Topic: Have you ever been a gambling addict? - page 4. (Read 2434 times)

Chasing losses has always been the problem of many gamblers, and it's likely to lead them  to addiction, but in rare cases though, some just chase until they realize that it's impossible to recover the losses and then they give up and maybe take a break from gambling for a while, while they reflect on their action and the losses they've made. Some people even decide to eventually quite on the process due to the huge amount they've lost trying to gain, they realize at that instant that if the continue with that gambling pattern, they'll only ruin their lives on the process so the best option is to call it a quit.

Yes, there could be some gamblers who are losing huge amount of money and might not be a gambling addict. However, as a human nature, you wanted to get back with the money that you lost, so you want to play again and again and that could mean that you are turning into addicts.

But I do believed that there are addicts that can turn their life around. Maybe there could be addicts, but sooner or later they could be events in their life that they might realized that gambling is not for them and they are losing every grip of their live. So they could go into rehab, seek medical or professional help, or just shutdown gambling for good.

This makes me remember one of my friends. I also know a guy that is not my friend like that but he said the same thing. They said that they gamble ones with huge amount of money and they regretted that they lost and that has been the last time they gamble. The other guy was my friends neighbor while we were in school. I also have a guy which was my departmental mate, he used his school fee to gamble and he lost it, he was lucky that his father gave him another school fees. He said he will never gamble again. These examples are not gambling addiction, you are right.

If you use gambling as entertainment and you also have other activities that you do regularly, you will not think about gambling too often because your focus at that time is on other activities. You can manage everything well because it is not an obstacle or problem for you, especially if you don't gamble too often. But if someone gambles too often and has no other activities, he can think about gambling more often and there will definitely be a desire to return to the casino to gamble. It depends on a person's will to be able to prevent himself from returning to the casino too often and trying to have more activities will help him to think less about gambling. That is why we have to be wise in gambling and don't gamble too often if we don't want to experience the problem of losing money in gambling. Someone who has obligations or other activities must indeed complete everything first and then carry out other activities so that everything can run smoothly.

And most gamblers, follow ego more than understanding why we bet. moreover, who really understands how to determine what we do. However, not all gamblers understand or realize that we can conclude that gambling is more about understanding. As for the other point, that's actually what gambling is like in the modern era like today. This type of entertainment is not just for fun but also can't be denied to get profits that we can win. In the long term, it seems that deeper knowledge, insight and understanding is needed. not just knowing how to gamble, or just analyzing it, especially sports betting.

And overall, I agree with what you said. Simply put, we can choose and sort before carrying out a gambling session.
For me, there are some games that we should separate and differentiate. for slot games, live casino, it's more synonymous with having fun and don't be too focused on getting rewards every session. except, when luck is on our side. if you lose, just end it because the original goal was just to have fun.
in other gambling, especially sports. the importance of understanding as you say. If possible, we need and be aware of knowing when it's time to bet and when it's time to just sit back and observe. that is why understanding is important. But in fact, there are many variables involved in it so that we are more aware of our bets. nothing else, the aim is to maximize and minimize losses. although in reality, the luck factor will always be involved. Armed with the addiction that I experienced before, I have gained a lot of experience and understanding. In the end, I am wiser in every betting session I do. useful, as you say. Apart from getting pleasure, we can also make a profit.

It is good for us to understand why we are betting so that we can really defined what we are doing. Gambling is a bit more of understand which is the reason why many people gambler not just for the fun but for the profits they're going to make in a long run. Whatsoever we are doing, it is good for us to have understand I'm and bet according to our Capital and what we can afford to earn. Cryptocurrency casino had made it easy for us to bet without dropping out data for the world or the casino to really know who we are and what we are doing.  Once we can define what we are doing, it will help us to stay anonymous and concentrate more on the game we are betting on.

Truth be told, I don't believe it's only addicts that are prone to losing huge sums in gambling, the fact the gambled wild a few times doesn't really make you an addict. What you should say is, there's always time in a gambler's life that he'll be pushed to gamble wild. Gambling wild a few time is different from addiction. Addiction is when you're already used to wild gambling and you don't think about nothing else other than to gamble. That's addiction.

I am so happy to see someone at least disagreeing with me, it's been a while and it seems I am so tired of all agreement these days...lol.

But it's sad that you actually refuted something I never wrote in the first place, and I don't know how your reply has to counter my initial reply since mine are accurate enough. When I also checked again, I realised you actually directed it to me, but with a different context meaning, perhaps this was a mistake of disarrangement from your path, I don't know. I never saw where I mentioned emotion at all among others which you claimed was supposed to be disciplined. Maybe you should be kind enough to point those concerns out.

