Is addiction bad only when it is a problem?

[Gormicsta]

Addiction to gambling is not a problem for some gamblers because there are some gamblers who are addicted to gambling, but it doesn't affect the other activities of their life. They take care of their families, wear good clothes, smell nice, meet up with appointments but still cannot control the urge to gamble. It doesn't affect their life because they can afford to gamble and manage the loses they make. So, to these people addiction is not a problem. They are addicts, but because they are successful, their addiction is ignored or excused as it is not a problem.
So I am need to know, is addiction only bad when it is a problem?

Addiction is addiction and addiction is very bad because the result isn't always good, the fact that a gambler always have the urge to gamble doesn't make him an addict, neither does giving in to urges make you an addict. One sign of addiction is when your gambling life affects other areas of your life. For example, your gambling budget is 20% of your income and instead of just sticking to 20%, your gambling starts consuming and cutting into other expenses and sometimes you even end up using all your income just to satisfy your gambling urges and you only feel better when you're left with nothing. Sometimes it makes you even go as far as going to borrow from others just to continue gambling.

And just because a person smells nice, dresses nice or appears to meet up with appointments doesn't really mean he's all good, you might never know just how much damage his addiction might be causing him, not until he opens up and spills it all out to you.

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of course if your addiction makes bad things happen in your life, but if you are an addict who doesn't involve or disturb your finances and daily activities that's not bad, that's a responsible gambler, it's bad when you gamble beyond your means which causes a lot of problems in your life, especially your finances

it's bad when a gambler loses that's just it. the addiction problem is nothing if the gambler keeps winning. after all, he won't be scratching his head to find some money to pay his bills since he is winning all the time.

if you are in such a position, you wouldn't really mind whether you're an addicted gambler who would spend more of your time in the casino or infront of your computer betting most of the time as long as you are winning. but this is just getting extremely lucky. there is no way someone will keep winning.

[Doan9269]

There have never been a time once where addiction in gambling has never been a problem, the word itself is a problem and talked a lot about the meaning, so tell me, how can addicted gambler do without having a problem, this may really affect his career, family, relationship or even his way of life in general, having addiction is not is good and its never an easy task to also finds a means of dealing with it appropriately without the gambler being affected in any way, so its more better and honorably not to start it ever than when having it as a gambler.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

So I am need to know, is addiction only bad when it is a problem?

Regardless of whether you are addicted or not, causing bad results is already a problem. And usually when people use the word addiction for any problem, it usually leads to bad outcomes or affects others. The aspect you mentioned about an addict can manage their money, I think that is not addiction, because when addicted, it is very difficult to use reason to control everything, especially with money.
Playing in control is not an addiction, but simply liking it and spending a lot of time on it, in my opinion. It is very easy to distinguish between addiction and non-addiction. When you risk everything to gamble even though you have no more money, or even do illegal things to get money to gamble, that is addiction. On the contrary, if you run out of money, you quit and don't continue playing, it's not an addiction.

[ethereumhunter]

There have never been a time once where addiction in gambling has never been a problem, the word itself is a problem and talked a lot about the meaning, so tell me, how can addicted gambler do without having a problem, this may really affect his career, family, relationship or even his way of life in general, having addiction is not is good and its never an easy task to also finds a means of dealing with it appropriately without the gambler being affected in any way, so its more better and honorably not to start it ever than when having it as a gambler.

Gambling addiction itself is a serious problem for them, and they will not be able to think clearly about what they are facing. Gamblers who gamble excessively will become addicted to gambling sooner or later. If they still cannot realize it, they will simply become addicted to gambling and that will be difficult to cure. And when they are addicted to gambling, they will no longer act like before because all they think about is how to gamble and they don't want to do other things. If anyone sees that they are addicted to gambling and they are family members or friends, it is best to immediately help those who are addicted to gambling before that person falls deeper into their gambling addiction, which is increasingly difficult to cure.

[carlfebz2]

So I am need to know, is addiction only bad when it is a problem?

Regardless of whether you are addicted or not, causing bad results is already a problem. And usually when people use the word addiction for any problem, it usually leads to bad outcomes or affects others. The aspect you mentioned about an addict can manage their money, I think that is not addiction, because when addicted, it is very difficult to use reason to control everything, especially with money.
Playing in control is not an addiction, but simply liking it and spending a lot of time on it, in my opinion. It is very easy to distinguish between addiction and non-addiction. When you risk everything to gamble even though you have no more money, or even do illegal things to get money to gamble, that is addiction. On the contrary, if you run out of money, you quit and don't continue playing, it's not an addiction.

Yes, we do see that there are those people who arent that addicted but still ending up on having those problems like losing up a huge amount of money because they have made some all-in bets on the time that they do gamble and this is something like suicide thing to be done on which there's no way that you could really be able to make yourself that be able to avoid if you have done it just earlier.
Addiction does basically means that you are already involving yourself into such activity on excessive manner on which it would be common sense that you wont really be caring about on how much you have
lost already on doing such activity specially in gambling. Any forms of addiction is always been that bad because you would really be doing things on excessive manner.