Topic: Has your Responsible Gambling had any of these Effects on You? - page 7. (Read 1235 times)

regarding the positive impact on the family, I think there is none, even though I am married, have a wife and children, but only my wife knows about my gambling activities and I hide the gambling that I always do once a week from my children because this will have a negative impact on the
my children mental health in the long term.

I only gamble once a week or twice a week and all the gambling I do has no thought of making a profit or getting money from gambling, but I do this gambling activity just to try my luck and also to entertain myself when I have free time when Im on holiday. from my job so there is no thought of getting money from here and also I only bet from the remaining money I have or from campaign results without having to loan money just to gamble.

as I said before, my gambling activities will have nothing to do with my real life and this is just for having fun while trying my luck. so it not interfere mentally or even have an impact on the well being of my life.

help with urgent needs? not at all. its just about gambling activities that should not be mixed with real life. this is just for fun only.

I think it is the other way around. I am quite responsible with gambling, I play with little money, money that I don't need for anything, short sessions I don't put false hopes on it. But I think the answer to your question, at least in my case, is the opposite. It is because I am a fairly rational person, who understands the odds and who does not put false hopes on it that I can play in a controlled way and without any drama like some of the stories we read here. It's not gambling that has brought me positive things in my life, it's the opposite.

For anyone to be able to gamble responsibly that means they are in control of their gambling habit and when you're in control the effects of it on your mental health, social life (your relationship with family and  people), finances and career will mostly turn out positive.

I don't constantly gamble, like am someone that gambles not more than three or four times a week and am very mindful not to go beyond my normal budget for the week not minding how much loss I might have made, because caring so much about the losses can lead to chasing loss annulling my budget which then will adversely affect my finances.

 But holding to responsible gambling overtime no matter the results wether I lose or won the impact has been one hell of a great one in all facet of my life. And No, I don't see gambling as a source of my income neither has it been a means to an urgent need. If am lucky to have a winning within a time of an urgent need, then fine its all good, but my salary and savings are a standby for my urgent needs.

Gambling addiction is bad because it is not only related with their mentality but also their finance conditions. That all are related with other members in their family so if they are out of control, use all and lose all for gambling, their family life will be at risk.

Gambling responsible is their responsibility. Not all people who gamble are gambling addictive so it is personal responsibility to control actions. It is personal trait too and if a person is gambling addictive, he will be gaming addictive, cryptocurrency additive if he joins those areas. It is not because of gambling, gaming or cryptocurrency, it is their personal bad trait that they must change to control themselves better.

This seems too personal, like others who, let's say, came from gambling addiction and quit, but still their lives were ruined, like their relationships with their family. Though I would give an overall opinion like what I am doing right now, it really stays where I am but imagining the expenses that you'll be getting into if you are addicted to gambling, and for sure your family is already ruined because you don't have time for it, I would say yes, it is better if we are looking at positive aspects.

When I hear mental health and gambling, I can only think of as you are just having some fun while playing. However, if you are too stressed in your life and then uses gambling as a form of entertainment to escape the reality? It might not be good in the long run. Definitely you can become an addict, but if you have self-control and be responsible, then the effects is that you are going to lose money.

And if you can afford that, then I do not think that it will have a negative impact on your side. You can still have the time to mingle and be with your family and at the same time have your on me time to gamble whether with friends in traditional based casinos or online playing at your home.

The primary purpose of responsible gambling is to cushion the impact of gambling on our lives and the lives of our loved ones. So, it may not have direct positive effects but the fact that we are not losing all our money in gambling, for example, means so much already.

Being responsible in gambling is to damage control. We shouldn't be expecting that it will provide us a better life. No. Responsible gambling is preventing us from having a worse life.

It sounds wrong to ask "has responsible gambling improved your mental health?" when responsible gambling is practiced as a preventive mechanism. In such case, the answer may be no, but it doesn't mean it isn't important anymore. For without it, your mental health could be much worse.

But if responsible gambling is practiced as a remedy, then it will definitely offer a lot of improvements.

