Topic: Can gambling addiction lead to domestic violence? - page 9. (Read 2111 times)

Once money is involved indeed, other things might be paused including the sanity of the person. For this, of course, domestic violence can happen when gambling has caused a substantial amount of money to be lost. But when it causes money to be gained, the opposite will happen. I knowingly mentioned that as I see it as a very good contrasting situation so that the people with their senses will know how to behave even in the opposite situations. Money is good but money is not everything and I know that those who would because of money be beating their wife or husbands are fools, they only allowed money to control them. But this one thing has always some ringing in my head whenever I visit this thread if that person knows that this money is vital and is meant for a good course, and perhaps knows that it can either trigger mental issues with him/her or the spouse at home who is not privy to the whole scenario, then why did the person still gamble with such money?

People might want to justify this as emotion is in play, but I see it as stupidity in play. What is bad doesn't have a different name you can call it then it than being bad. Gamble with the only maount of money you can afford to lose. Is that not simple enough for those who are responsible and are still with their senses? You then face the brunt if your folly had pushed you to that extent. Only that I strongly disapprove of domestic violence, there are other approaches to solving a thing like this if the spouse gets angered by that, or how the post can calm him/herself if it is self-money that was wasted which triggered aggression.

But really, this is shameful.

So far, we've covered almost the same thread as the one you posted. but it doesn't matter, maybe with this we can discuss again and share experiences and knowledge, especially about insight. referring to your question, I will quote it. "Can gambling addiction lead to domestic violence?", of course it can and has the potential. where a gambler will carry out actions beyond normal human rationality as a result of his addiction. It's just that, in real life, anything can be a trigger that causes domestic violence to occur. it doesn't need to just be gambling addicts, there are many other examples including other addictions. the problem is, how can something like this not happen, be repeated or become a reminder for us. That's my explanation for the title above.

To be honest, I am very interested in what you said regarding the point that addiction can be a thorn in the flesh, we often use these figurative words for things that are not good.  however, as I said above. In fact, everyone has different problems in their homes. It doesn't need to just be about addiction, economic problems are usually the main obstacle. gambling and others, could be the variables that cause it. So in essence, the violence that occurs depends on the psychology of each individual and includes the problems they are facing. The point is, we can't simplify things in a case just because he is an addict. It's true, what you say can be the trigger. However, there is something at the real root. If you want to have an in-depth discussion, you can go to experts who are related to violence experienced in the household.

Yes, gambling addiction can make someone aggressive and cause them to commit violence in their household. And that's what we have to avoid so that we don't become addicted to gambling while we gamble. There is a risk that committing violence can disrupt the household, and there are other impacts that he and other family members must experience so that someone who has gambled too often must really be able to prevent himself from becoming addicted to gambling. We must really try to control ourselves so that we don't become addicted to gambling by limiting our gambling so that we only gamble in our free time.

We also have to look at it this way. Chronic addiction causes a form of mental disorder which can generate over time into an anxiety disorder, social isolation and even depression if the addiction has made him suffer lots of damages. It messes with the brain so much that the victim begins to act against his will because he is no longer in  control. Someone going through this will easily get provoked and very very defensive.  It will even become worse if he doesn't have an understanding partner by his side. When a person's gambling habit begins to affect other people negatively,  then it becomes a thing of great concern before things go extremely bad (because at this point, it has gone out of hand already).

When we see gamblers who become aggressive, it is not adviceable to fight with them because people like this obviously need help ,therefore we must assist in giving them the help they need.

The majority of gamblers have anger problems because they lose so often; anger becomes a natural feeling for them when triggered, They are quick to anger, and if they cannot bring something to their homes, it will trigger domestic violence. No wives will accept those who cannot bring food to the table. Many divorces and separations are due to domestic violence caused by gambling addiction.

It all depends on the condition and if the person that is a gambler has serious temperament that could also lead to aggressiveness. On norms, this is not supposed to lead to any domestic violence but we need to understand some of the things that could trigger domestic violence which is always due to disagreement. It is good when we are soft and take things less seriously because this is the only way we could protect ourselves from anger that could lead to physical domestic violence. People who had been victims of this could tell us how it happens and how it can be prevented by all means.

