Who does gambling addiction affect the most?

[Accardo]

Gambling addicts are not the main victims, because they are not aware of the effects, their families are the main victims because they have to suffer, they don't do anything but have to accept the suffering. It's very sad. We can imagine that one of our family members is addicted to gambling and we become Victims of hardship because of our family's actions, we don't have the heart to let ourselves suffer. the chain of negative effects is difficult to determine

Not to find a family with no problem that troubles their economy, is rare. The society consists of lots of people with different priorities. People are meant to solve a problem according to their perspective of solving the problem. Families, some, may not be able to know the how about of healing gambling addiction. It'll be a torn in the flesh of the home, because it'll stay within their rich skin for long, itching and causing discomfort. When a family member gets compulsive, it's the duty of the family to help him out of the trouble. If they can't get a reasonable idea on what to do, friends could assist. If the healing process takes up lots of money from the family's economy, nobody would be happy with the incident. As it's considered not a good moment, when a family member is struggling, they'll be countless sleepless nights, stress, troubles, and lots of side talks to deal with as the family member. Then consider how the person, would feel about this when he gets better and returns home.

[Cookdata]

So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most?

This depend. If the addicted person isn't an addicted person at first and has many people depending on him and the all of a sudden, he became addicted with gambling and lost it, it will affect him and his relationship and as well as affect the people around and if it is the person they depend on financial, then I expect it to be worse because the money the are expecting from him will not becoming as usual because the addiction will take everything from him but if they don't depend on him, it will only affect him alone and his relationship with his immediate family.

As for a gambler that doesn't have that warm hearted relationship with his family, it will only affect him alone because such kind of people doesn't have any bond with their family. Sometime, even their families don't give an F about them not to talk about the relationship. As a gambler, know your limit and gambling should never gives you that addiction to the point that it affect your relationship with your families, friends and your financial status, nothing disrespect a man status like addiction.

[temple]

So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most?

This depend. If the addicted person isn't an addicted person at first and has many people depending on him and the all of a sudden, he became addicted with gambling and lost it, it will affect him and his relationship and as well as affect the people around and if it is the person they depend on financial, then I expect it to be worse because the money the are expecting from him will not becoming as usual because the addiction will take everything from him but if they don't depend on him, it will only affect him alone and his relationship with his immediate family.

As for a gambler that doesn't have that warm hearted relationship with his family, it will only affect him alone because such kind of people doesn't have any bond with their family. Sometime, even their families don't give an F about them not to talk about the relationship. As a gambler, know your limit and gambling should never gives you that addiction to the point that it affect your relationship with your families, friends and your financial status, nothing disrespect a man status like addiction.

It can't really be answered in general as it vastly depends on the age of the people affected. It's also a question whether or not the money lost due to gambling was critical for the survival of anyone. If the gambling addict loses money that was supposed to be spent on holidays, it is quite different than if the gambling addict loses money that was supposed to be used to by food and pay for energy. Age is so important, too. A young kid can't help itself out of the situation by taking on a job or something whereas someone who is older would still be able to swallow the bitter pill and get a job if it's necessary.
But I think it takes quite a lot for someone to become an addict and use the money that was needed for buying food. I can't imagine this happening very often. Perhaps if alcohol is involved, but rarely otherwise.

[Weawant]

Gambler should learn to gamble without affecting their family. A gambling addict as you have said may not care about his/her home. Imagine the case of someone trying to sell his car to gamble. This car is for him and his family and if he later do that and lose the bet. It will definitely affect both him and his family.

I don't know if there's a way one gamble's such that they get their family involved or a way to gamble and not get your family involved because to the best of my knowledge I know too well is that we gamble individually so I try to understand how we gamble and get our families involved or not get our family involved at some point.

Whenever one get to the point they begin to sell off their properties just to finance their gambling habit, it can be considered that they are becoming addicted and should at that point stop as much as possible because they will only realize how much damage they have done after they have sold the property and lost the game in which they did placed their bet but then they may not get to understand at the point where they are doing such because they ass usually very optimistic and almost too sure they are going to win.

[famososMuertos]

It is a disease, and as such it affects both family, friends and the individual equally, in fact it is a social burden in some countries, in other places where getting sick is a business, an addict is a number that benefited the drug industry, medicine.
I don't think there are any equivalents in saying who it affects the most, it's a shame that someone suffers from any type of addiction.

