Topic: Factors that contribute to form addictive gambling. (Read 841 times)

Self-control isn't Forced nor inborn; it's learnt over time and acquired in due process -- if it's accepted. If anyone puts much interest and desire on gaming issues, they'll end up getting addicted. When you find too much pleasure in anything you do, it's becomes a major problems in due time.
That's not what a regular gambler would agree on; they all have one feeling, which is -- the more they wager, the higher the chances of getting a big win someday. It takes special cautioning to convince an addicted gambler otherwise.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

I am quite enthusiastic about what you have to say. interesting, I'm happy to share thoughts.

Yes, we agree that environmental factors play an important role in facilitating our possibility of being affected by addiction, even for any addiction. but in truth, addiction is not a choice. because after all, it is habit that makes a person addicted. even then, we can peel it into several sections and criteria. it is excessive habits that make a person tend to experience things that lead to addiction.

however, in fact there is nothing that justifies this debate in the eyes of the wider community or in our community. In fact, some experts say that human psychological factors are very fragile and tend to have a strong interest in something that attracts their attention. in this case gambling, gambling houses and alcohol. I can't blame the liquor, because I know if I drink too much it can be very risky. Also remember, gambling houses are designed in such a way as to attract their customers and that is in no way against any applicable law. Except, the house is cheating. in fact, self-control is the key to high awareness. We are very aware that things that are gambling are closely related to the risks contained therein.

In essence, one must know the definition of gambling for himself. after that, we will get the key although there will always be a strong potential to be carried away even deeper. however, armed with experience, understanding and responsibility. believe me, you will only do something within reasonable limits.

Just don't ever extend your expectation on gambling because if you think that money is easy here then you will be fuck up with this so newbies should always realize or need to know that this was meant to be an option for entertainment only. That's why its good to listen to other people saying gamble responsibly so that we cannot feel how stressful playing this type of game knowing that we have 50% or less chance to win here.

Every business wishes for more customers. And the biggest ones are heavily advertised almost everywhere... gambling, tobacco & alcohol, fashion, or any other industry. I agree that their "deep mind hitting" advertisement is just a secondary factor, what is important are our desires and what we like to do and follow. I guess we are all addicts to a certain level, by the definition "Addiction is the repeated involvement with a substance or activity" can include many things, but when addiction starts to affect someone's behavior is a serious addiction that should be treated, or it will make a lot of damage.

I believe that all is in our minds, there are vices everywhere around... and many of them will bring a lot of pleasures and entertainment, but there needs to be some control or we can easily be dragged into the fire, and fire can burn us a lot! I guess we all start with weak minds and hands but testing limitations and learning from mistakes are what make us stronger over time. Gaining control is not something that comes just like that, experience is a product of years of doing something and a making lot of mistakes.

IMO, all these factors are secondary factors. The main factor to form gambling addiction is to follow your desires, as long as you are in gambling you will be addicted sooner or later, because the human physiology or more specifically the greed forces you to gamble in every time you make a win, and oppositely to recover your losses in every time you make a loss, so it's a choice to be in or out gambling. It's normal for any casino to try to attract more users using many tricks like bonuses and giveaways as this is their business and they have licences to do that, but the first and last responsible of any loss should be the user themselves.

Exactly gambling should be done with all sense of responsibility and to avoid losing much only gamble with spear money unless you are an ex-pat in the games, since gambling games are highly enjoyable one can easily get carried away and thereby being money that you did not have initial plans to bet with.

If one set a limit just like we set a limit in trading it will help a whole lot to avoid addictions.

But some gamblers fail to set this kind of limit and there by betting all their savings away, I think discipline is one of the characteristics to build before going into gambling if one wants to be a passive gambler.

You can avoid all these rejects by planning your gambling life adequately, just like when investing don't gamble with money that you know you'll be in need of. Gambling is even more riskier than investing so you should be extra careful of fund you allocate to it. Also avoid revenge gambling as it's one of the reasons people lose things that you are talking about.

Lack of planning is a factor I think contributions to addictive gambling because when you don't plan then you have planned to fail. With planning you know your limit so when you gamble to that limit you then force yourself to stop but if there's no planning in place you'll continue gambling.

As I initially iterated, this is not new in gambling and it's not peculiar to it as some other businesses use it for marketing, while addiction to it is left to you as a person. One thing I will like us to differentiate is that luring for more patronage is not an addiction, but you guys are getting it wrong. If they like, let them bring the most pretty ladies to casinos, those that will fall for it would, and those that will not fall for it will not, that's where personality comes in. Even those that fall for it have a higher percentage of not getting addicted since they are mainly there for the ladies, they might only be around the place for more time. But this does not work forever as they will get tired of the ladies over time.

Addiction is way more, it's regardless of any trap, it's about the personality getting addicted themselves, and you don't necessarily have to use anything to lure them into it.

Everyone can learn self-control and it depends on their intentions. If that person wants to have good self-control, he will learn to control himself and not overdo it in gambling. This will help him not to spend more on gambling because he just wants to have fun gambling and some free time to gamble. And he can also avoid the gambling addiction that can happen to him anytime without even realizing it.

Absolutely.

And it can be applied to every aspect of your life. Eating the correct amount of food, doing exercise, working, etc.

