Topic: Effects of Gambling - page 3. (Read 2749 times)

They always say that they are going to die anyway so might as well smoke. It's fun and funny to hear until they get lung cancer at a really young age. The people with addictions rather have their brains rewired. It's an awarding experience for them to do gambling, drugs, or smoking. Some justifies their habit by thinking that they are only doing it in small amounts. But this small amount slowly grows or at some point becomes larger. For example, a smoker who smokes 2 sticks a day might start smoking a lot more than that when he's in a difficult situation. Their addiction is their way to remove themselves from reality and be able to escape a little. Now that they are in a depressing situation, it requires more to be able to escape.

Those who have not done drugs/smoke/gambling in the past is a lot less likely use it to cope with their situation. They've come this far without having to do those things so they probably have developed other coping techniques. Those who do drugs/smoke/gamble are more likely to use it to cope with the situation because the option of resorting to such habits is available to them and they know how to do it.

It is more like smokers keep hearing they are liable to die young but still smoke anyway. Their brain stimuli towards gambling has been affected that they would rather keep seeing the positive part of things even when they know glaringly that nothing good will eventually come out of it at the end unless you are just some lucky son of a gambler! This is where the whole addiction kicks in for most people. They always get to learn their lessons eventually, but the unfortunate part of it all is that, it usually is too late.

I think depending on the player's goals for what they play gambling, some players don't have a problem with their losses because they only play for fun for a moment and that makes their mind fresh, of course it is a good effect, but of course there is another negative side

Which is honestly a terrible use of time and an unhealthy coping mechanism. In this modern day, we were taught that we have to focus on other things to keep our mind off of things. But that's just avoiding the problem rather than addressing it and fixing it.

Introspection is a necessity for all of us, yet it's not tackled very well. There's a picture in our minds that someone who is alone must be hated and must be a lonely person. On the other hand, solitude is needed so you can balance your life. It is only during solitude can you do introspection. During introspection, you get to take a step back and be able to reflect on things better. And this is where you can actually improve your life. You can't do that if you're going to gamble during the time that you have nowhere to go. You can actually do a lot of things. This includes planning about your future, coming up with a creative idea, reading a book, and pretty much just enjoying your time alone.

One of the things that I've been reading a lot in addiction threads outside this forum is that the addicts aren't really doing what they're doing because they are "addicted" to it but rather because they have nothing better to do. It's a Friday night, the week has been tiring, what do you do? You gamble, you fap, you do things that makes your brain release dopamine when you could have done something better.

To that, I'd say there are really no people that has nowhere to go and only have gambling to do. It's just that they haven't realized that there's so much to do in this world a lifetime isn't even enough.

Apparently, we all know that playing with faucet money is just a waste of time and really cannot amount to anything, so I really do not see the point. Gambling site owners know that and even though you get so little that is even below the minimum withdrawal limit, since you are on the platform, at some point you may end up being compelled to gamble with real money so as to be able to have a higher odd as the case may be.

No one is ever going to gamble for fun using only faucets, as that is more like having fun wasting precious time you could use for other productive things.

we know that the most effect of gambling has become addicting in gambling and we should prevent this. besides that, playing gambling can make us get lost the money without any chance to recover so we need to know when to stop the game and leave the places. maybe there are any other effects of gambling that we don't know and we still need to remember to make a limit on gambling games.

Then what you call the effect of winning money? is that a bad effect? well at least that's one of the good effects that gambling can ever do.

I won't say that it doesn't have any good effect, there are people that if there's nowhere to go and they are in the time of needs. The only thing that they can think of is to gamble and do YOLO.

I think you mean "Get rid" of it, not "Get red". The bad thing about those who are setting limits is that not all of them are able to not cross the limit. Most of them are consumed by their greed and that makes them feel frustrated. It makes them think that they can never get rid of their gambling habits as they can't even follow a simple limit in their bet amount.

And one of the reasons why it's hard to quit gambling is that our brain responds to losses more than our wins. We always want to try to win back our losses. Even when we've won $10, when we still have $100 loss, the win means nothing as we're not in the winning side still. We are so eager to win our losses back but we know that we are doomed to lose our money again and so we end up being in this never-ending cycle.

