Gambling addiction is not spiritual.

[Cryptmuster]

I don't really know why people are thinking that addiction is spiritual issues where they wouldn't want to go to a rehabilitation centre to get their insanity restored. Gambling is very addictive when they only see it as a source of income and means of increasing their resources, gambling should only be treated as a means of easing one stress and also as a means of having fun.

I really doubt that gambling can be a good way to relieve stress. It might help you distract yourself from other things for a while, but gambling can also be quite a stressful activity, so I think it is just a way to switch to something else if there is a need for it.

[Stable090]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

Why will anyone think addiction is spiritual? It doesn’t make sense to me, if you want to solve gambling addiction problem, and you think the best place to visit is your religious place, then I will say you not really ready to solve your problem because you visiting the wrong place, gambling addiction problem is not a spiritual problem, it’s a mental problem, and religious places cant solve the problem.

If a addicted gambler really wants to stop gambling, firstly they will have the mindset to stop gambling, if you don’t have the mindset, then it’s going to be difficult to stop gambling, because their are some things which you will be doing if you want to stop gambling, and if you don’t have the mindset to stop gambling, then you won’t be able to do those things.

[Sticky Bomb]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

I cannot believe that gambling addiction is spiritual at all. Gamblers bring these problems upon themselves when they gamble irresponsibly, too much of everything is bad and as well too much involvement in gambling is bad. If the gambler really wants to give up his gambling habits, they can start with using the self-exclusion feature on the casino and try to avoid the casino for a while if possible. Blaming it on a spiritual setting does them no good, they should deal with it themselves, although prayers can help someone, but it starts by the gambler identifying that he has a problem and being willing to face it, else even spiritual intervention would always prove abortive.

[Kagaru]

What you say now wont change the mind of those who have already cemented their mentality on spirituality relating to gambling. I have nothing against them, since they are bound to stand with that idea I still remain one who does not support it.

Gambling is a mental issue not a spiritual one, if it was spiritual does strong in faith will always win.

It's a hard task to change someone's state of mind or believe, you just have to leave them to what they know or understand...like you said, gambling is more of a mental or psychological issue but people tend to feel like there's something spiritual involved because some gamblers act like they are abnormal and controlled, it's just a display of a dependency syndrome and can only be dealt with therapy and abstenaince

Actually when people cannot explain things as thoroughly as they want, they will always associate them with spirituality and the case of gambling would be no exception considering it greatly influences the behavior of the people. In practice, however, it is rather psychological. The process of addiction by which it controls the thoughts and actions of someone has more to it in terms of the brain, than in the spiritual area. It is not the spirits, fate but it is the habit loops, dopamine and the triggering of emotions. Remedies and self-reflection are so much more effective than spiritual thinking when it comes to handling it.

[sompitonov]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

Why will anyone think addiction is spiritual? It doesn’t make sense to me, if you want to solve gambling addiction problem, and you think the best place to visit is your religious place, then I will say you not really ready to solve your problem because you visiting the wrong place, gambling addiction problem is not a spiritual problem, it’s a mental problem, and religious places cant solve the problem.

If a addicted gambler really wants to stop gambling, firstly they will have the mindset to stop gambling, if you don’t have the mindset, then it’s going to be difficult to stop gambling, because their are some things which you will be doing if you want to stop gambling, and if you don’t have the mindset to stop gambling, then you won’t be able to do those things.

I think that many players simply come up with various things to occupy their brains, and spirituality and gambling addiction in my understanding are not very connected. More precisely, there may be a connection, but it is too minimal to focus on it and look for solutions with this. A player who is addicted should start by strengthening his confidence, even physical health, personally this helps me a lot, because it allows negative energy to spill out into sports. In addition, personally, it helps me to watch the unsuccessful experiences of other players in which they tell their path over several years, it is good that they share this, although it is not easy. And I am not going to devote too much time to spirituality.

[Makus]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

Lol I often hear of people say "gamble na spirit" and if you trace down all they meant was gamble addiction and how people get enticed with the thoughts of becoming a million just by gambling. Just as you said it's more of a metal issue than what people call spiritual. One major fact about gamble is that, what ever the result of our gambling life turns to, we are responsible for it all, I mean 100% responsible for what we become because we decide the amount to be use for our stakes and whether or not we should continue or stop beside the casino doesn't compel anyone to gamble we willing did it from our minds.

