Quote from: fruktik on Today at 05:22:55 AM

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I was constantly stressed when I lost a significant amount of money. I fell into some kind of indifference to everything that surrounded me. There was no spark of joy in my eyes. Thoughts were about how to find money again and go and try to win it back. Well, that's not much fun, to be honest. It's a bit like masochism.

How many times have I told myself in my thoughts that I should stop and reconsider my approach to the process. But no... I didn't want to do it, because my inner voice was talking about the futility of this activity.

Yes, I think that when a person goes into a bad situation like that, they can feel a bit numb from all the stress and losses.

The idea of trying to win more money in gambling, which is the way the gamblers lost their money to begin with, is basically what can be seen as the start of an addiction...

When the "cure" becomes the "problem", that is when the feedback loops start to present more and more obviously.

It's a slippery slope, and a gambler must be prepared to stop when this happens.