Recognizing Gambling Disorders, Symptoms of Severe Gambling Addiction

[Sterbens]

It's a complicated issue when you want to give advice for his own good, but he won't listen, and sometimes there will be aggression towards you. Well, for me, if he isn't asking for help, I won't talk about it too deeply. If he wants to ruin his life, I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Why should we care so much about our friend? It's his privacy after all. But in case you really want to help, tell his family about his problem and ask them to keep silent. Only his wife, son, parents, can talk to him.

like what I'm experiencing right now, where addiction makes my friend who initially focused on crypto trading, only because he often experiences losses because he sees the same market as we know that is not friendly with this late profit.
a few days ago he came by offering a gambling site, I was surprised oh it turns out he has changed direction. and says the advantages of slot gambling, betting match scores and others.
I am silent, although sometimes I also like to gamble. but when you see other people profit. it affects our psychology and compels the heart to gamble again.
As a result, not a profit to be had, but a huge loss for three consecutive days.


It's hard to get rid of gambling addiction, to be honest I tried several solutions, but the temptation to gamble is still bigger.

[mu_enrico]

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Sounds like a gay story, but maybe it will work?!
From my experience nothing can truly change a dude except his love for his family, or a heavy trauma (usually involves both).

It's hard to get rid of gambling addiction, to be honest I tried several solutions, but the temptation to gamble is still bigger.

I was on and off gambling, it's not that I want to quit playing slots, but I have more and more things to do. I often work on weekend as well.
If you are busy, your cravings will naturally disappear as you utilize your brain for heavy activities. If you aren't that busy, consider joining a gym and get fucked there. But it's more difficult since working out isn't mandatory, and you will find a way to quit.

[YOSHIE]

Maybe I won't care what other people do, but not with my best friend whom I have considered a brother. But what I'm thinking right now is how to convey it without destroying the friendship that has existed since childhood, and honestly its emotional nature makes me have to think twice about conveying it without causing other problems.

From one side your friend or relative will say 'just mind your business' don't worry about me, he will answer like that, that action is one of the characteristics of people who have experienced the worst gambling symptoms.

But you can still persuade him or advise / your friends, show examples of people who experience losses due to gambling, for example: show something bad to your friends about gambling that has been experienced by other people.
People who are already seriously addicted to the world of gambling, cannot be advised verbally, they will strike back with bad words, the best way is to show an example as I said above, it might be a little better to alert your friends.

[Xinarae*]

Gambling addiction includes known gambling addiction or pathological gambling. These are the most characteristic of non-toxic addictions and carry a series of extremely serious consequences gambling addiction can cause a person to lose a lot of money causing financial loss to both himself and his family and or friends addictions often affect many areas of a person's life. The most effective treatment is extensive you also need to spend time with your family and have fun to cure this addiction.

[Cling18]

It's a complicated issue when you want to give advice for his own good, but he won't listen, and sometimes there will be aggression towards you. Well, for me, if he isn't asking for help, I won't talk about it too deeply. If he wants to ruin his life, I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Why should we care so much about our friend? It's his privacy after all. But in case you really want to help, tell his family about his problem and ask them to keep silent. Only his wife, son, parents, can talk to him.

People with severe gambling addiction wouldn't listen to personal advice anymore because they focus more on winning and targeting the prize that they want. They need to seek professional help because, to be honest, gambling addiction could ruin not just a single life but the family as a whole. If a person wants help, he should also try to help himself to control this type of addiction.

[Text]

I also have some acquaintances and even my partner was once addicted to gambling.  As long as they have money, they can gamble as they wish.  I'm the one who handles our money so he asks and lets me know if he gambles.  At that time it was almost every day, every night, and they played until the morning, it's good and it doesn't happen again now, I just don't know if we're not together.  There is nothing good about gambling too much because you will neglect and miss a lot that you should have wasted on more worthwhile things.  You probably won't ruin your friendship right away if you talk to him about his condition.  You also don't need to tell him that he needs a psychiatrist right away.  Sometimes they also need to be talked to in-depth, maybe they just lack attention as well.  They can also be invited to other hobbies or activities.

[Zilon]

There are polite manner to talking a Friend who is addicted to gambling into seeing a phychiatrist without having to hurt anyone's feelings. You can invite him or her for a drink or even a gambling tournament something you feel could entice him then you go ahead to invite a phychiatrist as well to the meeting venue. Most phychiatrist know how to engage them in discussions that would warrant them to seek for help. Going to as him to see a phychiatrist might cost you a whole lot even to the point of loosing him as a friend

[DU18]

It's a complicated issue when you want to give advice for his own good, but he won't listen, and sometimes there will be aggression towards you. Well, for me, if he isn't asking for help, I won't talk about it too deeply. If he wants to ruin his life, I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Why should we care so much about our friend? It's his privacy after all. But in case you really want to help, tell his family about his problem and ask them to keep silent. Only his wife, son, parents, can talk to him.

as friends, of course it is not wrong if we try to change the bad nature of our friends and make them better, after all his family has asked me for help several times to advise him because his relationship with his family is a little less harmonious and as a friend of course I have done it but still his attitude changed only in a matter of days and then he returned to the bad habit.

