When someone you love and respect says this to you, it can often cause panic and anxiety. Panic begins just as the player begins to calm down, withdraw and concentrate. What they focus on is the prospect of winning, and depending on the level of addiction, the victory they are seeking must be exaggerated. What are they retreating from? The reality, the amount of time and money spent, and the relationships with the person or people who accompanied them. The focus becomes completely wrapped around that machine, table or cards. At that point nothing will be able to stop them except the complete loss of money. Another phrase that is especially difficult for family and friends to hear is: "today my horoscope says I will get my big break!" For most people a horoscope is just something they read for fun, or just to see if it lines up, but in the hands of an addict, this is what we call a pass, because in their mind they have just received confirmation that it they will. change their lives today and it will happen because the planets say so. Any type of drug addict always looks for reasons to indulge in their addiction, everyday life is full of situations that drug addicts take advantage of to justify their future addiction.
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