Quote from: synchronym on Today at 03:28:57 AM

Quote from: Orpichukwu on May 25, 2024, 10:53:37 PM

Quote from: southerngentuk on February 06, 2024, 05:40:33 PM

Someone hooked on gambling might seem like they're making crazy choices, borrowing from loan sharks or even stealing. But imagine a powerful urge, like a riptide pulling you towards a dangerous wave. That's what addiction can feel like – overwhelming and hard to resist. It's not just about wanting money; it's about chasing that dopamine rush, the feel-good chemical in your brain that screams "more, more, more!" even when everything crumbles around you.

But can't someone be addicted to gambling and live a decent life? Like, the person can just be addicted and spend all the time he has in the world on gambling, and all the money he could have used on other things, they spend it all on gambling.

Can't they just focus and use their personal belongings for gambling, even if it's about them selling them off in order to make money? Must they be involved in crime and stealing or even borrowing money that they can't pay before we will know that they hate gambling? I know some will say gambling addiction is graded level by level, but you see, this part of them stealing is something I don't understand.

If a gambling addict has no cash income, is unemployed, spends his life gambling, his family pays a heavy price. If he has no income, he gambles with money from the family to make money, or if he can win a single bet away, his self-confidence doubles, and he loses twice as much as if he bet twice as much and wins. He returned home in hand. There are gamblers who constantly gamble and slowly accumulate debt, which may not have the ability to pay back the debt, and eventually have to pay with their own lives.

It is true that you say if addicts do not have their own income, namely by working daily, then he will definitely make a distress in his family members as a result of his bad behavior addicts often cause new problems in his own family life.
Yes, like the example you have said, namely addicts in debt everywhere and he cannot pay for him alone, his family will also bear the burden to pay the debt and maybe the items in his house will be sold to pay off the debt.