Gambling addiction is a fairly characteristic phenomenon of the human psyche. Like any other hobby that brings a person some kind of pleasure and pleasant pastime, it is always quite difficult to determine the very moment when, in general, a fairly harmless hobby becomes practically a disease for a person. Usually a person himself realizes that this hobby becomes a disease later than his close people can notice. Therefore, treatment of gambling addiction is often very diffiicult to carry out simply because the psychology of such a gambling addict always tells him that he can easily quit gambling as soon as he wants to. However, this is not true. But forcibly turning off the computer or not giving money for the game only creates a precedent when the addicted player begins to struggle with difficulties. And he begins to fight as best he can. And this seriously complicates his life and the lives of all his loved ones.
And often, if an addict cannot gamble because of coercion from other people, they will look for other ways to be able to gamble, even if that means they have to gamble in secret. This is to fulfill their desire to gamble because they cannot escape gambling, so they do that. For this reason, awareness is needed that they are actually addicted to gambling and really need help to get out of their gambling addiction. This is also intended so that people around them know that they, these gambling addicts, need help to overcome their gambling addiction. And when there are people who know and can help them, they will start looking for solutions so that gambling addicts can be treated immediately with the right approach. And even though the healing process takes time, it will not be a problem because gambling addicts themselves want recovery so they will try and fight to recover from their gambling addiction.
I would not say that it is easy for a real gambling addict to overcome his addiction to gambling, even if he himself wants it.
A common part of the healing process is to abstain from gambling for a period of time. And then, being in a certain mood, such gambler can still, as they say, break loose and start playing and losing again. This is a very unpleasant moment in this healing process. And by the way, it is quite difficult to determine exactly how long a gambling addict should not play at all in order to understand for sure that he is no longer attracted to gambling at all and even if he plays, he will easily finish any game.
It seems to me that this time can be calculated in years.
Only then can we consider that I have cured the gambling addiction completely..