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Quote from: Lanatsa on July 08, 2021, 05:59:33 PM

People would never learn until they would be put up on an unfortunate situation.

This is true and there are still those people that despite they're in a very unfortunate situation, they still don't see the lesson that they have to extract.

Instead of looking at that part, they're drowning themselves in addiction and think that nobody loves them as if they love themselves.

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Quote from: Betwrong on July 13, 2021, 04:41:33 AM

Right, overall this situation with prescription drugs is somewhat similar to what's happening to gambling addicts: gambling is legal, and it benefits many people(I don't mean money-wise, I mean fun-wise, of course), but if you are abusing this activity, it can end up very badly.

Regarding predisposition, idk, I think all of us are predisposed to pursuit of happiness, in a way, and there's nothing wrong with that, it's just we shouldn't abuse the instinct.

While it is true that we all want to pursue that which is pleasurable to us it is known that the part of our brains that is in charge of controlling impulses is in the frontal lobe, near our foreheads, and those that have problems controlling their impulses have less activity there caused simply because that is the way they were born or because of an accident, and there is a correlation between lack of impulse control and addictions, so unfortunately there are some people that are predisposed to addictions due to neurological issues.

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Quote from: Silberman on July 08, 2021, 04:07:03 PM

Quote from: Betwrong on July 08, 2021, 04:25:27 AM

New researches suggest that gambling addiction activates the same brain pathways as drug and alcohol cravings. This means that gambling addicts, former or current ones, can be more inclined to drug abuse than regular people. That's why we should be very cautious and avoid self-medicating, because there is a chance of replacing one harmful addiction with another, even more harmful one.

Don't take advice from random people. Seek professional help.

Some people have a predisposition to become addicted, this is why it is important to know ourselves, if a person realizes that they have those kind of tendencies then they need to be very careful in the way they deal with activities or products that can make them addicted, for example it is not rare to find people that are completely addicted to prescription drugs but they think there is nothing wrong with it as those drugs are legal, however the issue comes from the abuse of those drugs and not with their legality, which means that if at some point during their lives someone that has a predisposition to become addicted is given one of those drugs by a doctor they need to be very careful or they risk getting addicted and ruin their lives in the process.

Right, overall this situation with prescription drugs is somewhat similar to what's happening to gambling addicts: gambling is legal, and it benefits many people(I don't mean money-wise, I mean fun-wise, of course), but if you are abusing this activity, it can end up very badly.

Regarding predisposition, idk, I think all of us are predisposed to pursuit of happiness, in a way, and there's nothing wrong with that, it's just we shouldn't abuse the instinct.

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Quote from: Lanatsa on July 08, 2021, 05:59:33 PM

Quote from: Silberman on July 08, 2021, 04:07:03 PM

Some people have a predisposition to become addicted, this is why it is important to know ourselves, if a person realizes that they have those kind of tendencies then they need to be very careful in the way they deal with activities or products that can make them addicted, for example it is not rare to find people that are completely addicted to prescription drugs but they think there is nothing wrong with it as those drugs are legal, however the issue comes from the abuse of those drugs and not with their legality, which means that if at some point during their lives someone that has a predisposition to become addicted is given one of those drugs by a doctor they need to be very careful or they risk getting addicted and ruin their lives in the process.

Finding yourself being too emotional or being impulsive on things that you are engaging on then you would really be able to realize that early.Your common sense and awareness would tell you

that for sure but some or lets say most people do ignore this warning and just tolerate on what they do have in mind and let that greed control over them and when they get addicted then this is where
regret do comes in.

People would never learn until they would be put up on an unfortunate situation.

In my experience impulsive people are the ones that have the most chances of eventually developing an addiction, those that are cautious are always going to be suspicious about losing control of themselves so they will for the most part never allow themselves to become addicted, but those that are impulsive by nature and have no problems doing something without even thinking about it and the long term consequences of their actions will do things like this only to find themselves addicted not knowing how it happened to them.

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Quote from: Silberman on July 08, 2021, 04:07:03 PM

Quote from: Betwrong on July 08, 2021, 04:25:27 AM

New researches suggest that gambling addiction activates the same brain pathways as drug and alcohol cravings. This means that gambling addicts, former or current ones, can be more inclined to drug abuse than regular people. That's why we should be very cautious and avoid self-medicating, because there is a chance of replacing one harmful addiction with another, even more harmful one.

Don't take advice from random people. Seek professional help.

