Topic: Can't gambling addiction also be positive? - page 3. (Read 1042 times)

That's right, what the OP is describing is a peaceful environment that can hardly be called an addiction. Recently, another thread was asking if gambling can be considered positive if you're winning, but similarly in this case, it's not about what's happening nowadays, but what might occur in the future. Someone who's sharing negative characteristics in terms of gambling habits should exercise caution, addiction is never positive and what's described by the OP is not its definition.

If you are gambling for fun and you gamble with a reasonable amount of money, then I won’t really say you are addicted to gambling. As long as you can control your gambling activity, then I won’t call that an addiction. If anyone is gambling and their main purpose is for the sake of money, as long as the person can control himself, then it’s normal, I don’t see any addiction there. But if you can start gambling frequently, you do crazy things for the sake of gambling, you are always finding it difficult to stop gambling, and you gamble with so much money, then that’s when I will say a person is addicted to gambling.

Gambling addiction can't be positive because it controls the negative things people do when gambling. Not knowing when to stop gambling, stealing, taking loans without paying them back, and neglecting their family instead of giving them money to take good care of themselves to mention a few. All are the consequences of gambling addiction and none have I mentioned so far have any positive influence on the gambler. if you think there is any positive side of addiction to a gambler then you should let us know.

I know we are not here to argue but to share opinions. Gambling addiction is a very crucial act that needs to be highly concentrated on. Actually anything that has a negative side will also have a positive side, so there is one thing to consider when it comes to gambling because in gambling addiction the positive part is very rear and it is applied to just a small number of people, which is why everyone just sees it that gambling just depends on the negative side because the negative side is too much than the positive side, so even with thousands of arguments, all I know and many will also support me because that is the true fact that the negative aspect of gambling is more affecting than the positive, and many will also agree because gambling itself is very dangerous in some cases.

It is very obvious that every gamblers want to be seeing positive feedback or outcome from every of our bets that is why addiction does not take much time to hit us if we are never careful about it. We want to make money risk our fund to earn more money from gambling but the outcome is not always certain for us until we get the see the outcome ourselves. When we are positive, we could even bet more so that we can earn more from our bets but when the contrary happens, it becomes a bad game which we can likewise try next time to see if we can win. The scenario applies to every gamblers or addicted gamblers which is why we need to know how to work on ourselves to get better rewards.

It's veer obvious that addiction in gambling is something that we all have known that it's negative from my way of understanding things in gambling, but their is a way we can get rid of addiction in gambling, and secondly its not necessarily mean that anyone who is a frequent gambler is addicted to it, it can be said that we are addicted in gambling when you gamble out of control and to the extent that you don't know when you are losing and when you're gaining in gambling.

The overall effect and impression of gambling aren't good.

And we will not see something as this having no risk at all, it always comes with a risk and gamblers know that there's a need to wager with real money for them to gamble.

It's the same with any other vice in that it comes in handy and satisfying when someone does it but they don't see the negative impact of it for themselves at the beginning.

But as soon as someone sees the whole point of it, it can never be something positive.

In my own opinion and judging on the fact that this argument is concerned with addiction in gambling, I would say that being too addicted to something (perhaps gambling) could cause more problems for the individual than the advantage it will give the person. 

Addiction to gambling can stand as a distraction to a gambler in his job, business, or career, which can also help some gamblers to do away with stress, but I think the disadvantage is high compared to the positive side of it. 

Any forms of addiction cant really be considered to be good on which you would really be needing up for yourself to have such control and moderation on whatever things that you are doing on which it isnt really just that limited on gambling alone but also in other things, because on the time or moment that you do find yourself being addicted then you would really be tilting the balance on which you might be missing out other priorities or focus into other things on the time that you will really be that shifting out your priority into something. Its not bad to gamble as long you dont really forget your priorities on which this is something that is normally that been forgotten on the time that people do gamble. One of the most common mistake that is really that been taken or done is that they do really forgot on having that financial spending control.

Being responsible would really be always the key so that you wont really be messing up your life with gambling and on the time or moment that you do find yourself having such addiction
then you wouldnt really be able to think up well on what are the things that you should gonna do nor really that tends to avoid. It all talks about on being
responsible and sensible in the end of the day.

firstly you should try checking the dictionary definition of addiction then you'll understand  more better.
the primary purpose of gambler to stake which implies risk and anyone who is taking g a financial risk is expecting a positive result from it and in terms of gambling, anyone who have staked a game thereby risking their money is already expecting a positive result.

over the period, ive also understood that,  success is associated with positivity while failure as negative and sa.e tnjng applies inthe gambling industry as the moment a gambler becomes successful,  his tagged professional gambler but when the losses are frequent then you're tagged an addict and the line between is carefulness.

It is easy to determine if your gambling addiction is good or bad for you. It's easy to see if gambling is bad for you if it causes financial problems, takes up too much time, makes you feel bad, leads to chasing losses, neglecting responsibilities or harms your relationships (all of these are connected). And gambling na addiction might be good for you if it stays within your budget, is done in moderation, makes you feel entertained and doesn't affect with your responsibilities or relationships. I can say this because I have experienced all of this (I myself thinks I'm gambling addict). In short sometimes it can be good, but most of the time it is bad.