But as always, being a topical TBT, we believe that the gambling addict is the worst, remember that the best way out OP if you suffer from gambling addiction is to seek professional help, there is the solution for a gambling addict.

[Mauser]

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?

At the first stage its always the gambler that will be affected by a gambling addiction the most. Because it's his money first that will be lost eventually during his addiction. Maybe he doesn't realize his situation at first and it's much easier to observe the changes by the family. Nonetheless the gambler has to suffer from his addiction everyday, whereas the direct family might not notice the problem everyday. Also the family doesn't need to support  the gambler with money, they can be open about it and have clear rules to protect themselves. Helping someone who is struggling from addictions is important, but the first step is always for the addict to realise his problem and wanting to change. Helping someone who doesn't want to fight his addiction is not going to lead to anything.

[Wiwo]

So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most?

It will affect them both if the one person depends on the other for survivals. Just as you explained in your post about someone explaining how his father’s gambling addiction made his life disastrous, it will affect everyone that is surviving under the father. Gambling is something you should be able to control and not allow it overpower you and gets you addicted to it, the repercussions is always bad. Also, when you don’t have money spared for other purposes after you’ve spent for your primary wants, don’t go into gambling with money that you need to pay for important expenses, you’ll regret so if you don’t win in those games. Rather than you to affect yourself financially, it is better you don’t gamble too much and make yourself addicted to it.

Both the addict and those around him are truly affected in case of gambling addictions and in most cases, the primary bearer is the one that will carry the burden and bear the most pain of the impact and effect of his addictions and this is what most and everybody need to be concerned about at some point in time, and for sure gambling is one of the activities that can easily get someone addicted but if done under strict laws and follow ups, it wont have too much significant effects on the gambler.

But once some one slid into addictions, it then means that, it will become so tough for him/her to get out of it and have better family Life and things is something that affects the whole family and not the addict alone.

[Dewi Aries]

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?

At the first stage its always the gambler that will be affected by a gambling addiction the most. Because it's his money first that will be lost eventually during his addiction. Maybe he doesn't realize his situation at first and it's much easier to observe the changes by the family. Nonetheless the gambler has to suffer from his addiction everyday, whereas the direct family might not notice the problem everyday. Also the family doesn't need to support  the gambler with money, they can be open about it and have clear rules to protect themselves. Helping someone who is struggling from addictions is important, but the first step is always for the addict to realise his problem and wanting to change. Helping someone who doesn't want to fight his addiction is not going to lead to anything.

Yes, it is clear that for the problem of impact, it is true that it is definitely the gambler himself who will experience and feel the bad effects of his excessive gambling, losing balance in terms of finances is the first problem they will experience and over time it will get worse and even chronic if there are absolutely no close people such as friends or relatives who help to minimize the bad effects due to ignorance about the addiction problems they face.

I think however other family members will definitely care about those who experience addiction if indeed other family members know about the problem of gambling addiction that he suffers, there must be an action at least even if only a few suggestions to help and try to realize, and on the other hand it is clear as you say that if the gambler simply does not want to change his bad habits in the sense of trying to take some action to get out of the addiction zone then obviously this problem will be very difficult to overcome even if family members seek help from some professionals in the psychological field, addiction involves a mindset which means that there must be openness from the gambler to identify the extent of the level of addiction suffered in order to find a suitable prescription and that means gambling will be quite easy to overcome if there is a desire for a change for the better from the gambler himself.

[klidex]

So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most?

In my opinion, it is the gambler himself, because those who do the gambling are the ones who will primarily experience bad things, before other people, in my opinion the main perpetrator comes first. if they gamble excessively which makes them addicted, they will experience bad problems related to their addiction, such as major financial problems, and other things may happen to their behavior and their own thoughts. Many of those who are addicted to gambling experience problems with their finances and themselves.

and after that, when they experience problems with their finances, it will only spread to their family, because with unstable finances, the main perpetrator, sooner or later, they can have an impact on the family, such as borrowing money or asking for money, and I think their family will object. giving money in the form of a loan even if they know that the money will be used for gambling. and if it's like this, it could be that the main perpetrator commits acts of violence because there has been a change in attitude to become a more stubborn person, because people who are addicted to gambling will do anything if they have run out of money for their gambling capital.

