Signs of an addiction

[madnessteat]

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I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

[Dewi Aries]

When someone is trapped in a cycle of addiction, half of their common sense is gone, especially when they are playing and that is the reason why they often do not hesitate at all to do unexpected things, borrowing money, cheating or committing crimes such as theft has become something that is quite common for them to do and the most common is usually selling various items that they have and all of that is done without them realizing it until in the end they usually only realize it when they are depressed and various financial problems befall them. In simple terms, yes, that can be used as a sign that the person has been trapped in an addiction, the point is that the inability to accept defeat and being obsessed with winning is the perfect form to be used as an excuse that they are addicted.

Actually when a gambler has gambled with what he did not allocate properly for gambling, then it is a sign of an addicted gambler.
Such as an allocation of $ 50 for each week, but when the gambler finally allocates all his salary to gambling, then we can judge that the gambler is addicted.
The actions of the gambler beyond the limits you mentioned have made the gambler seriously addicted. Because the efforts made have involved other people to feel the loss. The impact of gambling addiction is indeed quite large on a person's life, especially their financial and social.

Yup what you said is also true that actually we can know whether the person is addicted or not, namely from the amount of money they allocate and we will know whether the amount is the amount they can afford to lose or not, namely when they have entered the end of the game, especially when the game ends in defeat, because when a gambler is addicted, usually they will not be able to hide their disappointed reaction or response from their facial expression which of course means they don't like defeat. Basically, addiction is indeed a very terrible situation, the impact can indeed lead many people around us, such as in loan problems and besides that, another problem is that it is very difficult to recover from the addiction and that is the reason why we always remind them, especially beginners, to be more careful and not to put too much hope in winning.

[swogerino]

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I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

That should be the right approach with such people as I know addiction can play very bad "jokes" to the one being addicted. I have been there myself and when everyone was telling me to quit gambling many years ago I didn't listen and went deep down in the abyss more as voices in my head, addiction, was telling me to continue playing as soon you will hit the big win which in fact I never did. It took me many years of gambling failures to realize that I was not in the right path and so many addicted persons do not realize this and continue gambling like nothing bad is happening. So the approach is extremely important.

[nara1892]

In my opinion, the signs of addiction are when you have started to have an excessive interest in the activity, such as not being able to pass a single moment without gambling or when you have some money then the first thing you remember is gambling or simply it can also be said that you have started to become dependent on the activity.

And these signs can occur without the gamblers realizing it, and that is the reason why gambling must be done with full awareness and caution, none other than so that you are able to realize when you see indications related to the development of your excessive interest in this activity, especially regarding winning.

True, so you should always listen to yourself and your inner feelings. And I want to say that I always try to play gambling games as quickly as possible, and not to stretch out the pleasure, or replace my hobbies. I see in this only an opportunity to earn money and I think that this is a completely correct opinion. There is no need to try to find fun in this process, because then the gambler will return to the casino, trying to get more positive emotions.

Yes, but listening to yourself must mean that you are on the right track, meaning make sure that what your heart says is a decision that comes from common sense and a rational point of view because what I worry about is that they are carried away by lust, meaning they must be able to distinguish between which decisions are right and which decisions will lead them astray, as I said before, namely to do an evaluation based on awareness so that you can know whether lately your approach has been leading to a better approach or vice versa.

On the other hand, one thing I will say here is to maintain your common sense and rational way of thinking, because that is the only thing that can help you avoid the possibility of addiction considering that addiction often occurs without being realized.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

Gambling may seem thrilling and bring temporary happiness, but it’s a dangerous path. The joy it brings can quickly fade, and in its place comes a world of trouble. I lost a close friend to it—someone with a successful business, cars, and a family. On the outside, his life seemed perfect, but in secret, he was drowning in debt from gambling. His wife didn’t even know until the bank’s letter arrived. It’s a stark reminder of how easily things can spiral when we hide our struggles.

