Topic: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling - page 30. (Read 3825 times)

If we gamble while having problems, the problems we will face will increase if we lose in the gambling we do. Yes, there are only two possibilities in gambling, if we win then we will be able to enjoy it and if we lose then we must be able to accept it so that we don't do other silly things after experiencing defeat in gambling.

I agree with you, if we want to find pleasure, it would be better for us to look for it by hanging out with friends or doing something that can make us happy, because if we gamble then there is a very big possibility that we will experience defeat if we do it with our condition. is having problems.

You can't see me gambling if I can earn up to $600 per day, that's a lot of money, what is he still looking for? Without investing part of this money and just doing savings in a year will make him so rich, it looks like there is more to this story to me, because this is not normal.

The majority of gamblers are gambling to make money for one or two reasons, and most of them are not making up to $600 per day, gambling will be the last time to come to your mind if you are making such money, I don't want to know which country this person is living in, he is going to have a good life if he is smart.

I haven't seen whereby loneliness can make you start behaving this way, I think this person needs to talk to people and avoid staying alone by himself, be trusted OP that's why he opened up, you should try to help him get himself back, it's really hard to say if this is happening because of addiction or not.

I definitely won’t recommend gambling when you are stress or lonely since it can double or triple the pain you are experiencing if you manage to loss in gambling. Gambling is a double edge sword which can give you happiness when won and at the same time pain when lose. Casino has a house edge advantage which means the chance of losing money is high so it’s really dangerous for someone mentally unstable.

It’s better to hangout with friends or treat yourself a fancy dinner to spend your money instead of gambling just to kill your loneliness. Gambling is a fan activity if you are overall well so that you can enjoy the game.

I would only say someone is supposed to gamble while in the company of other people they appreciate, in case we talk about loneliness. Why gamble while one is completely alone and fully cope by oneself? It can only make things worse in the long term, in my opinion.
When one feels loneliness, the best way to counter or to feel any better is having some contact with other people. Instead of video poker, it is better to go with live poker with others, instead dices on the computer, let us try willing dices with friends on their table.

It is also one of the reasons I try not to drink alone, it turns into an habit and before I realize, I would be becoming an unsocial drinker, rather than a social one.

When someone is lonely and tries to look for ways to release that loneliness, it's okay to gamble just to release that stress hormones that you've got and when someone says that he's not into fun as he gambles, it doesn't make him an addicted gambler. What makes someone an addicted gambler is when he keeps on gambling even if he's got nothing anymore. Because gamblers tend to think of the money most of times even if they will say that they're only after the fun. It's a normal thing that a gambler will think only about the money because if you say that you just want to lose, you're wasting your time and money on it. Someone has got to say that he's got a lot of money and is okay to lose but, not all of us are like that. We gamble for money and we're not addicted because we know the limitations that we've got and is fairly okay to get into that reasoning whenever you gamble and even if you're lonely, it won't make you a gambling addict. And it's not just gambling that you are interested with when you gamble, there can be other things as well.

I don't understand why can't you ask why his wife left him because of that. He would be better off talking it with someone then wasting all his money to fill some emotional void.
Because i am sensing that your friend could be lying a little bit to you. Maybe his wife left because of this, not after this.

What comes to loneliness, it can definitely cause all sorts of money spending. Some people offer rounds in a bar so that they could have people with their table. Some people pay money for people to talk with them, and some play videogames, which in the best case scenario can be very social. Not just irl social. And it's way cheaper and less self destructive than some forms of coping.

Maybe he chats with people same time as he gambles and gambling is just something he connects with it. You really should ask, and have as direct communication as you can. Speculating what someone is thinking can be very far from reality and in most cases people get the whole idea wrong as they are projecting their own feelings to someone else, instead of communicating.

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.