That's a good advice. Indeed, gambling addicts can't think of anything but gambling all the time. Thinking of what you really want to do in life can open your eyes and see that you are heading to addiction if you continue this way.
Addiction is likened to madness, it is until a madman knows that he is mad that he will be healed, the same thing goes for addictions, especially in gambling. Gambling addiction is bad, but unfortunately, it takes a whole long time for this to occur to many addicted people, they would have wasted money, energy and time on it and all that they will be thinking about is betting and getting to try their luck in it. For some of these people, it's mere fun, and to this category, it might be minimal since they might be wise enough not to use big money for it. Yet, if too consistent, money would be wasted. To them, they are enjoying their hobby, but there is nothing you do too much which takes more of your time and never without a good thing to show for it that is good.
A responsible gambler must moderate things so that they will not affect their personal lives. This category is lessened in effect, yet, no one should be addicted to gambling, it is bad, and if it doesn't take money, it takes another thing, or both. However, the worst category is the ones that would believe they can make their life's fortune in gambling, but instead, wasting money repeatedly and continue to do so for they believe they can make the money eventually through it. In most cases, the money will never come, but this would have attached to their minds and it goes on like that until they eventually realize their mistakes or find help.
There are many cases where people are aware that they are addicted to gambling or other things, but still people refuse to take treatment to stop the addiction because they always use the argument that they can cure themselves and this gets worse when the person who is addicted to gambling is not happy in the real world, financial and love problems lead people to go into depression and become addicted to something and as long as you don't talk much with the addicted person for them to tell you why she is unhappy and how could she be happy and then start treating her for addiction, it would be difficult to cure an addicted person, years ago I had people I knew who became addicted, they suffered from depression
and at that time I couldn't understand why they were suffering from depression, what was their problem that led them to constantly be sad and frustrated, it was something they didn't tell me and looking back today, I see that it was too obvious to see what they had . but at that time I was too naive so I couldn't understand much, I pressured them to undergo addiction treatment, he assumed he was addicted, he underwent addiction treatment but when he left the isolation center, he returned to addiction, which It made me sad and he kept making a lot of promises that he would be able to stop this time, but he couldn't stop the addiction and as a result he went back to the isolation center to get adequate treatment to stop the addiction.
but months later, when he left the isolation center for addiction treatment, he returned to the addiction, this was frequent until the addiction killed him, by this I mean that it is not easy to cure the addiction, and you need to be a very determined person to fighting is having the will to win and being the type of person who doesn't give up on themselves, even when things don't seem to be going well and it is necessary for the person to remain very firm in the fight they are having.