Topic: Indirect victims of gambling addiction - page 6. (Read 1192 times)

It is clear, with the current existence of online casino gambling, of course many young people are familiar with gambling and they even gamble in their lives. I'm sure that in all countries there are young people who are addicted to gambling, and if we venture out of town and find a group of young people and we ask about online casino gambling, I think at least one of them will definitely know about it or be familiar with it. if they are addicted at a young age of course it will create problems for their future, it is possible that they will have socialization problems.
Yes, that's true, with online discussions like this I also hope to make them aware so they don't gamble excessively which can be detrimental to themselves, including their future. Many people who have a bad view of gambling are due to the actions of the gamblers themselves who gamble beyond their reasonable limits. They hope to get a big win using the amount of money they bet. However, they tend not to see the risks and impacts of excessive gambling.

Generally gambling has some indirect harmful aspects like if someone in a family is addicted to gambling then other members of the family may become addicted to gambling out of curiosity. Especially if the parents of a gambling addicted family are addicted to gambling then the children of those addicted parents are automatically addicted to gambling. Again, gambling has some harmful aspects socially, such as the curse of women abuse is usually seen in families of gambling addicts. Moreover, seeing the scene of torture of women, the small children of the family are psychologically damaged and gradually grow up from that psychologically damaged condition. So if we imagine the horrors of gambling socially and familially, then gambling has many indirect harmful and terrible aspects.

Unfortunately, with the advance of technology and online casinos, it has become quite common in our society. I personally haven't witnessed such a case myself, but I have heard similar ones from acquaintances and, of course, on local news internet pages. However, I've seen quite a few people my age being addicted, gambling great amounts of money till they basically go broke—no exaggeration, without a care in the world. All they care about is how to obtain money and from whom they're going to borrow or have money sent to them (such as their parents) in order to gamble again.

Even in such cases, the victim isn't only the gambler himself; it's their friends and their family as well. Imagine doing that when you have a partner or a family of your own.

This makes me realize I'm probably one of the victims in my childhood. I remember my friend urging me to buy a lucky draw to get an expensive toy by buying tickets. The seller probably never intended to make the prize winnable, to begin with, but we are so eager to try because one of our friends managed to win a new shiny toy from that. I spend a lot of money buying that, which probably happens because the price of one ticket is quite cheap in our mind. Surprisingly, after I move to another school, I don't find any urge to buy the same lottery. Maybe a change in the environment help me reduce my growing addiction.

If you think about it, some popular scam cases in crypto where the owner of a business runs away also happen because they gamble the customers' money to trade on average trading. I don't know if there's a case where the money is used directly in a casino though, but it is clear that they have more or less the same greedy motivation to try to make a ton of money as quicky as possible.

Responsible gambling is always the best advice if you want to engage in this activity, because it will obviously bring you a good level of safety in the long run. On the other hand, yes, I agree with you that lately types of games such as slots are indeed more popular and maybe your place is also the same as mine where this type of game is very popular with many people, regardless of age and sometimes even children who Underage people are already involved in this type of gambling and the public seems to be very familiar with slot games.

This is very worrying and also clear in terms of the population of gamblers who are addicted to this type of game, which is very large and continues to increase over time, and what is worrying is that they do not even hesitate to allocate any money for gambling, such as money for other needs such as your family's needs. mention whether it is for needs or for other purposes which are very likely to have an impact on other people, especially the people around them, of course that is good advice, however, never gamble using money for other needs or simply put, you You can gamble when you have a certain amount of money that you won't be able to use for any needs.

Slots and children this is very much known to me. I was sort of victim of indirect gambling at my childhood. After the school, on the way home, few times we have visited casino (there were only slots, can this be called a casino then?) and gambled lunch money. This wasnt done every day; maybe once a few month. We were a company of classmates who walked home. Some of my friends gambled there on the way home. I did it more rarely than they. But still, to be «in the company» or «like them», I have tried slots.

Sad stories like this I often hear, even outside this forum, often occur in gambling that is often done by someone such as slot gambling which is very popular in my place.

There are many who are addicted and end up using money that should be used for other important purposes, such as for family needs,
for marriage, for savings and even money used for insurance.

