Topic: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling - page 20. (Read 3853 times)

When someone is addicted to gambling, he will not feel lonely or alone because he has found a way to kill his loneliness by gambling, and this is what ultimately makes him addicted to gambling. He will not be aware of his addiction because he thinks that he can still think clearly even though it is just his feelings. Even though he was addicted to gambling, he did not do any other activities apart from gambling and looking for gambling games that were suitable for him.

Sometimes, loneliness is due to a lack of socializing with the people around us. Perhaps they rarely visit their neighbors because they don't feel like they get along with them. Or we think that they are too busy so we can't meet them and many other reasons. But if they want to try to leave their house to walk around their house, maybe they will find something or someone they can chat with.

A lonely person should try to find something that can keep him busy and not have more free time so that his mind will not wander incoherently. He will think about what he can do the next day because his work today is finished. He will get something new if he wants to get out of his house so he can get ideas that can make him more creative. These lonely people need to look for ideas that can make them think about what they should do so that they won't feel lonely.

By leaving his house, he can start meeting other people who match his character so that they can do something useful and avoid feeling lonely. If they have found something useful and started doing it, they will not feel lonely but will find there is something they can do every day. Those who have to try to kill their loneliness so they won't think about gambling.

No doubt gambling is not a recipe for loneliness and someone who is lonely can't find it easy to be thinking of solution because if he or she has the ability to think of solution there or at the moment then they don't have reason to be lonely in the first place. Therefore, for someone who is lonely, the best thing to do is to go out to meet people or friends, just avoid being all to yourself.

Although, you can be in someone's company yet you are lonely, so finding someone that makes you happy is key to going out of loneliness and not to go gambling because that will make someone sad when you lose. A lonely person need to avoid being sad but should try to be happy.

One won't directly get into gambling out of loneliness. If he had the practice of gambling earlier, then he gets directed into it whenever he feels lonely. I personally experienced it and I've lost much out of it. Being lonely after his wife had left, it surely makes him frustrated. By the time he should keep himself active on something. In most of the motivational videos after breakup, I've seen the guy focusing on building his career or his body workout. This is the right thinking, when we get into gambling we'll enjoy the win at the beginning days. The same won't last longer and this easily ends into addiction and makes the person lazy and never lets him think beyond gambling.

Once you hook with gambling you will think of playing it in every possible way such as being lonely or alone. Thinking about different activities while you have a choice of gambling that you can play immediately will surely guves you an easy answer to your loneliness.

Sometimes lack of social activity is what makes gambling very popular destination of lonely people since they don’t need to interact with kther people just to be happy. But this is only applicable to those who have gambling experience and not with person that non-experienced on gambling.

Rather than gambling when they are lonely, they should think about activities that can benefit them. And it actually depends on the person because if he doesn't feel lonely even when he's alone, he won't start gambling just to get rid of his loneliness. He knows that gambling is not the solution to relieve his loneliness, so he will start thinking about what he can do. But if the person does not want to think about what can be done and thinks about gambling, there is a possibility that he will start gambling, and when he finds pleasure in gambling, he will probably continue gambling and will not stop gambling. It would be dangerous for him because he could lose all his money just for gambling. That's why when we are lonely, we have to think of ways to keep ourselves busy by doing something so that our minds don't think about gambling.

Loneliness can not make you be addicted to gambling, but if you're already addicted, loneliness can make it impossible for you to stop. If you're not a gambling addict already, you can look for other fun things to do to kill the boredom, except you're already gradually becoming addicted, that's when loneliness is a big problem to you because wheneve you're lonely and alone, the next thought is to do something exciting, and nothing more would matter to you at that moment other than to depend on gambling to alleviate your mood. And before you know it, you end up loosing money you didn't plan to. So if you're already an addict, the fist step to fighting the addiction is avoid being alone or lonely as much as you can. Keeping your mind busy or hanging around friends who don't gamble will make you not to think of gambling and gradually you'll see yourself fighting the addiction.

Lonelinesses means idleness, it's obvious that when you are idle, a lot of things come to your head, especially if you are now bored and need to kill the boredom, then you will definitely think of your hobbies which is where the whole thing starts. It's nothing bad if it's such loneliness that makes you just do your hobbies once in a while, but when it's becoming what you do again and again without having control over it, then it's an addiction.

So, yes, loneliness can aggravate addiction, and to make the matter worse, loneliness might make the cure of the addiction difficult unless the person first kills the source/cause which is loneliness/idleness as you might want to call it. Without winning the cause, it will be aggravated and it will be so bad and controlling. In this situation, I strongly advise the person to step out often, and if there is enough money, get yourself engaged with external activities like watching movies, hanging around friends, visiting the gym and even library among others.

Although that is true but on the other hand in my opinion it goes back to each individual, if indeed they do not limit themselves at all then obviously choosing gambling to treat loneliness is not recommended, but on the other hand if they can apply many restrictions with a mind that is always aware or means not getting carried away then maybe it won't be a problem. But yes basically even though gambling is still an activity that is better avoided, after all there are still many other activities that can give you pleasure when you feel lonely or bored and also without risk.

Usually like cases that often occur instead of them getting pleasure and relieving depression from real life problems but what happens is the opposite with the gambling they do it actually adds a lot of problems, especially in terms of their finances, it is clear and there is very much evidence. Therefore I think you should really consider every decision you want to make, see the negative impact first before you regret it.

Loneliness does not make people addicted to gambling.  Gambling addiction occurs when people lose a lot of money gambling and for some reason people suffer a lot.
A person who takes gambling as a pastime can never become addicted to gambling.
I don't totally understand this question that's why I can't answer here. If I understood the question well, I would definitely be able to answer it.
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Here the man may have already had a gambling addiction due to which his wife left him. After his wife left him, he suffered more and became more attracted to gambling.