Yes, the one who suffers the most is the main perpetrator, namely the gambler himself who has harmed himself because he has too much ambition to win big until in the end he goes bankrupt and doesn't succeed in getting any profit and most gamblers this cannot accept their losses, which causes them to become addicted to gambling where he will continue to gamble so he can recover the money he has lost and if it is the last money he has he will continue to use it to chase wins and will continue to gamble no matter what happens.

The problems of both families will be carried over by the gambler when the gambler commits wrong actions such as borrowing money from other people and not being able to pay it back, or asking his parents for money to continue gambling, which of course really makes his family worry about his gambling getting worse and it's true when someone is addicted to gambling they will definitely experience a change in attitude that is more rude and stubborn and this of course becomes an increasingly burden on their own family.

[AicecreaME]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

[EarnOnVictor]

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?

At the first stage its always the gambler that will be affected by a gambling addiction the most. Because it's his money first that will be lost eventually during his addiction. Maybe he doesn't realize his situation at first and it's much easier to observe the changes by the family. Nonetheless the gambler has to suffer from his addiction everyday, whereas the direct family might not notice the problem everyday. Also the family doesn't need to support  the gambler with money, they can be open about it and have clear rules to protect themselves. Helping someone who is struggling from addictions is important, but the first step is always for the addict to realise his problem and wanting to change. Helping someone who doesn't want to fight his addiction is not going to lead to anything.

You never can conclude for everybody in this regard as to who will feel it most as cases are different. The gambler might not be the person the losses or addiction will affect must, it depends largely on the responsibility of the gambler, concern for his family, the dependent he has and how he is committed to them as well. At times, if someone loses money or suffers a setback, it might not affect the person so much but those he would have reached out to might suffer more. Fine, he might not be happy about the situation, but if he such that is is not responsible himself, he will continue living his life believing that money will be made again either through his paid job or other engagements. By that, he could be bad to the point that as a family man, he might find a way to eat outside and not provide for the family due to that. If the wife is not working, it is another issue, and that is why it depends on the responsibility and concern of the person since some irresponsible people would do it as I mentioned but even as some would do the opposite since they might prefer not to eat in such situation but the family must eat.

Some will even continue to gamble and continue to complain bitterly to the family even as the family suffer the consequence of the action they are not in support of (if they know) or do not know anything about. Regardless of who will suffer, it is better that we are respsonble in our gambling activities, we should not allow it to make us err in our obligations to both ourselves and others. I do not know the reason why people will let themselves be played by casinos and other things of life, this is not the right mind for anyone to engage in anything that has to do with money if at all happens. Taking a break when you feel the iota of addiction is the best and no one should ever be revenging gambling for whatever reason and should never return if they take a break unless they are sure of the right changes in their behaviour and entire psychology.

[Accardo]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

You have a good idea on this, but it's also left for the recipient of the pain to look back at it and move on. It's all in the past and if they keep shuttling back and forth his past experiences with the addicted person. He could affect his own recent behavior or productivity. Humans can help a person only when they can. Most times it's hard not to feel bad about some thoughts, but it doesn't stay with us, as the scar is not ours. In your saying, are you saying the family members are the threes while the addict the axe? I think it doesn't fit right into this scenario between an addicted person and his family. Because the addicted is not expected to forget about his past, as well. Since nobody in the family will forget, saying that the axe forgets sounds weird. Considering you said, the consequences lie heavily on the addicted person.

[maydna]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

Some close people have felt the impact when a gambler starts to get addicted because the gambler's attitude has started to change from usual. They will feel the consequences of not being able to fulfill their daily needs because their money is used for gambling, especially if the gambler is the head of their family. The gambler will also start not paying attention to his family because he has started to feel the pleasure of gambling so that he will gamble more often.

Children will also suffer the impact because the gambler no longer gives love to his children because he is too busy with his gambling. But if the people around him can see changes in the gambler and try to take an approach so that the gambler will open up, perhaps there is still hope of providing understanding to the gambler to want to reduce his gambling activities. If the gambler is willing to realize that he has started to get too deep into gambling, it will increase the chances of healing the gambler even more because there is an attitude of recognition from the gambler to cure himself who has started to become addicted to gambling.

