Hi Again!
I just read your comments regarding your brothers new “addiction” with his action figures.
You are right we all do need to find heathier options to fill our time with. It is also preferable to gradually find a variety of things to do so that we do not become overly focussed on any one thing.
The main reasons for that are that firstly we have all shown our addictive tendencies with gambling and even seemingly healthy options can become a problem if done to excess or the exclusion of other things.
Also because it’s best not to have “all our eggs in one basket”. I had a friend. He stopped gambling and started going to the gym. A healthy option of course but he threw himself into it as compulsively as he did gambling. Six months down the line he’s as fit as a fiddle, not gambling and life is good…. he twists his ankle and is back gambling in a couple of weeks. He didn’t have a “plan B”
A variety of activities gives us that plan B if things fall through with one of them.
Keep posting.