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Quote from: South Park on October 06, 2023, 10:33:25 PM

~ I think the help of their family and professional help are both needed to assist the addicted to overcome their problem, the family is needed to provide the moral support, as overcoming an addiction is very difficult to do and they may think about giving up during the middle of the process, and the family has to be there to reassure them and motivate them to keep going, but professional help is needed as well, since an addiction can be so out of hand that only someone that has been trained could possibly help the addicted to get over their compulsion to gamble.

Very well said. The support from your loved ones is very important. It makes you want to jump off your addiction. But more often than not you can't make that jump without a professional help. To choose among the professionals is a crucial bit. It should someone with big experience, not a young person, but not someone very old either because his/her main experience should be in the field of online gambling.

I think a lack in social relationships can be a trigger for gambling addiction in the first place. I am quite sure that there is data on the degree of isolation of people and how it affects them in terms of susceptibility to addictions. If someone has great relationships all around him or her, it is much less likely that that person is wasting time in front of a screen gambling online I suppose. But once an addiction kicked in, it is of course as helpful to have intact social relationships. But with intact I mean that it is not enough to just have them, it is important to have those that are willing to raise their voice and tell you that something is wrong. Often times people with close relationships are too afraid to talk openly to each other because they think they hurt each other. That's not simple at all.

Yes, social interactions matter to us. There's also evidence that solitude can cause addictions, especially gambling. When lonely, people turn to fast gratification, like gambling. It's a quick getaway, right?

Like you said, relationships aren't simply about statistics. Quality of relationships matters. We need caring folks who can say, "Hey, something's off. You okay? " Ironic that sometimes being closer makes it harder to discuss the elephant in the room? Why are we afraid to communicate our worries for fear of hurting them? Doesn't quiet hurt more in such cases? No single solution exists for this complex subject. But openness, understanding, and support may change everything

Your second paragraph would probably fill a 10,000 pages thread alone here

Proximity makes it often harder to bring up a certain kind of important matters. It's probably because people who are close to each other don't want to hurt each other and raising a serious issue that someone observes about another person could fall into the category of hurting someone, but it's actually only short term. The real pain would happen if things aren't discussed. Yet, it's probably true for me as well that bringing something up in front of someone important can be tough. The human psyche, the unsolved riddle Wink