People with severe gambling addiction wouldn't listen to personal advice anymore because they focus more on winning and targeting the prize that they want. They need to seek professional help because, to be honest, gambling addiction could ruin not just a single life but the family as a whole. If a person wants help, he should also try to help himself to control this type of addiction.

someone who is addicted certainly has a hard heart like a stone, so when we advise him hard of course he will fight back, but when we advise him gently of course it will take a long time for him to accept the advice and even as humans we will feel bored to constantly advise others (whoever it is).
Right now I'm thinking if I will try to keep him away from some other friends who have a gambling habit, so that at least it can minimize his desire to continue gambling.

[Alisha-k]

• The individual with the disorder feels the desire to gamble and uses more and more money to get the pleasure he craves.

• Finds himself agitated and annoyed when he tries to gamble less or halt altogether.

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This two got my attention most because many atimes when I go to a local gambling hall I tend to see some specific set of persons who are always at the hall. Most times I wonder how the cope without a job to backup their losses and also how the get constant funds to keep gambling over and over again even when the can barely feed themselves. It would really take a whole lot of effort to convince such persons because talking them into seeing a phychiatrist might some how sound rude except a more deplomatic approach is used to convince them against their wish.

[avikz]

In the last few hours I personally do self-introspection and analyze these symptoms may be in myself, family or friends. and as a result there are some of my friends who do seem to have these symptoms ;
1. Should I shut up and watch him continue gambling.
2. Or risk the friendship to fall apart by suggesting him to go to a psychiatrist, because because in my place people who go to a psychiatrist are identical to people who have mental disorders.

Pretty solid list of symptoms you have gathered here op. Now coming back to your question, you must try to help your family or friend who are ahowing such symptoms. Definitely you will risk the friendship, but eventually you will help a life to get back on track.

If gambling is legal in your country, you must have a national helpline number to help fight gambling addiction. If not legal, then try to find some NGOs who work on such addiction. I understand the social taboo you are referring, so try to find the help which is not closer to your area. But the help must be provided.

[uneng]

Interesting points presented by this article. And it's important to note the individual can be considered an addicted one only if he shows at least 4 of the symptoms from the list. Sometimes we see someone very agitated, what lead us to conclude this person is an addicted gambler, but it may not be the case, so we have to be cautious to not judge people wrongly. Even because these analysis can be only accurately made by professionals, in this case psychiatrists. On the other hand, I think it worths to advise friends or relatives to seek for professional help if you are in doubt about them suffering from gambling addiction, doesn't matter if they will like your advice or not.

[abel1337]

This is a good list of symptoms of being addicted to gambling, I myself even experienced or has some of it when I was still an addict. It would be a good thing to show these symptoms to an addict and make him realize that he need help to slow down or to remove his gambling addiction. Fixing these symptoms one at a time could help the gambler to remove his addiction since I cured myself by doing small things.

[Roidz]

This is a good list of symptoms of being addicted to gambling, I myself even experienced or has some of it when I was still an addict. It would be a good thing to show these symptoms to an addict and make him realize that he need help to slow down or to remove his gambling addiction. Fixing these symptoms one at a time could help the gambler to remove his addiction since I cured myself by doing small things.

releasing someone from gambling addiction is not an easy thing and of course it takes quite a bit of extra patience to do it, moreover the desire to change this bad thing comes from one party (op) and not from the addict himself, so in my opinion it will be impossible to do if it is true the addict doesn't want to change himself right now.

[harizen]

1. Should I shut up and watch him continue gambling.
2. Or risk the friendship to fall apart by suggesting him to go to a psychiatrist, because because in my place people who go to a psychiatrist are identical to people who have mental disorders.

On what particular category your friend falls under the listed symptoms you have mentioned?

Not because they are eager to continue gambling despite having a bad effect on them, doesn't mean they now completely fall to the worst effect of doing gambling. There are lots of gamblers who are behaving that way but still responsible for the other part of their life.

We can just do something depends on what level of addiction that your friend is currently in.

[Fatunad]

It's a complicated issue when you want to give advice for his own good, but he won't listen, and sometimes there will be aggression towards you. Well, for me, if he isn't asking for help, I won't talk about it too deeply. If he wants to ruin his life, I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Why should we care so much about our friend? It's his privacy after all. But in case you really want to help, tell his family about his problem and ask them to keep silent. Only his wife, son, parents, can talk to him.

People with severe gambling addiction wouldn't listen to personal advice anymore because they focus more on winning and targeting the prize that they want. They need to seek professional help because, to be honest, gambling addiction could ruin not just a single life but the family as a whole. If a person wants help, he should also try to help himself to control this type of addiction.

