I would not feel offended by being called that way if I recognize myself having problems with such condition.
However, the context is also important and while I would be okey with it while talking to my family, close friends or a professional in the care of mental problems. I would indeed feel offended is it was something being used on purpose to damage my image or make people to financially distance myself... For example, people who would give me money or gifts on my birthday, decided not to do so, because some gossip about my habits.
It is part of the endless stigmatization people with mental problems suffer.
Topic: Will you find it offensive to be referred to as an addicted gambler? - page 15. (Read 1500 times)
June 18, 2023, 01:48:05 PM
June 18, 2023, 01:32:10 PM
if you say " no offense" afterwards, i will not be offended
just an ego. people will be mad and offended if you are referred to as a gambling addict in front of their child or to someone they care so much to represent themselves as highly respected.
hey there are users not happy anymore of these gambling addiction threads. keep it coming!!!
June 18, 2023, 01:20:30 PM
To be sincere, my attitude or response to such statement will depend on both who is presenting it and the manner at which it was presented.
If a stranger should notice my gambling activities and found out that I'm beginning to show signs of addiction, if they should tell me in a respectful and calm way I will simply thank them and start working on myself, but if they just approach my and start inform me in a rude way or perhaps insult me for engaging in gambling in the first place I will definitely be offended with it, that's very sure.
And just as you said, not everyone has the same level of tolerance so some might be able to tolerate it while others like will not be.
If a stranger should notice my gambling activities and found out that I'm beginning to show signs of addiction, if they should tell me in a respectful and calm way I will simply thank them and start working on myself, but if they just approach my and start inform me in a rude way or perhaps insult me for engaging in gambling in the first place I will definitely be offended with it, that's very sure.
And just as you said, not everyone has the same level of tolerance so some might be able to tolerate it while others like will not be.
June 18, 2023, 01:19:23 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
Yes it's fine no problem with me, as long as it is not true and it not what I am. Many people who denied it became an addict because they are not aware to their situation, they always tell themselves that it is only just they want to get back what they lost something like that and then they didn't know they already lost more, awareness is the good thing in order for you to prevent that thing to happen. 
June 18, 2023, 01:13:40 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
An addicted gambler might not even know that he is an addict because he is so carried away by his emotions on chasing his loss and this will blindfold him when see it. I am no longer an addict anymore and if someone calls me an addict, I will just overlook him because it isn't true.I have a friend that loves gambling on sportbet and anytime you tell him that he is gambling too much and will soon become an addict,he will tell you that he can never be an addict but this person in question does use money given to him by other people to use for the payment of their electricity bills and other important bills to gamble and when they ask him about the payment he will tell them that he used to money to try his luck. At the end he will tell them that by month ending he will payback because he has a job which he uses the income for his gambling activities.
June 18, 2023, 01:00:30 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
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