Gambling might be the most expensive form of escapism. I would say people need to consider that if an activity has no maximum as to how much you can spend, it's rather be exploitative to it's subject. Any other hobby will have an absolute hard limit, gambling doesn't. So long as you want to keep spending money, you can. If you had a trillion dollars, a casino would be glad to help you lose them all.
It's similar to many gaming apps that have sprung up in the recent years. While you could max your account in any old game with a few hundred dollars to max out everything. With more modern games this number goes up to the thousands and still never ends. Obviously they are inspired by gambling. So I would say if you use gambling to escape at least be aware of these situations.
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But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
I could use games to escape stress from the real world, but not gambling because when money becomes involved, money that I know that I could lose, that itself becomes a stressful thought especially when I'm in a condition or position where I do not have a lot of money. Gambling can work as a stress relief for some people but not me because I'm on the journey to stacking up my money and if I require to escape from stress I can engage in other activities that I know that works for me. 
Playing gambling is just for fun, excitement, and enjoyment. That is what we must always remember so we don't break our limitation and we can enjoy our time in gambling.
I don't need to use gambling to relax myself because I have so many things that I can do to release stress. Gambling is just one among the other activities but I don't playing gambling too often to take care myself from the problem.
When you playing gambling in stress, your stress level can increase especially when you lose your money. You will want to recover your losses to release the stress but that will not happen easily.
I don't need to use gambling to relax myself because I have so many things that I can do to release stress. Gambling is just one among the other activities but I don't playing gambling too often to take care myself from the problem.
When you playing gambling in stress, your stress level can increase especially when you lose your money. You will want to recover your losses to release the stress but that will not happen easily.
We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
I have always been convinced that gambling is perceived as a way to make a profit. Everything around us is very much tied to financial gain, everything we do implies some kind of reward or earnings, even a hobby often implies this. I perceive gambling in the same way, I devote some time to it, and I want to get some profit for it, maybe for others it is just entertainment or a way to avoid something, but for me it is a way to get a little adrenaline and, if possible, earn a little. There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
I'm still imagining how can gambling be used in taking stress or a way to escape from grieved. What happens to one who is stressed and decides to gamble but didn't make a win from it? Are you saying this would still bring joy and make the person to be free from stress. I think gambling is just a game that people can decides on their own to play to have fun, and I don't think it is a game people would want to play because of stress or emotion. I don't think I'll even think of gambling if I'm emotionally down because I may not be in the right state to think well. Gambling is enjoyable and fun to play when one is not bothered about anything. But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Yes, I play gambling just to escape, when I am stressed with my daily routine, when the burden of life is too heavy and I try to find pleasure by lying down, playing until I am sleepy and fall asleep, here I get pleasure that can cover the burden of my life, especially when I win when I am stressed.
You must really enjoy gambling if you can actually fall asleep while gambling! As for me, I avoid gambling at night because if I lose big, I can’t sleep even if I’ve run out of money to gamble. And when I win, I still can’t sleep right away because I’m too excited.
In my case, I play just for fun. Whenever I am bored with some problem, I prefer to watch movies or some comedy videos. But I don't play to forget my problems because I don't see how gambling would make someone forget about problems. On the contrary, I see that the chances of someone who is playing getting angry are higher than being happy because no one likes to lose money. No one is happy losing money and in gambling people lose more money compared to winning. And I always advise people to never play when they have a problem. Never play to forget about a problem.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
This happened in my country too but I want to ask you, who was involved in gambling at that funeral? In my country, almost only outsiders, neighbors, friends...come to offer condolences to the family and they say gambling is to kill time. But in reality, it is not, because gambling is banned in my country and the fact that they gamble at funerals is mainly to avoid government supervision, not for entertainment to kill time or find an escape as you said.
As I have said many times, I do not believe when someone says they gamble for fun or to escape the stresses of the world, they are just gambling for the purpose of making money. All of those are just reasons we come up with to justify our gambling.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Yes, I play gambling just to escape, when I am stressed with my daily routine, when the burden of life is too heavy and I try to find pleasure by lying down, playing until I am sleepy and fall asleep, here I get pleasure that can cover the burden of my life, especially when I win when I am stressed.
We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
I never use gambling to escape from stress; there is a proper way to address stress but never gambling. It's a false belief that gambling is a stress reliever, but unfortunately this is what casino operators want you to believe. They can make you forget your problem, but only for a couple of hours or as long as you are playing, and after the feeling of excitement subsides, the stress is still there, and there's a possibility that you will get hooked on gambling that will lead to addiction, and this is more stressful than all your other stress. But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
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We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
It is absurd to imagine that someone or a group of people will have the mental energy to even engage themselves in gambling in a place where some persons are wailing and morning for their lost loved one, not to speak ill of your country since I believe every country of the world do have some kind of absurd tradition, but this is way out of the line if you ask me, but then, tradition is tradition I believe.There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
To me and for me, gambling can never be or act as an effective means of escape for life and reality, even if there is some excitements that comes from gambling that helps the gambler forget what is going on around his or her life, this is only but for a while and only as long as the game last, no body can sit on the gambling table, or have a gadget to his or her face for an entire 12 hours not to talk of 24 hours.
So, as soon as one gets up that table, or drops that gadget, all the problems he or she tried to use gambling to forget will come streaming back into his head.
So, at the end of the day, gambling is like a temporarily solution to such problems, one can never really run away from his or her problems, the best way out is to face it and deal with it.