[Blitzboy]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

You have a good idea on this, but it's also left for the recipient of the pain to look back at it and move on. It's all in the past and if they keep shuttling back and forth his past experiences with the addicted person. He could affect his own recent behavior or productivity. Humans can help a person only when they can. Most times it's hard not to feel bad about some thoughts, but it doesn't stay with us, as the scar is not ours. In your saying, are you saying the family members are the threes while the addict the axe? I think it doesn't fit right into this scenario between an addicted person and his family. Because the addicted is not expected to forget about his past, as well. Since nobody in the family will forget, saying that the axe forgets sounds weird. Considering you said, the consequences lie heavily on the addicted person.

Each family member should be a player in a co-op game. Though they have different skills and limitations, they're all traversing the same hazardous terrain. The addict is part of a team, and their actions affect the game.

Consider this: in the world of online gaming, just like in families dealing with addiction, communication is key. Strategizing, respecting each player's role, and realising that the game occasionally tests skill and teamwork are all important. An ongoing process of understanding, adapting, and helping.

There's room for pleasure amid the seriousness, right? Similar to online poker. Knowing when to hold and fold is crucial. With addiction, understanding when to confront and when to offer space is vital. For the love of the game and its participants, its worth the gamble. Even in the worst rounds, find joy and lightness.

[Accardo]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

You have a good idea on this, but it's also left for the recipient of the pain to look back at it and move on. It's all in the past and if they keep shuttling back and forth his past experiences with the addicted person. He could affect his own recent behavior or productivity. Humans can help a person only when they can. Most times it's hard not to feel bad about some thoughts, but it doesn't stay with us, as the scar is not ours. In your saying, are you saying the family members are the threes while the addict the axe? I think it doesn't fit right into this scenario between an addicted person and his family. Because the addicted is not expected to forget about his past, as well. Since nobody in the family will forget, saying that the axe forgets sounds weird. Considering you said, the consequences lie heavily on the addicted person.

Consider this: in the world of online gaming, just like in families dealing with addiction, communication is key. Strategizing, respecting each player's role, and realising that the game occasionally tests skill and teamwork are all important. An ongoing process of understanding, adapting, and helping.

The addict needs to comply with his family and help the ongoing healing process. Some addicts forget their cooperation is needed in curing their problem gambling. It's important that the gamblers don't miss out this dear opportunity, by avoiding the helpers. Resisting help is a bad point of gambling addiction. Developing countervailing forces to distract his family from helping him. So, with the help of the addicted person on his pains and emotions, how he's been surviving the problem all by himself. Few more efforts is then needed to end the gambler's problem. Then the family will then decide if they'll wish to adapt to the trouble or quietly relinquish such thoughts from their brain. Though it takes time, but when we don't start, we never get to finishing line.

[Dimitri94]

The one affected the most when someone becomes addicted are those people surrounding him. If someone gets too dependent on gambling to the extent that he affects other people negatively, the consequences lies heavily on him, but the effects of it to those close to him will manifest for longer time more than what he could possibly remember. Those people close to him will serve as a collateral damage of his choices. They will be entangled with the repercussions of the addict's wrong decisions in life.

Growing up with such bad role model could probably take a toll on someone's mental health. The addict might quit, be rehabilitated, then be sober later on, but the remnants of his wrongdoings will be remembered by the one who suffered to it. There's a saying that goes, the axe forgets, the tree remembers. And it's really true. You can forget what you did during your darkest days, but those whom you abused, you did wrong, and those whom you neglected will forever take it with them. This is why it's important to be self-aware to avoid things like this. Be the parent, spouse, friend, and kid that you want to have. It's unfair to let other people suffer because of you and because of your wrong choices.

Some close people have felt the impact when a gambler starts to get addicted because the gambler's attitude has started to change from usual. They will feel the consequences of not being able to fulfill their daily needs because their money is used for gambling, especially if the gambler is the head of their family. The gambler will also start not paying attention to his family because he has started to feel the pleasure of gambling so that he will gamble more often.

Children will also suffer the impact because the gambler no longer gives love to his children because he is too busy with his gambling. But if the people around him can see changes in the gambler and try to take an approach so that the gambler will open up, perhaps there is still hope of providing understanding to the gambler to want to reduce his gambling activities. If the gambler is willing to realize that he has started to get too deep into gambling, it will increase the chances of healing the gambler even more because there is an attitude of recognition from the gambler to cure himself who has started to become addicted to gambling.