[Jody.Drummer]

Actually when a gambler has gambled with what he did not allocate properly for gambling, then it is a sign of an addicted gambler.
Such as an allocation of $ 50 for each week, but when the gambler finally allocates all his salary to gambling, then we can judge that the gambler is addicted.
The actions of the gambler beyond the limits you mentioned have made the gambler seriously addicted. Because the efforts made have involved other people to feel the loss. The impact of gambling addiction is indeed quite large on a person's life, especially their financial and social.

Yup what you said is also true that actually we can know whether the person is addicted or not, namely from the amount of money they allocate and we will know whether the amount is the amount they can afford to lose or not, namely when they have entered the end of the game, especially when the game ends in defeat, because when a gambler is addicted, usually they will not be able to hide their disappointed reaction or response from their facial expression which of course means they don't like defeat. Basically, addiction is indeed a very terrible situation, the impact can indeed lead many people around us, such as in loan problems and besides that, another problem is that it is very difficult to recover from the addiction and that is the reason why we always remind them, especially beginners, to be more careful and not to put too much hope in winning.

That's a sure sign, because when they are not ready to lose they might feel upset and what they will do is to bet again in the hope of winning the next gambling session, but considering the uncertain victory, the gambling session they do will not guarantee that they will be able to win so when they experience another defeat what will happen is their emotions will be increasingly called and allow them to lose control of themselves.
I agree with what you said, this addiction is not only detrimental to themselves or the perpetrators themselves but can also harm people around them because there have been quite a few cases where they lose control of themselves and other people are affected by the annoyance of the main perpetrator of the addiction.

[Pandu Geddon]

Actually when a gambler has gambled with what he did not allocate properly for gambling, then it is a sign of an addicted gambler.
Such as an allocation of $ 50 for each week, but when the gambler finally allocates all his salary to gambling, then we can judge that the gambler is addicted.
The actions of the gambler beyond the limits you mentioned have made the gambler seriously addicted. Because the efforts made have involved other people to feel the loss. The impact of gambling addiction is indeed quite large on a person's life, especially their financial and social.

Yup what you said is also true that actually we can know whether the person is addicted or not, namely from the amount of money they allocate and we will know whether the amount is the amount they can afford to lose or not, namely when they have entered the end of the game, especially when the game ends in defeat, because when a gambler is addicted, usually they will not be able to hide their disappointed reaction or response from their facial expression which of course means they don't like defeat. Basically, addiction is indeed a very terrible situation, the impact can indeed lead many people around us, such as in loan problems and besides that, another problem is that it is very difficult to recover from the addiction and that is the reason why we always remind them, especially beginners, to be more careful and not to put too much hope in winning.

That's a sure sign, because when they are not ready to lose they might feel upset and what they will do is to bet again in the hope of winning the next gambling session, but considering the uncertain victory, the gambling session they do will not guarantee that they will be able to win so when they experience another defeat what will happen is their emotions will be increasingly called and allow them to lose control of themselves.
I agree with what you said, this addiction is not only detrimental to themselves or the perpetrators themselves but can also harm people around them because there have been quite a few cases where they lose control of themselves and other people are affected by the annoyance of the main perpetrator of the addiction.

Therefore every gambler needs to adjust the amount of budget they provide for betting. Losing until the budget runs out will be a sign that the gambler should stop instead of continuing the game by making another deposit.
All gamblers must have felt that even chasing victory will only make us experience greater losses. Gambling addiction is not a problem that cannot be overcome, it all depends on how determined you are to try to be better.

[Akbarkoe]

Gambling may seem thrilling and bring temporary happiness, but it’s a dangerous path. The joy it brings can quickly fade, and in its place comes a world of trouble. I lost a close friend to it—someone with a successful business, cars, and a family. On the outside, his life seemed perfect, but in secret, he was drowning in debt from gambling. His wife didn’t even know until the bank’s letter arrived. It’s a stark reminder of how easily things can spiral when we hide our struggles.

Many people say that gambling is a fast track to poverty. As you said, there are some gamblers who have to lose their jobs, businesses, even loved ones just because of bad gambling behavior, and some choose to end their lives because they are in debt.

Gambling can indeed be a place to find entertainment and pleasure, but this is commensurate with the risks posed by irresponsible gambling.

