Topic: Gambling addiction does more harm than mere financial loss - page 7. (Read 2104 times)

Then the OP is right. We experience more loss than the wins but most times when we win it covers up for all the Mutiple times we have lost, and we don't get to reminisce about the loss. The truth is it is in our nature as humas to feel regretful when we do something and failed especially when we gamble. There is no gambling that will tell me that he hasn't feel so depressed after he had loss, no matter how he tries to control his emotions there is always this wish that we should have one and it just one game that made the bet loss. We start regretting why we include that game in the bet.

Now if a gambling addict experience this depression everyday his entire life is ruin because there will be no fun and happiness until any day he wins and go for merriment. Which mean it's doing him more harm than good and it's affecting his family or people around him too.

Most time I wish there's a way to prevent the gambling addiction effects on the lives of others especially their loved ones. These guys are really inhuman while dishing out some irrationality on people they should in fact be protecting their interest. It illustrates that they've been overpowered by a stronger hand and gambling is really a stronger hand when addiction is given a chance.

The behavior of a gambling addict like that is behavior that is truly detrimental to other people, just imagine that his mother had to suffer because of his gambling and he even had the heart to treat his mother like that. People like this are truly the scum of society, and they should be ashamed of their actions. His family should report it to the police because it has led to a criminal case, because what could happen in the future is much worse than an act of violence, because this type of aggressive addict will not think about the impact of his actions.

People who are addicted to gambling will never think twice about cheating people to gain money. Gambling addicts will never think twice about cheating on their family members what they would cheat on others. I have a neighbor here who is so addicted to gambling that he doesn't earn any cash but the family is constantly taking money from his parents and wasting money by gambling.  When his parents say something, he gets angry. Constantly takes money from his mother if his mother doesn't give him money he even lays his hand on his mother.  After seeing how gambling is really harmful to a person or gambling turns a healthy life into an unhealthy environment. Play for them. Of course, everyone should refrain from such gambling so that his family's happiness and peace will be maintained and he will be able to live a healthy life.

People who are addicted to gambling will never think twice about cheating people to gain money. Gambling addicts will never think twice about cheating on their family members what they would cheat on others. I have a neighbor here who is so addicted to gambling that he doesn't earn any cash but the family is constantly taking money from his parents and wasting money by gambling.  When his parents say something, he gets angry. Constantly takes money from his mother if his mother doesn't give him money he even lays his hand on his mother.  After seeing how gambling is really harmful to a person or gambling turns a healthy life into an unhealthy environment. Play for them. Of course, everyone should refrain from such gambling so that his family's happiness and peace will be maintained and he will be able to live a healthy life.

Gambling addiction has been known to be associated with serious funds loss, bankruptcy, unsettled loan involvements, properties auctioning and other irritable financial behaviors that depicts frustration and desperations from the victims.
A little more observation shows clearly other effects of such addiction to just not the addict alone, but those around them, be it friends, family or neighbors. Here are a few of them:

Negative impression on children/ dependents: His addiction can corrupt the good intentions of the younger generation looking up to him for inspiration, they may grow up to see gambling as a way of life and follow the wrong footprints.

Decrease in overall productivity of individual: Addiction reduces the value that you add to wherever you are engaged career wise as you are mostly distracted with gambling thereby reducing your commitment and dedication to your duties, this might significantly reduce the overall company productivity and lead to job loss.

health Challenges: A gambling addict is always under pressure and tension and as such is prone to health challenges like high blood pressure, depression, and on the part of his people, they might be suffering from the psychological implications of his lifestyle which includes social stigma.

violence : most gambling addicts are prone to violent behaviors owing to anger issues from much losses and this might greatly affect his relationship with his immediate family and people around him who might start seeing him as a wild animal.

your contributions are very much welcome as we learn together the many demerits of gambling addiction to inform both those currently addicted and intending addicts of the dangers of that irrational lifestyle.

I am not one to judge but every gambling addict I have meant are encountering trust issues in their relationships. It has affected them so much that they do not mind deceiving others just to be able to gamble. You see them sitting quiet and sober whenever they lose. They avoid all forms of human interactions and it affects their social and support networks. I think that anyone who is willing to speak up and intentionally seek for help will have someone running to save them.

The main loss is that their financial situation will become a mess, and once their financial situation becomes a mess, it can have an impact on their family or even their friends. Also, it's not just financial, this can actually be detrimental to other things, such as relationships with each other as well as your own health. When someone becomes addicted to gambling, there is a possibility that they will experience a change in attitude and tend to become more stubborn. and of course this has the opportunity for violent arguments between people addicted to gambling and their families or friends or even other people.