Those who are not directly involved will be affected.
So before gambling, it is better to think in advance where the source of funds is used.
I only use small funds for gambling, and it is not related to any needs, it is just entertainment.

Since you're asking for other people who could be affected by someone who's addicted to gambling, let me add some:

1. Children and young persons dependent upon the addict: Initially, they get all that they need from the gambler before the gambling addiction took over his brain and his logical and rational thinking region's clouded by thoughts of reclaiming all his losses in the casino. It could be monetary, emotional, or even inspirational aid, which is cut short and abruptly by the way, once the gambler finally succumbs to gambling addiction. All of a sudden sustenance and money is harder to come by, they become an absentee/deadbeat parent/guardian, and they may even start to abuse these children as a means of letting out steam and frustration from an unsuccessful night/session of gambling. Some are even forced to go into child labor for the sake of supporting their family when the parents couldn't. And even worse, gambling addicts who sees no light at the end of the tunnel and are left to commit suicide leave children and relatives behind to carry the emotional baggage that they will leave them with, as well as the debts that they failed to pay when they are still alive.

2. Strangers, in certain instances: Some gamblers who fail to get the money to support their vices end up committing crimes like robbery or even more heinous ones to sustain their addiction and their gambling streak, thus, this may leave people who shouldn't even have anything to do with the gambler victimized all because they unfortunately happened to walk the same road that the addicted and desperate gambler tread upon. Fucking sucks but I've seen a lot of people lose money and sometimes even their lives because of someone's uncontrolled gambling addiction.

The indirect victims of gambling addiction are people who care about the gambler. It is on this gambling board that we have read stories like
- a man using his money meant for his wedding for gambling.
- a son using the school fees given to him by his parents for gambling.

As long as the gambler has a family and friends, there will always be indirect victims. It therefore rests on us to help out a brother or a friend who is struggling with gambling addiction that is a way to reduce the indirect effects of gambling.

I could add one more: Kids who grow up with gambling addicts think that gambling is a normal, everyday thing. And then the family might even break apart because of said gambling addiction.

Honestly I think the same negatives go for gambling addiction just as they would for any other addiction. Addiction is always some kind of negative to somebodies happiness and that "vacuum" can drain the happiness of others around them.

There are gamblers in almost all societies, and all of us have met a gambling addict at least once in our life. I'm sure we all found them in bad shape on most levels. The problem sometimes get more sophisticaed when about the inability to help these cases, especially in areas where there is not sufficient education about them. Gambling addicts suffer from social stigma and are rarely helped.

They are often family and close friends or in treatment centers specializing in this type of disease. I really wish I could obtain data on the cases of recovery from addiction that have been recorded.
These online discussions can raise awareness for players to gamble wisely and for those around them who suffer from excessive gambling addiction. It is a behavioral addiction and one of the most dangerous diseases.

I feel like OP is preaching to the choir here. Nothing new, to say the least. We all know what gambling addiction can lead to and we have hundreds of threads here to prove it.


Like with any addict you can't help him if he doesn't want that help. You can't move in with a n alcoholic to keep watch over him 24/7 and it's the same with your friend. You think you teach him how to be responsible, but he listens with one ear and lets it out with the other. He'll have to land at the bottom to learn his lesson.

Plus sometimes the act can actually rub off the person who doesn't know anything about gambling but seems to be comfortable with the addict himself playing these games and that's why some people tend to labels these friends as gamblers themselves because I know one thing for and thats the fact that you can't be hanging out with a gambler everything and actually not get influence to get involved in the act yourself especially when the gambler always tell you about his winning and never release the loses that he faces.

That's how gambling is, if this activity is not controlled as well as possible, then this activity will only cause harm, both to ourselves and to the people around us. Where those who don't know about the gambling activities that we often do, just because of our bad behavior in gambling, they also have to bear the consequences of our bad behavior. They help us to get out of this situation, to show their concern for us. But how stupid a gambling addict is, where he tries to take advantage of this feeling of concern to perpetuate his desire to continue gambling. And when will a gambling addict regret his actions? He will only regret it when the care and trust of those closest to him is lost.

Therefore, we as gamblers have the potential to become addicted. Before bad things happen to us and those closest to us, try to continue to minimize the negative impacts and other losses involved in gambling, control ourselves as best as possible when gambling.

