Is gambling addiction also a result of trauma?

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Quote from: maydna on April 08, 2019, 02:45:43 AM

When we talk about childhood trauma, I am sure that it will give a big impact until he grew up. He cannot forget the trauma, and he will start to forget his pain by searching a new thing that can give them a feeling about satisfying himself. And perhaps, gambling can give that feeling since he can forget his problem in the past, he can play without anyone care. But if we let him play for a long time, then he cannot leave the gambling, and he will get big trouble in the future. I guess that childhood trauma is difficult to be a cure and it could be another cause for the person who becomes addicting in gambling.

But maybe the psychiatric can explain the correlation between childhood trauma and gambling or another else that can make someone addicting.

I find it hard to believe that childhood trauma could lead a man to becoming an addicted gambler. Off all things to heal the pains or forget the trauma, why did he choose gambling ? I think there are so many other things anyone who has experienced childhood trauma will think of doing like drinking, smoking or even womanizing but definitely not going into gambling.

Majority of addicted gamblers are greedy gamblers who take gambling as a good source of income. Real gamblers who see it as fun, never get addicted because they know how to control themselves in the game.

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It might be true because people with traumatic experience tend to diversify their attention to other activities wherein they can feel at ease or somehow forget temporarily their bad experience.

But gambling is not often their option, because those people that I know with such experience find alcohol as the answer for their problem that led to addiction.

I think majority of gamblers who became addicted in gambling are those who treat it as their source of income, after losing they chase their losses to recover it back then failed. Lets admit the fact that they thought it as easy money.

Gambling can really give out that easy money that you seek but in exchange its also the easy way to be poor too which would lead to trauma when you experience hardship that comes to a point on where you havent anything left even just for food that circumstance will really give a big impact to your emotion and recovery on such thing wont really be that easy.

Failure and causing our assets to disappear will certainly cause a trauma. This is a necessity that we need to know. The risk of gambling is really great, but as long as we have good ability to maintain good emotional control we can take care of this. The gambling game is actually very fun, but when the person is unable to control properly then that will make it difficult for someone's life. So do emotional control well so that we will be able to get a pleasure.

At first place we do play gambling for the sake of entertainment but if you are already disrupting yourself into stress on playing it then I don't see any point for you to play gambling.You know that you are short tempered or do easily got affected when you do loss money then gambling isn't really for you.There are lots of things that do entertain without the need of spending too much money.

Traumatized people look for or need any outlet they can get and gambling easily can be one of those. Easily accessed, doesn't need other people's approval, fun and can quickly pass time. The sad part there is, one traumatizing experience can lead to another. Most traumatized people aren't emotionally stable yet and gambling can just be another emotional bomb waiting to go off.

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Quote from: Cherylstar86 on April 05, 2019, 04:09:32 AM

You won't seek gambling if you're in trauma, and if you're thinking that probability gambling is the effect of trauma; well I don't think so. Probably you're in trauma after you've been addicted to a certain thing not just with gambling but also with another matters. So being into traumatic experience is a situations that you won't hope that it will not happen again, but still lingered in our mind. Mostly, people who undergo this type of scenario will have anxieties and become stressed, thinking that they won't recover after such those bad experiences on gambling addiction.

Well that is right. I believe that gambling addiction is a result of motivation for making money. You think it is going to make you money because it is a billion dollar industry; you become part of it and quest to make it possible. This contains both losses and gains and it is human nature that he or she will try to compensate things and try to recover losses by trying again and again which ultimately leads to addiction so I think that it could just be a financial trauma or some unexpected emergency situation of not being rich.

A gambler may avoid addictions by keeping gambling rarely still we do see periodic gamblers are slowly turning as regular gambler as they are getting addicted at their own pace. In summary, not gambling at all may be the only solution to avoiding addictions, it seems.

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I would say that gambling addition is mostly due trauma especially childhood trauma. Anyone who has had a traumatic experience will know that if it’s not handled well can lead to addiction and mostly gambling addiction.