When they become addicted to gambling, it is likely that they will only focus on their desire to gamble, and they may ignore everything around them, including their family, their time will probably only be spent gambling, even though they have run out of money to gamble. However, people who are addicted will look for ways to gamble again, whether by borrowing money or something else.

Yes, and the direct recipient of this is their immediate family which is the spouse and the children if any, and I wonder what is their fault to be living a miserable life just because their husband/father is addicted to gambling. I think a person who is married and has a family should never get addicted to gambling because they should always have this thing in mind that if they get addicted and spend excessive amounts of money on gambling, their family is going to suffer, and who in the world would want that to happen as long as they are in their sense?

But I guess people lose their ability to think critically at points which is the reason why they don't care sometimes. It makes my heart pain when I see people being addicted to gambling and not caring about their families at all, they are left to suffer having no access even to the basic necessities of life.

If gamblers takes the wins from the house by force, they will not have a chance as the house will takes all of their money without left. Gamblers will not realizes about their losses because their intention will be gets the money from the house so that makes them forgets to control over themselves. They will lose without any results but that doesn't makes them stops from playing gambling. They will comes back in other days just to try to recovers their lose money before and hopes that they can wins some money. When they can't realizes about that, they will becomes addiction slowly and once they are really gets addicted to gambling, they will playing gambling aggressively and will not thinks to limits their gambling activity. Their intention already change into takes the money from the house but that will be difficult because as the business owner, casino will be the winner that gets all of the money from the lose gamblers.

It wouldn't always be about the money, there are other things that would be affected on our addictions.
The most affected ones would always be their family, they wouldn't just feel the financial problem, but also the gamblers negativity (violence and presence of the gambler).
They would spend less time for their family, and if they would most of the time they would be thinking about gambling.

Trying to take the wins from the house by force is a fight greedy gambler can't win the house is in control of the game. Why would a gambler try to win using any possible means, to an extent of wagering all his money. The endless effort of chasing loss without any result only leaves the gambling wondering about his incapabilities of winning. Hence, he'd continue, until he gets addicted. Any amount of money that gets to his way will go back to gambling. Addiction and financial loss are incomparable, but one can't get addicted to gambling without losing lots of money in the process, maybe in his venture of wining back his lost money. Since there work hand in hand, gamblers in order not to get addicted, need to be careful about financial loss. Hence self-control can limit the amount of money a gambler loses while gambling. The anxiety of losing too many puts lots of players into problem gambling. But in a literal sense, addiction is way too bad and also requires finance to get cured.

Gambling addiction has been known to be associated with serious funds loss, bankruptcy, unsettled loan involvements, properties auctioning and other irritable financial behaviors that depicts frustration and desperations from the victims.
A little more observation shows clearly other effects of such addiction to just not the addict alone, but those around them, be it friends, family or neighbors. Here are a few of them:

Negative impression on children/ dependents: His addiction can corrupt the good intentions of the younger generation looking up to him for inspiration, they may grow up to see gambling as a way of life and follow the wrong footprints.

Decrease in overall productivity of individual: Addiction reduces the value that you add to wherever you are engaged career wise as you are mostly distracted with gambling thereby reducing your commitment and dedication to your duties, this might significantly reduce the overall company productivity and lead to job loss.

health Challenges: A gambling addict is always under pressure and tension and as such is prone to health challenges like high blood pressure, depression, and on the part of his people, they might be suffering from the psychological implications of his lifestyle which includes social stigma.

violence : most gambling addicts are prone to violent behaviors owing to anger issues from much losses and this might greatly affect his relationship with his immediate family and people around him who might start seeing him as a wild animal.

your contributions are very much welcome as we learn together the many demerits of gambling addiction to inform both those currently addicted and intending addicts of the dangers of that irrational lifestyle.

If someone is found under this category of gambling addiction, such gambler will not only losses money, their integrity and future ambition may be at stake because they may obviously mismanaged funds with them for gambling purpose leaving other aspect of their life unplanned for against the future, people around them could hardly get tier attention or enjoy any emotional or financial benefits from them because they are being addicted.

the thing that really affects us the most when we reach the point of becoming a gambling addict is our family, that's true because whatever problems you're experiencing in your current situation are also their problems, it even becomes a reason for the trauma of one of the family members because an addict sometimes is not really aware of the things that are done or said,  they can hurt others through verbal words, why do I know? because I also have a relative who ended up being a gambling addict, I see their situation and really the most affected are those children because I notice that they are gradually becoming more distant from their parents, causing their family to be destroyed forever.

It wouldn't always be about the money, there are other things that would be affected on our addictions.
The most affected ones would always be their family, they wouldn't just feel the financial problem, but also the gamblers negativity (violence and presence of the gambler).
They would spend less time for their family, and if they would most of the time they would be thinking about gambling.