Any form of addiction whether in gambling or other means like drugs or anything in life would really be ending up unfortunate for you if you do really tolerate that one and its true that majority of gamblers doesnt really accept that theyre addicted and do still continue to play despite of the situation they are into.Of course the primary target or aim in life is to make more money via gambling which is the only fastest way to do so but also the fastest
way on losing your money in a short span of time.Lots would really get compromised if you do let that addiction control ones self.

[dunfida]

It's a complicated issue when you want to give advice for his own good, but he won't listen, and sometimes there will be aggression towards you. Well, for me, if he isn't asking for help, I won't talk about it too deeply. If he wants to ruin his life, I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Why should we care so much about our friend? It's his privacy after all. But in case you really want to help, tell his family about his problem and ask them to keep silent. Only his wife, son, parents, can talk to him.

People with severe gambling addiction wouldn't listen to personal advice anymore because they focus more on winning and targeting the prize that they want. They need to seek professional help because, to be honest, gambling addiction could ruin not just a single life but the family as a whole. If a person wants help, he should also try to help himself to control this type of addiction.

Any form of addiction whether in gambling or other means like drugs or anything in life would really be ending up unfortunate for you if you do really tolerate that one and its true that majority of gamblers doesnt really accept that theyre addicted and do still continue to play despite of the situation they are into.Of course the primary target or aim in life is to make more money via gambling which is the only fastest way to do so but also the fastest
way on losing your money in a short span of time.Lots would really get compromised if you do let that addiction control ones self.

The person who has an addiction or compulsive behavior through gambling won't listen because their body like the feeling of winning or the feeling of if I win which is not a healthy thinking anymore. They need to control their own feeling towards things that is temporary. And making money shouldn't be the first goal by risking it through gambling and I think they were fully aware the risk already but they still continue despite of warning and signs showing to them.

[Vaskiy]

I haven't got any pleasure out of gambling, all that I've experienced out of gambling is shivering. Myself had the fear of losing money. Once after losing my mind keeps thinking about the loss I've experienced. This keeps me tempted to gamble and recover the losses. This is the reason why I keep on gambling and there is nothing as pleasure, maybe other gamblers have experienced it.

[just_Alice]

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Sounds like a gay story, but maybe it will work?!
From my experience nothing can truly change a dude except his love for his family, or a heavy trauma (usually involves both).

How so?
The point is that any psychological addiction is a deeply emotional problem, we can see it all over: fear, anger, thrill, frustration, etc. People with severe addiction get very cranky and easily annoyed, especially when all this is supplemented with financial problems.

So direct approach is not an option here, the same as trying to reach through the family. As it often happens (and the OP just said it somewhere in this thread), when there's a gambling addict in a family they just turn their backs and never try to really understand and be supportive, they think of such a person as of disgrace and nothing more.

So the closest will likely only make things worse by putting additional pressure and not being very helpful. Thus, for a friend to listen to you one needs to be first and foremost on his side.

[Darker45]

In the last few hours I personally do self-introspection and analyze these symptoms may be in myself, family or friends. and as a result there are some of my friends who do seem to have these symptoms ;
1. Should I shut up and watch him continue gambling.
2. Or risk the friendship to fall apart by suggesting him to go to a psychiatrist, because because in my place people who go to a psychiatrist are identical to people who have mental disorders.

Number 1 should not be an option. But, surely, there must be a way for you to get to initiate a discussion about your friend's gambling problems without necessarily risking your friendship. You are friends, after all. Of course, you don't just directly tell him/her that he/she needs to go to a psychiatrist and have himself/herself checked up. As a matter of fact, I guess the first option is to try distract him/her from gambling. You might want to schedule different fun and interesting activities to divert his/her attention from going deep into gambling addiction.

I have tried several times to distract him to get rid of the addiction, one of which is by trying to focus on other work, including when I tried to build an intense farm business with him, and at first he seemed very focused on work but after a week later I found him back in the gambling game with his other friends, and to be honest I even had an argument with one of his friends who again invited him to gamble.
Right now even his family is getting desperate for his habits and maybe right now I'm the only person who still cares about him.

Oh, it's amazing of you to really be concerned of him. I guess talking to the family about his situation with his friends would help. Many of them might have not understood how things are turning worse. But I guess it would be awkward if you're the one who will try to represent the family and gather his friends and discuss his gambling situation on his behalf. It would be best if a family member would do that.

It sounds as if the situation really calls for it, before things would grow even worse that a professional's intervention is necessary.

[btc78]

a person involved must have at least 4-6 of those behavior before categorizing as having a gambling disorder .

because all of those are normal attitude of gambler if they only have 1 o- 3 of those.

i admit that some of the mentioned i have in gambling but not literally mean that i will admit having disorder because i can still manage to control myself when it comes to gambling.