Topic: Health Benefits of Gambling - page 6. (Read 2416 times)

Although gambling is an activity that is generally commented on as having negative effects, of course it also has positive effects. Although these positive effects can only be observed in the absence of addiction, gambling actually has some positive effects for the person. For example, if we need to comment in a way that is free from all negative factors;

Gambling can help a person feel better. This feeling can occur not only when winning but also when a person forgets many of his/her problems after spending time gambling.

Gambling also allows a person to spend quality and action-packed time. As I have said many times before, if the individual isn’t addicted to gambling, gambling will be an expensive hobby for that person and will help increase the person's dopamine level in possible gain or loss scenarios.

Gambling also helps develop people’s imagination. We can all admit with peace of mind that most of the time we gamble, we imagine what we could do in case of a possible jackpot. For this reason, I also believe that gambling especially improves the ability to dream and that a person can be happier while gambling because of dreams of potential gain.

I also think that if he prefers to busy himself with other activities, he can divert his mind from thinking about gambling, and he can avoid returning to gambling. This will allow him to reduce his gambling activities and maybe even help him overcome his gambling addiction if he can do it continuously, he also has a chance to cure his gambling addiction without having to visit a psychiatrist or specialist. Training in the gym could be a solution because he is not in touch with numbers or money, but if he bets with his friend on how long he can last in weightlifting, it will return him to the gambling he wants to avoid. However, this requires a change in mindset that it is better not to associate everything he does with gambling so that his mind will not think about gambling.

That's why I personally gamble just for fun. Unlike gambling to make a living, gambling as a hobby indeed helps to relieve stress and improve mood. Irresponsible gambling, on the other hand, can increase the stress levels and can turn gambling hobby into an addiction... 

These are the positive traits of gambling that I love so much that at times it makes me think about gambling as a hobby but the thought of the addiction makes me run away from it despite the lovely feeling I am getting from it.

It would not be ideal if someone should get involved with something because of the good feeling, without having in mind the disadvantages that can lead to destruction

Gambling benefits include critical thinking, and the importance of gambling exists, the problem here is that many people already have bad experiences with gambling, so they go about telling people about how bad gambling is to them. And since many people already have these in mind, when they go into gambling they'll be facing more troubles as well. It's good to see these benefits of gambling, being disseminated amongst gamblers. So that they'll be able to understand gambling is not only affecting human's brain. They're some good aspects of gambling. That's why many CEOs and managers also participate in gambling. Those who spoil the concept of gambling don't have enough control. Not speaking against the effect of gambling on addicts, but it's safe to say that, the whole ball was on their court. In the same way, people benefit through gambling others face difficulties as well. It's quite obvious the bad PR allocated to gambling is flying faster than the importance of gambling. If people understand they can get relief through gambling and enjoy these benefits listed in the article shared by OP. They won't bother so much about making money off gambling. This is one reason why they always get addicted to gambling. Hence, every gambler should also understand that gambling is good and adds value to a healthy life. Uninformed gamblers focus on chasing losses and seeking quick money-making methods, instead of taking it bit by bit and observing the help gambling is adding to their life. Having fun is healthy. Whatever people face in gambling is self-inflicted.

I think he was addicted to gambling because he returned to gambling after busying himself with other activities, we can judge from his behavior because people who are addicted to gambling find it difficult to stop even if they find other hobbies to avoid gambling. I think a hobby of fishing will not succeed in diverting him from his addiction to gambling because fishing is very boring and he has to find a hobby according to his wishes. I think if he likes training at the gym or other sports it will help him avoid gambling because sports activities require more time for rest.

That means your friend is already addicted to gambling because he only thinks about how he can make bets, even if it's just fishing. He really needed to reset his mindset by not thinking about gambling. However, he can do other activities that are not related to betting so that he can really enjoy other activities and will not think about betting. I'm curious what happened to your friend, whether he still uses betting as a hobby or whether he can avoid betting. It seemed like he needed someone else to take his mind off betting or he would just go back to gambling before he knew it.

