Topic: Gambling as an escape - page 2. (Read 4114 times)

Those who make gambling an escape can be categorized as people who addicted to gambling because they always use gambling to distract their minds from one problem and don't want to think how to solve the problem. They think that gambling can makes them calm down for a while from the problem where they can make their mood back. Even if they lose their money, that will usual for them and they can back to gambling in the next days. Gambling have its risk so they must know how to treat gambling and never use gambling as an escape because that will not gives a good result. When you are stressed, you better stay away from gambling for a while and use gambling as an escape because that can makes you headache when you lose that can become bigger. You can do other things that can makes you happy, excited, and want to solve your stress than to spend too much money in gambling.

Why does someone seek an escape? It is because they are experiencing pressure that may make their mind tired to the point of making them stressed, and what is needed when in a situation like this is entertainment. Gambling is a means of entertainment that can make us profitable, but even so I do not recommend making gambling an escape because gambling can also affect our emotions to be worse, it can happen when we are fine, especially if it is done when we are in a state of stress, it seems quite dangerous. We should be able to avoid things like this, don't let it be when we get a problem that puts pressure on our thinking to the point of making us stressed, don't take gambling as a solution, the reason is clear so it's better to just look for something else that is safer.

Somehow it does not make sense that the often a person uses alcohol, the more addicted he becomes and it is more destructive, when doctors suggest to drink a little bit of alcohol everyday to make blood run better A person might a sip of wine during dinner every day and get addicted? People also go to gym to escape from stress, but lifting huge weights is not always when performed with bad techniques. And its a stress for the body.

But I cant say that gambling is a 100% escape for everyone. It might be an escape for a tiny percentage of gamblers, other simply kill time, waste money or have fun. I can admit that gambling is an escape only if a person feels comfortable during gambling. Does not matter if that is destruction or something else for other, for that person it is an activity when he forgets all the problem. We are all different. If it is an activity that makes person brain to restart, when a person is pacified, calm, that person enjoys it, then yes it is an escape.

Hmm yes I think the advice you gave is one of the best choices that can be done by someone when they are having problems in their life, talking about the problems we have to other people especially those closest to us like friends can really help because in that situation we exchange ideas and find the best solution to overcome it and in my opinion that is what should be done rather than looking for other escapes, because looking for escape in other activities is actually only to seek satisfaction and calm the mind but not necessarily can give you a solution about what you should do next.

Especially if we make gambling a place to escape, it will be very risky and the opportunity to experience new problems especially in your financial situation is very possible to happen, so the point is looking for an escape is not wrong but make sure that the place you use as an escape does not have the potential to add new problems, in my opinion it is better to take a vacation and after that tell all your problems to the people closest to you to find the best solution.

Our problems do not always depend on us. Sometimes something happens that we can no longer change, and this is something that should not be accepted in one day. A simple walk is simply not enough to survive what happened. I agree that throwing yourself on "the embrasure" to forget would be another stupid act. But how many people can think rationally when something goes wrong? I respect calm and calculating people who know how to control themselves, but for me, salvation is either useless shopping or games, the result of which is practically unimportant.

There are way cheaper ways for escapism, that aren't profitable but in a same way help with stress and anxiety. But i only use them if i don't want to burden my friends with myself.
Way better, healthier and cheaper option is to talk about that anxiety. In best case scenario that could take your anxiety away and you wouldn't need to worry when gambling, as that would turn to good kind of escapism again

And there's nothing wrong with escapism. It just shouldn't cost you everything you own.

Though everyone has a way of easing a tensed situation but for me, taking a walk alone will worsen the situation because the more you try to analyze everything in order for you to be able to figure out how best to get a solution, the more you will throw yourself into more emotional state because you will begin to feel so bad of the mistake you have already put yourself into and start showing regrets so it is better to find a fun activity and engage in throughout those times as that is what will majorly get your mind off something that could have bothered you, since within those periods you won't be involving in gambling activities. It will help you to have an overview of your gambling lifestyle after your mind must have settled down and then you begin to make the analysis you talked about so that you can check how relieved you were as you took a break and then you will have a good foresight on how to go about with your gambling.

It is commonly said that he who fights and run away, lives to fight another day, in other words, we can  say that he who ran away from his or her problems will after running, turn around to either solve it, or have the problem following him or her any where he or she goes.

Though I would say that there have been instances where people actually run away successfully from their problems, like for example, some one who commits a crime in his town, and ran away to a distant place to avoid being arrested and made to face the law, after spending a very long time in the place he ran to, like let's say 10, 15 years, he can return to his town and be safe because the problem he created has been forgotten with time.

But this is not the same with gambling anyway, gambling; to me, doesn't actually solve any problem, it only helps one not to think about that problem at that particular time he or is gambling.
While taking a walk alone and getting fresh air, is the best way to think and find solution to the problem.

Yup I think that's for sure, I mean gambling when you're in a bad mood can really have a bad impact on us especially on our financial situation and it has been proven that many gamblers actually lose a lot of money when they continue to force themselves to get involved in the game when they are in a stressful situation and actually this applies to all activities that you have, I mean like in work when our mood is not good then usually our productivity and quality of work will decrease and especially if we talk about gambling activities that have a very high risk.

In that situation it doesn't actually mean that you will never get a win because the problem of winning depends on your luck but the problem is that gamblers often change a positive atmosphere into a negative one such as applying greed because of the drive of emotions and dissatisfaction which ultimately leads them to lose all the money they have previously earned, that's the worst part of gambling when you can't control yourself and your emotions.