This is because gambling gives a lot of joy and happiness to the player and anyone who has suffered trauma will definitely be looking for things to do to experience happiness and forget the trauma, even though it’s a childhood trauma, the only people who has record of trauma and it doesn’t affect their gambling game are those who have been through a rehabilitation program

Childhood traumas only increase the chance of someone getting addicted to something but it doesn't necessarily have to start that addiction. You can't get addicted to something if you never done that thing before, so people choose to start gambling even though they know the chances are they will get addicted and a person that suffered a trauma in his life will only increase his chances of getting addicted

When we talk about childhood trauma, I am sure that it will give a big impact until he grew up. He cannot forget the trauma, and he will start to forget his pain by searching a new thing that can give them a feeling about satisfying himself. And perhaps, gambling can give that feeling since he can forget his problem in the past, he can play without anyone care. But if we let him play for a long time, then he cannot leave the gambling, and he will get big trouble in the future. I guess that childhood trauma is difficult to be a cure and it could be another cause for the person who becomes addicting in gambling.

But maybe the psychiatric can explain the correlation between childhood trauma and gambling or another else that can make someone addicting.

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Quote from: JohnBitCo on April 05, 2019, 01:20:58 PM

We need to convince our self that we are playing gambling for fun and not for the sake of earning money. Although this is difficult to believe but if we have made the fun to be the ultimate objective of gambling, than most of the problems are solved including gambling addiction.

Anyone that has suffered trauma especially at childhood will end up addicted if it not properly checked whether they play for fun or for money. The problem with addition is not just the objective. Childhood trauma has a way it affects gamblers irrespective of the motive they take into the game. My suggestion is whoever that has the history of trauma should ensure to stay clear from gambling or they must play, the time they spend in playing must really be limited because much time spent in playing can trigger addiction, so it is better to control it from the beginning days itself.

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Quote from: lienfaye on April 03, 2019, 05:45:22 PM

It might be true because people with traumatic experience tend to diversify their attention to other activities wherein they can feel at ease or somehow forget temporarily their bad experience.

But gambling is not often their option, because those people that I know with such experience find alcohol as the answer for their problem that led to addiction.

I think majority of gamblers who became addicted in gambling are those who treat it as their source of income, after losing they chase their losses to recover it back then failed. Lets admit the fact that they thought it as easy money.

Gambling can really give out that easy money that you seek but in exchange its also the easy way to be poor too which would lead to trauma when you experience hardship that comes to a point on where you havent anything left even just for food that circumstance will really give a big impact to your emotion and recovery on such thing wont really be that easy.

Failure and causing our assets to disappear will certainly cause a trauma. This is a necessity that we need to know. The risk of gambling is really great, but as long as we have good ability to maintain good emotional control we can take care of this. The gambling game is actually very fun, but when the person is unable to control properly then that will make it difficult for someone's life. So do emotional control well so that we will be able to get a pleasure.

At first place we do play gambling for the sake of entertainment but if you are already disrupting yourself into stress on playing it then I don't see any point for you to play gambling.You know that you are short tempered or do easily got affected when you do loss money then gambling isn't really for you.There are lots of things that do entertain without the need of spending too much money.

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I would say that gambling addition is mostly due trauma especially childhood trauma. Anyone who has had a traumatic experience will know that if it’s not handled well can lead to addiction and mostly gambling addiction.

This is because gambling gives a lot of joy and happiness to the player and anyone who has suffered trauma will definitely be looking for things to do to experience happiness and forget the trauma, even though it’s a childhood trauma, the only people who has record of trauma and it doesn’t affect their gambling game are those who have been through a rehabilitation program

Childhood traumas only increase the chance of someone getting addicted to something but it doesn't necessarily have to start that addiction. You can't get addicted to something if you never done that thing before, so people choose to start gambling even though they know the chances are they will get addicted and a person that suffered a trauma in his life will only increase his chances of getting addicted

Not sure, how can a person get traumatized by gambling and then become a gambling addict. If they are traumatized in childhood about gambling they will leave gambling and will never return, even though they still want to fight the trauma by continuing to gamble as if it will not cause addiction because of the trauma that makes them have the experience to be able control themselves.

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Quote from: guoyu78 on April 06, 2019, 04:53:16 PM

I would say that gambling addition is mostly due trauma especially childhood trauma. Anyone who has had a traumatic experience will know that if it’s not handled well can lead to addiction and mostly gambling addiction.

