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DO YOU LIVE WITH A PROBLEM GAMBLER?
Left untreated, gambling problems will eventually interfere with almost every aspect of one’s life. Warning signs at home could consist of one or more of these problems:
- Household bills are overdue, or your loved one wants to take over paying bills to gain access to additional cash
- Unaccounted for cash advances from credit cards
- An increase in the number of active credit cards
- Loved one is constantly short of money – even with adequate income
- Loved one is broke one moment, then showering people with gifts and “living large” the next moment
- Loved one makes requests for loans from family and friends that are blamed on phony financial catastrophes
- Cash disappears from a child’s money jar
- Loved one has large amounts of cash even when bills are unpaid
- Money missing from savings or investment accounts
- Household items have been sold or pawned for cash
- Bounced checks or post-dating checks
- Gone for increasing amount of time
- Problems at work – leaving early, arriving late
TIDBIT:
Gambling is based on chance, probability, and randomness. If you toss a coin you have a 50% chance of getting heads and a 50% chance of getting tails, whether it is your 1st toss or your 10th. Each successive toss does not affect the next; your chance is still 50-50.
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