Absolutely agree with you. That's why in a stressful situation I prefer to take a walk alone, analyze the situation and think about how to solve the problem that brought me to this state. In my opinion, a walk in the fresh air helps much better in such a state than gambling and alcohol. And in general, I am not in favor of putting something off or running away from a problem, so I try to solve my problems as soon as they appear.

The problem is that gambling in a bad mood and depressed state, being under stress often only makes the situation worse. After all, it is not a guaranteed activity in which you will definitely win, and due to this you will raise your mood and feel better. You are much more likely to lose, and then the annoyance from the loss will be superimposed on your already depressed state, and the consequences of this can be even worse.

People who gamble by only thinking about that moment without thinking about tomorrow may be more precisely those who are addicted to gambling, but people who make gambling an escape, do you think it can be said to be included in the group of people who are addicted, I myself am confused thinking about this. Gambling itself is indeed something that has a big risk, and everyone who likes to gamble should be aware of this, but until now there have been cases of someone experiencing bad events because they are too excessive in gambling. Rather than gambling as an escape when we are stressed, it is better not to do it at all, because what I fear is that something worse could happen when they are stressed and gamble. It would be better if they could find other activities that are more positive and have less risk.

I agree with you, however, it might be better not to gamble when we are in a bad situation like making it an escape is not recommended because most likely what can happen is that it can make us experience a more difficult or worse situation, therefore it is better to find an escape, find a way or other activities that are not like gambling.

An unstable state of self and coupled with the most likely occurrence of gambling that is done is defeat, it is possible that it can make us emotional and yes, a more difficult and complicated situation can occur.

Yes, we need to search for more positive activities and hobbies so our minds will not tells us to playing gambling every time we have a spare time. We will not thinks to use gambling to fills our spare time because we know the risks behind playing gambling and we avoids losing much money. We can control ourselves when playing gambling and when we playing gambling with our friends, we always reminds each other not to playing gambling excessively. But when we thinks that we are slowly begin excessively in gambling, we can ask for a help from our family or friends so they can guide us to reduce our gambling activity. They can invite us to do other thinks and trying to control our minds.

Yups the meaning of the word entertainment in gambling is not always about winning, for me winning is nothing more than a bonus and losing is something that is very natural for me to experience because after all from the start it is clear that gambling is about winning and losing even though you play on a skill-based game type or even though you have the knowledge to analyze a team, in the end losing will always be something that is possible at the end of your game even though for example from the start you feel that you have chosen the right team to bet on. So that is the basis of my understanding in gambling because that way I will not feel upset when it turns out that I lose money because that is something natural in betting, therefore this is actually also the reason why winning should not be a priority.

This is true, either ways you get a lot of fun that cancels out if you loose your game or you eventually do not get to have your team win but most Importantly you had fun seeing the game and that's exactly what the game should be about  and not  you have to always win a bet or your team winning,  if it always happens that way, it will actually get boring later .

When you do gamble and you are attaching out that life problems or stress then you would really be putting up yourself on such huge problem because losing money is never been enjoyable and never been that giving out that happy moment and instead on making yourself being happy or able ease out that depression on which  this isnt good. Just like on what most people been saying that when it comes to ease out your shit condition then you can deal up with tons of possible ways on which it isnt really just that limited to gambling alone but rather in other things as well. So it will be just that depending into your preference because if you cant be able to make yourself that control about doing gambling because if you dont like on losing money then it will really be that recommended that you do really know about on how to set out limits.

It will really be that better that you should be considerate about on doing gambling on which you should be that minding about that you can lose money because if you are expecting something positive then better think twice because you will definitely needing up to stop midway because on the moment that you do become that optimistic then you do really that become that impulsive and we do know that when it comes into this manner on where its really not that suits you out on having those treatment towards gambling because this isnt really talking about making money.

In fact, gambling is not a solution to any problem, but gambling is the main ingredient that creates the problem. When someone thinks of gambling as a solution to a problem, instead of getting a solution to the problem, he gets involved in bigger problems. A person's problems will not be there forever, they are temporary. But if you make the wrong decision because of that temporary problem, that problem will remain permanent.
For example, you have chosen gambling as a solution to your problem, you think that you will only play today and solve the problem by making your money 2X/3X, and never play again, but from then on, gambling addiction will be born in you. Because you will not be able to gain money then, but you will face more losses then, and start gambling more emotionally, thus you will sink into gambling addiction, and only move towards disaster.
Above all, when gambling is seen as a solution to a problem, the problems become deeper, and it becomes impossible to overcome it later.

In essence, making gambling an escape from life problems experienced, it is the wrong way and very inappropriate. I do not care what the background of  the person when having problems then choose gambling as an escape, because the result will make his life worse. Instead of gambling for escape,it would be more appropriate to avoid gambling when having problems and choose to go on vacation and or other things that can increase  happiness to overcome the problems experienced. Because if anyone gambles whenhaving problems, the main concern  is  that you experience defeat in  gambling and that will make the problems experienced worse and if that situation happens,  it will be more difficult to overcome it.

I never gamble under stress. In my opinion, at such a time it is better to completely exclude activities related to high-risk entertainment, investing, trading, as you can make even more mistakes. Pouring your problems with alcohol is also not the best option, because the more often a person uses alcohol, the higher the probability of getting alcohol addiction, which in my opinion is more destructive than gambling addiction.