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If gambling addiction can make a person become violent to him or herself, to the extent that, he or she may even commit suicide, then what makes you think that addiction to gambling can or does not lead to domestic violence? What exactly is domestic violence compared to one Killing him or herself?

Gambling addiction can lead to anything bad, which the worst of it all is suicide, killing oneself, if we search around, we did find thousands of stories of people who have beaten their wives (because addiction to gambling is mostly with men, we hardly see a woman who is addicted to gambling) to pop, and in some cases, death, simply because the woman possibly tried to confront the man on the rate to which he is wasting the family's money on gambling.

A friend I had around 2015/2016 had beaten his wife on one or two occasions because the wife took money he was to use to gamble, and hid it somewhere else he could not find it, on asking the wife to bring out the money, the wife refused, and he pounced on her like a hungry lion would pounce on his prey.

So, incident like this are very common in many places, we don't have to look to far to find it.

It’s over, because gambling games shake the psyche, doing it from side to side every time, either winning or losing. If the numbers on the screen change very quickly, then the person will become very nervous, he will not be able to sleep peacefully at night, much less express his anger and concern to his relatives, friends and even his wife. This will be the first signal that a person is developing an addiction and puts games above human relationships. After this, measures must be taken to limit the game for this player, otherwise his addiction may worsen and he will become violent. Of course, if this is the first time and he cools down after this, he will ask for forgiveness. But this should under no circumstances be done; you need to run away from such a person, because no one will help him if he himself does not undergo compulsory treatment.

There are many known cases, some of this cases has been showed on the internet for public viewing to warn against the dangers of gambling. When you gamble and become addicted, so many things will change about you and for some individuals there real behaviours will be exposed. Gambling addiction leads to domestic violence. Some day the gambler irregardless of it being the wife or husband, will come back angry from gambling and the spouse in the house will be the one to receive the aggression.

When you gamble away avoid using the money you could have use to provide for the family or do something that'll be important to the children's, you will be angry with yourself but won't be willing to take the blame. Gambling addiction leads to many other bad behaviour therefore to prevent those other behaviours from getting exposed, it's better we avoid getting addicted when gambling and gamble responsibly.

This could happen because when someone is addicted to gambling and only thinks about gambling, he will not want to think about other things that have nothing to do with gambling. He will forget about his life and even his household and not give money to his family, which can have a bad influence on his family. Those in the family will notice a big change in the gambling addict and try to talk about it but it can trigger arguments between them. And that will create violence in the household that cannot be resolved easily and if no one can help, the family will fall apart and be difficult to put back together.

I think yes. When someone's hooked on gambling, it can mess with their relationships. The stress and money troubles can crank up tension, sometimes leading to aggressive behavior or even domestic violence. Getting help for the gambling issue is important but addressing the impact on relationships is just as important too

It's about money. People who have no money often react in a manner that they sometimes pick a fight. It has been observed on many occasions where a man not able to buy what he wants is impatient and irritable.

But yes they could be blaming their misfortune on their wives and thus violence at home. This kind of violence mostly happens in poor families.  It's not just about the addicted gambler's life but to all men.

It's not really because of gambling that why a person's behavior is like that, gambling is one of the reasons for triggering a person's behavior to become more angry and annoyed with their every move and action. If a person has an anger issue and it is accompanied by a series of misfortunes in gaming, they can really dump their feelings on the person they are with most of the time. Other people often blame all the ugly events because they know that a person is addicted to gambling, but they don't think that maybe his habit is really inborn.

Indeed, this happens a lot around us, when someone is in a state of uncontrollability, they can commit violence against the people closest to them because defeat is very painful for everyone who feels it and it depends on us who respond to this defeat, for some people they can hold back their emotions when When they lose, they can only feel their own sadness without having to take it out on other people and people like this usually understand that taking out anger on someone will not returned the losses we have experienced.

It is true that gambling can reveal a person's true character if they are no longer under control, therefore when we are gambling, never exceed the limit so that we will not experience things that are out of control, gambling in a reasonable amount will not be a problem.

I agree with you that self-awareness is very important for those of us who gamble because with self-awareness we can control our thoughts and gamble responsibly. And don't get too involved in the pleasure of gambling which results in forgetting our love for the people we care about.

