Topic: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling - page 30. (Read 4111 times)

Loneliness can be one of the reasons someone gambles to fill the free time. However, in this incident I saw that there was someone who was trying to gamble in order to express his emotions and try to change his mood by gambling. Maybe once in a while this is not a problem, but if it is done over a long period of time, this will become a serious problem and difficult to overcome. Because if gambling continues to be carried out in an unstable condition, meaning that the mental and mental condition is not good, then the gambling activities carried out will become uncontrollable and this will cause someone to behave carelessly, for example someone plays without time limits and deposit limits. And unfortunately, this will not only make a person addicted to gambling, but other bad things will also come to him, such as mental problems and others, which will make the man's condition even worse.

A person becomes lonely when he does not get or loses the attention and love he needs to take care of himself, and a lonely person is easily addicted when he finds a place where he feels he can cure his loneliness and can cheer him up.
Especially if the person doesn't have other activities or work and that will make him addicted more quickly, but sometimes people like that find it easier to recover quickly and don't even do it again when they get the right person and support them because it's all because of feelings of loneliness, and also depending on the person.

There are different ways and activities people engage to kill boredom. Gambling can be one of them. When you place a bet, you automatically start looking forward to something, the outcome of your predictions, that can be exciting for some people. The people who find this exciting will always want to gamble if they find out that the first time when they tried gambling, that's the were able to overcome the feeling of boredom and gambling was effective. If they continue gambling there's a very high chance that they will get addicted.

I think loneliness can for sure make people look for things for distractions.  For some folks, gambling might be one of those distractions they turn to.  but you gotta think about why someone's doing something before saying they're addicted. Just because someone's lonely and they gamble dont automatically mean they're addicted to it. 

If someone says they don't do it for fun, that could be a sign they see gambling more as a way to make money or just a habit, not really something they enjoy.   

You're right to be worried about your buddy especially if hes spending a lot of money to gamble.  Loneliness might play a part, but it's good to have open, supportive talks with him to understand what's really going on underneath and maybe find better ways to deal.

condolences to your friend who has lost the wife he loved, if we talk about loneliness, it is actually quite complex because people will try hard to find or do things that can divert their minds from things that make them sick or when loneliness comes to them.  i'm not lonely at the moment, but if i were lonely i might continue gambling to divert my thoughts, rather than me continuing to feel loneliness which really makes my mind uneasy.  however, the thing that must be paid attention to is the duration of the gambling that is carried out, if it has exceeded the time limit set then stop so that you don't become a gambling addict.

When someone says that they don't have anything else as fun and just have fun with gambling, then I wonder how many hours a day that person spends playing and how much money that person has, because if they were a very rich person that person there would be plenty of things to have fun with and wouldn't just depend on gambling, whereas if that person were poor or middle class they wouldn't have enough money to spend all day playing at the casino, by that I mean that it's an exaggeration for someone to say that As he was left by his wife, his life no longer has any meaning and that is why he will continue to gamble. Well, I've heard a lot of sad stories

That's why I always tell people the following: people who have psychological problems, relationship problems, problems with alcohol and drugs should not play at the casino. Gambling is not something people play to forget about real-world problems. This is because unlike other things like going to the beach to have fun, chatting with friends, these things don't create any stress, but gambling creates stress when people take it too seriously and are losing money, that's why you don't You must forget that gambling is not something a person uses as a means of forgetting other problems

Often people who stay away from society become mentally fragile and focus on the internet, so they can easily become addicted to gambling, in my opinion. But this doesn't just happen with gambling, it also happens with games that don't involve money, there are many cases of children who spend the whole day playing on the computer and don't want to leave the case, these are cases of children who are addicted.

I guess that doesn't apply to everyone because I have several friends who are not married and don't have many activities apart from working and doing small things every day. They do not have a gambling addiction and do not gamble because they already know that gambling can cause problems for them, so they decide to stay away from it. Even though several friends visited him and played gambling using their smartphones, he was also not interested and chose to take care of his plants and leave his friends to gamble. He was really lonely without a wife, but he chose to live like that, and we, as his friends, often visited him and took him out. Maybe he could find his partner someday.