If you apply self control to your entire life you will probably end up with an excellent quality of life.

Gambling all your money away is no way to live.

Addiction is always a choice, and even if your environment facilitates the possible source of your addiction, you still have the choice on whether to give in or not. I've seen a lot of friends succumb to gambling addiction just because they are tempted on the prizes and haven't really thought of the consequences twice. Sure, you can blame all the booze for impairing your decision-making abilities, but at the end of the day the call will always be yours. I wholly agree to your statement that it is the gambler, not the game. Gambling houses will always try to lure you in and suck every last penny out of you, but if you know better you wouldn't fall prey to their tactics.

Self-control is a skill that not everyone can learn, especially when tempted with their desires and the things that make them go nuts. You can always gamble and enjoy, but the choice to sink deeper and deeper into it is also in your hands.

Gambling addicts have no self-control over what they do, and are too excited or too confident that they will continue to win and keep trying even though the defeats keep coming. Instead of chasing losses and believing that he will win when a few defeats will actually make them enter into bigger losses.
But when they have been given victory, they still believe that there will be more and more wins. Those who are addicted are hard to stop and they will realize when the money for gambling has run out. This becomes a psychological disorder that makes gambling addiction even worse. It takes awareness and self-control to overcome this addiction, but it is not easy to be a gambler who obeys his own rules.

A lot of these are personal attributes when the reality of gambling addiction is a reliance on dopamine hits associated with winning. It's a simple psychology that isn't any different from substance abuse. It's possible for personal attributes to make someone more prone to gambling addiction but doesn't really change the underlying psychology.

It's likely every gambler that chases losses has a problem with self control and overly eager. I wouldn't consider someone chasing losses to be addicted. I'd consider addiction knowingly gambling more than you can lose, and a lot of that is psychologically driven. An addict literally could not help themselves even if they tried and goes through some of the same withdrawal symptoms a drug addict does.

For anyone to be a good gambler your locus of self control should be the first thing you should pay attention to. No matter the juicy bonuses, tricks  or strategy that would be applied by any betting site or casino to lure you into spending more on bets with your self discipline and control you wouldn't fall into it. Self discipline gambler would always apply moderation, knowing the best time to quit for the day cause there's always another day to gamble again.

It is obvious the person is a regular customer.  All his reasons why he got addicted to gambling is just an excuse, pointing fingers to other making him a victim of exploits of a casino establishment when he himself is solely responsible why he is addicted.  He can always refuse the offering and get on with gambling but he never did because it is all free and he exploited the freebies himself.


Yes I agree with you, it is the person's self-discipline, which is so poor that makes him addicted to gambling.

The loss of few gamblers is already enough to afford the drinks' costs for the entire house's customers. That is a calculated offer some casinos dispose. And there might be rules pointing that to have access to the drinks, you have to gamble. It's not possible to attend such places just for visiting reasons, or the visitor must be accompanied of an active gambler in order to justify his presence there.

Anyway, as you said, even without drinks gamblers feel the urge to continue playing without limits, as you already experienced that. The problem goes much deeper than a simple couple of free drinks available.

Unfortunately that is the entire premise of Las Vegas. I understand that not many people may go there, or if you want to go to somewhere smaller that would work too, in Malta or Cyprus they have it too. But at the end of the day it's not going to be that easy to accept it as it is if you haven't been there.

In those places, we have drunk people gambling all day everyday, so much so that there are many situations where casinos lose money because gambler doesn't gamble a lot, but they are given free drinks all night because gamblers get it, and they cost more on drinks than the money they lose. Hence, it's really common for drunk people to gamble.

There are alot of factors that contributes to the addiction of a gamblers. Most times, when gamblers starts getting addicted, they don't even notice this because it wouldn't be easy to notice such things and would need the assistance of someone to call him or her to order.
There are alot of reasons that could make someone get addicted to gambling and they include the following
1. Frustration: the moment one gets frustrated in life, and now makes his way to gambling, he or she now thinks gambling is the way and might decide to channel all their energy into it, which might lead to addiction.
2. Peer pressure: the friends one keep is another factor that plays a great role in making someone get addicted to gambling and just as the saying that show me your friends and I will tell.yoi who you are or possibly saying that birds of the same feathers flock together, and without saying much you can also agree with me on this.
3. Idleness: the moment one is idle, the more time he spends at the casino and the more time he spends there, tye more chances of getting addicted.
There are alot more to mention but I think this is fine for now.

Indeed diverse because I already saw a lot of heavy drinkers here in our place but these guys don't even gamble that hard or they never play a gambling during their drinking session. They drink too much so they are only addicted on it. Now if the person is addicted in gambling, that means he gambles often.

Alcoholic drinks shouldn't be blamed here. There are reasons on why people drink and there's also a reason on why people play gambling. It could be because they want to earn more profit but that isn't the case that usually happens here. Instead of profits, all what they got are more losses. Now they are planning to recover those losses first before they continue their journey of winning more money.

No issues mate as long as you can reach a conclusion and able to establish a discussion that is already running on multiple pages surely many other users will be ok with the way the thread is at the moment and if by any chance you get hold of the link you can then post it here.

Kne of the major thing that lead people into addiction is greed and tryung.to recover after some failed attempts to win at a game.