If you buy a lotto and spend more than 1% of your salary, you should be suspicious of this

It is often said that even though some people did not play the lottery, no one did it once. That once becomes twice, three times, and every week. There are more people who have been buying a lotto for several years than they thought. I’ve also seen people feel the urge to go in and buy them whenever they see a lotto store. It is a symptom of `lottery overimmersion`.

Of course, the price per game of lottery is a small amount of 1,000 won. I haven’t heard of selling a gift and buying a house with a mortgage to buy a lotto. Basically, there is a maximum purchase limit of 100,000 won per person at a time, and there is a time interval of up to one week before waiting for the winners to be announced. Immediate compensation does not follow.

Nevertheless, I had a lot of thoughts before publishing the column. “Isn’t it cultivating the psychology of reversing life in one shot?” Obviously, as a part of a healthy leisure culture, there are people who enjoy lottery, but on the other hand, there are also many people who purchase lottery aiming at reversing their lives in order to escape from the difficult reality. .

The majority who haven’t been able to break through the probability of winning the 1st prize of ‘81.14 millionths’ every week get frustrated. Sometimes they get angry in the Ammon place. And I promise. “The money lost by the lottery, I will recover it someday by winning the lottery…”

Dostoevsky, the great Russian writer, who wrote the novel Sin and Punishment, was no exception. He jumped into the gambling board to recover the amount of money he had lost, and was eventually trapped in the wheel of addiction.

When explaining the reasons for buying lottery every time despite being defeated, psychology suggests such a’gamblers’ error’ and’the illusion of control’. “The error of the gamblers” refers to the idealism that gamblers are convinced that the time has finally come to succeed as the failures continue. In addition, he is buying and buying a lotto after falling into the’mistake of control’ that he will affect the outcome of an unpredictable event. This is why you should always be careful about lottery tickets and immersion.

The lottery industry supervision committee under the Prime Minister’s Office that supervises the lottery business, the lottery committee under the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and the companion lottery, the trustee of the lottery business, use the expression’lottery and immersion’ instead of lottery addiction. If you can’t handle yourself beyond the limits of time and money, that is the lottery and immersion.

Specifically, if you believe that you can recover your current financial difficulties or lost money by winning the lottery, or if you have a conflict with your family and personal relationships due to the purchase of a lottery ticket, you should question the lottery and immersion. A lottery official said, “If you are in the expectation that the reality problem can be replaced by winning the lottery, or if you are nervous because you cannot purchase the lottery ticket, it can be seen as a serious symptom of lottery and immersion.”

Currently, the companion lottery website provides lottery and immersion self-diagnosis tests. ▲I have often neglected my work due to the analysis of the probability of winning the lottery ▲I feel the urge to win the lottery, and the money lost by the lottery must be recovered by winning the lottery ▲I am investing more than 1% of my monthly income in purchasing the lottery ▲ The amount of lottery purchases is increasing steadily ▲I borrow money from others to buy lottery tickets ▲I buy them right away when I look at the lottery store signboard anytime, anywhere ▲I have a couple quarrels or family troubles with the purchase of lottery tickets, etc. Included in the test. You can answer with `Yes` and `No`.

In another self-diagnosis evaluation form, they always have to check the lottery ticket, or if you look at the numbers, you use a combination of 6 digits without knowing. Experts advise that if you are buying lottery regularly, you need to take a self-diagnosis test like this.

Lotto means’good luck’ in Italian. It’s a luck to get unexpectedly. The harder your life, the more people wishing for good luck. But, as always, when expectations are high, disappointments are also big. It will bring vitality to your life when you enjoy it for a small amount.

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