Topic: Gambling and Behavioral Change!!! - page 23. (Read 3434 times)

Behaviorial changes should always be expected for those who have a dedicated passion towards gambling. By dedicated I mean they have both an online and offline access at most times of the day with just a single login. It's practically same for a smoker who craves just a puff of nicotine to feel better at certain times of the day.

Unless when the habit of gambling is  not noticed to be more frequent than it used to, then I doubt it is a problem that can't be remedied with paying attention to other more productive habits like trading cryptocurrency.

This experience isn't new to gamblers as most of them do face similar thing just like you stated, both on their winning days and their loosing days aswell, they experience such mood swings and don't have to ability to properly hand it such that in some cases it turns out they get to cause damages to things around resulting from anger.

I think in oder to still maintain a stable mind amidst all this, a gambler should learn to stake what they can comfortably afford to loose, most time people who gwt to suffer such mood swings that resulted from losses is because they had stake an amount they weren't expecting to loose so if it turns out they are not lucky with the game, they become very angry and run violent in some cases due to their loss. If you stake an amount you don't find room dare to you, you will be able to maintain your frame regardless of the outcome so others don't get to suffer.

Without realizing it, someone who has entered the world of gambling, they already have within themselves, namely: emotional, stressed, greedy, happy, and so on, gambling brings two things to themselves significantly (1) Positive and (2) negative, these two things come and go when two things happen, such as: losing and winning, that is a characteristic that can happen at any time.

For this reason, behavioral change can happen in the blink of an eye, where all of this comes without being invited and goes without being chased away, the point is, who is not happy that there is a lot of money in their pocket, of course this change in behavior can happen, including to me Alone.

I am very sorry to hear this, and I invite you to quickly visit a doctor or any center near you that specializes in treating addiction and addictive behaviors, because it seems that excessive gambling activity has begun to affect the rest of the aspects of your life, including a negative impact on your close relationships.
Usually, I don't care much if the addict is only responsible for himself and bears all the harm alone. The real problem of addiction begins when the effect of this habit becomes chronic and begins to destroy various relationships, so the addict becomes little by little isolated when there is no one by his side to support him.
This is very similar to various types of chronic behavioral addiction, such as drugs, alcohol, or any other type of addiction that is capable of changing the addict’s psychology according to the mood affected by that behavior. I insist that there is no solution to deal with this except by visiting specialist doctors and committing to frequent treatment sessions.

I think that is inevitable. We are all only human, after all. And being human, we are hardwired to react to things both outside and inside of our biologic bodies in specific ways.

Gambling really does something in our brains that we do not even notice because its such a gradual process. Every time we win our brains remember that feeling as a rewarding experience, and that makes us yearn for the same "reward".

But as long as we patiently wait until our brain chemicals reset themselves to normal values, there is no issue with behavior change (addiction symptoms, basically).

Never allow emotion to control you,  you need to learn to manage your emotions and feelings regardless of what direction you end the session because gambling should only gamble with the amount you can afford to lose and still be comfortable because most times,  what triggers that mood swing is the presence greed to win.

Because from what you said,  when you win you feel happy and when you lose you get angry even with your kids,  this is obviously based on the fact that you gambling along emotional lines and that is too risky for you.

Self acceptance would really be the key on which whenever you do make out some wins or losses then you should really be that making yourself that get prepared on whatever that things do happen.
You cant really just that make yourself that easily tolerating that kind of behavior or really that being that impulsive when it comes to the things that you are doing specially if it does involved
already with some behavioral change which might cause up for some possible physical contact due to extreme frustration or similar thing. It is really true that once you've seen yourself
on such situation then it would be that wise that you should be quitting or avoiding this thing right away.

Somewhat it is really that understandable on why people do react on this way on which it is really just that a normal approach to have on which you cant really just that able to avoid
with those sudden switch or snap upwith your emotion basing up on the winning or losing condition of yours when playing gambling. Yes, it is really good to look at or to have
when you are wining but we know on whats the real deal when things turns out to be a huge loss then it would really be an another different story.

You just realized that you are a human with human reactions. We all do things that gives us positive results and then we are happy.. but the moment when something does not go the way you want it to go.. you are sad and frustrated. (human emotions) 

The problem come in when you cannot handle your urge to gamble and when you cannot handle the losses. It sounds as if you still has some very young children, so I guess it is better to spend that money on your kid... not on gambling. 

The joy of an extra cash is one feeling that can never be underestimated, as it's priceless, and same as that when we eventually win a game while gambling, likewise the opposite on the day we loss a bet. But the issue of transfer of aggression is one feeling as a gambler, you ought to have master, in other not to let your gambling life affect your physical relationship with others and the people that matters most to you, because just as you said you always shout at your kids the days you loss a bet, I can assure you that you can possibly manage that emotion, as it's likely not make your kids comfortable whenever you are around if it persist, which is not good.

Hence, the best way I think could help you manage your emotions is if you can gamble with an amount you can always afford to lose, so that if you eventually lose it, you won't feel bad.

Your behavioral unstability is harming your family, especially your child. It can be really noxious for his/her personal development and also for your relationship with your wife. You can't treat them based on your gambling results, neither on your mood oscilations. The environment just gets too heavy and unpleasant when this happens until nobody can stay together at the same place anymore, and again, the most prejudiced one is going to be the child, because the biological and personality are still under development, besides being extremely fragile, unable to take decisions by him/herself.

