Topic: How can we help beginners not to get addicted - page 3. (Read 4164 times)

Firstly, I think it's important to be calling gambling "entertainment", like you did in your post, when explaining beginners the dangers of it. Because the main danger is lying exactly there: the possibility of stopping to treat gambling as entertainment. It's when you are stepping into the dangerous waters of treating gambling as some money-making business you problems can begin growing like wild weeds. So, don't do that, beginners. Don't treat gambling as anything else but entertainment.

In any case that always happens, when we try to give advice in a kind way and they make us see that it is not our problem because they are not us and they have to go through their own experiences, then sometimes one refrains from saying certain things because in In reality, the money belongs to those people, and they have the right to see how they can manage and place bets in a casino. Those who want to listen to advice and, above all, apply it, will become very wise. Where I live there is a saying that says: "He who takes advice, grows old" and it is very true, always the people who have the most experience are the ones who can teach us best.

They can stop the hype that they felt during the games and that's what most people suffer after they go out there, especially in our country where people don't have much to kill time and the only thing they know is to gamble and they always comes up with some idea and make animals fight each other to make a bet with it. I cannot blame them since that's the only thing they know and think of it as a good idea but they don't know about its reality and the bad consequences that brings to their lives which they will know when they start to sell every valuable properties they have just to fund their addictions which was happened to most people here.

Yes of course, it's understanding that every gambling site needs traffic in their platform, so when you're playing gamble frequently and you are experiencing loss almost everytime, it's clear that you are enriching the platform of that particular gambling platform, so many people who chases after their loss don't know that the more they are chasing loses the money they are enriching the platform because for them to win when you are chasing loss is very slim, so we don't need to be chasing our losses because is one of the things that contributed almost hundreds percent of someone getting addicted with gambling.

Then how you would really be making someone to show up some devastation of someones life because of gambling? Google? Videos? Yes this could work but if they wont really be able to see actual
things then they wont really be able to see but of course it would really be just that depending into a certain individual because  there are ones who arent that hardheaded and would really be
tending to welcome out others suggestions and recommendations without any issues but there are ones who would really be that following into the things that they do have in mind.
This is why for those who do listens then good for them but if not then it would be ending up on a disaster.

Bitter experience would be the ones will be the best thing that you would be able to make those kind of realizations because listening out other peoples suggestions would
really just that past up into your ears or you wont really be putting any care at all.

Undesirable bad things always have a big possibility of happening when they don't understand what activity they are actually doing, or what this means is that when a gambler only knows that gambling can give them a win while ignoring other aspects of gambling such as the risk of losing then it is clear they will have no restrictions on gambling, usually as we know that addicted gamblers will continue to gamble while they have money and in fact they always use loans as an alternative to fund their gambling activities when they don't have money, and all this happens due to the large encouragement from hope and belief in victory, or they think that the results at the end of the session will be as they expected, even though it is clear that overall winning in gambling always depends on luck.

So the beginning of addiction is when they don't understand gambling as a whole, because if they know that gambling is high risk and there is no way to guarantee a win then they certainly won't dare to take excessive actions such as gambling with a budget that exceeds their budget. its limits, and another thing we have to understand is that most casinos apply an algorithm where the percentage of losses is always much greater than the chance of winning so it makes sense that now more and more new casinos are popping up and that proves that gambling is a profitable business for them .

It is really because of different feelings that whoever has money indulges in gambling addiction. When a person keeps winning money repeatedly from gambling he becomes addicted unknowingly because it is considered as the best way to earn money and become rich. Otherwise, everyone is interested in gambling knowingly because there is a source of losing or making double money. Gambling companies will always look for the best way so that they can catch a lot of gamblers. The more you become addicted to gambling the more those companies can increase their profits.

Yes showing the bad side and showing real evidence of bad events is probably a pretty good idea to make gamblers understand the dangers of gambling if done in the wrong way and I think there will be some gamblers who really consider that and then absorb it in their brains following by planning a better approach to gambling such as focusing more on various limits in terms of budget and time involvement or also expectations on winning.

On the other hand, the idea might work but it might not, because there are always some gamblers who are really stubborn and difficult to advise or set an example for, they continue to follow their wrong beliefs, and this is why there are always some people who have to experience the downfall first to finally experience a change in themselves.

Showing the bad sides of things can be a good way to educate too
I remember when I was a kid I didn’t want to use the seat belt and then my parents asked a police officer to talk with me and showed me a crashed car, the police was quite a nice guy and then my child brain understood a bit better that not using seat belt

The reason why many people cannot recover from gambling is because of their mentality that does not allow them to stop.

If a new gambler talks to you before gambling, you can give him the right idea about gambling, but if the gambler expresses his desire to gamble on his own without talking to you, you cannot help him in this regard. When a person wants to know about something, we can tell him about it, but when he does it himself without wanting to know and he keeps it secret, then we have nothing to do. Gambling has become a very accessible thing now so a gambler gets involved in various gambling games very easily and all the gamblers who get involved in gambling in the new situation get addicted to gambling due to some mistakes. In this case, if the new gamblers are not careful about themselves, then they will be in danger later on.

