Topic: How's problem gambling different from compulsive gambling. - page 2. (Read 585 times)

Was reading a gambling related article just this morning and it was talking on random issues cut across gambling responsibly, many of which I agree with.

However, there were two terms that were made mentioned of which stole my interest unfortunately they weren't explained but only mentioned. I could have just checked them on Google but I felt reluctant and said let me bring it to the community let make it a discussion among us. The two terms were Problem Gambling and Compulsive Gambling. I want to know if they are different in meaning and how different is their effect on their victims.

And moreso, there's a statement I read in the comment section which is in the quote below. I would love to have the views of slot lovers in the forum on this. How true is this statement.Well, let me start with Problem gambling and Compulsive gambling. The two are real and you can see them all around you with the way gamblers are losing and having issues associated with them. A good gambling activity is possible depending on how we accept and play it. It has enough problems associated with it as well if care is not taken. But without going deep into this, one can still avoid many of these problems if they are good players, and with managerial skills included in their plays. Also, with compulsive gambling, no one is making anything compulsory in gambling, we can only be compulsive about things at our own discretion. If we are not careful, we can be addicted, and addiction is compulsive in nature because we are already obsessed with it. How is that the fault of gambling as a context, if not our fault?

Lastly, the losing remark on the Slots game is what the author believes, but it could be different with another person. But one thing that is sure is that gambling on Slot games is primarily about luck, and if you are not lucky when you play, you might be a loser at that time. Yet, this doesn't stop others from playing before or after you win their games.

Problem gambling is basically umbrella term for several issues. Not all people who have problem gambling are addicts. Problem gambling can happen because of many reason, pathological reasons, mpulse-control disorder or because of obsessive–compulsive disorder, so when we are talking about compulsive gambling, it's the concept of under problem gambling, but it's also more specific reason for it.

And what do you mean by long term losers? Why are you focusing on just slots on that? Doesn't the house edge apply to anything else then slots?

The two terms were Problem Gambling and Compulsive Gambling. I want to know if they are different in meaning and how different is their effect on their victims.

And moreso, there's a statement I read in the comment section which is in the quote below. I would love to have the views of slot lovers in the forum on this. How true is this statement.

Gambling disorder, also known as compulsive gambling or compulsive gambling, is an uncontrollable behavior or urge to continue gambling even if it means sacrificing one's life. This behavior has a destructive pattern that is psychologically, financially and socially dangerous.

I know that before now many people have gone to research and I believe that the gambling effects is when you are addicted in gambling in which you don't have a safe control during when you participate in gambling,  in normal circumstances a compulsive gambling is like a kind of gambling in which the gambler is addicted in gambling because its willing to make out anything good from gambling, so that is why people are given a similar definition of gambling, so in a normal circumstances I do understand that gambling is all about risk and the problem of gambling is when you have not understand the total concepts of gambling and it leads you to become addicted.

Compulsive gambling leads to problem gambling, when the gambler fails to come out from his addiction. This is because when you are a compulsive gambler and can gamble for long giving more time and your funds to gambling. You will end up losing all that you have.

This will now lead that gambler to start looking for where to take a loan, or sell his family properties, and even stealing to gamble forgetting the consequences because he can no longer control himself. Problem gambling is worse compared to compulsive gambling.

Problem Gambling and Compulsive Gambling. I want to know if they are different in meaning and how different is their effect on their victims.

Was reading a gambling related article just this morning and it was talking on random issues cut across gambling responsibly, many of which I agree with.

However, there were two terms that were made mentioned of which stole my interest unfortunately they weren't explained but only mentioned. I could have just checked them on Google but I felt reluctant and said let me bring it to the community let make it a discussion among us. The two terms were Problem Gambling and Compulsive Gambling. I want to know if they are different in meaning and how different is their effect on their victims.

And moreso, there's a statement I read in the comment section which is in the quote below. I would love to have the views of slot lovers in the forum on this. How true is this statement.

I think those two are intertwined but those affected more by compulsive thinking will have feelings and thoughts that for some reason they absolutely have to gamble. Maybe their luck will turn, maybe they're addicted to the act of seeing cards or levers pulled, maybe they fall into gambler's fallacy... Really there are so many things.

Problem gamblers aren't always addicted or compulsive but might be depressed or in some way mentally ill. Because the problematic behaviors aren't just limited to having intrusive thoughts. It's also an issue for example to be spending too much time gambling. Or the other aspect is just wrecking your life in general, in relation to gambling. Mostly money issues.

If we should brief it and make it short, what we can qualify both as gambling addiction. If someone have problem gambling or you are a compulsive gambler, definitely that means the person is a gambling addict. Although they are not exactly the same both they both resulted to gambling addiction as problem gambling is gambling addiction itself and that can make us say that they are both the same thing which is gambling addiction. If someone is gambling always and the person will surely continue to gamble and gamble with high amount of money and lose and always lose in a way that he has no two problem than gambling addiction problem.

Was reading a gambling related article just this morning and it was talking on random issues cut across gambling responsibly, many of which I agree with.

However, there were two terms that were made mentioned of which stole my interest unfortunately they weren't explained but only mentioned. I could have just checked them on Google but I felt reluctant and said let me bring it to the community let make it a discussion among us. The two terms were Problem Gambling and Compulsive Gambling. I want to know if they are different in meaning and how different is their effect on their victims.

And moreso, there's a statement I read in the comment section which is in the quote below. I would love to have the views of slot lovers in the forum on this. How true is this statement.