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.
I think a real addict doesn't have much to do with reputation anymore because if he does, he won't have to get to the level of addict, he would place some limit to himself because at that point he is still in control of himself and emotion which makes him to be cautious of his actions. Someone is an addict because he has lost self control to limit himself on his gambling playing habit. 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.
An addicted gambler should not find it offensive when they call him by what he is, which we means there are many things we do that aren't proper and we know but couldn't avoid them because we don't know to do without them even as they are things that hurt our lives, gamblers needed to be treated with humility and regards but they don't know how they have already lost this through their addictions because people sees us and learn from what we do if they are right and talk about them if they aren't good enough for appraisal either we like it or not.
People are different on which there would be those people who would really be that emotionally sensitive and there are ones who are open minded and there are ones who dont really care at all on what others been saying and as long they could be able to do things that they do like or want then that what matter the most. For me if someone do call me as an addicted gambler then i might really be having those common reactions but later on i would really be trying out to reassess whether im addicted or not.
You are the ones who could really truly tell if you are already that going beyond your limits when it comes to spending money on gambling because you wouldn't really be so dumb on not to make out some
comparison in between numbers. Will you find it to be offensive if there's someone who called you that way? If they havent seen anything then they wouldnt really tell something but if theres someone
who do call you then you should think that you are already that addicted. People doesnt really like on getting involved with other people but once they've seen something and having that concern
then better take it as a warning and something you shouldnt really be angry about.