[Mrbluntzy]

It's really weird if there are people that believes that gambling problems and addiction can be tied to spiritual causes. How is that even supposed to be possible, I don't see people linking such concept to gambling and gamblers because theirs no way gambling problem can be caused by spiritual patterns. It's a waste of time for someone to go to a healing Mallam or amil when they are having gambling addictions because they can never get help therethere,  except the person is a psychologist that knows how to handle such issues too.

[Hispo]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

I am curious. what country are you from? Because depending on the kind of society you live in, it makes complete sense for people to associate gambling problem with some spiritual lack of equilibrium or even with some demonical possession. Those are common misconceptions in countries which still rely on their folk system of beliefs, and even some christian majority countries where there are denominations that do not believe in the advance of science and the medical healthcare to tackle problems like those of people who are not only addicted to gambling but also addicted to substances.

Anyways, even Jesus said that the sick are supposed to seek for medical attention.

[peter0425]

People who think this way only do it because they are religious. It’s not just about gambling but they will literally “cure” anything spiritually even if the illness is physical. This usually happens in societies with old beliefs, don’t they? That’s why it’s so hard to change their minds.

[Asiska02]

There are some families who are so spiritual they tag spirituality to every little thing they notice. Anyone who is ever that close to them faces it; they think it's abnormal. Instead of tackling it with wisdom, they will want to use prayer and disturb the person's ear.

In some part of the world, some people do not take anything that happen to them to be a natural thing, they immediately attribute it to spirituality and that has made them to cause more harm to themselves than they could imagine. Some things are better sort out medically, and it’s obvious to this religious leaders what needs to be done. If you have a good one, they’ll guide you through to the right path and if not a good one, they’ll milk a lot of money from you making you feel some kind of big spiritual being needs to be cured from inside you.

People who think this way only do it because they are religious. It’s not just about gambling but they will literally “cure” anything spiritually even if the illness is physical. This usually happens in societies with old beliefs, don’t they? That’s why it’s so hard to change their minds.

It is some kind of superstitious belief and if they’ve been born that way and built their faith that way, there will be no way you can change anything from the perspective this people use to judge cases like this. Gambling addiction is natural until when proven otherwise which I haven’t seen in any case before.

[Su-asa]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

Religion is something that has affected the mentality of a lot of people, it's naivety to think that gambling addiction is spiritual whereas it's a psychological problem that the gambler created. An addiction doesn't start in a day, it's been practiced by the gambler till it ends up becoming a lifestyle. Even without the help of a mental health practitioner the gambler can start all over, make amends and help himself out

[l3pox]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

our spirit is present in everything we do and there are forces outsides of our that could influence us
but I agree that this is not a religious matter
each person will trust the narrative they choose but at some point we have to stop, and think by ourselves
religion is usually a mean of control but our spirit is also not dependent on that

[SmartGold01]

I don't really know why people are thinking that addiction is spiritual issues where they wouldn't want to go to a rehabilitation centre to get their insanity restored. Gambling is very addictive when they only see it as a source of income and means of increasing their resources, gambling should only be treated as a means of easing one stress and also as a means of having fun.

Exactly one will definitely be addicted into gambling when they see or take it as a source of income instead of looking for other means to get money, most gamblers believes they will be rich by gambling and they put all their hope in gamble so I don't believe been addicted into gambling can be some kind of spiritual spell, but i can only believe it when it comes to been addicted into drinking of alcohol and getting drunk I believe people can actually make their fellow to get them addicted into getting drunk just to make them look useless but I don't believe this in gambling.

That's true and I have seen people becoming drunkard and gotten useless due to their ways of living or maybe people presumed to be spiritually affected. Of course there are people who can't stand seeing people becoming useful to their family and they are made useless either womanizing or clubbing, this is for those who believe on the African charms and of course lot of things happens these days.

[Odusko]

I don't really know why people are thinking that addiction is spiritual issues where they wouldn't want to go to a rehabilitation centre to get their insanity restored. Gambling is very addictive when they only see it as a source of income and means of increasing their resources, gambling should only be treated as a means of easing one stress and also as a means of having fun.