Some people have a predisposition to become addicted, this is why it is important to know ourselves, if a person realizes that they have those kind of tendencies then they need to be very careful in the way they deal with activities or products that can make them addicted, for example it is not rare to find people that are completely addicted to prescription drugs but they think there is nothing wrong with it as those drugs are legal, however the issue comes from the abuse of those drugs and not with their legality, which means that if at some point during their lives someone that has a predisposition to become addicted is given one of those drugs by a doctor they need to be very careful or they risk getting addicted and ruin their lives in the process.

Finding yourself being too emotional or being impulsive on things that you are engaging on then you would really be able to realize that early.Your common sense and awareness would tell you

that for sure but some or lets say most people do ignore this warning and just tolerate on what they do have in mind and let that greed control over them and when they get addicted then this is where
regret do comes in.

People would never learn until they would be put up on an unfortunate situation.

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Quote from: Betwrong on July 08, 2021, 04:25:27 AM

New researches suggest that gambling addiction activates the same brain pathways as drug and alcohol cravings. This means that gambling addicts, former or current ones, can be more inclined to drug abuse than regular people. That's why we should be very cautious and avoid self-medicating, because there is a chance of replacing one harmful addiction with another, even more harmful one.

Don't take advice from random people. Seek professional help.

Some people have a predisposition to become addicted, this is why it is important to know ourselves, if a person realizes that they have those kind of tendencies then they need to be very careful in the way they deal with activities or products that can make them addicted, for example it is not rare to find people that are completely addicted to prescription drugs but they think there is nothing wrong with it as those drugs are legal, however the issue comes from the abuse of those drugs and not with their legality, which means that if at some point during their lives someone that has a predisposition to become addicted is given one of those drugs by a doctor they need to be very careful or they risk getting addicted and ruin their lives in the process.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on July 06, 2021, 10:38:10 AM

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I agree if looking for lesser evil, with drug addictions the chance of harming other people is very possible, while you are still in drugs your control is far lesser with things that you are doing, while with gambling addiction you are just more focus with how will you win with every bets that you are doing.

Financially, both harmed your savings, drugs and gambling both money are being wasted.

New researches suggest that gambling addiction activates the same brain pathways as drug and alcohol cravings. This means that gambling addicts, former or current ones, can be more inclined to drug abuse than regular people. That's why we should be very cautious and avoid self-medicating, because there is a chance of replacing one harmful addiction with another, even more harmful one.

Don't take advice from random people. Seek professional help.

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Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

Both addictions will ruin our lives in the end. Drug addiction can make us have mental health and sick if it is not cured, while gambling-addicted will also have mental health and both works in a subconscious mind because we always think that we need drugs and want to play gambling. Admitting the addiction will help us figure out how to solve the problem and the family will be the best thing for us to come back to them so they can rescue us before it is too late. The family's love will help us survive and find a way to solve the problem and find the right method to help us.

As long as there are people who care about it then of course those who have addictions will be helped to get out of their addictions themselves, I personally also consider these two addictions to be equally dangerous and very likely to end up in prison and even death. It is difficult to prevent them before sinking deeper into addiction, because it is the path they chose but unfortunately they just make that choice without being accompanied by high awareness.

Yes, you are right. In reality, when someone has addictions, their closest will not care about them because that person has a heavy addiction and always trying to sell everything from their home to just have money. It happens to many gamblers out there, which is a big problem that needs to be solved. There is no other way to make him realize by giving some lesson about the addiction and even, their closest will ask a help from the police to get him to the rehabilitation.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on July 06, 2021, 10:38:10 AM

Quote from: Silberman on July 05, 2021, 04:20:46 PM

Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

Drug addiction is much worst in my opinion.

Gambling addiction might affect you financially and emotionally at some point but drug addiction will destroy your whole human being. It will destroy your family, relationship, funds, and your health, it will slowly kill you physically and literally (for example is that you make a lot of enemies because of drugs) and one day you've been killed because of it.

Gambling addiction is just 7/10 when it comes to danger while drug addiction is 10/10 in my opinion.

I agree if looking for lesser evil, with drug addictions the chance of harming other people is very possible, while you are still in drugs your control is far lesser with things that you are doing, while with gambling addiction you are just more focus with how will you win with every bets that you are doing.

Financially, both harmed your savings, drugs and gambling both money are being wasted.

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Quote from: Silberman on July 05, 2021, 04:20:46 PM

Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

Drug addiction is much worst in my opinion.

Gambling addiction might affect you financially and emotionally at some point but drug addiction will destroy your whole human being. It will destroy your family, relationship, funds, and your health, it will slowly kill you physically and literally (for example is that you make a lot of enemies because of drugs) and one day you've been killed because of it.

