<prompt> Human: Hey there guys. Seen a lot of good advice around here from knowledgeable people, so I might as well have a shot at asking.My dad is somewhat addicted to the stock market. Hes perfectly fine otherwise, but he just wont let go of this one thing. Its burnt him multiple times, in 2004 badly about 200k when he played with futures trading, once again in the 2007-2008 crisis another 50k and once again now, when Chinas market seems to not have a bottom floor. Currently my whole family is sitting on top of a 250k debt for our shares alone. The house I live in is also not fully paid another 100k. We are planning to shift our house soon, and due to some government benefit or something we will gain about 200k in liquid assets read: cash. Instead of paying off the home loan or even his stocks loans, my dad plans to use it to... buy even more shares. Hes been drawing on my and my mothers savings since day 1, on top of his own earnings from his full time job. My mother has let go of about 20k, and I am currently letting go of another 10k. All this because the share prices have gone down, and the banks arent letting him keep the loan without a deposit. I am stuck on what we can do to solve this problem. I feel he is biting off waaay more than he can chew he has zero economic training or academic qualifications, hes an engineer by profession and academic line, has a Masters in Engineering and yet he insists on such risky ways to grow his wealth. His respectable salary has been used up in this sht for so long until we dont get to enjoy any of the luxuries we should have at this income level. We lead simple lives, thrifty as f. Helps would be appreciated. Tl;Dr: my dad has no economic qualifications, yet insists on investing more and more into a stock market despite having been burnt multiple times before in futures trading, stocks trading. And all this while under a huge as debt. For his stocks and my familys house.  <response>: Yeah this isnt really a finance problem It sounds more like an addiction problem along the lines of gambling. Try find some mental healthaddiction support maybe. 