Excessive gambling is detrimental to the life of a gambler no doubt, stories, facts and truths have proven this that they suffer a lot of pressure, tension, loses and frustration. I am also concerned about the impact of gambling on the lives of those dependent on the gambler like his immediate family(wife, children, parents and siblings). I have heard stories of children whose early lives were messed up due to the bad habits of gambling addiction of their fathers. A very recent one is one account in this forum which created a topic staring his hatred for gambling and backing his claim with same ugly story of being a product of a home where the father is a gambling addict. He stressed that it ruined his father and affected him disastrously. I know how painful and frustrating it is when your foundation its poor, and the negative effect is massive.
So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most?
I'm sorry about your story. I know how hard it is to be a family of gambling addicts. This should be a lesson to other people that gambling addiction is not a good thing. I have a friend whose father was addicted to gambling and he is now also a gambling addict. This is especially sad because he became a gambler because of his father, not by his own choice as an adult. I saw his childhood life completely destroyed because his parents often fought. So I think the immediate family suffers the most from gambling addiction. Don't become a gambling addict if you don't want to see people you love suffer.
Everyone is different, but many people have mental health problems that affect their children. It is not necessary to blame all problems on gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc. because all problems come from the person himself. A person may not have any addictions, but this does not mean that he is not a despot to his children. I believe that it is possible to solve any problem and get rid of any addiction - it takes desire! Of course, it is a pity for children who are traumatized by their parents. The only thing I can recommend them is to find a good psychologist to work through these moments and help them forget this difficult experience.
I think that things are very different when it comes to gambling addiction, firstly the person who has to do it and is most affected is the one who is suffering from addiction, yes, now, the person has a family, is the head of the family, is Things are worse, because things are always done so that they can be better, but even so the family feels the signs that something is not right, basic things begin to fall, rubles, medicine, there are delays in basic services, All of this begins to go down and look in an uncomfortable way and it is confusing because basically things do not happen as before, because there is no liquidity in the home, there is not the slightest freedom, so these types of things are what a person must think before doing anything, personally I have always said something, we are a normal person and when we are not doing well economically and the family suffers the consequences, it is something that the pressure increases too much.
Therefore, every time we are doing things to be Able to generate more solutions, we have to resort to asking for more credit from the bank , more debts, more loans, more financial life in decline, and this is the only reason why it is effective in ending them. When there are children things are even worse because you have to be a Responsible person, take care of everything, when faced with this type of thing I cannot lose control on a personal Level , and family has always been my handbrake, hence I cannot help cross my limit , but there are buts that even though they do not have a family , Children, they may have other mourners such as their mother, father, family in general, sometimes their environment, friends, all of these people make a difference and I see This is what you have to think about before making any move, plus this is a lot of Risk , I think this is Enough to make things better, you have to always consider these Types of things.