Gambling - Addiction by Design?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today marks the start of Gambling Harm Awareness Week, so Vic and Hamish have had a chat with Kate Seselja.
Kate is an ex-gambler, who, for the past 10 years has passionately advocated for Gambling Reform by telling her own personal journey of addiction.
Kate is a mother from Canberra that found herself blindsided by addiction. A struggle that lasted ten years, took all her money and nearly her life. Today she talks all about how she was drawn in by the sounds of the pokie machines, the guilt of losing everything, what it was like for her family and finally getting help.
She also discuss's the term 'Addiction by Design' Is it fair that blame for addiction rests on the shoulders of the user? And where is all this money that's disappearing from pockets and communities all over Australia?
Find out on this moving and informative episode of Sober Awkward.
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| 0:00.0 | This week is Gamble Aware Week, so we wanted to focus one whole episode on exactly that. |
| 0:07.4 | The kettle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:09.4 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:15.1 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:23.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:27.0 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:30.7 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:33.5 | while you head to a dodgy after party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:37.3 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:44.0 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:47.8 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit before things get too messy. |
| 0:53.2 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of |
| 0:55.2 | humiliating drinking stories to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend |
| 1:00.3 | with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:05.5 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober, an unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those |
| 1:12.0 | cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety |
| 1:17.7 | and mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. Won't that mean I |
| 1:22.7 | become boring though, Vic? Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams-Kairns. |
| 1:29.8 | And this is Sober Awkward. |
| 1:37.4 | Have you ever lost any money on a bet, Hamish? |
| 1:39.9 | Yes, plenty of times. Oh really? How did it feel? A little bit like flushing money down the toilet. Yes, but I bet you felt excited when you put the bet on, didn't you? That's it. Really excited. Because what I do is I start to daydream about what I would do with the winnings. It's actually my favourite thing to do is always like buy a lottery ticket and then imagine being a multi-millionaire, but even with small bets. |
| 2:05.2 | And then as soon as you lose, you want to do it straight away to win that money back. |
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