My dad once told me that when he visited Vegas he tried out gambling; he won $20, decided to push it a bit, and ended up losing $60. He felt terrible about it and never tried it again. How do people get hooked if there’s so much you can lose?
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It’s the same reason other addictions happen as well. Because some need is unfulfilled and either the resources, relationships, or the skills to fill the need are lacking, so we’re prone to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms.
In the situation of your dad it seems this wasn’t the case for him so he was able to stop when appropriate before falling into addiction.
There’s a TED-Talk on YouTube, that explains the psychological science behind addiction very wholesome. I can recommend to watch it. I’m not sure if it is allowed to post a link to it in a comment here, but it’s called `Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong`. You’ll find it when copy-pasting this code into the YouTube search-bar: `PY9DcIMGxMs`
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