Topic: Gambling as an escape - page 5. (Read 4114 times)

Personally i don't see gambling as a way of escape from the real life issues that you're referring to because any one that uses gambling to evade important matters that is of concern to him is not serious about his personal development and growth, yes it's true that Gambling fun and a fun of keeping your self busy to while away time but should not be confused as an escape rought for one to confront the issues and challenges that life throws at us

Gambling should always be seen from the point of view of not only fun and entrainment but also with the idea of making money because this is something that you're investing your money into

The casino offered just an opportunity to win big that can change our lives and is totally encouraging. Unfortunately, instead of just having some fun gambling, many gamblers turn their focus to it, which leads to addiction.

Instead of considering gambling as just for fun, it turns out that it has become a source of income for some gamblers. 
We'd really see the changing approach of the people due to social media influencers. And been expecting a lot of changes in the future as the development continues to spread. 

When they use gambling as an escape, they can lose control and become an addicted to gambling. Many people gets this problem without they can realize that something already change to them. Gambling as an escape is like they want to run from the fact that they have many things to do but just playing gambling to fills their time. Gambling is just for fun and not because of other reasons so we must playing gambling with having a responsibility so we can prevent the problem that can comes. They don't have to use gambling as an escape especially to runs from what the reality but they must face that and solve the problem. If they can not do that, they will gets more problem that will makes their lives difficult.

When they use gambling as an escape, they can lose control and become an addicted to gambling. Many people gets this problem without they can realize that something already change to them. Gambling as an escape is like they want to run from the fact that they have many things to do but just playing gambling to fills their time. Gambling is just for fun and not because of other reasons so we must playing gambling with having a responsibility so we can prevent the problem that can comes. They don't have to use gambling as an escape especially to runs from what the reality but they must face that and solve the problem. If they can not do that, they will gets more problem that will makes their lives difficult.

In fact, gambling is a very dangerous thing, if a gambler loses control over his gambling, then gambling can easily become an addiction. Moreover, many gamblers fall into gambling addiction because of their main purpose in gambling, If they gamble only to make money, they will easily lose control, as a result of which they will sink into gambling addiction. Gambling can never be the main goal of life. Gambling should only be used for fun and entertainment. Always gamble responsibly, not irresponsibly. And it is very important to set a specific limit before each game and not to go beyond a certain budget any way, and stop Gambling after a certain time in very importent. Because if a gambler cannot stay after a certain time, he will start gambling beyond his means, which will put him in much greater financial trouble. This is why you should always gamble responsibly, set a specific budget and time frame, and stick to it.

In fact, the belief that gambling and alcohol helps to overcome some problems is a deep misconception. If you get away from problems, it does not mean that you solve them. Rather, you are delaying their solution, which is tantamount to running away from problems instead of facing them head-on and coming out of this battle victorious. No problem solves itself. Either you solve it, or someone helps you to do it, but it is obviously not alcohol or gambling.

Of course, I don't consider gambling as a way to make money in the long term. This is a false idea that is fraught with big losses and the development of addiction in the player. I believe that gambling is interesting to people primarily because of the potential winnings. But you can't actively bet on this, expecting to make money this way. Because statistically there will always be more losses than winnings.

In fact, the belief that gambling and alcohol helps to overcome some problems is a deep misconception. If you get away from problems, it does not mean that you solve them. Rather, you are delaying their solution, which is tantamount to running away from problems instead of facing them head-on and coming out of this battle victorious. No problem solves itself. Either you solve it, or someone helps you to do it, but it is obviously not alcohol or gambling.

Playing gambling needs responsibility to prevent the loss become big. So when we use gambling as an escape from our stress, we may lose control when we get pleasure from gambling and there will be no stop for us from keeping playing gambling. We will forget about the rule that gambling is part of our activities that we don't need to use very often. We can not see that gambling is not for make money or release our stress from our daily activities because that can makes us forget that we have many things to do. So that is why we really need to have responsibilities in gambling so we can enjoy our time in gambling and know when we must stop gambling.

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Personally i don't see gambling as a way of escape from the real life issues that you're referring to because any one that uses gambling to evade important matters that is of concern to him is not serious about his personal development and growth, yes it's true that Gambling fun and a fun of keeping your self busy to while away time but should not be confused as an escape rought for one to confront the issues and challenges that life throws at us.

Regarding what OP was saying, I think he meant that some persons uses gambling as a means to escape from their current negative situation such as times that they are emotionally down due to death of a love one, lose of job, lose of a big contract, divorces and any bad occurrences of life that you can think of. While OP was trying to make a point off this topic because of the experience he had in his country, gambling can still make a lot of people to become trapped while trying to use it as an escape of their emotions and can cause themselves more 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 no doubt about it, things in each one of us see that games are often escape from our daily life, from what is lived to what one can say that the luck of each one is different, not because one does well will do badly or vice versa, everything can be there so that we can make the Difference , there is no doubt about that, but what I see that the main thing of all this is that one has to have Responsibility, even so the things have to be seen with the real focus, not doing things for doing them, not spending money for spending or making bets so big as to be left with Nothing.

Regarding what OP was saying, I think he meant that some persons uses gambling as a means to escape from their current negative situation such as times that they are emotionally down due to death of a love one, lose of job, lose of a big contract, divorces and any bad occurrences of life that you can think of. While OP was trying to make a point off this topic because of the experience he had in his country, gambling can still make a lot of people to become trapped while trying to use it as an escape of their emotions and can cause themselves more problem.

You should never place the title of an "escape" for something that can consume you whole if you fall deep enough in the hole! It depends on the type of escape though as you provided some examples such as pleasure or an escape from grieving. I suppose if its a short term escape to get your  mind off

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?

Totally not that an ideal option specially if you are on a condition on which you are on stress or disappointment and you do make gambling as thing that will ease out those conditions? For some people then it might do but majority will really be that worsening out such condition. Why? human beings does hate up on losing money and we do know on how valuable money could be and it will be that just too impossible that you cant be able to assess out if this one is really that indeed truly a worth thing for you to deal on with. Just like we do all know that there are other ways on which we can be able to ease out that stress and kind of emotion on which we know that when it comes into this aspect then there are tons of options you can take except gambling.

You can indeed use up that money on spending up your time with your family or hanging out with your friends or doing up some activity like doing sports and other things on which this is far more better rather than on dealing with an activity on which it does have the potential that you could lose up money. This is where you will be having that kind of consideration on which one will really be easing out that kind of condition. It is really that in accorandance into someones preference because if you are really that a gambler or who does like to deal up with games then you would eventually be having that kind of choice or option to take.

Playing gambling use money so many of us thinks that they will make money from gambling. They start thinks like that because they see some people making much money from gambling so they follow what other people do but the outcome will not be the same. Many people will lose their money in gambling so we must prevent that happen to us by using limitation and always aware with the situation. I admitted that playing slot game is fun and can make us forget with the lose. We are tempting to keep playing because we are in lose position so we want to recover our losses. But we must know that slot game need luck to win so we will not win no matter how much money we use if we don't have luck.

But this kind of thinking also makes us more addicted and makes us someone who is overconfident that gambling can get benefits when it is clearly an impossibility even though in some cases there are some people who manage to get rich because of the gambling they do but that is only a small part of the many cases where gambling makes a lot of us lose everything because of false ambitions which think gambling is the most possible thing to do in order to get big profits instantly and without the process of working.

It is not that I do not expect to win in my gambling but we should also try to be more realistic in looking at gambling since it would be a mistake when players consider gambling as a form of themselves in an effort to improve their financial life.