How Problem Gambler Feels After Losing - page 10.

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Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.
Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

My Aunt who move to a big city while left alone at home as her husband works as a sailor ends up a problem gambler. She wasn't an anti-social person but due to her living alone and the people around speaks a different dialect made her turn to gambling.

I use to accompany her going to the cinema but eventually, she prefers to gamble. Post-Loss Speeding is the one that I notice more about her. After losing, she wants to get back again betting more than what she previously bet. She manages to control when she already has kids. Years later, her kids are now her gambling mates, playing cards in the backyard. The addiction remains I guess but this time not going to the casino. Can't say it affects the family.

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I'm surprised the presence of hormones affecting our mindset such as dopamine isn't included (or might've just been generalized into the mental health problems). But anyhow, most cases actually involved actively expecting something from their sessions, which shouldn't happen. The most that we could expect is that sense of fulfillment for being able to gamble, but nothing more than that. It's like how games give us a sense of satisfaction after playing them (or any other form of entertainment really).

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Quote from: noormcs5 on August 11, 2022, 12:22:39 AM

Do we have counseling sessions for gamblers where they are taught how to control their risk, and how to control their emotions after a loss or a win? No, we don't have.

Yeah you are right, I think there is none in this forum. What we have are just discussions, and suggestions but probably not from professionals and medical experts. But there are online services that cater to people who have a gambling addiction. They offer counseling and recommendations to help gambling deal with their gambling addictions. Of course, there are also paid services that are willing to take in patients to be cured of gambling addictions.

Cause realistically speaking, I don't think sessions where multiple gamblers would attend would work out. They should be given individual attention instead so that the root of the problem can be properly removed or alleviated to let them gamble without having them have problems.

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I think most of the cases will be chasing the losses. It's pride being crushed and you want to win it back. I have been in that situation a lot of times playing Dice at Yolodice. I now regret it because it's not that entertaining, dice is pure gamble only unlike my new hobby now at sports.
I think I lost like 0.6BTC there just chasing the loss that started from 0.001BTC. I won't stop because of the urge of wanting it back and it ballooned to a higher number that lead to frustration. That's when your brain stops working and all you do is keep on rolling the dice.
Learned my lesson, changed the way I gamble.

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I experience this all the way in a land base casino "Post-Loss Speeding", I will quickly bet higher on the next game, whether it's slot or card games such as baccarat. It's because of the frustrations of the previous results, maybe because I made the wrong bet or I'm thinking of doubling my bet in a slot machine or going down, and then that bonus happens. So frustrating and that I'm made that I will bet bigger to somewhat compensate what I have lost, but it is wrong, it's just pure emotions running on me for during that.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on August 11, 2022, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.
Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

Do we have counseling sessions for gamblers where they are taught how to control their risk, and how to control their emotions after a loss or a win? No, we don't have.

Yeah you are right, I think there is none in this forum. What we have are just discussions, and suggestions but probably not from professionals and medical experts. But there are online services that cater to people who have a gambling addiction. They offer counseling and recommendations to help gambling deal with their gambling addictions. Of course, there are also paid services that are willing to take in patients to be cured of gambling addictions.

Quote from: noormcs5 on August 11, 2022, 12:22:39 AM

How can we expect the majority of gamblers to behave like a professional and not regret or chase losses when there is no governing body to teach them? We don't provide any sort of tutorials to gamblers and accept them to be clever and intelligent enough to solve all their problems on their own.

Knowledge, discipline, and responsible gambling are what keep gamblers from being gambling addict. Information about gambling addiction is everywhere on the internet. And a person has the ability to learn just by reading and researching example cases.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on August 11, 2022, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.
Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

Do we have counseling sessions for gamblers where they are taught how to control their risk, and how to control their emotions after a loss or a win? No, we don't have.

What we have right now is counselling for problematic gamblers to completely stop their gambling habits. That IMO is a better solution than just teaching problematic gamblers some risk management kind of stuff because once they got greedy and felt that they can win big time again, they'll completely forget this risk management thing and then they're back to square 1.

Quote from: noormcs5 on August 11, 2022, 12:22:39 AM

How can we expect the majority of gamblers to behave like a professional and not regret or chase losses when there is no governing body to teach them? We don't provide any sort of tutorials to gamblers and accept them to be clever and intelligent enough to solve all their problems on their own.

It is an extremely hard task to help a problematic gambler re-learn his ways, but helping him stop his destruction and those around him is somewhat easier.

I think the main challenge problematic gamblers face is the stigma around them. If only our society is quite open on these hard discussions I think problematic gamblers will be lessened as they will know that people is willing to listen to them if they try to get out what they can't say. That's what's lacking in our current society: togetherness and oneness. A lot of problems such as this one can easily be solved if people banded together and look for each other.

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Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.

They do not have to be antisocial, although some of them clearly are. What does happen is that when they develop the addiction they become more antisocial, at least that is what I have seen in various addictions, especially if the groups of friends they have do not share their addiction.

Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

They usually enter a self-destructive process in which for most of them the only way out is to seek help, which makes their addiction less of a hidden issue.

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Quote from: Strongkored on August 10, 2022, 11:48:41 PM

Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.
Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

Do we have counseling sessions for gamblers where they are taught how to control their risk, and how to control their emotions after a loss or a win? No, we don't have.

How can we expect the majority of gamblers to behave like a professional and not regret or chase losses when there is no governing body to teach them? We don't provide any sort of tutorials to gamblers and accept them to be clever and intelligent enough to solve all their problems on their own.

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Join Community, are most people addicted to gambling because they are anti-social people? It's not easy to change the habits of a person who doesn't have a social life and then join a community for any reason, especially if that person is already addicted.
Feelings will be even more depressed when the money used is completely exhausted because don't have the money to go back to chasing what have lost.

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Anyone experiencing/experienced a gambling disorder pls. feel free to share your feelings after losing/winning.

Documentary Video of Gambling Addiction, the feeling and thoughts of a gambling addict
| Documentary Video 1 | Documentary Video 2 |

As the title stated, I stumbled on an article[1] published way back in 2021 and wanted it to share with you in case anyone is interested in how a problem gambler's mind works after losing his bankroll. It was stated that losing a huge amount of money is a sign that we must stop our gambling activity but...

Why do gamblers continue to bet even after they lost?

With all the effort of planning, setting a bankroll budget, and time limit, gamblers tend to bypass this plan and continue gambling. It was said that Gamblers specifically compulsive gamblers don't just gamble for money. Since compulsive gambling is a behavioral disorder that alters the brain[1], there are more varieties of reasons and motivations to gamble.

Chasing losses

Quote from: BitcoinPanther on June 19, 2022, 05:51:31 AM

Problem gambling is defined as gambling that is disruptive or damaging to you or your family, or interferes with your daily life.

source:Problem gambling
a more scientific discription would be:

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Problem gambling or ludomania is repetitive gambling behavior despite harm and negative consequences. Problem gambling may be diagnosed as a mental disorder according to DSM-5 if certain diagnostic criteria are met. Pathological gambling is a common disorder that is associated with both social and family costs.

source:Problem gambling

Sources:
[1] https://www.algamus.org/blog/how-problem-gamblers-feel-after-losing
[2] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60607720
[3] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gambling-myths-that-we-often-hear-5409250

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