Unfortunately, this doesn't happen to everybody. A gambler consumed by their addiction plunges down affecting their family on the wild ride. Those who have recovered from the addiction or those who had seen it coming realized where their habit leads to, I think has more chance of having a positive effect on them and on their family.

I have seen some people giving testimonies on TED talks about these people which in the end life gets better for them.

Certainly!

The first big change is financial control, nobody doubts that. Those who know how to control their impulses and place bets responsibly will not compromise their financial budget with this type of entertainment. That alone should be reason enough to motivate others to gamble responsibly.

However, more than that, playing responsibly also allows the gambler to have a healthy lifestyle, knowing that in addition to gambling in front of a computer, he can enjoy his wife/husband/children, go out with friends, taking a walk in the park, etc... having a social life is also very important and unfortunately people addicted to gambling often do not have that.

Finally... mental health. Those who don't worry about debts and manage to entertain themselves with other things, live less stressed, acquire fewer diseases and live longer.

The very fact that you're able to prevent yourself from being buried under addiction is the most positive effect you could ever get out of gambling imo. The rest? They're just your personal skill really. Do you have a great relationship with your family and friends? You know how to socialize. You and your partner have no problems? You're a great partner. You're able to have a stable mindset and constantly strive to improve yourself? That's a personal skill. Being involved in gambling absolutely has nothing to do with these capabilities, they're all things you developed on your own imo.

Gambling, or rather the capability of being able to manage your gambling habits, is only a small part that helped develop it. Otherwise, researchers/scientists would've advertised gambling as a method to improve say, social capability, mental health, etc.

The bad stories mostly because of the wrong way in gambling. But it probably won't happen to us if we gamble in a proper way such as commit with your limit budget, spend two-three hours only for gambling, and not neglect our obligations as a family member, a worker, or a social creature. We won't trap in to debt if we aren't too obsessed to chase wins. Using the budget what we allocate daily, weekly, or monthly won't lead to an excessive gambling.

If we have the right habit in gambling, it won't ruin our relationship with parents, wife, kids, or others. So, the positive side that we can gamble to earn money or get entertainment, while we still have good relationships with others. If we gamble excessively, we probably rarely communicate with others. It is the beginning of the bad relationships.

I'm not sure about improving financial stability. But by committing with the budget we allocate, we can avoid to have debt. People take a loan because they want more money to gamble. If we limit the money in gambling, we won't think for the debt.

Whether you are involved on gambling or into those typical conditions or situations that you do have in face to face on daily living then it would always be requiring that being responsible or having that kind of control and having that realistic approach and sensible decisions that would be made.  Being responsible on whatever you do would definitely be putting you up on a positive way on which having in control and discipline would be always the key on putting yourself on good condition. It is really that very crucial in speaking about gambling because we know that this do really wreck up our lives if we are really that not mindful about such things.
Be remindful and be responsible with your gambling activity because once you do miss out on doing such thing then it would bring out that huge wreckage on your financials.
Lots had failed and fall down into the condition where they had really wrecked out their finances because of such carelessness and not mindful about things.

In my case, I play just for fun, I already did research to find out how many people were able to make a living from gambling and I confess that I didn't find anyone who said that they live off the profits they earn from gambling, which led me to stay even I was more curious and realized that no one is making enough and constant profit from gambling, unfortunately what happens is that people, out of pride, tend to lie and create the illusion that they are profiting from sports betting, but in reality they are giving online courses, selling books , they charge membership on their Telegram channels and there are YouTube and Twitch channels that make them money

They lie that they are successful professional gamblers, but in reality they are also people who lost everything they had gambling, so they adopted another way of making money. There is no magic formula that would allow people to win in casinos or betting sites, what we see are people losing. Even if, for example, today you put in 100$ and win and end up with 200$, if you continue playing tomorrow you will lose everything, so how can someone make a living from gambling like that? Even if a person chooses many games and gets most of them right, that person will still have games that they won't get right.

and as a result the profit will be very low, or the person will only be left with the same amount they had before depositing, the house always wins, although with sports betting, there is a small balance between the players and the bookmaker, but in the end The house also wins more and the bettors just lose a lot. Therefore, in my opinion, no one can live with gambling

I did this for almost 2 years regularly, and I'd say that it helped me kill time and nothing else. I am a very frugal person that strictly adheres to my spending budget, and never did I go over my $20 set budget in dice weekly. I also allot an hour or two every Saturday on gambling, and I have complied to it regularly and have never exceeded on those hours I mentioned. I guess what it taught me the most is practicing my self-discipline. I stuck to it every step of the way and until now, I carry that self-discipline no matter the activity or schedule is.