Exactly, the goals is factors can bring someone to be an addicted or not. For reason people just have a goal for trying a gambling, but when he was alone, bored with his day, he will come again to gamble. Luckynot with him, from playing because he need something to entertaint him, but more losing bring him to play more. It's mean he forgetting the first goal and already choose another goal. If it fail, without control, the goal will be playing more to cover his loss. Inthe end, he is being trapped to become addicted.

Yes, loneliness is a situation that can cause a person to gamble because a lonely person is constantly looking for different activities to spend time with it. If someone only states that they don't gamble for recreational purposes it is also possible to say that this person has a gambling addiction. If a person relieves boredom by gambling when he is alone with loneliness and continues to gamble all day long, of course his gambling addiction will gradually progress.

In addition, if we consider the current situation of this person, if he continues to have high losses in gambling he will begin to be affected worse psychologically and will be in a worse situation than his current situation. For this reason, it wouldn't be a good thing for him to show interest only in gambling under the excuse of loneliness.

Obviously this is not just talking about loneliness, but it is talking more about mental states, thoughts and inner stress. Where the man's mind becomes disturbed and his mind becomes depressed because his wife left for no apparent reason so this can cause his mental condition to become worse, but here the problem is that the man behaves carelessly because he thinks that gambling can refresh his mind and change his mood. become even happier. which is not the case, in fact when we gamble in an unstable condition, the gambling we play often becomes uncontrolled and results in things worse than just gambling addiction.

Loneliness along with need of money drives people towards gambling. I've personally experienced it, and very few end up successfully whereas the majority end losing everything. Myself had 0.1BTC in my wallet which was long term savings. Maybe if I had a companion I might've asked the suggestion. At some point I was in need of money and I decided to gamble and win the required amount, so that I can continue to have the 0.1BTC in my wallet. I was completely wrong, my wager didn't bring win. I lost the 0.1BTC in the short time. Those are my early days of gambling, and I wasn't able to accept the loss and took few days to overcome and come out of the bad experience.

It depends, what loneliness is caused by, I mean factors.
Two things a person can gamble because of loneliness is that the person is an addict.
Not with people who don't like gambling, that's different, the point is: depending on the situation, the loneliness factor.

The responses and goals of someone who wants to gamble vary, whether it is fun or not, they have a goal, that's for sure, whether they are addicted or not.

it was all a hallucination, no one achieves such moments in gambling, on the contrary.

This is the real essence of what happened.
That's a bad situation, he should be able to overcome that loneliness, without getting caught up in gambling, maybe traveling abroad, a problem solved with positive thoughts is better than what he did.

The gambling is not the game for the loneliness or for the boring stuff,it was the entertainment created on the principle for the entertainment.So if you the entertainment in the free time,you can choose the gambling.The important one was you need to use the free money from the monthly budget from your salary.Many do the mistake of using the money which was needed for the monthly expenses.In a forum,I had read some man had used the money for the marriage savings.So like this should be avoided for the free minded gambling.The few gambler use the money from the interested loan to the gambling,they forgot the fact what they do on the loss.

Yes and Yes. Why do you think that the rate of gambling increased during the pandemic? Loneliness, depression, anxiety, and other psychological factors can lead someone to gambling. Gambling for some persons is a coping mechanisms for these mental health issues.

We would be wrong to judge people based on our own criteria. If we think that we gamble because it is fun, another person can have a different opinion and that will be okay. It takes more than that to say that they are addicted to gambling. They should be able to show at least 5 symptoms of gambling addiction to qualify to be called an addict.

I think the person is financial reckless. And needs to get their financial act to together or they'll lose it.