Mind you, see my post directly below so that you it compare yourself;

Addiction is actually for the weak, especially those who are weak in their minds and can't control their urge when they realise that money is being wasted. I do not realise this as I believe that it is better to take a break when things are not first working, especially when there are no plans at all.


Wasn't it as above?

Right! people first play or deposit very small amount when they are just starting to gamble thinking that I am not going to lose it all, they think like they already know what gambling is and they are going to lose everything deposited, but our mind just think that in a that way that I will control myself when losing, but in last when we lose consecutively our mind goes blank and we didn't even know consciously that we are betting higher then we can afford to lose in one bet. after losing it all they deposit 2x of the initial amount lost this cycle repeats and the losing amount become so huge. and people become gambling addict because of this.

Speaking of obstacles in carrying out gambling activities, of course we often encounter it, where the desire to play gambling continues to increase while finances continue to run low, want to gamble but don't have money, want to gamble but don't have time for it because there are many tasks and jobs that must be completed. These are all obstacles or problems when we want to do gambling. But it all comes back to ourselves personally in managing these obstacles / problems. We will prefer to gamble and leave our obligations and responsibilities, or we will prefer to postpone gambling activities and prioritize what has become our duties and obligations. Someone who is wise enough will definitely prioritize completing their obligations and responsibilities first rather than having to play gambling. But when it comes to someone who is careless, then he will be more concerned with his gambling activities, because when it comes to work later he can also find it again. That's the word of a brave person who expects that he will get rich from his gambling activities.

That's true because, with self-control, we can avoid excessive losses and also save the money we have. We cannot continue gambling if we have experienced consecutive losses because we risk even greater losses. Most gamblers are not ready for this risk, but they don't seem to care about it and want to recover their losses or chase their winnings. Perhaps many of us have experienced gambling addiction without realizing it, so this is the time for us to correct ourselves and see how far we have come in gambling. If we see that we are returning to gambling more often, we may already have a gambling addiction, and we should try to reduce our gambling activities before we fall deeper into gambling.

Self-control can save you from gambling and a gambling addict can save you from gambling but a person can control himself for a long time but suddenly lose control of himself because of long-term gambling like I did. I have shared a story of mine here on how I became addicted to gambling and gambled with loans with the intention of winning big. Because of this, a potential means of maintaining self-control is to keep a small and fixed budget for gambling and to gamble 2-3 days a week at most.  In this case, your losses will be less and it will be possible to maintain control over yourself without panicking.  And this is how you can save yourself from gambling addiction

I agree with you if a person can control himself then these methods are helpful otherwise no matter how experienced a complete person is if he can't control himself if he always expects to win in his mind it will turn into an addiction over time. And once a person becomes addicted nothing will affect him and he will turn to gambling just to win which will make life worse. A gambler is always drunk like a drunkard. Because of this the child's wife and relatives cannot keep track of anyone the gambler cannot raise his family well it is easy to cure if everything can be controlled properly.

I totally disagree with you on this. Anyone can be addicted; it has nothing to do with emotions instead it has to do with discipline. When you lack discipline and the inability to control the urge to make more money (greed). This is the only way you can get addicted. When it comes to weakness, a person may be weak in mind, weak in emotions or weak in taking actions. But when it comes to gambling both the weak and strong can get addicted. If you gamble for entertainment, you can as well get addicted because that is where you derive fun and happiness. Also, if you're in gambling for making quick money then you can as well be addicted, when you develop the habit of not quitting whenever you're in loss and when you still continue to gamble when you have taken some profit, but greed does not let you stop at that point in time. 

Every individual that's gambling or that have gambled before would have lost money as it's something we can't escape from. Losing helps you to become a better gambler therefore we shouldn't run away from it but use the experience to improve our gambling skills and win more higher games. Gambling addicts are always losing but they don't know because they're addicted and only care about gambling and not monitoring their process to know if they're winning or losing.

I celebrate my wins as I know it's not an easy thing to do as many individual lose than they win. Celebrating your win isn't wrong but we shouldn't get carried away by our victories. For the gambling addicts, it's not the end of the world as you can cure yourself of your addition. I'll suggest you seek the help of a professional and not try to do it yourself ad when you get defeated, you might lose hope and fall into depression that would make you to hate life.

When emotions control a person, he will not be able to think clearly because emotions only want quick results in a short time. When someone is in a state of heightened emotion, he needs to rest first to lower his emotions so he can think clearly. But often, someone is triggered by their emotions because they get results they don't want in gambling so they are triggered to try to get what they want.

