Topic: Do gambling addicts bother about the consequences of their actions? - page 6. (Read 668 times)

I feel like if you need to steal from someone you love just to gamble puts you into pathologic addict status. I wouldn't call it bad habit at that point - it would be sickness that should be treated by professionals. I think gambling addicts are humans so they definitely feel bad about it I am sure. But they probably can't help themselves and stop. They should not exactly be blamed. It should be considered disorder probably. I would offer professional help if my relatives have similar issues.

No, I would say that gambling addicts do not know or cannot tell right from Wrong when comes to their gambling habits.

Actually, not being able to tell right from wrong while gambling is one of the main characteristics of a problem gambling victim, and hence the inability to stop wagering money.

If someone still can feel remorse or have second thoughts, then It is not too late for that person to get intervention and straighten their life and save up their money for more important things than entertainment.

I think gambling addicts sometimes think and reflect about their action but they are already addicted to gambling so they continue with their gambling activity despite they have thought that they are doing wrong.


Human feature is to feel remorse whenever he done something wrong.  In case of a gambling addict, I thnk they also feel remorse but as I stated gambling addiction is too strong that they keep on gambling the moment they have the chance.


They are victim obviously.

Well, most gambling addicts don't even know they are addicted, and that is where the whole problem lies, how can someone who doesnt know that he or she committed a crime feel remorseful or any form of regret for what they have done or how what they've done affected any body or those around them?

It is always said that solving a problem required two steps, and the
First step is the come to the realization and acceptance that the problem is there, once a person can agree to the presence of the problem and accept it's a problem indeed, then such problem is 50% solved already, then

The second step will be to look for the solution to the problem.

Most gambling addict I know will never agree they are addicted, they will just tell you that they are just a regular gambler like anybody else who loves gambling frequently.

How did you hear about this? If it is from a news, please include the link so that we can read it on the news too directly. I am just tired of bringing up gambling addiction stories that are not true.

Gambling addicts do not think about the consequences of losing a bet, all they think about is that they can win and win. They are thinking that gambling will make their life better as they will find a strategies to always win, but otherwise are always the case as they continue to lose.

Until losses occur before they can be remorseful about gambling.

Yes.

Wiwo I saw you opened a post that there are much of gambling addiction posts and here you are freely commenting to it  We cannot actually stop it. You can choose to add this to the list you made.
Meanwhile to Op, not all addicts actually know they are addicted. Only a few that knows they are addicted seek for help. Most addicts don't actually know they are addicted. They simply see it as a way of life.

If you meet an addict that thinks about other people more than their pleasures or activities, you are a very rare person. I've never met an addict that feels remorseful over their actions and indulgences after they finished gambling. They might feel upset, but never remorseful. No matter how much it affects the people around them, all they think of is how can they satiate their hunger for gambling or where can they get more money to extend their sessions.

There are some addicts that can feel something for a short time, though, but it immediately fades once they have the money to fill their addiction.

here's my assumption, they probably do think about what the consequence could be but the urge of wanting to gamble is too much so they do it anyway, and they most likely justify their action just to clear their conscience.

some probably do and some probably won't. As I said before, they try to justify their actions in their own twisted way, but some probably will realize just how badly their action affected someone and feels remorseful for what they have done.

they are, but not all of them.

btw, it is my first time hearing the phrase "dispassionate victim". I am still confused about what it means but from what I understand, it basically means "someone who shows no emotion despite being a victim or affected by something", am I right?

1. The gambler will think of the second thought after losing or encountering some problems soon after busting the money. This happens with most of the gamblers. Maybe if they had gone through the second thought they might have not gambled.

2. Surely the person will feel guilt at some point. Maybe at the beginning the thoughts were we couldn't have caught. Later surely the person will feel guilt for the act as the loss will surely pain him.

3. The reality, they're in an uncontrollable state. For some reason they've got into gambling, and keep running with the hope and never thinks of from where the money will come. They'll try to manage on the go and end up with similar incidents. Finally at some point they'll understand it is really hard and loss is the end result. Even at that time their mind doesn't wants to stop, but it gets adopted to it.

well, we have another thread related to gambling addiction here.   but yeah, if the person is already addicted to gambling just like any addiction, they usually have no concept of dignity, thus, resorting to actions that would ruin their or their family's reputation.
this is why if someone is already at this stage, professional help is already needed to intervene in this situation. they will only feel guilty when something life-changing is already happening to them like getting divorced or his kids don't want to see him anymore.

If the take second thought of the consequences of their actions,  it then mean they are no longer addicts and won't want to go that way by having to do despicable things just to gamble,  the thing is that at that point their conscience is already death and their won't even have any second thought before carrying out such act.


The have zero remorse just like someone that have a mental problem,  they are no longer in control but rather their addiction controls them.
Yes that is what it is,  the addictions have made them become a monster looking for every possible means and ways just to feed they desires,  and gambling addicts is even worst of since they aim is to use whatever valuable to gamble and this is something that pushes them to use even things that have more value to that their stake.

Gambling if not checked cam lead to a devastating condition for a gambler's life. As a gambler when you allow yourself to be controlled by gambling instinct instead of having control over it, it repercussions doesn't particularly affects only you but goes beyond just you to those around you.

A woman was giving an account of how her gambling husband has been problematic to her with his gambling attitude. She gave an instance of how her husband had to steal her jewelry and sold it to get money to carry on his gambling enterprise. And unsuspecting of her husband the woman accused their come-and-go house-cleaner of making away with her jewelry when the cleaner must have come to the house for her cleaning services that very faithful day. She got the cleaner arrested, but then, investigations where carried out which it was uncovered that the woman's husband was the one who stole her jewelry for gambling and not the cleaner.

It is difficult to grasp or imagined the level of humiliation the innocent cleaner must have faced for an act she knows nothing about.

A question that bothers me concerning this issue is;
1. Do gambling addicts ever take a second thought on what the consequences of their actions can be not just to them but on those close to them? 
2. Do they in reality genuinely feel any remorse about  how those affected by their actions might be feeling? 
3. Or, are they a dispassionate victim of their own uncontrollable addictive gambling lifestyle?