I personally find your idea of ​​watching interviews interesting and useful, I mention it here often because it helps me a lot when I see what long-time addicted gamblers talk about. I can imagine how difficult it was for them to decide to go to these interviews, show their faces and admit to all their relatives, friends and classmates that they have an addiction and large debts. But in this way they protect inexperienced players, they indirectly influence them, because if new players begin to feel like they are becoming dependent, they may have a defensive reaction and they will stop, at least for a while. Of course, we will not be able to calculate the real number of those who were helped by this, but the fact that this will be measured in thousands of players who do not take that fatal step is a fact.

Maybe this happens because they really want to win at gambling so they ignore the risks that definitely happen in gambling. even though in fact they shouldn't only think about the positive side, but with those who have been influenced by gambling, it's not surprising that they continue to gamble even though it always ends with disappointing results. they continue to gamble with the same goal of being able to get a win that can restore or reverse their situation. but unfortunately actions like that will only put them in a difficult position and their chances of losing more money are very large.

The hope for beginners is not to misunderstand gambling, don't think that gambling is a means that can make money for sure, besides that, don't put big hopes on gambling because it will only lead them to an unprofitable point. It's better to gamble appropriately and not excessively. If the gambling you've done has ended in defeat then you should just stop, don't think you can turn things around by gambling again.

Maybe it would be even better to show the worst that can happen when gambling. That's something that casinos definitely don't want to be seen.

They only show the good parts. Also gamblers will always just share their wins, never their losses.

If someone is OK with that, then fair enough. At the end of the day everyone should be able to do whatever they want with their lives.

Yes but beginners like to feel that they will always be able to get lucky, or they feel that they will always be able to produce wins in every time they run their gambling sessions, I don't know what the reason is but certainly they are obsessed and also they have a high enough confidence which is a mindset based on the amount of hope for victory, on the other hand one of the other reasons is that the wins produced by other people they see really become a big motivation for a novice gambler, indirectly they become very confident that they will also be able to produce the same wins as others without understanding the dark side of gambling.

One of the terrible things about the situation is that the flow of dopamine that dominates, especially when they manage to win a large enough victory, usually the situation can completely eliminate consciousness, Excessive excitement and pleasure can trigger uncontrollable sensations and it can eliminate the level of consciousness slowly and this is what makes gamblers do not hesitate to bet again with a much larger budget in pursuit of bigger wins based on confidence and higher expectations but in the end yes usually the opposite happens where the results do not match their expectations and the situation can trigger emotions and various out-of-control actions that will lead them to more significant regret, And yes it's true that try that we always try to give real understanding to beginners especially those we know, it never hurts to help others for good.

Loss chasing is the way that leads to addiction. This is why beginners should not see gambling as a get rich quick activity because if they do, they will finally get trapped with chasing their losses and they must become gambling addicts.

What I will advice beginners is only to gamble with the amount of money that they can afford to lose, and they should also see gambling as a means of losing money. It is only people that loves the fun in gambling that should gamble because they understand that their chances of running at loss is higher than winning which has made them to gamble responsible.

Gambling is more than simply luck. Most people dont comprehend its dark psychology. As you said, newbies are blinded by glitz and glamour and sudden billionaires. The endless hours of loss, rising debt, and destroyed relationships are hidden from them. Like a siren song, it promises easy money but leaves people shipwrecked and broke.

Also, that dopamine rush? Its deadly. It changes your brain, making you want the next big win even when you're down. Its a vicious cycle that's hard to escape. Thus, education matters. We must inform individuals of the risks, odds, and catastrophic potential. We must demonstrate gambling's reality, not fiction.

It seems to me that we cannot influence in any way those who have come to gambling or betting, and are trying to make money in this way, or arrange emotional fun for themselves. We don't know the past of every person, maybe someone is genetically predisposed to addiction, maybe someone had a difficult childhood...
There are a lot of factors that correct personality behavior, and we cannot know them.

That's why I think it's enough for beginners to show videos about healed gamblers, but they can't be influenced in any way.

but rarely do people play gambling wisely in terms of time and action, budget allocation. It's really fun to gamble wisely and be able to control it. Don't follow passions in the hope of big wins. But people who are addicted to gambling are already in disarray with self-inflicted attitudes that have a big impact on destroying their lives. Everyone definitely has the opportunity to be in a better condition, even though it is very difficult to change to avoid addiction.

Some gamblers aren't open minded I guess that is why they just ignore it or maybe they don't have time for it instead focus on gambling. Seminars are good but the way people absorb what's in it depends on one's principle in life and attitude as a gambler, some people find it interesting to attend and some are not having it.