I recently watched a new episode of a program about dependent and codependent people. And they talked about how far a person can go in his lies so that people around him will take pity on him and give him money.
They are ready to lie and make up stories about how they are being persecuted by bandits or tax authorities, and this lie shows how much such a dependent person does not respect his family and people around him. For him, bets and casinos are much more important than relationships with people around him.
This is how far gambling addiction can go, to the extent of deceiving the people around just to satisfy your urge in gambling. What’s worst about majority of these gambling addicts is that they are often in denial of theirselves and will never admit that they are addicts. The fact that these kind of people even end up turning to theft or fraud just to have some funds to gamble, that alone is a big sign of addiction since they become uncontrollable from their own actions.
When someone is trapped in a cycle of addiction, half of their common sense is gone, especially when they are playing and that is the reason why they often do not hesitate at all to do unexpected things, borrowing money, cheating or committing crimes such as theft has become something that is quite common for them to do and the most common is usually selling various items that they have and all of that is done without them realizing it until in the end they usually only realize it when they are depressed and various financial problems befall them. In simple terms, yes, that can be used as a sign that the person has been trapped in an addiction, the point is that the inability to accept defeat and being obsessed with winning is the perfect form to be used as an excuse that they are addicted.