Now imagine that this gambling expert is you. What arguments will you give? What will you tell the patient about?
Please note that the patient will resist to the last. He will give counterarguments. For example, that he will get rich in the future, he’s just not lucky yet.
What other arguments do you think the patient will give? How do you respond to these arguments of his?
I have said this before and am still going to say it here: there is no way to make a gambling addict change unless he or she is self-determined to change. That is when you can apply some little help to the person, which can help him or her fully change their addicted gambling lifestyle and become a better person.
It is when an addicted gambler has accepted that they are addicted and they want to change and become better. That's when your work will be simple, but if it's an addicted gambler who has sold their mind to addiction and they are not even seeing themselves as people who are addicted, then there is no help that can work for them unless you will have to reformat their brain.
Sometimes ago, I always talk about one of my college friends who was an addicted gambler, and there was nothing his parents did not do to help the boy, but every attempt to help him was futile.
You can restrict an addicted gambler for months, but the moment you give him freedom, he goes straight away to gamble.