That is true, entering into gambling because of loneliness is not good because it will affect you in many ways. You will not make good judgement and you might even stake beyond your budget in such a situation. Gambling will not take the depression away and you might even enter into depression should you lose huge amount of money.

Instead of gambling, a depressed person can play video games or other leisure things that can take his mind off the depression.

I don't understand what you mean but I think I understand what you are saying, loneliness can indeed lead to gambling addiction if they are not based on self-control and are easily carried away by emotions, in my opinion not everyone who is lonely and then gambles will find that the addiction depends from the nature of gamblers, even people who gamble openly can develop a gambling addiction if they cannot control themselves. The good side is that there are still people who remind the person to cure their addiction so that gambling openly can still be supervised by friends and family.

However, there comes a point where someone who is lonely tries to get rid of their boredom but they don't have a job or someone to accompany them to get rid of their boredom and finally they gamble just for entertainment. They consider gambling to be like playing a game. If they can control their finances well then they can avoid gambling addiction.

Lonely ness create addection. If you do a work. For remove you lonlyness. If you are trying to remove your loneliness by doing gambling that us very dengerous for you economical health. Being addected on gambling that is harmful for you. Do gamble for fun and lead luxury life. Don't addected with gambling it will distroy your life.

yep, exactly. loneliness should not be used as an excuse to gamble or in other words gambling is not the right place to get rid of loneliness because it has a bad impact in the long term and there are many more ways to forget about loneliness with positive things as you said and there are other ways you dont need to contact friends Its a long time or better to invite someone to cycle around looking for a place to buy food to relax and there are many more ways to avoid loneliness without having to gamble.

all of this must require one own mindset or goals If the person feels emotional when lonely because of the loss of someone they love, they will definitely vent about bad things such as drinking and gambling, but actually that not good and that not the way an adult should think we avoid it.
for anyone who is lonely, try to think maturely that we are not living alone and gambling is not a good place to relieve loneliness.

It usually depends on the individual's own will to not become addicted to gambling. If a very bad person is addicted to gambling to get rid of loneliness if he hopes for something good then he must look for other ways to get rid of loneliness and not make himself destitute by getting addicted to gambling. As easy as it is to get into this world once it becomes an addiction it is harder to get out. This is why it is important to change your position and set goals for a meaningful life set your goals whenever you think that life is over think about building a new life. If you feel very lonely contact old friends if you are in entertainment you can easily remove loneliness.

- Loneliness can make anyone find different ways to fill the void. I also gambled regularly because I broke up with my girlfriend, but thinking back, it was a youthful impetuosity.

- We don't seek pleasure from gambling, so what the hell are we playing? Like those people, they only think that gambling is everything. It's also possible that it's part of a sign of gambling addiction, but as is the case it's just loneliness.

- If the OP is talking about the hypothesis then I think maybe I could make money magically with gambling games but honestly I wouldn't really spend that much time gambling, for me that's the way to go. It's best to get rid of the old rules and no one forces me to play.

Gathering with family can make them forget and eliminate their desire to gamble, because with a cool chat that also makes the atmosphere warmer it can forget their desire to gamble. Also with friends they can do as long as their friends are not gamblers either, gathering can play with video games, or others that can still be done by them with their friends, here they also have to be smart in choosing friends not just choosing friends. That way they can avoid the desire to gamble, but if their friends are the same gamblers it will be useless if they get together, because it could be that the chat will lead to gambling.

Even if you are lonely and not fully addicted to gambling, it doesn't matter, it's even good when you are lonely but you are not interested in gambling, people's thoughts are different so they have their own choices, but don't let when they are lonely they run to gambling because they want to find pleasure, the other side is not a problem if they only intend to find pleasure but what is feared is that they can be interested periodically and this will endanger them later if they are continuously interested in gambling.

Depression is the lack of desire and will to live, sustain a routine, make long term plans, and feel pleasure for activities which used to be pleasant before. So I really don't know if depression could be considered a trigger for gambling addiction, because in fact it seems a bit contradictory, since a depressed person doesn't have energy or will to maintain an addiction for gambling.

But it's true depression is directly linked to loneliness, as people tend to stay away from social interactions when they are on this prejudiced state of mind. I just don't see a link between depression and gambling, which could eventually proove the relation between loneliness and gambling as well.

Loneliness can have great effect on the way we bets which can be a big factor of becoming an addicted gambler. Many people in the past had faced this kind of challenges many time without getting ride of the addiction. Addiction can be with us for ever or for a long time depending on how long we are able to work on  it to become a better gambler. Most time addiction can eat into our bone and keep making us to keep gambling without knowing the effect it could pose to us in a long time. We need to try our best in whatsoever condition we find ourselves so that we don't become a severe gambler due to addiction.

Some people do consider that when you are lonely and being on a stressful condition then you would really be sticking or trying out to do on which you've been get used to deal with
then you will really be trying out to gamble and trying out to ease those feelings or emotions but i do agree on some points that losing money in gambling is never been fun.
This is the reason on why i dont really see this as a solution when you are in loneliness and boredom. Play gambling according to your seek of leisure and fun and
not on the sense that you are really that eager to play just for money or trying to make profits because this would really be leading you into your demise.

Lonely has much to do with the development of problem gambling, I can agree with it, but it is not the only factor which can lead anyone to gamble recklessly, certainly loneliness won't help in any way, shape or form.
A person cannot be alone or feel loneliness, but suffer from alcoholism or engage much of their spare time with people who also gamble without setting personal limits, the usual result is the first person learning the bad habit of those around him.

The loneliness case happens because the person tries to fill the hole of their loneliness with other activities and gambling is one of them, though it can also be videogames, pornography, women, etc.

In short, we are not supposed to underestimate loneliness...