Gambling Addiction & Recovery Support Group
Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. A preferred term among many professionals is problem gambling, as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others rather...
I was watching this 'idiots compilation' video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKdbv0DZzk
It's pretty funny. No doubt, as with anyone else who has watched it, I was thinking "haha, what idiots, can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to do that - dumbasses".
Then I thought about gambling - if someone recorded us going into the casino, putting money on the table or in a machine, losing it, then reaching into our pockets to put even more money on the table/in the machine, then what difference is there between me and the people in that video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKdbv0DZzk
It's pretty funny. No doubt, as with anyone else who has watched it, I was thinking "haha, what idiots, can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to do that - dumbasses".
Then I thought about gambling - if someone recorded us going into the casino, putting money on the table or in a machine, losing it, then reaching into our pockets to put even more money on the table/in the machine, then what difference is there between me and the people in that video?
Good sense go out the window. The difference with that video is we can't see physical signs of gambling. No marks anyone can see. No physical cuts, no one knows you are injured, lie and no one knows we lie...We keep it hidden until someone intervenes.