And my message is never to make gambling an escape from all the problems of life experienced, especially financial problems. Maybe at a certain time gambling can provide pleasure through some of the winnings obtained, but in the long run, especially when you start to feel addicted, bad gambling behavior can destroy your life. Which in the end the pleasure turns into misery.

[EarnOnVictor]

In my opinion, the signs of addiction are when you have started to have an excessive interest in the activity, such as not being able to pass a single moment without gambling or when you have some money then the first thing you remember is gambling or simply it can also be said that you have started to become dependent on the activity.

And these signs can occur without the gamblers realizing it, and that is the reason why gambling must be done with full awareness and caution, none other than so that you are able to realize when you see indications related to the development of your excessive interest in this activity, especially regarding winning.

True, so you should always listen to yourself and your inner feelings. And I want to say that I always try to play gambling games as quickly as possible, and not to stretch out the pleasure, or replace my hobbies. I see in this only an opportunity to earn money and I think that this is a completely correct opinion. There is no need to try to find fun in this process, because then the gambler will return to the casino, trying to get more positive emotions.

You are making sense but I wouldn't totally agree with you that some gamblers can't derive fun through gambling. But of course, those gamblers are not the regular bettors or liars who claim to be gambling for fun but are not. It is these liars who should be wary of gambling so that their positive energy will not later put them in trouble. They are such that revenge for their losses and later get frustrated. This is the distinction between those who truly gamble for fun and money, their goals and behaviours around gambling will always be different and yes, people truly gamble for fun and keep it that way throughout the session, but they are few.

[Fredomago]

Gambling may seem thrilling and bring temporary happiness, but it’s a dangerous path. The joy it brings can quickly fade, and in its place comes a world of trouble. I lost a close friend to it—someone with a successful business, cars, and a family. On the outside, his life seemed perfect, but in secret, he was drowning in debt from gambling. His wife didn’t even know until the bank’s letter arrived. It’s a stark reminder of how easily things can spiral when we hide our struggles.

It's reality, when addiction triggered even how successful you are changes will take place, and in some cases a person who already deep into gambling still able to hide things out with his family and friends, to the point that they'll only learn about the addiction when problem already arrives, there's always a need of limiting yourself and make sure to follow everything according to set up plans.

With someone who notice changes from an attitude of another person better to seek deeper to know what are the activities the person is involve to prevent things to happen, a good guidance will help to find alternative activities to avoid gambling addictions.

[Tungbulu]

You are making sense but I wouldn't totally agree with you that some gamblers can't derive fun through gambling. But of course, those gamblers are not the regular bettors or liars who claim to be gambling for fun but are not. It is these liars who should be wary of gambling so that their positive energy will not later put them in trouble. They are such that revenge for their losses and later get frustrated. This is the distinction between those who truly gamble for fun and money, their goals and behaviours around gambling will always be different and yes, people truly gamble for fun and keep it that way throughout the session, but they are few.

Indeed there are actually those who do actually gamble for the fun and thrill of the game. But just as you’ve rightly said, they’re not the regular kind of gamblers we see everyday. In addition to this, there’s something we need to understand, and that’s the fact that someone can be a fun and thrill seeking gambler and yet still make some minor mistake sometimes, and that’s just normal. The fact that a person loses money above their budget doesn’t really mean that they have suddenly become profit seeking gamblers. It is when they’ve suddenly made this a habit, that’s when it becomes a problem. We are humans, we are wired to go out of our usual ways sometimes.

[mirakal]

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I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

However, the only problem is if we aren’t aware that this person is into gambling and just think of another excuse that would convince us to offer money or lend money for him. We are pushing him to his gambling addiction unconsciously. But if in the first place he’s known to be a gambler, why lend him money? That would only make him believe that it’s easy to sustain his gambling addiction since the people around him are even supportive of his wrong doing.

[bocyaj]

However, the only problem is if we aren’t aware that this person is into gambling and just think of another excuse that would convince us to offer money or lend money for him. We are pushing him to his gambling addiction unconsciously. But if in the first place he’s known to be a gambler, why lend him money? That would only make him believe that it’s easy to sustain his gambling addiction since the people around him are even supportive of his wrong doing.