It's suggested that you seek for psychological therapy to learn how to control yourself when things don't happen as you wished, so you may stop harming your family in your hard days. Everyone has their demons to deal with, the point is to learn how to do this efficiently.

This is bad if you let it always get the better part of you. Before we go to gamble we have it in mind that it's either we win or we lose so why let the outcome determine your reaction towards family members or anyone at all.

 It's understandable nobody loves losing money and it hurts when we do but allowing it to affect our behavior thereby transferring aggression to people that don't even have a clue of what had happened to you like the kid that's way out of normal and you should learn to get yourself together.

No doubt our emotions are affected by the  outcome of our gambling results but we should quell the negative emotions right there before we move away from the position we stayed to gamble it will really assist us in making others not encounter from us reactions of  what they know nothing about.

That's something that might happen, but I don't think it's going to be a long-term change, and it's probably only when they find out that the outcome was a complete loss and not what they were expecting. It's natural and it's a knee-jerk reaction from a gambler who is experiencing disappointment. I don't think this would happen if gamblers didn't have such high expectations of winning, because after all it's just a matter of chance which means there's no certainty of it actually happening or coming true.

Basically anything can happen if you do something that can have a bad impact and that involves emotions, don't you know that something that comes out of a state of emotion will usually always result in something worse? of course, because when the psychological state is out of control everything you want to do is hardly the result of careful consideration. That's what makes someone do some unreasonable actions such as theft or other criminal acts just to get money when they have run out of money for their gambling costs, so the solution in my opinion is not to put too much hope if you don't want to experience changes in nature and behavior.

It also depends on how you handle emotions too, remember that if you're good at doing that then the people around you aren't going to be seeing any behavioral changes because you've harnessed how to handle your emotions. Having to show off that you're having a bad time is a sign that you're having problems doing just that which isn't that bad as long as you don't hurt anyone when you're in that mood. I guess losses is really going to make someone very irritable as losing is a negative thing to happen, no matter how you flip it, you're still going to get negative emotions when you're losing.

Yes of course every person will change their behavior based on winning and losing in gambling. For example, when I participate in gambling and win the bet, my mindset and behavior are very good. I treat my family very well and prepare good food for them. I have never lost a bet since I participate in gambling so far I can't misbehave with my family but I participate in trading platforms when I have a lot of losses in trading I misbehave with my family even though I don't want to do it myself. A bad mood arises in me. From here I can feel that if I lose on the gambling platform, I might be bad on my family.

Regardless of how little you lose or win in gambling, it could bring some emotional changes. Nobody wants to lose so it could be disappointing when you fail to achieve your aim. But we should look for means to control our emotions especially when we lose because there is life outside gambling. We should ensure that our friends and family won't be victims of our losses. We need to separate gambling from other activities because it might lead to regrettable actions. Our family deserves respect and love at all times so we shouldn't let our gambling experience deprive them of that.

Not controlling our emotions might also affect our performance in our place of work because we need to have stable emotions to give our best in our offices. An uncontrollable emotion could lead to a strained relationship between you and other employees or even your employer.

One of the ways of controlling our emotions is to gamble what we can afford to lose and not exceed our gambling budget. We should also see gambling as a source of entertainment and not just a means of making money.

We shouldn't only control our reaction when we lose but also when we win. Some people drink alcohol irresponsibly when they win. They engage in wild parties to celebrate with friends because they won in gambling. Too much of everything thing is bad, so there is a need to curtail these excesses.

Until you understand fully how gambling works and see it as a means of entertainment, you won't stop getting all emotional after every loss. It is obvious that gambling means a lot to you and you do not see it as just a fun activity, hence your grievances whenever you lose.

It is okay to feel disappointed after every loss, just the same way you would feel excited if you win. But transferring aggressions on innocent people around you is something you need to work on, control your emotions. A lover of football will hail and jubilate if his club wins. On the day they will lose, he will feel disappointed but will still believe that his club will do better during the next match. Handle gambling just the same way you handle other games.

Yes, there are times we experience a change in our way of behaviours when we realized that we loose in gambling or win as the case maybe, but the negative one we mostly reacted upon is when we loose a bet we so much anticipate a winning for, we then feels bad about that, there are moments also that we may wanted to gamble but due to lack of financial capacity to be able to fund the gambling we are intending for, we may wanted to have a change in our behavioral manners just to be able to make another means of getting money for gambling.

that is the mistake of a gambler who takes gambling seriously or considers gambling to gain profit so that when you lose you will feel annoyed, angry, hate yourself, even your emotions cannot be controlled and your family is the impact of your gambling losses.

this behavior is very bad and should not happen again and remember that gambling is not a serious thing, it is just entertainment that gives you pleasure and your money will provide profits for the gambling owner. so immediately improve your mindset before things get worse.

I think you are taking gambling lose to personal and you are allowing it to trouble your emotions,  I think it will be best for you not to have mich expectations from gambling thinking  you can win in every game and one needs not invest much money in gambling because gamble is unpredictable,  for one to be happy one just need to invest in small amount,  that one can afford to lose. Gambling should be a game for fun and not a means to generate money.  When gambling is taking as a source of income it always ends with emotional feelings when loses are made but when it is consider as a game people play and have fun.

This is not funny even though it is coming out funny and you are not the only one in this 

Majority of the people are having this transfer of aggression to people around them, they get irate by their losing and begin to behave in a rude and threatening manner and when they win then the family will be cool and merry.

Is this not a sign that gambling is not for fun  This is the sign because if you get angry because you lose then you didn't actually playing for the fun but the profit that you are expecting.