To be precise, the person should look for a hobby that does not pose a significant risk. But this is not an easy thing to do. Because it requires a long adjustment. Even when someone is too addicted to gambling, then when he does any activity, there must be a bet in it.
Like my friend's story, who tried to divert gambling activities into another hobby, namely fishing. And for the first time the hobby went smoothly and he really enjoyed the fishing activity, but over time when this activity became a little boring, that's when he took the initiative to apply bets in the hobby.

From the OP,

# It improves mood: This depends on how we plan and play our bettings, so this is not entirely true. Gambling could improve mood or spoil one's mood, and it all depends on whether the gambler is having a good or bad experience with it. If one gambles with the mindset of fun and also plays it with a little mind that will not bite, then the mood could improve. But if one plays it to earn money primarily, then the opposite could be the case if the money is not coming.

# It is a stress reliever: Same as above, it depends on the mindset at which the gambler plays. It could be bad if the gambler is addicted or believes that he will make his lifetime riches through gambling. But if the person keeps on getting the opposite experience, it becomes so bad and could increase stress.

# It helps us to take risks: Yes, we take risks in gambling but I don't see how this is a positive side of it or adds to someone's life when most people lose their money.

It is true that it is the main purpose of gambling, and gambling also pays if someone manages to get a win from gambling if they are lucky and also it will make them happy, because they can benefit from gambling.  and there are also those who are sad, disappointed and upset because they get a defeat where luck has not been on their side so it is not the victory they get but the defeat they get, and this is a factor that can make a person experience many things and can even change his behavior. But for those who gamble with the aim of just entertainment, they will not experience this because they have limits in gambling and of course it is a good thing and also gambling should only be for entertainment not more than that.

So all things in gambling can be called opposite, where gambling can relieve stress, and can also bring stress. It all depends on the person who responds to gambling.

Indeed, in gambling there are only wins and losses so we are just waiting to see whether we are lucky to win or bad luck to lose, both always go hand in hand and what is always more present is defeat.
From here, even though defeat gives sadness, loss, increased emotionality, but if we can take the positive side, it will never make someone depressed and instead give stronger patience and sincerity.
In every activity there are always benefits and disadvantages depending on how person does the activity and whether they have the right approach or not.

Losing money will not make us feel depressed and stressed if we have accepted all the losses that will occur from the start.
Earning money is not easy and may be full of hard work and if you use it to gamble and lose it can be disappointing but we have to be able to accept it because we decided to gamble with that money.
Those who decide and are sure to gamble and then lose experience disappointment and cannot accept it, causing depression and stress, so I call them irresponsible gamblers because they fail to take responsibility for their actions.

On #1, gambling's main objective is to give entertainment to the players but again we wage real money, it depends on how the person now how they handles their emotions, people could be happy because of their winnings, sad, angry, and fearful every time they lose and make a wage on the game or else depression and anxiety due to excessive playing of gambling so it depends on the person if this improves their mood, and tested out their emotional intelligence. On #2 could be a stress reliever but could be lead like the end of the statement in #1 its part of the entertainment so if you win sure you will really relieve your self but how about you lose? could bring stress of course if money matters.

Yes, it has. But I think the losing factor is always the apple of our eyes.
When we are winning, what happens? Did you ask yourself that or are you too inclined with the bad effects of gambling? I do agree that OP should've also listed the cons of gambling when it comes to health but the pros do exist.

Sports gamblers do appreciate this. The boost of emotions when watching games.
When I have money on the line for my favorite team, I cheer as loud as I can for that team to win. I get angry when they do foolish plays and I get happy when they are on the lead. All those emotions are good for our health, especially after the pandemic when we had a hard time finding the entertainment that would give us joy.

About those who took loans for their gambling habits, well that's being an irresponsible gambler and that should not be recommended to any gambler.
They took the risk, they must also answer for that.
I just read one good statement somewhere, "When you deposit money in a casino site, it's not your money anymore." IMO, that's true and it becomes like a casino coin unless you withdraw it and can spend it with something else, that is yours.

