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Re: Does refusal to play (deprivation) help cure gambling addiction?
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tread93
on 31/08/2025, 01:35:13 UTC
I used to watch a lot of video interviews with addicted gamblers. They told me how they went through treatment and one thing struck me. More precisely, this thing is quite natural in relation to addiction treatment, as I understood later, but I did not immediately understand the logic. We are talking about weaning from gaming. I thought that weaning from gaming would most likely only work in very advanced cases, when the player is at the bottom of a financial crisis or on the verge of suicide. Then weaning from gaming would most likely work well. But if this is not the case, then what is the benefit of weaning from gaming? Perhaps the logic is to create positive habits in a person. But, in my opinion, this does not allow us to identify the main reason for gaming and work on it. In my opinion, the real reason is that a person has a naive desire to get rich on gambling (, but he does not have even the slightest competence for this and it is more than likely that they will not appear. This is if we are talking about sports betting. If a person wants to get rich on casino games, such as roulette, and does not want to know anything about risk management and money management, then weaning from games is really necessary. And what do you think, does refusal to play (deprivation) contribute to recovery from addiction or is it useless?

You have to re-wire your brain to get out of your habits. The more you reject the urge the easier it will get to turn it down. Ive been reading Atomic Habits (incredible book) and it's been talking about how to get rid of your old bad habits. A helpful trick is to convince yourself that gambling is nothing to you and remind yourself of all the positives that not gambling brings into your life. For example by not gambling you are practicing self control which feels good to be in control, you save money, make your family proud, are being responsible, you will be more focused and keep yourself from other temptations such as drinking and smoking as a result. You may even eat better food amd get more sleep! The other way is to convince yourself how bad gambling is for you and remind yourself of how painful and damaging it can be to you. This helps a lot of people.