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Gambling for entertainment
The casinos have become a medium of entertainment for a
vast majority of people. It is away of de-stressing from
a long and hard day at work or a long week. Most of the
people at casinos come there for pure thrill of playing
the games. However, since there is involvement of money
into these games with one person winning and the other
losing, gambling can be a happy evening for some but a
sad time for others.
Not everyone who visits the casinos is able to take
defeat and loss sportingly .A balanced approach to
winning or losing is necessary to ensure we keep
enjoying the casinos instead of the casino enjoying us.
There is no doubt, a lot of excitement in the lure of
the lucre. It gives an unmatched high to a lot of
people. Winning money also induces greed and there lies
the root cause of addiction.
Addiction???
Addiction of any sort means a situation where a person
is unable to control his craving for something.
Addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, and smoking is known
to us and so are the dangerous consequences of the same.
Similar to this, a person could have an addiction to
gambling. This is damaging, as we know very well, excess
of everything is bad and it is this excess that leads to
addiction.
Addiction to gambling can be categorized into three
phases, the initial or the winning phase when the person
wins a few deals and gets increasingly confident and
bullish about his chances of winning all the time. Here,
he would start spending more and more time in the
casinos. As the phase is positive, the gambler increases
the amounts he stakes, in greed of getting higher
returns. The second phase is the losing phase when he
starts losing more often, and tries to arrest the slide
by putting in more money with a hope of recovering the
entire amount. The gambler is in a secluded zone and
keeps to him, ignores family life, and becomes
intolerant of his family members or friends.
The third and advanced phase of gambling is of despair.
Compulsions to arrange money from any source, increasing
debts, alcoholism at times drive the gambler to the
extremes .Illegal activity to get the money is also not
ruled out. The depression, hopelessness and failure, may
force suicidal thought also.
There is a way out...
The first positive step person can take to emerge out of
any kind of
addiction is to acknowledge the problem. Most
addicts would deny the existence of addiction and thus
also deny themselves the chance to start afres.There are
several resources available to provide help. Counseling,
support and professional guidance is there for everyone
to use and solve the problems. The family needs to give
very solid support so that the person does not feel
insecure or develop inferiority complex...
When it becomes more than a game it is time to get help.
There are many resources where a player can find help.
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