlooking the Thames in London.
It was the trainee accountant’s day off, but he was in turmoil after gambling away most of his monthly pay and an annual bonus. He told a friend he needed to “pop into the office”. He took the lift to the top floor of the block in the early evening and jumped to his death. He was 23.
Martin Jones, 72, Joshua’s father, said: “To people who worked with him, he was the life and soul of the party, but he was living a double life as a gambler. He felt despair that he could not control the addiction.”
From the same article, i learnt that --
Liz and Charles Ritchie
(whoever they were before now), founded the
gambling with lives charity organization after their Son,
Jack, took his life in 2017 due to gambling addiction.
Majority in the UK, last year(2021) called on the government of UK to place a
total ban on gambling ads.
Now I do not know if this ban on gambling ads was or has been unforced in the UK, but my question now is, \if the UK goes ahead to enforce the ban on gambling ads in the country, you think this will reduce the number of suicides, and other gambling related problems in the country?
\Do you think banning gambling ads is a good measure for the entire government of the world should enforce? will this really stop people from gambling?
\In your own opinion, what measures do you think is appropriate to take that will help reduce the issues, gambling related problems cause in our society?
Lets discuss.
I think you correctly pointed out that there is a relation between gambling and related issues. Everything human beings do excessively mostly is meant to compensate for something that is missing or causing pain in the broader sense. There is a lot of material and scientific research out there showing that in only very rare cases do people drift up to excessive action in something harmful if their life is in order. You could differentiate between traumatic causes leading immediately to a cascade of bad behaviors and outcomes, i.e. a death of a beloved one, you drink alcohol and crash with your car the same day. There is also deeply rooted reasons which could lead to consequences your whole life, depending on how prone you are to post-traumatic effects.
An answer could be to as good as possible strengthen somebody's psyche in the form of medical treatment and mental strength training in order to increase resistance and the ability to deal with past and potentially present traumas. There is a low number of people who simply get stuck in gambling while there is no other reason than the gambling itself.
It is also a bit similar to alcohol abuse in the sense that alcohol is available everywhere and hence it is hard to get away from it. When it comes to any form of self-destructive behavior, a strong network of socially well-established people reduces access and availability in space and time to actually revert to self-destructive behavior. That is why significant social isolation is serious poison to almost everyone. There are great studies about it. Some are in the more general sense why some of them deal with correlated reasons, like people who are lonely more tend to certain self-destructive behaviors.