Other than money, I have not really used gambling as a means of leisure, fun or anything. I don't know if this means that I am money minded but I just feel more comfortable putting money first whenever gambling is involved. I just wonder how gambling could possibly help someone with stress management when I know that losing money could really be a major source of stress. Hopefully some people would have been able to figure out how to turn gambling into entertainment, the reason they could use it for fun and stress relief.
This is not really common i think. Ofcourse the money part is always involved in gambling but it is seen as a bonus by most and not the sole purpose of gambling. People usually go in to gamble with extra money not really hoping to make much money but if they do then that is good. I mean if you strip gambling to its very core it is just games after all and who would not enjoy playing games?especially with how physical casinos operate where it is lively it is hardly a place or event to be serious and business minded
Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Yes, there was a time that I used gambling to escape from depression and it was a costly way to escape from depression and leave you more depressed if you developed addiction, but there's a study that found that loss of jobs, financial difficulties and relationship problems can trigger your desire to gamble, We want an escape from depression and gambling is a good alternative.
Physical and online casinos promote themselves as entertainment portals, but you have to know your limitations. if you use it as an escape to depression, you will end up more depressed if you have too much of it.
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I've never heard of playing card games at a funeral. I have heard that Gypsy funerals are a celebration - everyone is having fun, dancing, loud music is playing. The deceased is seen off in a festive mood. I remember when I heard about it, I was very surprised by this tradition. Playing card games at funerals surprises me even more, because in my environment at funerals it is customary to mourn and remember good moments from the life of the deceased. The relatives of the deceased are generally in mourning for several days. How different are the traditions in our world.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
In Spain this is not common at all, and you would be blamed for sure for gambling during a funeral. I suppose that many people can do it secretly or when the funeral is over to cope with the sorrow, as a distraction, or because of the unexpected money from heritage, for example.
But, apart from being of bad taste to do it in public in such painful moments, I wouldn't recommend it as a way of escape. Not only pleasurable experiences can be addictive, but also (and maybe especially) the ones which help us to decrease the physical pain or, like in this case, emotional sorrow.
We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
I guess that's more common in collectivist societies where community is more essential. As a western, gambling as escapism in funerals is harder to imagine as in our individualist societies grief and mourning is still more personal thing. In here, mourning is visible but silent and suffering is our way of showing respect for the deceased. I don't think it's any better way then any other, but it's our culture and we are stuck with it.There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
And since everyone / every culture has a different way to process grief, we often see things that might feel irrational to us. And it might seem like we (ourselves too), are doing it wrong by feeling lots of different emotions. Thing is, we are incapable to feel just pure sadness, because feelings don't work like that. Feelings are ambiguous by nature, and need to feel joy in some form is inseparable part of that. That often comes in form of escapism or celebration for deceased.
I don't really have an opinion about which is the right way, but i do believe it's healthy to feel those feelings as soon as possible, so they won't bottle up. Because that's a platform to build depression on.
And with that i come to your point, which is escapism by gambling. Because gambling doesn't necessarily take a way the emotions, or prevent feeling them.
I can see why some people would see that as disrespectful, but if the culture doesn't see it that way, i wouldn't either. Because anything can be used as an escape, like playing, eating, watching tv, reading and learning, concentrating to working out, yoga, art and literally any hobby can be a form of escapism. Gambling is just one of the ways.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Other than money, I have not really used gambling as a means of leisure, fun or anything. I don't know if this means that I am money minded but I just feel more comfortable putting money first whenever gambling is involved. I just wonder how gambling could possibly help someone with stress management when I know that losing money could really be a major source of stress. Hopefully some people would have been able to figure out how to turn gambling into entertainment, the reason they could use it for fun and stress relief. But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
To escape from stress i think one of the best way is people should be go to the vacation because according to the studies vacation to the beach or to mountain can decreases people stress level but if there is people has heavy stress then most likely this people should be go to a psychologist because probably those people is a depression and gambling is not the best place to release your stress even most likely your level of stress will be increased this because when facing the loses or lost all of the money then i am sure people will be feeling hurt so don't ever try to gambling when you feel stressed and for me personally i never gambling to escape my stress this because i realize gambling is not the best way to solved my stress problem 
We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
Am surprised to know that you said this is real but it's not common I guess, personally I will feel very uncomfortable if I sse such happening, how would normal humans with their senses intact be playing cards when they are supposed to be sympathizing with the grievers, that sound so absurd. I have not come across this kind of behavior by people during funerals events but in my locality I notice people tends to relax at home on a funaral day, though they do different things but i have not noticed them playing cards.
Though people cope with gambling but it shouldn't be a mindset of an individual that has foresight and want to be grow financially, I have said it severally that gambling should be taken as what's it, people should not see gambling as a career because is not, the earlier we realize this facts the better for us.
I agree with you that gambling is an emotional thing and that's more reason why gamblers are advised to play caution so as to avoid being misled by their instinct, how can I use gambling to escape from stress when I know that it's an emotional thing, that would be very stupid of me to do, i gamble but not having the mindset of it relieving me of stress.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
To be fair, People seek entertainment to relieve from their personal stress in life. It’s all about what’s your personal on how you can fight stress in the form of entertainment. This is same by drinking alcohol to forget everything and so on as long as you find it unwinding.
I’m not suggesting that gambling is a good form of stress reliever but it’s up to person personal preference on how they fight stress because winning a jackpot while your stress will surely boost your morale and forgot everything.
Gambling just have a downside.
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