You would really be losing it all if you cant be able to control up yourself on doing gambling or having that control or moderation because once you do get addicted,.then you arent just risking the bank account you do have and money with it but also in other posessions that you do have which might be ended up on getting loaned or being the ones who you would really be able to bet on. If ever it turns out to be still an unlucky
condition then you would really be ending up on losing it all and this would really be something a disaster. People wont really be able to realize those stuffs and mistakes on the time that they arent
still experiencing those hardship situation on which it would really be always best that you should really know on what you are doing and the things around that been affected.

People do make out those self realizations if they are on such condition on which they could really be able to avoid it if they were really just that sensible towards on the things that they are dealing
with and dont act out late.

   Infact there is more to it, some gamblers don't really care about their lose anytime they loss there money in games they stake, mostly some of them don't seems to know that they more they gamble the more they also get addicted to it.
   However additions is addictions you cannot control it when you are not disciplined enough to face the challenges of it, you can be able to limit yourself from additcions when you are discipline enough to control yourself from gambling.
   Some people can't do it alone, I means some gamblers can't can not limit themselves from gambling, mostly when the gambler have something to do with addictions, gambler that is addicted needs a helping hands for them to stop or limit themselves from the additions.

Employers and employees can both be victims of gambling addiction, gambling addicts aren't the best set of individuals to work for or to work with. They're annoying and also very lazy workers, they can be late to work or fail to finish a work on time as all they care about me is how they can finish what they're doing and go back to gambling. Gambling addicts only cares about gambling and they can use money meant for the company business to gamble and delay what the money was supposed to do.

Every individual that's associated with a gambling addict is a victim in one way or the other. Gambling addict easily gets emotion swings as they're gambling regularly and they won't win most of the time then they'll find those that they can pour their frustration on and those around them are the recipient of the emotions. Avoid gambling addicts is a good way to stay happy as they're very annoying.

Totally agree with all what's written in the OP, but there is one basic rule about gambling that will prevent one from going to this length,and it's called " gambling with money you can afford to lose!"
The main reason this is said to everyone is to ensure you don't have any regrets that can spill over to broken relationships with family and friends, suicides, debt etc But then again, sometimes I think society can be to judgemental such that a person that needs help with their addiction will shy away from getting it because gambling is something that is sometimes frowned upon depending on where you come from.

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Otherwise other indirect effects of gambling addiction

• drop in productivity
• loss of skilled labour, should a gifted person commit suicide
• creates introverts

Most responses in this thread focused on the indirect effect of gambling on close relations. But the society also suffers indirectly. Gambling addiction can lead to people engaging in criminal activities just to raise money to satisfy the uncontrollable desire to gamble. Some people have engaged in illegal activities like robbery, kidnappings,  scams, etc, just because they want to get money to finance gambling. It is the community that suffers these indirect consequences because the area will become insecure for the inhabitants.

The organization in which the gambler works also suffers from the gambling addiction of employees. Gamble addicts might not give their best on the job because they are more concerned about gambling. With a lack of commitment to work, the productivity of such staff will reduce leading to the loss of human resources. Addicts might even engage in sharp practices in their workplace because they want to feed their hunger for betting.

Yes, that is the worst stage in gambling when someone really can't keep their involvement well, none other than because the impact is as you said that it is very bad, there will be a lot of problems that occur when someone enters the addiction phase, they will lose everything they have, especially the valuables they have and for financial problems it is clear that they will have a concerning financial situation that sometimes they even have difficulty meeting needs such as food costs, and when someone who is married has financial problems due to gambling addiction then obviously the next problem will spread to family relationships which in the end there will be no harmonious words anymore and can even end up with separation.

That's right, there is nothing wrong with repeating the idea of advice because after all this is the best that we fellow gamblers should do in order to stay in a safe and comfortable situation, there are many examples of other people's events that we can make as lessons and one of them is like the incident experienced by the 2 people you described here, it is a very concerning situation and I'm sure we all don't want to have the same fate as them, therefore of course treating gambling activities with the recommended approach such as always limiting gambling according to our abilities is always the best choice for long-term security.