Gambling Addiction at its Worst! - page 8.

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Quote from: iamsheikhadil on December 01, 2019, 10:46:33 AM

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

It is already a different matter because drugs and alcohol are very influential on health, body, and mind, need to be distinguished between habits and addictions. The consequences of gambling are not more severe because it is more psychological with material and objective thoughts, this can still be cured naturally, especially when they realize they have nothing to facilitate their gambling addiction anymore. Some of them will fall, but most will succeed in recovery, all they do in a conscious state even though sometimes without control.

Both of them will affect our life the same. Being in addiction will consider it also as habitual actions that a person will do. They are totally out of control and ruining their lives and their family. Drugs and gambling addiction will give nothing to us. Yes, they are of different sources but the result will be the same and lead to us mental disorder of not given a cure. But to think which one is the worst, it probably drugs addiction...it won't give anything in return unlike what will happen to gambling which we could still have a chance to win and make some money.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on December 03, 2019, 10:55:45 AM

From where I live... you can hear dozens of similar stories every month. Here the people are not that educated and they get addicted with all sort of things. And it is not just gambling addiction. Some are addicted to alcohol, drugs or even tobacco. The problem occurs when they take loans to cover their debt, mostly from the loan sharks. The individuals in most cases are unable to pay the amount, and in the end the loan sharks start targeting their family members.

There are different stories on how a gambler get addicted, but this one might not be like what you have mentioned that happens every month.

Quote from: Darker45 on November 11, 2019, 02:24:14 AM

This is around 14 million USD, huge enough for the company to decide its closure after 5 decades of operation.^[1]

its a huge amount of money, I guess only few gamblers can do that and they know they will face serious consequences after that.
if the funds loss were only manageable, the problem might not be that too big, but this is millions of dollars.

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Quote from: iamsheikhadil on December 01, 2019, 10:46:33 AM

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

It is already a different matter because drugs and alcohol are very influential on health, body, and mind, need to be distinguished between habits and addictions. The consequences of gambling are not more severe because it is more psychological with material and objective thoughts, this can still be cured naturally, especially when they realize they have nothing to facilitate their gambling addiction anymore. Some of them will fall, but most will succeed in recovery, all they do in a conscious state even though sometimes without control.

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From where I live... you can hear dozens of similar stories every month. Here the people are not that educated and they get addicted with all sort of things. And it is not just gambling addiction. Some are addicted to alcohol, drugs or even tobacco. The problem occurs when they take loans to cover their debt, mostly from the loan sharks. The individuals in most cases are unable to pay the amount, and in the end the loan sharks start targeting their family members.

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Gambling addiction is a serious problem. I know some people who had become really poor from rich due to addiction. My aunt's friend had sold everything, house, car, all of his belongings as a capital for a loan due to gambling addiction. If you can't control your self when gambling, you should not gamble at all. It can break your life and make it miserable.

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Quote from: Debonaire217 on November 30, 2019, 11:40:51 PM

Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

Exactly, that's gonna be the worst thing when you're even own money for gambling. I meant how can you handle to lose money that's not yours? Indeed, it will be the worst thing and you'll be even risked your life to go to the jail or even risking your family and house.

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Quote from: Darker45 on November 11, 2019, 02:24:14 AM

I want to ask my fellow gamblers here, what is the worst thing you have done for your gambling hobby or habit? Have you come to the point of getting addicted to it and how did you counter it?

So far I'm good and I like to keep it that way, it's safe and you will not encounter any problem, I don't want to add misery to my life so I'm not putting more money more than what I can afford to lose, once it happens I will be tempted to do it, given the past bad experiences I've had.

Correct, the chance of getting too much involve will happen once you use larger amount of money that you can't afford to lose, the chance of chasing it back when you lose it will start the misery in your life. Gamblers loses controlled when they start betting huge amount and lose it inside the house, thye will keep on trying to win it back which is very difficult to stop when you are already engaged.

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They will do anything to achieve their goals just like a drug addict would.I think that some years in jail would be the right punishment for such persons and also there to be treated for their illness.

Drug addict doesn't have a goal. They just want to destroy their lives because they want to. That's their own will and once they started, they don't know how to stop. It's the same in gambling, once you started to lose a lot of money, the determined you want to recover it all. That's when greed will allow you to waste all your money in betting.