Gambling addiction is just 7/10 when it comes to danger while drug addiction is 10/10 in my opinion.

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Quote from: ipanks on July 06, 2021, 08:26:02 AM

Quote from: Silberman on July 05, 2021, 04:20:46 PM

Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

Both addictions will ruin our lives in the end. Drug addiction can make us have mental health and sick if it is not cured, while gambling-addicted will also have mental health and both works in a subconscious mind because we always think that we need drugs and want to play gambling. Admitting the addiction will help us figure out how to solve the problem and the family will be the best thing for us to come back to them so they can rescue us before it is too late. The family's love will help us survive and find a way to solve the problem and find the right method to help us.

As long as there are people who care about it then of course those who have addictions will be helped to get out of their addictions themselves, I personally also consider these two addictions to be equally dangerous and very likely to end up in prison and even death. It is difficult to prevent them before sinking deeper into addiction, because it is the path they chose but unfortunately they just make that choice without being accompanied by high awareness.

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Quote from: Silberman on July 05, 2021, 04:20:46 PM

Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

Both addictions will ruin our lives in the end. Drug addiction can make us have mental health and sick if it is not cured, while gambling-addicted will also have mental health and both works in a subconscious mind because we always think that we need drugs and want to play gambling. Admitting the addiction will help us figure out how to solve the problem and the family will be the best thing for us to come back to them so they can rescue us before it is too late. The family's love will help us survive and find a way to solve the problem and find the right method to help us.

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Quote from: darewaller on July 02, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

I do not know, I do not think that it is easy to tell which addiction is any worse as both are terrible, drug addiction will also deplete your funds and since the psychical need is so extreme in the case of drugs those people have a tendency to commit violent crimes to keep financing their habit, and it also has a huge impact on the mental health of the individuals that go through it precisely due to all the things they need to do to keep their addiction going, so I think it is better to just admit that both are bad instead of trying to look at which one is worse than the other.

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Quote from: Kittygalore on June 30, 2021, 09:43:09 AM

Internet has a lot to offer, just type Rehabilitation and most that will appear can cater any form of addiction, it's not like they're built just to rehabilitate drug addicts.

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

Internet indeed has a lot to offer but I don't think someone suffering from gambling addiction would get any help from google and those results since most of them would link you to blogs with basic advice.

I have always believed that the solution to any problem begins at home and the same goes for gambling addiction. If you feel like you are gambling too much and might be having an addiction to it, just talk with your parents or partner and they will help you understand the situation better. Since we are always open to discussing problems with our family members, I don't think there would be any shame either.

Talking to your people or your parents has nothing to do with you,rather you think of how you've wasted money since the day you started gambling,and put yourself under discipline.Realising that gambling has done more harm than good to yourself will propel you took try to stop it.The first thing is for you to realise gambling as a problem you've got,before trying to solve it.And the solution is self discipline,keeping your mind busy, and spending times on other things that will not affect your finance.

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~ No matter how small your progress is on quitting your gambling addiction, keep it up, it's still better than doing nothing about it.

~ Maybe only one option out of many is suitable, and that's why it's hard to find it right away, but with enough tries the right solution will be found eventually.

theres many option to fix gambling addiction .
there are browsers extensions and softwaresto install to prevent you from accesing the online casino and there are self exclusion service within the site itself but the best fix is when you seek for a professional because they have the right tools , space and medicines to help you with your disease . they are not hard not hard to find because we have internet and we can easily search them up online

But browser and software extension that'll keep you away from accessing online casinos are only for temporary, while waiting, it could only increase a gambler's addict urge to play even more gambling, and he could do a way to access online gambling by using another device if he's really desperate. Also, it's very hard to quit when you're not ready to commit on your rehabilitation or being rehabilitate, nothig will change.

This is a controversial issue. Refraining yourself from gambling can decrease the urge, it's a well-known fact. It is called "abstinence-based approach" and it is very effective in many cases. But, yes, as you said, there are people for whom it's not working. Since we don't know to which category of gamblers we belong, we should visit a professional doctor first, and only then start deciding on which strategy to use for quitting.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on June 23, 2021, 06:36:33 AM

~ No matter how small your progress is on quitting your gambling addiction, keep it up, it's still better than doing nothing about it.

~ Maybe only one option out of many is suitable, and that's why it's hard to find it right away, but with enough tries the right solution will be found eventually.

theres many option to fix gambling addiction .
there are browsers extensions and softwaresto install to prevent you from accesing the online casino and there are self exclusion service within the site itself but the best fix is when you seek for a professional because they have the right tools , space and medicines to help you with your disease . they are not hard not hard to find because we have internet and we can easily search them up online

But browser and software extension that'll keep you away from accessing online casinos are only for temporary, while waiting, it could only increase a gambler's addict urge to play even more gambling, and he could do a way to access online gambling by using another device if he's really desperate. Also, it's very hard to quit when you're not ready to commit on your rehabilitation or being rehabilitate, nothig will change.

