you have done your best for him, but he doesn't listen to you, he can't forget his defeat and tries to take revenge, and that will bring him down into misery, we can't act with things like this only his own self-awareness can change it
- It's really hard when an addicted gambler's mind is closed because they are deaf to the reminders of friends who really care about them; even relatives or their own spouses themselves don't listen anymore.
So when it comes to gambling addiction, it does not really have any good effects on itself. It seems like there is a right time for them to understand or realize that they need to change, or something like that. So what can change them is no one else but themselves.
It is difficult for us to stop our addiction to gambling without a strong enough determination, let alone stopping or advising a friend not to gamble, of course it will only cause disputes between us and that friend, As a friend, of course we can only advise him and I think we won't can change a friend's mindset in a short time, there will be two risks for us (my personal experience) if we continue to give advice to a friend who is addicted to gambling :
First, gradually the friend begins to realize that gambling is the wrong thing and in the end he tried to stop gambling little by little.
Second, if we keep trying to give advice, we can be sure that this friend will stay away from us because maybe he will get bored of hearing every advice we give and in the end the friendship will end.
According to existing research, gambling addiction can cause changes in our brain circuits just like drug addiction so that in the end this addiction will affect our finances, our bodies and even our brains which will not work as normal people should.