Great point. A lot of us here have gambling embedded into our lives and psyche so much that we are justifying its existence in our lifestyle beyond the conventional “entertainment”.  OP could be a clear example of this as he’s looking for a positive side to gambling which frankly speaking, there is none. The fact that gambling could be so easily replaced by anything that remotely resembles a hobby, plus the notion that gambling is an inherently dangerous venture to be in are just the tip of the iceberg in this “gambling has no positives” train. People fail to consider that there doesn’t have to be a reason for anything just so you can justify its existence in your life. Gambling is just one of those things.

It’s not ambiguous to ask if there’s any upsides to gambling, it’s just hard to answer cause there is none in the first place.

I don't think everyone will experience gambling addiction, it depends on how strong self-control and positive social norms each individual has.
Unfortunately I can't say that if we gamble responsibly it will have a positive impact on life because where I live gambling is considered a harmful activity and society has a negative evaluation of gamblers and does not see someone gambling in a "responsible" way or a gambler addicted.
For me, gambling is an activity to just entertain myself with some games, not many people can increase their income when gambling and I think debt cannot be avoided in life when we don't have a high income and good financial management.

"could this be happening to everybody?".

Honestly, I don't have an answer to the first point you asked. The problem is, everyone, even gamblers, have their own way of understanding and responding to gambling itself for them. I will take a real example that happened in my immediate environment, I have a friend he is a businessman. Having a fairly well-established business, he also has a hobby of gambling. the man I'm talking about here, has a sizable amount of money from the business he runs.
in theory my friend could gamble with a big bankroll if he wanted to. but the fact is, he only gambled with a small bankroll. In fact, even if he loses every day from gambling, it will not harm his business. this example, breaks the first point you questioned. that what my friend did, was purely for fun. if he loses, he can come back to do it another time, without having to chase losses, borrow money, or even damage his relationships, career/business.

Second point, for me this is a little ambiguous. I don't know how to answer that. The problem is, for me gambling is purely for personal entertainment, it has nothing to do with the positive impact on my partner, let alone my children. I do it purely for entertainment, without having to harm other parties, especially harming my partner, children, or even family. and if I may answer according to my version, the positive impact is none other than not harming anyone, in fact I did not miss the responsibility to fulfill basic household needs.

It all boils down to the fact that whatever you decide for yourself, you will reap the rewards afterwards.
No one will help yourself but you. So you can't blame anyone for what may possibly happen to your actions.
Being responsible won't give you any trouble later on, as you won't get addicted to this activity.
You will have clear mind on why you are playing in the first place and can easily contain yourself if you feel you are going out of the way.

There are pros and cons of being responsible in gambling though most of the time it will be on a positive side.
As a gambler, we all want to have fun and have some profit too and the purpose of being responsible is to free you from any greed.
Gambling can be more risky if you didn't play by the rule, I mean like you gamble out of control and you forget about your budget and your timing.
Being responsible should be your top priority to strategize first before you gamble, don't let your emotion drive you out of your way.

Even though gambling is done responsibly, there will definitely be impacts, but it can be minimized because by realizing that expenses do not interfere with gambling, I think we can also minimize the risk by maintaining our relationships with those closest to us.
Because what I have felt in this case is that when we are unable to manage spending money on gambling, our financial condition becomes hampered, which makes me often argue with the people closest to me, in this case my wife, and of course this will trigger a rift in the relationship.
So by looking at this condition, as long as we don't disturb our finances for other needs with the gambling activities we do, I think the impact is still there, but it's not as big as those who are not disciplined in gambling.