But if someone takes certain medication to calm themselves down, it is feared that they will become dependent on that medication, which will not be good for their health. It would be better if he took a break by leaving the casino and getting some fresh air and drinking water while looking around him. It can make him calm his emotions so he can think clearly again. And by stopping the gambling game, at least he has prevented losing more money and can also think clearly about what he should do. Rather than becoming addicted to gambling, which is difficult to cure, we should remain careful when playing gambling and try to avoid the temptations that will arise from gambling.

Yes, we are human but we are given reason to be able to think clearly about the decisions we should take and not give in to momentary emotions. This emotional decision will not be a good choice, especially if it is in gambling because it can trigger us to use more money just because we want to follow our emotions. And gamblers can deposit more money to gamble because they still hope to get big wins from gambling. But in reality, it won't be as easy as they imagine because defeat after defeat will always come and they will only lose more money. And that is what can make someone addicted to gambling because they cannot control themselves when gambling so they lose control of themselves.

It is true that gamblers may return to the casino after losing some money because they want to recover their losses and also still want to chase winnings. Even though they know that it is a difficult thing to achieve because we are in a gambling game where anything can happen, including losing even more. The more ambitious a person is to recover his losses or chase his winnings, the deeper he will fall into gambling and will not be able to get out of gambling easily.

After losing, a person should think about stopping his gambling activities and leaving the casino so that his increasing emotions do not provoke him. He needed to get some fresh air to lower his emotional level and prevent the urge to recover from his defeat. We must be responsible in our gambling activities so that we can avoid problems that can occur, including gambling addiction, which many gamblers have experienced. At least we need to apply it to ourselves and the people around us who still frequently gamble so that they don't experience any problems. Don't let us become addicted to gambling, especially to a serious level and find it difficult to get out of gambling.

Yes, that's true, humans should be able to deal with themselves and not be driven too deeply into gambling. We should be able to prioritize self control and not experience too much emotion if we face defeat. This is indeed normal, but before we faced defeat, we should think about the risks that will occur from gambling itself which does not always provide profits and of course always results in greater losses or defeats.
So we have to be able to deal with gambling well with the money we can afford so that we don't experience excessive emotions when we lose.

What is too much is not good, sometimes we have too high hopes, but when we can't achieve them we will feel worse. Indeed, we shouldn't have too high hope especially in gambling that doesn't provide definite benefits. We should Be smart about it so you don't get too fooled by gambling which causes you to experience big losses.

That's what makes some gamblers come back to the casino and gamble even crazier after they've lost a significant amount of money in the past. They expect that their money can be returned immediately through a gambling game that they do. But unfortunately in reality, the more he is ambitious to get back the amount of money, the more he loses because his gambling activities become uncontrolled and the same goes for his money, which becomes uncontrollable. Stupid

It should be a significant defeat that makes us a little upset, it should be able to make us realize that without good self-control, gambling activities will only be a very detrimental activity.  And I invite, let's improve our behavior in playing gambling, which even though we cannot get a big profit / win from this activity, but we can always get a pleasure in every time we play gambling, and can always minimize the level of loss in doing this activity. so that there is no regret afterwards.

It is a normal feeling that all humans have and in terms of emotions there will be two impacts that you can feel, if you can manage the emotions that are in yourself well then of course you remain fine even though you are experiencing problems, and if you cannot control the emotions in yourself then obviously bad impacts must come, so this really depends on themselves whether they can or not manage / control emotions in themselves.

Honestly, I'm not going to say too much about this but the main point is that if you go overboard in any way and put sky-high expectations on something that basically has no guarantee, certainty or even just an indication then obviously everything will end up worse than what you imagine. So you shouldn't get your hopes up on this activity, it's not a real opportunity but nothing but a trap for you, you must understand that casinos are very good at brainwashing you.

At such sceneros you are not a gambling addict rather you have lost more than you could tolerate to loose. Gambling addicts don't feel remorse of their losts instead at the venue of loosing it all, they strives on how can could get money and bet more without realizing the rate of their looses.

Asking how much I have lost @ Op, it is something I can't remember but I know I have lost.
It is absolutely not about celebrating my winning but also checking out to figure how much I have lost in total and how much won in total.
This has got me frowning because I am believed that of I don't hot a big winning but the minimal winnings then I am still loosing.
I don't have a statistical analysis of how many times I have visited the gambling table so it would be impossible knowing the figures lost. But believe me, I have lost a lot on the gambling space.