The gambler who use the loan money for the gambling will create double trouble for the gamblers.Because if they won the money by the loan money,he can able to close the loan and to gain something.But the problem here is the gambler who loss the loan money have to repay the loan and also he may repay the loan with some interest.So I don’t suggest any gamblers to play the gambling with the loan money.Instead they can use what they afford to loss in that particular month from their salary.

The money loss in the gambling will surely get addicted because to recover the old loss money.But this also cause the gamblers to get many high risk in the betting like bet for high amount.So high bet will make them to earn huge or may cause the entire loss of holding money.

[nara1892]

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I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

However, the only problem is if we aren’t aware that this person is into gambling and just think of another excuse that would convince us to offer money or lend money for him. We are pushing him to his gambling addiction unconsciously. But if in the first place he’s known to be a gambler, why lend him money? That would only make him believe that it’s easy to sustain his gambling addiction since the people around him are even supportive of his wrong doing.

Well that's true, that's also what's on my mind, because after all we never know about the habits of other people and also usually gamblers who borrow money are often dishonest or mean not telling the truth to the borrower and say that the money is for other urgent needs in their lives, to be honest I really know about this because previously my friends and I often borrowed money with that reason when I was still trapped in addiction.

Basically it's difficult to really know whether the person is involved in gambling or not, especially if they are not too close to us, therapy of course if for example we know about those who are involved in gambling then it is clear that lending money to them is a big mistake even though they say that the money is not to finance their gambling activities, but on the other hand I think lending money to them does not mean we support their addiction if for example from the start we don't know that they are gamblers.

[Wakate]

Funny enough all of this are not only associated with a gambling addict but cut across anything has to do with addiction, generally too much of anything they said can be very bad, every addict will always put first whatever that are addicted to first before any other thing, and most times it takes one personal decision based on how much they have gotten the experience the hard way other than taken advice from those around them.

Over involvement in anything isn't good at all, there should always be a time to disconnect and take your focus to something else profitable. Addiction can emanate from over expectation from something or an activity, for example in gambling, addiction happens when someone is expecting a huge cashouts from it, disregarding other negative factors or implications that is possible from lack of emotional control and chasing loses.

He expects that gambling must pay him handsomely before he quits. This stubbornness and over expectation has led to the ruins of many people. Moderation in everything is of great importance and not only in gambling since one habit formed can easily spread to other concerns of one's life.

Moderation is the only thing they can do by the time they are already into gambling.  There is no stopping when person has already started gambling, there is a chance that he will go all in to it especially when he encounters bigger problem in terms of finance. Gambling is going to be an option for him whenever he needs a sum.

Just like one relative that I have, he been asking loans to all his niece just so he could gamble. Gambling was one of his option when he needed money.

It is true that there is no going back when you started gambling because the zeal to keep trying your luck would be there so that you can make more money for yourself. Luck is crucial for every gambler that want to keep making consistent profits from the market. Addiction has been the result of gambling without risk management consecutive. To make money involved taking risks and when taking risks, it is advisable to keep watching and giving accountability if your gambling activities. When trying to make money from gambling, I know the urge is always there just like there is a spirit telling you that the next game you are about to bet on would yield to profit.

[gunhell16]

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I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

That should be the right approach with such people as I know addiction can play very bad "jokes" to the one being addicted. I have been there myself and when everyone was telling me to quit gambling many years ago I didn't listen and went deep down in the abyss more as voices in my head, addiction, was telling me to continue playing as soon you will hit the big win which in fact I never did. It took me many years of gambling failures to realize that I was not in the right path and so many addicted persons do not realize this and continue gambling like nothing bad is happening. So the approach is extremely important.

There are many addicted gamblers who cannot admit to themselves that they are not like that but contradict their actions. What is also difficult for gamblers who are addicted to gambling is that you cannot stop them when they want to play gambling in any casino whether online or physical casino.

Then when you see or notice that they often play gambling even though they are not a bad person but always find ways to play gambling.