I do think we should have focus more on the individual and less on the activity. People tend to misbehave impulsively and then blame it on some other person or an activity for making them do whatever they did. There’s no personal responsibility for actions taken anymore.
If someone who unfortunately becomes a gambling addict, and after series of losses at the casino, goes home and roughs up his spouse, I would squarely blame the man having little to no consideration on the fact that he’s a gambling addict. I think such people would be violent to their spouses even if they don’t gamble.

Of course, this is very possible, especially if the person has lost a lot of money gambling. When a person no longer has money, he can do anything to get money and because his family is the closest person to him, he can resort to domestic violence to vent his losses or ask his wife and children for money. Maybe this will happen to gambling addicts who are acute and cannot think logically about the actions they take because they are too stressed about their losses and debts.

I once heard a story from a friend of mine that his neighbor often scolds his wife if he loses at gambling. This person becomes temperamental and gets angry easily if he loses at gambling.

Yes, it's quite frequent in our society that people resort to addictive behaviors in order to avoid traumas from the past, mainly when feeling bad about themselves. That is what we could call "Escapism". Through escapism, people escape from their "selfs", that is, from their awareness conscious state, into a more physical state limited to bodily's sensations, silenting their minds (the aversive conscious state of mind) while the effects of the addictive activity are active on their bodies, causing anxiety, adrenaline, but also that excitement and thrill people like to feel.

That is how they forget who they are momentarily. And they feel like they need doing this, because those traumas are part of who they are, so they want to avoid it at all costs. However, that is not how they should deal with the issue. As you said, they manifest there is a mental suffering through gambling, although they should talk to family, friends and therapists about the problem in order to find a definitive and concrete solution for the traumas, instead of escaping from it forever, through disfunctional behaviors.

Mental health is one of the hottest and most important topics of our time. I believe step by step people are putting their preconceptions aside and accepting the fact it's healthy and positive for everyone to take some sessions with a psychologist who will help them to understand themselves better and resolve problems from the past which are buried deep inside, but generating negative side effects on their daily lives, such as addictions.

Actually, everyone is a little bit crazy in some aspects of their existences, so there shouldn't be any preconceptions by attending to a professional to try improving those aspects, or at least acquiring more self-knowledge. It's always good to have someone to talk about what you think, feel and wish, especially for lonely people who are only exposed to trolls and low-life individuals on the internet.

Addiction can make anyone become the worst version of themselves. Nobody who is safe from that because we are all only human. I have never personally met a gambling addict who was accused of domestic violence, so I cannot really say anything from experience. I can only tell you from experience is that any kind of addiction can turn a good person into a complete degenerate. Obviously aggression would be unsurprisingly a possible symptom of that addiction.

But many people that I know are making the effort to curb or lessen the risks of becoming addicted or relapsing back into addiction.

So avoiding addiction is possible.

Such people end up losing everything due to their abusive behavior. I have heard many stories where an addicted gambler sold his wife's jewelry and lost it and when his wife asked about the jewelry, the person started to beat her. I have heard that one of my friends regularly buys items like jewelry, mobile phones, and other expensive thing from gamblers at a very cheap price.

I know it's unethical, but the thing is, those gamblers would still sell those things to other people If my friend did not buy those things from them. So, he ended up buying such things and I cannot imagine what is going on in their family. Sometimes these people end up becoming drug addicts as well.

I mean... It is a very general and wide debate or discussion to have on this topic. There is even some people who could have the perception that people who fall into gambling addiction do so because the experienced some trauma or psychological problem way before getting into gambling. That is gambling addiction not being the root of the problem but rather a consequence of them, problems which were never disclosed or talked to anyone in their family or friends and once the adulthood is reached, they find a new way to manifest, in the form of gambling addiction and domestic violence.
The only reason some people or the most of people would blame domestic violence on drugs or gambling addiction, it would be because it is easier to do so than getting the psychological help that person requires. Sadly. It is simpler to say someone is violent because of losses while gambling and paying some psychologist or psyquiatrist who would diagnose the patient with long life depression or bipolar disorder.

I would like to think that is not the case or the history of many people around the world, but sadly, it would be wishful thinking of my part, even in developed countries, nowadays mental problems go undiagnosed...