No matter how rich you are if your gamble without caution, you will get addicted and if you get addicted there is high possibility of you going bankrupt with gambling only if you gamble once in a while but if it is everyday, you will be addicted and lose more money every day and gradually your source of income might dry up. This is why one must gamble responsible to avoid addiction and big losses. Addiction only have consequences and I don't think that there is any benefit to gambling addiction.

If we consider gambling in your example as just harmless entertainment (which is quite cheap relative to other expenses), then we can even say that in this case gambling as a whole is completely positive. But the topic is set in such a way that we are talking about gambling addiction and this completely changes everything. Here we must take into account not only what “is now” but also what it can lead to, and I think everyone knows that any addiction is highly likely to lead to negative consequences.

Literally, addiction is used to express a bad condition that one finds himself which is impossible to be controlled so even when a gambler becomes addicted and still makes profits from gambling is doesn't counter the fact that the gambler is into addiction. A gambler can still control their gambling habits and not become addicted. No matter how we try to rephrase gambling addiction to be positive, it can't be positive and it doesn't mean that people should become too occupied with gambling activities all the time because it can only lead to spending more time in gambling than other life activities which will still lead to addiction in the end.

Gambling Addiction is something that someone develops either due to the love they have for gambling like doing it frequently or due to trying to win at all cost and at the end get into losses and even trying further to chase losses even leads more to addiction since you will be so concerned on how to recover losses thereby it will make you spend money and time in it which are the factors that leads to addiction.

Of course there is nothing positive that can be taken from the addiction situation, and as we have seen about the situation experienced by gamblers who are now addicted, overall they always suffer from various bad disasters in their lives and I have never seen or heard about there being something positive in it.

As you said and it is correct that addiction is a situation where a person cannot control or control themselves in carrying out an activity which usually tends to make them act excessively. I would also say that at first glance addiction and hobby are almost the same, but in fact the similarity only comes from excessive interest in the activity, while a hobby is something that is enjoyed consciously in the sense that a person can still control himself, such as a hobby of collecting luxury goods such as watches, is that called addiction? I think not because it actually benefits investors. The point is that there is nothing positive about an addiction situation, especially in the context of gambling, and hobbies and addictions are different.

No one ever gets addicted to things they hate doing, the fact that they enjoy these activities and derive some level of happiness from them is the more reason they need to balance this activity they enjoy with other activities that affects them both directly and indirectly. We should not only be interested in the present benefits we get from a particular hobby, we should also be concerned in what it would do to us in the longrun if we do them uncontrollably.

Gambling is not free, the gambler spends money to gamble. We can only imagine how much a person who gambles uncontrollably everyday will lose considering the house edge over the addicted gambler. This is not a healthy financial lifestyle for anyone and there is no positivity in it. Infact, there is nothing positive about addiction and it is best we avoid glorifying addiction to avoid misleading other people.

Yes and logically there will never be anyone including friends here who always advise anyone to treat gambling well in the sense of being full of limits and avoiding various impulsive actions if only there is something positive in the addiction situation, meaning that is because Indeed, addiction is a very negative situation and can destroy all aspects of a person's life, which makes us always exchange suggestions and opinions to treat gambling well and far from being excessive.

As you said, addiction is a situation where a gambler will not be able to control himself, and this inability to control is what makes people trapped in many bad effects, meaning it doesn't make sense to say that there is something positive that we can get when a gambler losing control because it is related to emotions. On the other hand, in my opinion, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, addiction is still a bad situation in the sense that there is nothing positive or enjoyable, because logically, no matter how rich you are, if you are addicted to gambling, it is very possible for you to end up bankrupt because As you said above, addiction is a situation where a person cannot control himself, which means that in my opinion the pleasure felt by rich people does not mean that they are addicted, my friend.

Yes, it's true that when it comes to the effect of gambling on gamblers, it has both positive and negative effects, but just that people always overlook the positive, and focus more on the negative aspect of gambling, because though the assurance of winning games are always not sure, but it doesn't mean there aren't people who live by the profits they earned from gambling, and likewise, so has some people who through a chance of luck, Likely to have won a jackpot which change their life. So in that scenario whereby a gambler through gambling have been able to get a life changing capital to start either a business or build a house, will you call that a negative effect of gambling? But can't be, inasmuch as this doesn't comes regularly and he gamblers responsibly.

Hence, gambling addiction is a mindset, because if you are able to have control over your mindset, you will always have control over your addiction.

Usually the mindset of gambling is winning or losing so it kind of addictive in its own form because you are either losing money or gaining money and the emotions are quite different from having a hobby. If you are involving in a game that is your hobby with money then that means you are also going to have the kind of addiction like gambling. Therefore, gambling addiction IMO won't be positive because apart from money that could be involved in it, you are going to waste your time doing that thing so much that you forget to give some time to other things like family life. Being addictive is not only when you are losing and chasing loses, you can be winning yet suffering from time shortage for your other activities. I have seen many people playing games like football or playstation for the fun of it and they continue doing that from morning to evening without taking breakfast and that moreless could be a triggering factor to certain health condition like ulcer.

i feel that you don't understand the meaning of addiction itself. if it is an addiction then there is nothing positive that we can take from it, because it is a disorder that causes a person to be unable to control themselves and makes them gamble excessively. if it is a hobby then it cannot be said to be an addiction, because the level of addiction is already intense and has a negative impact on a person's life. so literally we can say that gambling addiction cannot be positive in any way, but maybe you have a different understanding of this and that's okay.