Is Gambling addiction a disease?

[omonuyak]

Can't classify addition to anything as mental disease. As someone had pointed out in the previous posts, it is more to do with lack of discipline. It should be treated the same way as we treat alcohol and tobacco addiction, i.e through counseling and information campaigns. That said, I am against putting pressure on the gambling sites to provide counseling services.

Addicted to anything especially gambling is not a disease buy a mental disorder and like you said it is lack of discipline that do cause this.  I think we are to play gambling as fun but because of greed and selfishness many of us get addicted to it.

[zhekinsp]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

[onrise]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

Self discipline is the thing which is required in everyone life. If you have this you would not have much problem as you will be able to control your emotions and fancy decisions of making money from the gambling which does not happen that easily.

[STT]

In fact, losing all your money would force you to get a credit possibly and that's how people sink financially really bad.

Balance is the magic word in this case.

The credit part is where yes its a problem,  if the person has no money then its a really bad idea to then be using credit on top.   Most gambling is portrayed as leisure activity, so if you got no money its time to go back to work not be borrowing more.   Theres no need for the gamble if you havent got anything to bet, have to bet pennies or virtual gamble at that point which I believe is an option.

Heres a case I just read, they are looking at the chain of sites as being poorly controlled for emailing someone already banned - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6921557/Online-casino-accused-bombarding-gambling-addict-emails.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

[Distinctin]

Can't classify addition to anything as mental disease. As someone had pointed out in the previous posts, it is more to do with lack of discipline. It should be treated the same way as we treat alcohol and tobacco addiction, i.e through counseling and information campaigns. That said, I am against putting pressure on the gambling sites to provide counseling services.

Addicted to anything especially gambling is not a disease buy a mental disorder and like you said it is lack of discipline that do cause this.  I think we are to play gambling as fun but because of greed and selfishness many of us get addicted to it.

Whatever you think about it, the outcome is not pleasant for a gambler.
Addiction allows you to gamble money that you cannot afford anymore, despite having the skills but lack of discipline makes you addicted and it's already guaranteed that you will just loss along the way.

[Caladonian]

Can't classify addition to anything as mental disease. As someone had pointed out in the previous posts, it is more to do with lack of discipline. It should be treated the same way as we treat alcohol and tobacco addiction, i.e through counseling and information campaigns. That said, I am against putting pressure on the gambling sites to provide counseling services.

Addicted to anything especially gambling is not a disease buy a mental disorder and like you said it is lack of discipline that do cause this.  I think we are to play gambling as fun but because of greed and selfishness many of us get addicted to it.

Whatever you think about it, the outcome is not pleasant for a gambler.
Addiction allows you to gamble money that you cannot afford anymore, despite having the skills but lack of discipline makes you addicted and it's already guaranteed that you will just loss along the way.

A guarantee that it will ruined your life because of that addictions, without proper discipline things will turned to a bad habits, using funds that is not
dedicated to such activities, it's need being cured as it can't be handled by a person who's already suffering with such problem, a toxic thing inside your
minds that keeps dictating to do things without any contest inside you.

[edisystem]

I'm not sure is gambling addiction is a disease or not but the thing is addiction is not good and me as a gambler can feel it how this gambling addiction makes our life become worst.

I think gambling addiction is same like smoke addiction, the different is gambling addiction make your wallet and mental become not good.

[michellee]

I'm not sure is gambling addiction is a disease or not but the thing is addiction is not good and me as a gambler can feel it how this gambling addiction makes our life become worst.

I think gambling addiction is same like smoke addiction, the different is gambling addiction make your wallet and mental become not good.

But some people consider gambling addiction as a disease because they think that it affected our life.

Gambling addiction affects to our financial but smoke addiction affect our health, and both are very dangerous. But I agree if gambling addiction is related to our mentality and we need to prevent our minds become worst. And if we think that our minds become worst, maybe that is the time to visit the specialist to help us.

[Capt00]

I'm not sure is gambling addiction is a disease or not but the thing is addiction is not good and me as a gambler can feel it how this gambling addiction makes our life become worst.

I think gambling addiction is same like smoke addiction, the different is gambling addiction make your wallet and mental become not good.

Don't blame gambling addiction if you are on this stage, blame your self because you didn't control it very well and manage that to become a gambling addict. We can say gambling addiction is a kind of disease it will destroy our lives and wealth if we let being gambling addiction will lead into our emotion and we can't control with it once there it is. We can avoid such a thing if we have set the limit.

[boyptc]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

But that kind of medicine will affect your mental health and has side effects if it forces you to have that kind of sensation.

[Ailmand]

I am not really a gambler but I heard about people who can't quit it and keep losing lots of money. Do you think the attitude to gambling addiction should be the same as to drug addiction?
Should the government forbid gambling and treat somehow those who are addicted?
Or maybe it should be left up to an adult? I mean, should people decide on their own whether they need to gamble or not.
What do you think?

Gambling was created for entertainment and recreational purposes. There's no way government will ban gambling since they can gain tax from it, and it has been part of every countries culture to gamble. They can only go after illegal gambling games or if gambling operators commit fraud or illegal activities. Being addicted to gambling is our own responsibility and the government has nothing to say about it.

[freedomgo]

I am not really a gambler but I heard about people who can't quit it and keep losing lots of money. Do you think the attitude to gambling addiction should be the same as to drug addiction?
Should the government forbid gambling and treat somehow those who are addicted?
Or maybe it should be left up to an adult? I mean, should people decide on their own whether they need to gamble or not.
What do you think?

