Each and every day Casinos and State
governments target innocent hard working people and the
compulsive gambler through slogans, ads and various
publicity stunts.
This type of marketing triggers the
subconscious mind. In most instances, it's had a
negative affect on people who have made the decision to
stop gambling and introduces gambling to teenagers and
all other walks of life.
Triggers are obstacles in our environment
that can cause your subconscious to override your
rational thought. Once a compulsive gambler made the
conscious decision to stop gambling these triggers
continually influence their rational thought.
There are times you could be relaxing
watching the news and a casino commercial comes on.
Your first thought is to go back to the casino for a big
win. You then sit back and try to think of all the
reasons not to go and the positive changes you made in
your life. Then as the news end, they announce their
proud new sponsor is the Casino. They go on to tell you
the casinos have sponsored so many events this year: The
Fourth of July Fireworks, Special Olympics, Thanksgiving
Food Drive and various other not for profit events
through out the state. If you gambled on the Lotto, the
states would do the same type of advertising with their
local lottery drawings. They tell you that the lottery
this year raised 4.8 billion dollars for education, road
improvements etc. They share with you the three winners
who won over Two Million Dollars. They neglect to tell
about the many families who lost their homes, and those
who faced divorce. They also don't mention the number
of suicides related to gambling.
Once again the compulsive gambler pushes
the advertising from the Television out of his mind.
Next the mail man arrives at his house and he gets a
letter from the casinos offering him a luxury hotel
room, tickets to shows and even a birthday celebration.
Please come join us. We miss you. You figure it’s all
free I might as well go. You go and lose another
$1000.00. This causes you to get back into the vicious
cycle of gambling. The Casinos and States don’t care if
you lose your home, family and or friends. They are
there to make a profit.
After you lose everything you are forced to file
bankruptcy. Do you think the Casinos are going to give
you credit in the future? You no longer have value to
them. Now that you finally stopped, it can now take
you ten years to get the bankruptcy off your credit
report. The struggle continues to be overwhelming for
these people.
Even though the compulsive gambler stops gambling, it
will be years before the gambler can find true financial
peace again.
There are a lot of people who believe the States and all
Forms of Gambling should be held responsible for losses
incurred due to gambling.
If they were held accountable, gambling addictions would
be their priority to prevent.