Those are the set of people that mislead a lot of people, with their set of beliefs which is none scientific, and believes in superstitious things like what their mentioned here, how can someone who is an addict blame spirituality for his irresponsible actions, those doesn't make sense to me and I believe that those that say it does have a totally different ideology to what gambling is.

[o48o]

Gambling addiction can be spiritual. They might have seen the person's future to be bright but look for something that can hinder the person's progress in life. It can be gambling, drug abuse or heavy smoking.

Gambling addiction can be handled by spiritual leaders like in church as long as the person have it in mind that he wants to stop gamble addiction.

But rehabilitation is the best for any form of addiction but people do consider it as the last thing to do after everything they have tried failed.

As an atheist, this sounds weird to me. What those spiritual healers exactly would be healing? And how that differs from psychological treatment? These people need someone to talk to, because they are burdened by their thoughts, and sometimes it just helps to talk. That doesn't need to have anything to do with spirituality.

I have seen people who have said that their addictions have been healed by their fate, even though to outsiders they are far from healed. Only thing that was visible difference was that they were healed from their judgement of themselves. It was like weight was taken off from their chest because someone forgave them and they needed that because they couldn't forgave themselves.

To myself that's just using basically quick self-help principles that don't fix the problem, but they will fix how the people feel about themselves.

[Miles2006]

A lot of people mistake what’s meant for rehab care as a religious case, this is a general problem not just gambling addiction also drug addiction etc. it’s actually wrong thinking our gambling lifestyle is behind a force or our losing streak is behind something spiritual, gambling is just a game anyone chose to play besides if any should get addicted that’s their choice. Take note, everyone knows the outcome of any decision they make and yet decide to gamble consistent, it’s as a result of ignorance I guess.

[CryptSafe]

I agree with you that gambling addiction has nothing to do with spirituality, but possibly an irresponsible approach or act on the part of the gambler, which might result in such an occurrence. Spirituality does not have any relationship with one turning into an addicted gambler, as I do not see anything that connects them together.  Maybe if gamblers discipline themselves while gambling, the issues of addiction would never be the case to start getting worried about in the casino.

[Agbamoni]

Actually when people cannot explain things as thoroughly as they want, they will always associate them with spirituality and the case of gambling would be no exception considering it greatly influences the behavior of the people. In practice, however, it is rather psychological. The process of addiction by which it controls the thoughts and actions of someone has more to it in terms of the brain, than in the spiritual area. It is not the spirits, fate but it is the habit loops, dopamine and the triggering of emotions. Remedies and self-reflection are so much more effective than spiritual thinking when it comes to handling it.

That's a solid statement you made there. Adding to it, if gambling was associated to spirituality, the addiction can be overcome by just praying to whatever they worship. Why addicted gamblers who believe in spirituality always turn in to rehab, family members of help, and support from from friends to quench their addiction? This question is enough for anyone who will still back this claim up.

[Sonia_123]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.

Gambling addiction has nothing to do with spirituality, they are two different aspect.
Gambling addiction is a physical habit created by man itself due to his stubbornness for quest for money, when one is addicted to gambling he cannot due without gambling for a day even when he does not have money,he then involves himself into borrowing and loaning of money that will eventually strip them of their assets and properties will now cause a big problem for the person, but if dictated on time can be controlled by seeing a therapist, councilor and other health practitioner to help the person in his addiction, but if not quickly dictated most times they end up commiting suicide, when one cannot be rescued, by family members or friends, you see an addicted gambler go insane.

Spirituality has to do with the aspect of quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things,and so we humans gives ourselves this habit which we can do away personally if we really want to stop it.

[kawetsriyanto]

Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation~

Agree. Since addiction is mental issue, it should be handed by psychologist or mental health expert. Visiting spiritual home basically is just a supporting matter to strengthen it. If someone only relies on the spiritual factor, it is unlikely to recover the addiction. I'm a bit surprised that there are people who try to recover the addiction by praying only. In any religion, I'm sure everyone is ordered to do proper efforts to succeed in anything. Praying only isn't a proper way to recover addiction case, visiting psychologist or mental health expert is the right way. The God won't give the health if we do it in the wrong way.