To avoid those addictions, at first you should know the possibilities of betting before doing it. Do some research about the advantages and disadvantages of gambling. Also learn how to control emotions in urge of winning more money or recovering all your losses. Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

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Quote from: Slow death on November 30, 2019, 04:58:07 PM

I don't know what the statistics are about people who gamble and who become addicted to gambling. But I can talk about the case of my country, so what I follow in my country are very rare cases of people who have become addicted to gambling. That's why I believe the number of people who are addicted to gambling is very small.

I've read many reports on gambling addiction from various countries, and I can say that you are right in this regard. The number of gamblers who have some type of gambling issue is below 5% almost anywhere, and it is below 3% in many places. So, there is no wonder that if you know 10-20 gamblers, none of them is addicted. That is not to say that it's still a big issue, because millions of people in the world are addicted to gambling.

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Let's stay on topic, though. Can you explain, why do you think that "if you win too quickly - you would lose that money too quickly, at least the highest chances are that you would lose it"?

Sure.
Money that you don't work hard for is something that you don't appreciate.

Throughout history it has been proven that lottery winners who won the big jackpot have turned their lives to become more miserable than its previous state ... it doesn't imply that people can't be happier with money, of course not - but "easy money" that comes all of a sudden into your life is something that comes with consequences, some of which are ones you cannot imagine before being in that state that has changed your life.

Once you cross that bridge you would see what I'm referring to.

Everyone of us hopes to cross that bridge one day, and, of course, to not lose all the money quickly afterwards.

Indeed, I've noticed that too, many people after getting big money (not necessarily form gambling) lose it faster than one would expect. Let's just hope that we can be wiser than that.

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The reason behind our gambling does not matter but the thing which is important is our self-control. We should have good control of our emotions and not spend your money if you see you are loosing. People lose more when they invest blindly just to recover the lost. Being an investor we must keep control on emotions and Greed.

It does matter. Because how can you have a better self control if you even disregard the reason behind why you gamble.
It is really hard to have a self control, it is something that we can't achieve overnight or when we said it. So, if you said that we need to have a self control, it is something that we work hard to achieve.

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Quote from: Debonaire217 on November 30, 2019, 11:40:51 PM

Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

Very far from being the worst. Asking other people for money to fund one's personal gambling habit is bad enough already but certainly not yet the worst. It could be the start, though. If the gambler cannot have the money by properly asking, it could easily lead to pawning or selling one's properties or assets, or worse stealing or robbing, just like the people involved in the news posted on the OP. This could still grow on a larger scale if not checked. Hell, it could even bring down an entire company, as the OP cited.

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Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

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Quote from: Darker45 on November 11, 2019, 02:24:14 AM

I want to ask my fellow gamblers here, what is the worst thing you have done for your gambling hobby or habit? Have you come to the point of getting addicted to it and how did you counter it?

So far I'm good and I like to keep it that way, it's safe and you will not encounter any problem, I don't want to add misery to my life so I'm not putting more money more than what I can afford to lose, once it happens I will be tempted to do it, given the past bad experiences I've had.

OP is asking about the worst thing you've done about gambling and not your status now,i think you should have mentioned that "Past Bad Experiences" that you had before.anyway its yours if you wanna tell us or not.

but for me i am always open to tell that i am a former addicted and almost done every stupid addicted gamblers do,but not to the extent that i make bad things to others because i only disturb my family and not from outside the house.

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Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

Greed is one of the big factors that gamblers turn to addiction because they aren't able to control themselves. Others might ruin themself and make the worst thing happen. Consequences and outcomes should know gamblers before they will step in into main door of gambling. All forms of addictions are bad so better to stay away while earlier.

Unfortunately, this eats many gamblers' money when they are gambling and I'm thinking too that controlling yourself when you are gambling is that hard to do.

The best thing to do is to not to gamble at all so that your money will not be lose and you will not be addicted into it but if you really want to, you must know the consequences and risks that you may face if the worst situation happens.

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Quote from: AniviaBtc on November 30, 2019, 01:10:06 PM

Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

Greed is one of the big factors that gamblers turn to addiction because they aren't able to control themselves. Others might ruin themself and make the worst thing happen. Consequences and outcomes should know gamblers before they will step in into main door of gambling. All forms of addictions are bad so better to stay away while earlier.