Another thing is thinking that since we've been in a losing streak, then we should win soon. The problem with this is that each bets are different from each other and the losing streak that you've had doesn't affect, in any way, the chances of you winning the next round. This line might ring a bell, "I've lost 7 times already, so this 8th bet HAS TO BE a win." and so we bet more because we think it's about to be a win.

Even if you will setup a limit for your gambling, but you play gambling on regular bases, then you will surely become addicted to gambling. I have seen a lot of people who play gambling with a limit and never try to cross that limit but still they find it too hard to quit gambling forever. Therefore I think that once you become addicted to gambling then its not so easy to get red from it.

I think gambling doesn't have any good good effect it has only bad effect first you can win money but farther you will lose all money which you won and which you have personally...

Unless they are pro gamblers and know how to get away from it

I am pretty much convinced by this theory. It is the first time I hear something about "partial reinforcement effect". Thanks for explaining this in detail. It may sound boring but, the brain activity inside our head really affecting our emotions.

Personally i have seen a lot of gamblers who put everything inside gambling to get huge returns. They indeed are greedy and loose everything due to their greed. These kind of gamblers invest more and more untill they think that the bet is of no use and untill this time comes, they have already lost all of their funds making them bankrupt. Yes, gambling can make individuals bankrupt if you are having a lot of greed in your minds. First and foremost rule for gamblers is to keep there greed out of their business orelse it will eat their business and will leave nothing with them.

Addicts rarely do admit the consequences of being addicted to something because they don't want to face it. Talking about it to someone might lead to facing the matter and they probably have tried doing so in the past and have failed, hence, the skepticism. They don't want to touch the topic at all.

Our brain has a 'reward system' which gives us dopamine rush whenever we do something rewarding such as gambling. The dopamine rush that you get from gambling is almost as intense as the dopamine rush that you get from substance (drugs). There are people who do not experience a dopamine rush over normal events unlike other people. They are more prone in becoming a gambling addict than most. Since the dopamine rush in gambling is so high, it's where they have found a way to finally get a dopamine rush. Hence, they eventually become a gambling addict.

The moments of joy doesn't really balance out the extreme lows. It's rather because of the partial reinforcement effect that makes you keep on betting. When gambling, you don't know when are you going to win but you do know that eventually you are going to win. This makes you think that losing is just a part of what it takes to win and so you continuously gamble until you finally win.

And of course eventually your brain gets used to the dopamine that gambling is giving us. This makes gambling addicts take it to a more extreme level (i.e. gambling with higher bets) just so they can feel that same dopamine rush that they get when they first started gambling.

Yeah, that's why you only gamble what you can afford to lose. Not using all your money that for your family but you use it for gambling and there are many cases like that out there.

Losing money causes not only your headache it may end up with really big problems like broken family that's why it is important to be able to control yourself.

It will be hard for someone to have this self-control if he is too confident about himself because he is winning in gambling, it is a bait where if he bite it, the next time thing that would happen to him is he is starting to lose his money. The house is very tricky, and if we are going to let it trick us every time, there is no other thing that we are sure but to lose. Gambling house job's is to make a huge bankroll every single day.

Coming from that, it is obvious that it was made to win most of the time, competing against it will just make you miserable at some ways.

We call people who only use the faucet to play on gambling sites without making deposits as abusers. And at this time, such activities will no longer be accepted. Most gambling sites will halt users from withdrawing money generated from such activities.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gambling addict admit the negative consequences of gambling? It seems that the industry has some way of pulling the wool over their eyes so that they cannot see the destruction that awaits them. Personally, I think addiction based gambling is an extremely difficult issue to crack, as it keeps being reinforced with moments of joy (small wins) which somehow balance out the extreme lows (losing big). Personally, I don’t gamble with anything more than $50, and rarely do so even at that, because I know how much of a landslide gambling can turn into.

Well, I can understand from your angle that everyone is entitled to their own decision making process, and gambling is one thing that really should take proper decision before even considering it.

The funniest part is that some people still tend to understand how gambling can easily affect the gamblers in most cases and still end up getting addicted to it anyway. One thing for sure is that anyone who sees gambling as a means to make a lot of money will definitely get what they deserve for being dumb.