Indeed! Loneliness can be actually a huge factor on why someone develops gambling addiction. Because of course, if you are lonely, you felt the need to divert your attention onto other things or make yourself busy by doing other activities to not feel loneliness. And gambling is one of the activities that lonely people run into because it's accessible and a fun activity. To be honest, it's really hard to judge someone especially if we know nothing about their experience or what led them to have gambling addiction. But from the story you have shared us, I think we can clearly say that loneliness drives that person to try gambling, but it does not mean that he is already addicted to it because I think he just wanted to make himself busy so that he will not have the time to think about his wife. For me, I would personally suggest that person to seek counselling or at least a professional help. Because spending 500$ is really huge, especially for a someone who isn't really into gambling.

Emotions have a big effect on how people act, that much is clear. Yes, loneliness can make people look for hobbies or habits that give them a short-term escape or comfort. Addictions can be caused by strong emotions like loneliness, sadness, or even too much happiness. For your close friend, being alone since his wife left may have left him feeling empty, which may have led him to turn to gaming as an outlet.

From a financial point of view, making $600 a day sounds great, but how you handle or spend it is what really matters. If you make a good living, that doesnt mean you should waste it on useless things, especially things that could hurt you, like gaming. If he's betting $500 every day, that makes you wonder, doesnt it? Looking into his thoughts and feelings behind his actions might show deeper problems, which could be caused by his loneliness or even by habits he already had. The important thing here is not why his wife left, but how hes dealing with things and whether this way of dealing with things is healthy or unhealthy.

This is impossible, you can't just pick an interest in gambling simply because you are lonely, you must have been gambling before that would come into your mind. People are addicted only to their hobbies when they are idle/lonely.

This is nonsense because some people actually gamble because it's fun, I'm inclusive in this. But other's opinions should be respected all the same, they might be afraid of being addicted and we know ourselves better than others. If it's a devil in disguise for them, let them stay away from it, fun sources could be addictive truly.

This is nothing other than gambling and it's positive. If you like, you can call it an addiction, but write at the back of your mind that people are worried about negative addictions, not the positive ones that are earning for them. Also, anything you like doing is your addiction, only that people do not often know or are concerned about it since it's not negative to them but positive.

If someone invited you to gamble once and you find enjoyment while doing it, then you can have an interest in gambling because we are attracted to something that will give us enjoyment and excitement, no one wants to be lonely and alone, even the introvert person wants to find happiness and gambling has a big attraction for lonely people.

If you look at offline casinos they make sure that they have a good ambiance to entertain people whether they are playing at the table or just roaming around even online casinos make sure that they have enough features to make the players enjoy the casinos.
The casinos promote themselves as an entertainment portal and they cater specifically to lonely people.

Well that's quite reasonable, maybe it's true that his goal is to get into gambling because he wants to take his mind off family matters including his wife, it's very possible because as we know gambling is intended for fun and also to fill time when you are bored, and for the problem of addiction in my opinion it goes back to each individual, if indeed they are too serious and ignore all controls then yes, surely they will end up with addiction. Yes, that's right, in fact there are many people who think that gambling is the best solution when they are in a lot of trouble, and indeed this incident can be one of the factors that cause someone to become addicted, starting from just distracting from their life problems and choosing gambling for a solution but in the end this action actually adds to their problems.

Honestly, I also really disagree if gambling is made into a solution when they experience problems in their real lives, what should be the main concern is to look at the impact of gambling before you enter to bet, the risk is very large, instead of relieving stress in the mind but there are even more problems because of the impact of gambling. So the point is better to think or consider before you act, you can go on a tour to calm your mind instead of choosing to gamble.

With my little time spent on gambling, I can judge that gambling can not give us the kind of happiness we deserve just because, in one way or the other, it's taking something that is a bit important from us (money),, even those gamblers that do think that gambling is for fun sometimes when they want to get the fun from a casino hall or a gambling center they still feel depressed because they might have lost more than they expecting.
Although gambling is not what people should joke about, more especially those that are well addicted to it, it can frustrate someone, mostly anybody that thinks gambling can give him/her the kind of life he/she deserves.