Applications and software extensions are not very effective at preventing access to online casinos. I've tried to reduce the time to play gambling
by using some software extensions on the Laptop and Smartphone that I usually use. But in the end, because I was so addicted to gambling,
I used a friend's device to access the online casino again. So the most effective thing is to control yourself, to try to manage the time to play
gambling, to avoid addiction.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on June 23, 2021, 06:36:33 AM

~ No matter how small your progress is on quitting your gambling addiction, keep it up, it's still better than doing nothing about it.

~ Maybe only one option out of many is suitable, and that's why it's hard to find it right away, but with enough tries the right solution will be found eventually.

theres many option to fix gambling addiction .
there are browsers extensions and softwaresto install to prevent you from accesing the online casino and there are self exclusion service within the site itself but the best fix is when you seek for a professional because they have the right tools , space and medicines to help you with your disease . they are not hard not hard to find because we have internet and we can easily search them up online

But browser and software extension that'll keep you away from accessing online casinos are only for temporary, while waiting, it could only increase a gambler's addict urge to play even more gambling, and he could do a way to access online gambling by using another device if he's really desperate. Also, it's very hard to quit when you're not ready to commit on your rehabilitation or being rehabilitate, nothig will change.

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Quote from: paxmao on June 30, 2021, 01:42:16 PM

Most western countries and cities have either groups of support for gamblers and other addictions to share and encourage each other to resits. I think this is different from alcoholism and that most people could benefit from a more specialised psychological support to find out what is triggering their gambling beyond their control zone.

There's a difference between gambling and alcoholism but the essence of being addicted will always be the same. How to solve it will differ from the solution that shall be given but as long as there are people and groups that have already established to deal with such problem, they are a good helping hand.

Quote from: paxmao on June 30, 2021, 01:42:16 PM

However, many people that gamble do not have the resources to get into this specialised treatments and have to do with help from the church groups or others.

They say "the worst thing that can happen to an addict to gambling is winning".

It is true because non volunteer groups that offers such service don't offer it for free and it come with a cost.

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Quote from: Kittygalore on June 30, 2021, 09:43:09 AM

Internet has a lot to offer, just type Rehabilitation and most that will appear can cater any form of addiction, it's not like they're built just to rehabilitate drug addicts.

Gambling addiction is even worse than drugs. You wonder why? Because while drug addiction hurts you physically, gambling addiction will slowly work on your mental health and wipe out your funds so it hurts both ways. You will think about gambling all day, you will lose interest in life and all those things are way worse than drugs.

Internet indeed has a lot to offer but I don't think someone suffering from gambling addiction would get any help from google and those results since most of them would link you to blogs with basic advice.

I have always believed that the solution to any problem begins at home and the same goes for gambling addiction. If you feel like you are gambling too much and might be having an addiction to it, just talk with your parents or partner and they will help you understand the situation better. Since we are always open to discussing problems with our family members, I don't think there would be any shame either.

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Having a addiction is not really bad but it based on the kind of addiction you have whether is a positive or negative addiction. Having a gambling addiction can also be said as positive if there is an achievement it brings to a person. Just like sports gambling, a lot of persons has become very rich with it making them popular. Although the beginning might be tedious be once mastery is gained, then more money can be achieved.

It's true that many gambling addicts have become rich from gambling but will it last long?

most of them will only fall back into poverty because of their lack of control over themselves so they think that the money they win must be played back so that more and more. this is the reason why gambling addiction will never produce anything.

That depends on your definition of many, it is true that those that are addicted to gambling gamble a lot which means that a few of them could have gotten lucky even when the odds were against them and they made a fortune, the problem with this is that such luck will eventually run out and they will lose all of that money, and this has the added risk that they could become even more addicted to gambling as they will remember the time they had so much money and they will want to recover it only to lose even more money in the process.

If you dont know how to control yourself in times of profiting or in times of losses then you should leave gambling right away when you are still into your own awareness and control because
sooner or later you would really be finding yourself into a hard situation where you are trying to get rid off addiction. Dont wait for a certain situation to happen before you do stop
but if you do find yourself that you could control yourself in terms of finances and emotion then i dont see any problems with this.
Seeking help would be mostly start on ones self then next would be your loved ones in life.

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