Indeed. We cannot eliminate greed, but we can prevent greed before it's become bigger and influence us to continue playing gambling. We know that controlling ourselves will be the way to avoid greed, using too much money, but the problem is that is work for temporary because many people will lose control in a long time in gambling games. So when a gambler still playing gambling more than the usual, then that it's time he should be ready for losing more money. And soon or later, he will become addicted to gambling.

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Quote from: Darker45 on November 11, 2019, 02:24:14 AM

I want to ask my fellow gamblers here, what is the worst thing you have done for your gambling hobby or habit? Have you come to the point of getting addicted to it and how did you counter it?

So far I'm good and I like to keep it that way, it's safe and you will not encounter any problem, I don't want to add misery to my life so I'm not putting more money more than what I can afford to lose, once it happens I will be tempted to do it, given the past bad experiences I've had.

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Quote from: Betwrong on November 25, 2019, 05:17:10 AM

Let's stay on topic, though. Can you explain, why do you think that "if you win too quickly - you would lose that money too quickly, at least the highest chances are that you would lose it"?

Sure.
Money that you don't work hard for is something that you don't appreciate.

Throughout history it has been proven that lottery winners who won the big jackpot have turned their lives to become more miserable than its previous state ... it doesn't imply that people can't be happier with money, of course not - but "easy money" that comes all of a sudden into your life is something that comes with consequences, some of which are ones you cannot imagine before being in that state that has changed your life.

Once you cross that bridge you would see what I'm referring to.

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I don't know what the statistics are about people who gamble and who become addicted to gambling. But I can talk about the case of my country, so what I follow in my country are very rare cases of people who have become addicted to gambling. That's why I believe the number of people who are addicted to gambling is very small.

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~It is easy to judge from the outside if a person is greedy or not but when you are gambling you do not think with a cool head and you don’t understand that you have become addicted until a big level of addiction is achieved.Therefore saying it is you who are responsible for your choice we would not have any addicted gamblers but the actual fact is that we have many.

I don't judge those people mostly because I've been in their shoes many times, and I'm no better than they are in this regard, but I can judge myself, right? So, I think, it was extremely stupid of me to bet again and again, until my balance was zero, waiting for a big win, like I did the other day. In fact what I lost was a little bit more than what I previously won on the same site, but still I feel like I was addicted for more than an hour, and being addicted is a bad thing. But who's fault was that apart from my own? No one was forcing me to continue, so it was completely my fault.

That's what exactly everyone should do. Instead of judging a person, it is better to think of yourself in the same situation to realize that it is not easy to overcome.
It is not stupidity, it is just an action to satisfy your curiousity. The curiousity and possibility of thinking of earning if you play again. It is not easy to overcome these feelings.
It is no ones fault actually. You cannot blame youself just because you still play, you just wanted to play for your own reason.

All of us had their personal reasons, and we should respect that in order to show support to every gambler. Responsible gamble always gives a moral support to their fellow players, no blaming or shaming because that's our desire to enjoy money with lucky chances of winning.
Addiction will only dominate a person when he's out of control, but if you're going to be on that stage, you really need to overcome it on your own without seeking other's responsibility.

Each of us has a different reason why do we gambling, commonly they play just for fun and want some excitement while playing. Some people want to gamble because they want to earn extra money while enjoying the game, and that was good because you will not experience any stress by just playing. But there is an unfortunate side in too much addiction we cannot avoid losing, and by this may cause of debt that too hard to pay. It is better to control your self even you love playing gambling.

The reason behind our gambling does not matter but the thing which is important is our self-control. We should have good control of our emotions and not spend your money if you see you are loosing. People lose more when they invest blindly just to recover the lost. Being an investor we must keep control on emotions and Greed.

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Quote from: AniviaBtc on November 30, 2019, 01:10:06 PM

Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

Greed is one of the big factors that gamblers turn to addiction because they aren't able to control themselves. Others might ruin themself and make the worst thing happen. Consequences and outcomes should know gamblers before they will step in into main door of gambling. All forms of addictions are bad so better to stay away while earlier.

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