Topic: Gambling as a reflection of our personality (Read 2010 times)

True, I think that is indeed the initial scenario of someone getting involved in gambling, especially in today's era with increasingly sophisticated technological developments where we can find everything easily and that makes most people prefer to spend most of their time accessing social media and indirectly that is what makes it easier for people to reach gambling promotion activities such as those carried out by streamers until they are finally exposed.

Basically it will be very difficult to refuse anything that looks tempting, especially when we talk about money, because everyone definitely likes money, but I think in the end it also depends on how you respond and deal with everything new, simply if for example from the start you can use your common sense correctly then it should not be easy for you to be tempted by everything that seems too easy to get.

fruktik, from you story your attitude and behavior to money have changed through time, not to gambling. Like you were gambling back then, the same continues, you continue gambling no matter what.

Remember how everyone talk about discipline, self-control, being confident, think before betting and hiding emotion, when they were talking about gambling. For me all that means something that is unchanged, or something hidden or not showing who gamblers really are. Gamblers in general like to stay in shadow and tell little about their gambling activity. All that cant be mean as a true reflection of personality. So for me no, gambling does not reflect the truth about gambler.

You don't want to see how your personality changes when gambling? Therefore, you shouldn't gamble at all. I remember myself. What I was like when I first started playing casino games. A few years later, I was practically unrecognizable. Not only my behavior and attitude toward others had changed too much, but also toward myself. I came to the conclusion that I was disgusting to myself, since I was losing almost all the money I had. I still feel some kind of pain when I remember that period of my life. How could I have taken such a wrong turn? Gambling had completely consumed me. I didn't even realize that my loved ones were worried about me. I advise you to approach this whole gambling process with great caution.

It makes sense to say that discipline is a big challenge for most people who gamble, because discipline is still a problem that often occurs because there are quite a lot of people who gamble without discipline so that cases of challenges to the negative impacts of gambling never disappear, Actually they should have been able to apply discipline from the beginning because when they know gambling it seems they know that this is an activity that has quite a big risk.
We must be able to control ourselves in any situation, whether it's when gambling or just seeing friends who gamble, there are times when we can be tempted to gamble when we see our friends succeed in getting big wins, and this is a case that happens quite often too, but if there is good discipline we can prevent ourselves from being tempted by it.

No one wants to share their losses of course not only is that embarrassing to admit but many people tend to highlight only the really good results as more often than not it is all they can remember. When they win once, they will forget about the 9 other times they lost since they would feel like that one win has validated or justified all the losses that they have experienced and those losses are now irrelevant. Why I like this forum is that we are very transparent here and we talk about losses as something that is not to be ashamed of but just as something that inevitably comes with gambling. Unlike many other platforms that are even filled with sponsored content creators making posts that could be misleading to the wrong person.

Of course I don't discourage gambling addicts. because it can be fatal because their minds are so affected that their gambling pleasure can become chaotic. I'm just waiting for them to get closer if they need a solution even though it's hard to get back to normal. because I have felt the position of those who don't want to repeat themselves excessively. Something bad is not a negative value if we can filter the experience and make it a presentation for other people

Discipline as a gambler is a big challenge because it's only when you are disciplined you will be able to control yourself not to fall for any of such things, some Gamblers actually the not to be moved by some of such but the pressure that comes with it some time is close to been irresistible, especially if it's a very close pal of yours who has been asking you to join and then not long after he won such huge amounts, you will be surely tempted to want to attempt if you could be the next lucky person.

In fact, those who have low emotional control can easily be tempted to gamble when they see a big win, and at some point they will also fall into gambling addiction. There are many gamblers who have low emotional control, and they become emotional whenever they have a big win or loss.
When a gambler gets a good win, they become greedy, and they want to win even bigger, and they think that they will win in the next game, and they keep gambling with the greed of winning even bigger, and at some point they face losses greater than their gains.
Again, when they start losing, they start gambling on their emotions, as a result they face losses beyond their capacity.
The temptation to gamble is very deep, it depends on the main purpose of a gambler's gambling, if they gamble to make money, then somehow they will fall into gambling addiction, and at some point they will lose everything.
Therefore, if a gambler wants to stay away from bad influences, they must exercise self-control and awareness, and view gambling as just a means of entertainment.

You would really be that tempted to see or check up gambling on the moment that you've seen someone on playing gambling and able to win up something big. Temptation will really be there specially if you arent that good when it comes to controlling up your emotions because on the time that you will be that seeing those things around then you will be having a hard time on making up some recovery. Getting addicted is very common among gamblers but reflecting out with someones personality then i dont really believe that much because if you are that having some issues when it comes to control then its up to someones approach.

Those tempting winning contents tend to be the purpose why most new players turn gamblers. Even, when you go through the comments, the users there don't say anything encouraging partaining to being responsible. They all mention or hail the winnings posted on the page, hoping that their turn will be around anytime soon. Which isn't a nice environment for naive people.

