Dr. Michael Zhang

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · Gambling Addiction: Am I Addicted or Just on a Losing Streak? · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Uh because the the and this is again part of the engineering side of how these things are designed.

Uh because even with the near miss, you you put meaning to that.

I oh I was so close it it was so close to lining up or I almost got it right and then in the last moment something happened in this match that did not did not need to happen.

happen.

So that one one thing being different and and people experience that in the same way as well, I'm

sort of it's it's it's still a form of win that's being experienced.

And the brain sees it that way too.

A myth.

For a lot of people, it's really about why urges exist, where these urges came from.

And

Uh, how they were built up over time.

And a lot of that, a lot of that is related to some of the things we've discussed already today.

But um, when those urges are built up in a certain way, you have to know how to dismantle those urges.

You have to know how to get to the root and the heart of what's actually going on when you have those urges in the moments that you have them.

So um willpower a lot.

alone isn't gonna be able to help you do that.

It requires a lot more of a dedicated approach.

And do you need to learn that approach?

You have to learn that approach.

It's not it's not something that's gonna be necessarily intuitive, like gambling has become.

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