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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Will you find it offensive to be referred to as an addicted gambler?
by
GigaBit
on 24/06/2023, 19:36:49 UTC

But telling someone to their face or worse, to someone else, that one is an addict, as if it were diagnosed fact, can be wrong and very harming to one's reputation.

Therefore, having reputation is not visible for an addict, that is why giving them help is mostly by initially out of their will , that means the third party has to act for them by taking the decision to help him out of it.
If you can get an addicted gambler out of his addiction, it can be certainly a good work. However, I have seen several gamblers who were addicted gamblers but presented themselves as if they were not gambling. Once when a person advised one of addicted gamblers about his gambling addiction, he became angry with him and harassed him in various ways. So it is good to give advice but It is better to do whatever the situation dictates.