Imagine that there is such a rehabilitation clinic for people who are addicted to gambling. Now imagine what they treat there without the use of pharmacology.
The main doctors there are gambling specialists, whose task is to convince you that you do not need to gamble. Your task, for example, is to prove that the patient most likely has a disordered game. In order to have long-term income, you need to have a gaming system. And not just a system, but a fairly innovative system of forecasting and risk management. Most likely the patient does not have it and never had it; otherwise he would have been successful and would not have ended up in rehab.
It is also necessary to find something for the patient to do instead of playing, so that he can occupy himself.
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?
Actually I'm very much aware of the defense of the gambler because I'm a gambler too aswell so I will get a better understanding of his points of view and then I will have good points to counter his points in the fact that I have a first ha d experience so speaking from experience I think I will have a better edge of conviction for such gambler to understand that he or she should discontinued even if not completely but for a while and try out something else, it's very true they can quickly get rich gambling but then what are the chances and the odds that they will be able to get such done and in what space of time will they be able to achieve that and how much they would have achieved doing sometimes els within that period of time they dedicated all their time to gambling, but having gambling on the side will avail them a better chance to getting involved with sometimes that can help them in the long run.
I will try to get them convinced in the fact that the chances and odds they get rich gambling is just too small hence it will be better they just decided to get something else doing while they are hopeful about gambling because if they keep investing their all in gambling alone they may get bankrupt while they are yet to get rich but if they have got sometimes else doing the chances are they will still be doing just great.