Gambling was created for entertainment and recreational purposes. There's no way government will ban gambling since they can gain tax from it, and it has been part of every countries culture to gamble. They can only go after illegal gambling games or if gambling operators commit fraud or illegal activities. Being addicted to gambling is our own responsibility and the government has nothing to say about it.

There are gambling sponsored gambling like lottery, they call it legal because it's their own and I think they only ban illegal gamble.
People will still gamble even if they will ban it because nowadays it's easy to access the online gambling site especially if you are using crypto to gamble.
A person from a certain county can gamble in different country through online, and that's already out of jurisdiction of the government.

[imstillthebest]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

But that kind of medicine will affect your mental health and has side effects if it forces you to have that kind of sensation.

like the guy above said , the medicine was some kind of a relaxation but your right that this can cause side effects that will lead to more serious health issues  . this is why i wont recomend it to anyone if they are already addicted .  its better if they will only cure them selves in a natural way such as relaxing thier minds or quitting the gambling scene for a while  .  pray and divert your thoughts to other things that will keep you busy  .  this helps alot  .

[boyptc]

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like the guy above said , the medicine was some kind of a relaxation but your right that this can cause side effects that will lead to more serious health issues  . this is why i wont recomend it to anyone if they are already addicted .  its better if they will only cure them selves in a natural way such as relaxing thier minds or quitting the gambling scene for a while  .  pray and divert your thoughts to other things that will keep you busy  .  this helps alot  .

Each medicine has it good and bad side effects so that's why its your choice to research first what you are taking.

Let's settle about pray/religion here, to give space to those who don't believe it.

[Janation]

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like the guy above said , the medicine was some kind of a relaxation but your right that this can cause side effects that will lead to more serious health issues  . this is why i wont recomend it to anyone if they are already addicted .  its better if they will only cure them selves in a natural way such as relaxing thier minds or quitting the gambling scene for a while  .  pray and divert your thoughts to other things that will keep you busy  .  this helps alot  .

Each medicine has it good and bad side effects so that's why its your choice to research first what you are taking.

Let's settle about pray/religion here, to give space to those who don't believe it.

I am not anti-religion but there are some that still can't stop their addiction even if they are bound in a religion.

You though even if you go to church, to pray or worship God you will be cleansed to what you are doing wrong. He will cleanse you if he sees that you are trying your best to do so. You can't just rely on prayers and it will go, no, you should exert effort too. Gambling is a mental disorder the reason it is so hard to stop. So if you don't have the will to stop, better make a way to make the people around you help you and especially the one guiding you through these years.

[mirakal]

I'm not sure is gambling addiction is a disease or not but the thing is addiction is not good and me as a gambler can feel it how this gambling addiction makes our life become worst.

I think gambling addiction is same like smoke addiction, the different is gambling addiction make your wallet and mental become not good.

Gambling addiction will destroy your finances and health, smoking might only destroy your health so gambling addiction is a worst problem.
However, being addicted in gambling still has a chance to change as long as a person is willing and understand the possible negative things that will happen into his life, money buys everything that's why we want to have it, but there is no easy money in gambling.

[traderethereum]

I cannot control my emotions in gambling games many times, and I feel that it is very hard without practicing every day. But I believe that one day, I will be able to control the emotions so I can play gambling without having emotion inside the games. I already read that if we can control emotion, we could enjoy the game and having fun playing the game.
Maybe it is a disease for some people, but I won't say that it is a disease, and for sure, gambling will make your life ruin and lose everything you have.

[Natalim]

I cannot control my emotions in gambling games many times, and I feel that it is very hard without practicing every day. But I believe that one day, I will be able to control the emotions so I can play gambling without having emotion inside the games. I already read that if we can control emotion, we could enjoy the game and having fun playing the game.
Maybe it is a disease for some people, but I won't say that it is a disease, and for sure, gambling will make your life ruin and lose everything you have.

Gambling is bad for you, but since you are willing to learn on how to control your emotion, just a friendly advise, don't gamble with a huge amount of money.

[proTECH77]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

Actually the only cure to gambling addiction is discipline and self control when it come to the world of gambling. Addiction should be avoided in the life of any gambler, because it can ruin gambler's life and cause depression to enter into them, so, gambling addiction is not good.

[virasog]

If you think gambling addiction is a disease, then you need to come to psychiatric and let them help you to cure your addiction. Whenever you are difficult to handle your emotion, then that will be a time for you to consult to the expert. I am sure that he will do the best to help you especially to cure your addiction.

They can help you treat addiction if you will cooperate with what they will suggest you to do.

There's no medicine for it but gradual healing through projecting with another activity to work on to divert your time instead of gambling.

There is no medicine for it to cure because once the addicted person will not control their emotions on gambling, i have faced many people like this they seem to be very silent but internally their heart will suggest the people gamble. For them, it is impossible to control their emotions.

It is not impossible for them to control their emotions.

There's a limitation for it, they just have to practice it and gradually control themselves.

Actually there are medicine as well to control our mind which will make mind into relaxed state when we are not be able to make much activities which time will be enough for someone to realize gambling addiction is wrong.

I don't think there is any medicine which can help you prevent the addiction. The medicine which you are talking about are the ones which give you piece of mind or relax you in case your sleep is not fully competed etc. They cannot stop you from your addiction of gambling etc.