It is so. I`m not professional doctor to say how it works, but i think that some gamblers has predisposition for becoming gambling addicts. But they need to visit a doctor to understand it. Very small percent of addicts ready to agree that they have some problems. And they don`t ready to hear someone else. And the problems can be serious as you say. First we see - losing money and time. After it gambler loses health, family, friends.

But the same time i want to say that the main part of the gamblers don`t have such problems, so we mustn`t restrict other gamblers because someone can get problems.

We cant say that outcome reactions will be able to reflect out into the personality we do have as a person on which those are just that normal reactions to have on which we know that on the moment that we do play up gambling then there's always that chance or tendency that neither we will really be that happy or sad basing up on the outcome of the gambling session that we are into. This isnt basically that shows that a persons behavior or personality because it could be neither happy or sad. Speaking about being greedy or aggressive or whatsoever then just like been said that these are just that normal reactions on which this one doesnt reflect out our personality and thats why its really that important that you do really know at least on what you are dealing so that reactions wont really be too much. If you do really accept that gambling could give out some loses and winnings then reactions wont really that too evident since you had already expecting on what are the things that would gonna happen. Therefore, we can be able to say that not those reactions will be the basis on what kind of person you are because we do just simply play up gambling and made out reactions basing up on the outcome or the results that you've been experiencing into. It could really be just that positive or negative and on the time that you do make out adjustments then it will really be that up to you whether you can move on or not.

The thing is, you may know the rules and sometimes you may be incentiving people about it, but somehow, you might always want to set yourself as a exception. In recent times, if this happens, then you wouldn't wanna warn anyone about it cus you're actually doing the same thing.
Although, I think it's important that we stoop down and allow ourselves to go through the process of unlearning things that we've learnt, but it's actually disastrous to us.

Well, this is a different question and for me. It does for the most part, as it's difficult to have 2 different sets of personalities. You cannot pretend forever, neither can you lie to yourself so it'll also reflect on your expenses and ways of spending cash...

Yeah fully agree with you, the mindset of wanting to get rich quick is one of the common means that initiate gambling addiction, at first some folks don't usually have that mindset before until they encounter a certain stuff that triggered it , like a post via social medias because some people are fan of showcasing their winnings just to get folks to join their group.

One thing for sure is that such mindset ain't encouraging when it comes to gambling, because that mindset usually increase the chances of getting themselves reckt or getting addicted.

I cannot agree more because I have proven this over the years ,but as time goes by we must become mature and responsible because our experiences will teach us more .

Don't stand on the same ground forever because gambling is where you cannot find peace of mind trust me .

Wow that's the point, because actually regardless of the personality of a gambler, in the end it still depends on the results of the gambling, as you said the point is when they win then it must be very fun and they will feel something positive, but when they lose then yes of course there will be at least a negative response, in my opinion the majority of gamblers are definitely like that regardless of their personality and character, and as you said that the most important thing here is how we can avoid the negative atmosphere when we lose so that it does not affect our mental and psychological, and of course the answer is there is no other way than to treat it with an approach that is full of limitations, hmm I think I should say that fun gambling is when we are able to enjoy the results of winning (stopping at the right time) and also when losing is not a problem for us, that is the context of gambling for real entertainment in my opinion.

It could be said that the character disease of gamblers is quite dangerous if you cannot control it, the growth of this character is very dangerous at some point. for example, they can work to prioritize betting without thinking about future burdens that will have bad consequences because it is very certain. The destruction of time, togetherness, communication is a big loss because good time is wasted betting

Spot on!
Responsible gamblers may not even reveal themselves as gamblers in the neighborhood because he know to himself that he ain't the type to still gamble whenever friends are around or the neighbors are visiting. He can definitely control it and most of his time will be talking with them rather than gambling on his smartphone.
But an irresponsible gambler which I have seen from a friend who came and visited me with other friends, showed a very bad personality because he didn't talk much anymore and just focused on his smartphone playing some slots. The worst part is that he bought some digital cash from a friend so he could continue gambling. He didn't even know that it was already reflecting on him and most of my friends think of him as a gambling addict now.

Exactly! It is rather difficult to understand that you become gambling addict. It looks like some annoyance from losing but later it becomes an anger. And if the gambler is very emotional he becomes anger faster than others. The best way not to play but it can be a problem, so the second way is to find some emotional occupation. In such a way it would be more difficult to find emotions for everything.



If it difficult to control it. The first point is to understand that it becomes a problem. After it it becomes possible to correct it. There are different ways, some of them you told us - discipline and management. I can add some emotional hobbies - doesn`t matter what it would be, the main idea is to add emotions, and, may be, control training.

Many things attributed to gambling addiction and get rid of the addiction we first of all need to deal with those factors. And what are those factors, get rich quick mindset. The gambler wants to win big amounts of money to get rich quickly which can push him to be addicted. And greediness is an another factor in which the gambler would like to win big when they show him 80-90% percent of the bet.

Those are some of the factors to deal with and once they are deal with then addiction can be controlled to some extent. Responsible gambling does not reflect your personality but irresponsible gambling reflects on your personality.