Gambling should have the opposite effects on someone, if a person is not relaxing and having a good time while gambling, and instead they are getting more stressed out because of it, then it is time those people look for another hobby.

Now such high levels of stress could be explained if a gambler was using too much money and every single loss was too much for them to handle, and in that case this can be easily solved by lowering the size of our bets to something more manageable.

  To me I feel it all left for person to be an addict because we all have a choice, in everything we do we always a choice, you can choose to quit gambling when you feel you are getting to it too much, those that suffer from addiction they let that get to them, if they take it upon their self stop they can. And with just discipline they can work on their self. Gambling first of is not mearnt for everyone, not everyone has the heart of gambling and taking losses. People reacts to losses differently those that have the compulsive ability shouldn’t even think of gambling.
  Same way some people are complaining of losing in gamble, they are still some who still benefit from gambling and have record success with it. Like I said gambling is not for everyone, it’s a game of chance and luck. Nothing is guaranteed that’s one thing you should know. We don’t have keep  stressing on the negative impact about it, we should learn to also talk about the many positive impacts of gambling as well.

I've been saying this, there are many things that people can use to have fun and they are things that help to stop a person from being sad when they have a big problem in life, for example a person when they constantly suffer a lot of criticism at work. and at home, that person can take time to listen to music, go to the cinema, go to the beach to spend time and look at the sea and the birds, that person can take their money and go shopping for the things they like most, that person They don't need to stay indoors, locked in their room and playing computer games and run the risk of losing all their money and then becoming addicted, they don't need to go through that.

but when a person has serious financial problems and that person needs money or when a person doesn't have a job and lives at home with his parents and always depends on the money that his parents give him but he wants to have his own money so that he doesn't need to depend on money of the parents, but more than many years pass that he cannot find a job and the person becomes desperate, so that person will start gambling with the thought that he needs to earn a lot of money quickly so that person will be having a lot of losses and even then that person will not will take time to think about these losses and stop playing, on the contrary, this person will be playing even more with the aim of needing to win a lot of money to change their life.

Health benefits ? How about getting depression and all that dark stuff ? Gambling should be just a fun gateway where you can relax a bit , gamble some money and be on your way but nowadays people are super addicted to gambling , they are having mental health problems and this is just sad but finding benefits is really hard when you just gamble besides the dopamine effect you get when you actually win a ticket but after the effect is gone , you will chase that moment over and over again.  

What spade exactly  

There have been series of threads here and contributions about the negative aspects of gambling and that has not been hidden. Much as new and old gambler know about the negative side of gambling, I don't think the positive side is really out there in the public.

So Op is also trying to show that there could be positive side of it if you gamble reasonably.

Gambling wins and losses have an emotional impact on people. When a gambler gets a win, his mind is very high, on the contrary, when a gambler loses a gamble, his state of mind is very bad. Our mind is like wax, seeing someone's pain makes us sad and seeing someone's happiness makes us smile. Usually, if the team that I support without any interest loses, then it feels very bad for that team. In this case, gambling is done entirely through money, so it is very natural to feel bad when money is lost. But as far as I feel a gambler should not be overly happy when he wins a gamble and should not be overly upset when he loses a gamble. A gambler should be normal in both win and lose situations.

Let's call a spade a spade, when people see things like this they will have the confidence to gamble more just because someone said gambling has health benefits, honestly speaking I can't relate with what the op listed. I think it's best to point out the side effect of gambling too, when talking about the positive side the negative side should also be listed other wise most people will get fooled.
Even if gambling in the right manner has health benefit what about those people who are gamble addict, they can't control the urge to gamble with the mindset that one day they will build a house or buy a car, what will happen to them and their health, the act gamble don't have any health benefit cause if gambling has a health benefit everyone would have benefited from what you mentioned but since the benefit are meant for few people then there's no benefit.
People who take loan to gamble do suffer from depression, the addiction of gambling has cause a lot of broken homes and many negative side effect for gamble addicts. I don't think gambling has any health benefits.