[Hispo]

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Then when you see or notice that they often play gambling even though they are not a bad person but always find ways to play gambling.

Being addicted to gambling does not automatically means one is a bad person or one is capable of bad things for the sake of money or continue to gamble. It just only means such people have a problem which they need to address carefully and as soon as possible, so psychological symptoms won't get worse as time goes on.
There are good people who are addicted to gambling and yet try to fuel their addiction by working extra hours, getting more works to do and even selling their assets. Addiction itself starts to turn one into a "bad" person when we start to mistreat ourselves and others for the sake of fueling our habit: quitting jobs, stealing money, defrauding people, among other things.

Because of people who cannot stop gambling it was the reason laws were introduced in western countries to allow gamblers to exclude themselves from casinos, though effectiveness of such measure in my opinion is not as meaningful as  many people believe. There is always a way to gamble, even if one already self-excluding from the biggest and most popular platforms.

[hahay]

Gambling may seem thrilling and bring temporary happiness, but it’s a dangerous path. The joy it brings can quickly fade, and in its place comes a world of trouble. I lost a close friend to it—someone with a successful business, cars, and a family. On the outside, his life seemed perfect, but in secret, he was drowning in debt from gambling. His wife didn’t even know until the bank’s letter arrived. It’s a stark reminder of how easily things can spiral when we hide our struggles.

Basically he does not have good control in gambling, so he will bet blindly to catch up on losses. Because after all, if for example he can control himself well when he gets a lot of losses, of course he will still be able to keep his finances in good condition. So, having the consideration to stop betting is also important, because gambling is not always fun. However, with good control and control, of course gambling will still be able to provide  a pleasure that becomes a healthy addiction when the gambler has good financial control too. So, when the gambler continues to gamble when he gets a series of losses and consecutive wins, without any maximum limit to stop. Then this can be a sign of gambling addiction, of course it must be completely stopped before everything gets worse.

[Jody.Drummer]

That's a sure sign, because when they are not ready to lose they might feel upset and what they will do is to bet again in the hope of winning the next gambling session, but considering the uncertain victory, the gambling session they do will not guarantee that they will be able to win so when they experience another defeat what will happen is their emotions will be increasingly called and allow them to lose control of themselves.
I agree with what you said, this addiction is not only detrimental to themselves or the perpetrators themselves but can also harm people around them because there have been quite a few cases where they lose control of themselves and other people are affected by the annoyance of the main perpetrator of the addiction.

Therefore every gambler needs to adjust the amount of budget they provide for betting. Losing until the budget runs out will be a sign that the gambler should stop instead of continuing the game by making another deposit.
All gamblers must have felt that even chasing victory will only make us experience greater losses. Gambling addiction is not a problem that cannot be overcome, it all depends on how determined you are to try to be better.

Yes, it is the same as we have to allocate money for gambling with the amount we can afford, able here is able to be eliminated and able to not interfere with other finances such as savings or others. Do not let it happen when the money allocated for gambling has run out and we force ourselves to bet again, even worse, using money that should be for other needs such as savings or money to meet daily needs, it is not advisable to risk everything desperately on gambling, it is a stupid act.
People who pursue victory in gambling are no longer healthy people in their minds, because as you said when they are like that, what can happen is that they will only experience greater losses and I think this is not only about money but also other things such as health, relationships, careers, and others.

[fruktik]

I believe that you should not lend money to people who are addicted to gambling and alcohol, as you are not helping them, but supporting their addiction. In my opinion, it is much more productive to educate them about the harm of their addictions. Addiction is a kind of disease that can be very difficult to cope with, especially for people who have a psychological predisposition to it. If we help such people, we should only help them with full confidence that the money will not be used to support their addiction.

Does anyone ask what they borrow money for? No one asked me about this. Only later did it turn out that I spent it in a casino. After that, no one lent me money. Yes, you are right. You should not indulge people and support their addiction, but at first it is difficult to find out the details. People trusted me and I let them down when I did not return the money on time. After all this, people did not even communicate with me, and some of them crossed me out of their lives. This is how to be addicted to gambling.