If the addicted gambler is an ordinary member of the family on whom the family is not dependent. Then the effect on the family is much greater than if the head of the family is an addict. Many responsibilities of the family are entrusted to that person. His wife, children, parents are all dependent on him. When he becomes addicted to gambling, his family will not have the normal relationship. As his next generation will suffer as well as his whole family will also suffer. In this case the gambler has more influence on his children than on himself.

[Antotena]

Gambling addection affected the adddectars family members becose a addected person play gamble when he is in profit all ok but when in loss. That affect his family. On the other side gambling addection make distance between family members. Addecters don't give time to the family members. If they in loss pressure their family for money. That's the reason it effect mostly family members.

When you say family, you mean his wife and children or you mean his parents. If a married person is an addicted gambler, I think he is going to affect his wife and will affect his children as well because the children are going to view gambling as a bad thing. They will never see gambling as good thing because the only person they look upto has lost it and the wife might even manipulate them just to save them from following the path of their dad not to become a gambler. As for the finances, the family as a whole are going to be affected because they might even struggle to eat because addiction makes one foolish.

As for a person that is not married, as in a single man might only feel the financial instability, the parent will only feel like they lost a precious person to gambling and that's all except if he is a person that take care of their financial billings and I guess a responsible person will not go beyond his limit to become an addicted gambler, that is even why the casino do warn people to gamble responsibly.

[Pandu Geddon]

Gambling addection affected the adddectars family members becose a addected person play gamble when he is in profit all ok but when in loss. That affect his family. On the other side gambling addection make distance between family members. Addecters don't give time to the family members. If they in loss pressure their family for money. That's the reason it effect mostly family members.

When you say family, you mean his wife and children or you mean his parents. If a married person is an addicted gambler, I think he is going to affect his wife and will affect his children as well because the children are going to view gambling as a bad thing. They will never see gambling as good thing because the only person they look upto has lost it and the wife might even manipulate them just to save them from following the path of their dad not to become a gambler. As for the finances, the family as a whole are going to be affected because they might even struggle to eat because addiction makes one foolish.

As for a person that is not married, as in a single man might only feel the financial instability, the parent will only feel like they lost a precious person to gambling and that's all except if he is a person that take care of their financial billings and I guess a responsible person will not go beyond his limit to become an addicted gambler, that is even why the casino do warn people to gamble responsibly.

Financially, the impact on gamblers who are married or single will both be very pronounced. maybe for those who are married, there is a wife who can manage the finances. and an addicted gambler will only lose the money he has without having to involve family finances. what gets worse is if the addiction starts to become irresponsible, and the gambler forgets about his family's finances. This impact could trigger family destruction and it would be devastating for the gambler who loses his money and his family.
Drug addiction and gambling are both bad. If we cannot avoid it, at least we can minimize the risk and increase our awareness to stay in control.

[bhadz]

There are stories that an addicted gambler despite having a family, if the family members have been tired of giving that gambler reminders and taking care of them, it's not going to be their problem and business anymore if that gambler becomes more addicted and keeps doing his habit.
So, if there's some instances that gambler goes more terrible. The family members won't care to him anymore so, in short that he's destroying himself and that's why the more damage is going to be taken by him not just mentally, emotionally but also financially.

[rachael9385]

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?

At the first stage its always the gambler that will be affected by a gambling addiction the most. Because it's his money first that will be lost eventually during his addiction. Maybe he doesn't realize his situation at first and it's much easier to observe the changes by the family. Nonetheless the gambler has to suffer from his addiction everyday, whereas the direct family might not notice the problem everyday. Also the family doesn't need to support  the gambler with money, they can be open about it and have clear rules to protect themselves. Helping someone who is struggling from addictions is important, but the first step is always for the addict to realise his problem and wanting to change. Helping someone who doesn't want to fight his addiction is not going to lead to anything.

How?
It will not affect the gambler most because he's older and he or she might have a children or people that is not depending on him or her.
However, the gambler might not know what's he or she is doing will affect their children because all they might be putting in their mind is that they will win but when they don't and all of a sudden they become an addicted gambler, their children will now have to suffer.
Unless the gambler do not have any child or family, although, if they don't have any responsibility, they can gamble but they should not become addicted to it, just in case they becomes addicted, they are already alone, no body is depending on they and it they are working, that means they don't also depend on anyone.
Most times we don't have to think that a gambler is the person that is working the money, that he or she should bet and become addicted, no it is not okay that way, all gamblers should gamble safe because your safe gambling makes you a good gambler.