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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Does refusal to play (deprivation) help cure gambling addiction?
by
nullama
on 31/08/2025, 02:29:00 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?

I think the best way to stop a bad habit is to actually replace it with a good habit.

If you simply try to stop the bad habit without anything to replace it, then the mind will constantly try to get it back.

The mind can only have one thought at a time, so if you keep it busy with something else, you have better chances of stopping a bad habit.