This is because gambling gives a lot of joy and happiness to the player and anyone who has suffered trauma will definitely be looking for things to do to experience happiness and forget the trauma, even though it’s a childhood trauma, the only people who has record of trauma and it doesn’t affect their gambling game are those who have been through a rehabilitation program

Childhood traumas only increase the chance of someone getting addicted to something but it doesn't necessarily have to start that addiction. You can't get addicted to something if you never done that thing before, so people choose to start gambling even though they know the chances are they will get addicted and a person that suffered a trauma in his life will only increase his chances of getting addicted

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I would say that gambling addition is mostly due trauma especially childhood trauma. Anyone who has had a traumatic experience will know that if it’s not handled well can lead to addiction and mostly gambling addiction.

This is because gambling gives a lot of joy and happiness to the player and anyone who has suffered trauma will definitely be looking for things to do to experience happiness and forget the trauma, even though it’s a childhood trauma, the only people who has record of trauma and it doesn’t affect their gambling game are those who have been through a rehabilitation program

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Quote from: StarofBTC on April 04, 2019, 04:30:58 AM

not all gambling addiction are as a result of trauma but a few cases can be traced down to trauma but a very good number of people who suffer from gambling addiction is not because of trauma, so its self made. Spending too much time gambling leads to addiction.

The gambling game is very interesting and at the same time addictive, players are not advised to spend too much of their time gambling but most gamblers do listen and before you know it they find it difficult to control themselves and in no time, they become too addicted. The few people who gamble as a result of childhood trauma are not as much as those that gamble as a result of excessive time spent on the game.

Yes, not all addiction can be traced to trauma makes a lot of sense. I’ve always been saying it that some people who get addicted to gambling did that to themselves. How can a man who stay on a gambling site from morning till night, and repeat this same pattern for days not get addicted ? Not just in gambling, whatever we spend too much time on gets into us , and might have effect, just like I am addicted to Bitcoin forum lol.

Seriously gambling game IS super interesting and a high level of self-control is needed to resist the urge not to fall victim of addition. I think anyone who must play must not just be matured in age but also be matured at heart, although it is like you have said there are still cases of those who are addicted to gambling as a result of childhood trauma. I suggest those in this category should not even go close to gambling in the first place.

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Quote from: Sanitough on April 02, 2019, 04:08:18 AM

I don't believe it, gambling addiction is created along the process.
When we gamblers are always giving time in gambling, usually that will result to addiction, there are times that it will also become more serious.
Addiction is a problem, but you can cure that problem, and learn from it so the next time you gamble, you will enjoy it.

We need to convince our self that we are playing gambling for fun and not for the sake of earning money. Although this is difficult to believe but if we have made the fun to be the ultimate objective of gambling, than most of the problems are solved including gambling addiction.

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Quote from: sujonali1819 on April 05, 2019, 01:47:45 AM

Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

This happens, I experience the same with sports betting. Particularly on tennis, with full confidence I bet and when things go out of our predictions unable to accept the loss. This won't allow to concentrate on any of the work properly. Anything that is giving mental pressure will lead to trauma, gambling too is the same and it isn't an exception.

It will gamblers addicts will result in trauma, it is because they expecting too much high profit on gambling. Even if they don't have money they lend someone else just to gamble and hoping a huge earn profit. When suddenly lost everything that will result in mental illness and probable cause of trauma. While at an early stage you can avoid this problem and having self-discipline is a must.

Uhm, that's totally not what the thread is about... It's not about gambling giving you trauma, it's about gambling addiction being a result of trauma.
Though I guess in some extreme cases, gambling addiction itself may cause some trauma. If you've just lost all your savings to gambling or something.

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Quote from: sujonali1819 on April 05, 2019, 01:47:45 AM

Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

This happens, I experience the same with sports betting. Particularly on tennis, with full confidence I bet and when things go out of our predictions unable to accept the loss. This won't allow to concentrate on any of the work properly. Anything that is giving mental pressure will lead to trauma, gambling too is the same and it isn't an exception.

It will gamblers addicts will result in trauma, it is because they expecting too much high profit on gambling. Even if they don't have money they lend someone else just to gamble and hoping a huge earn profit. When suddenly lost everything that will result in mental illness and probable cause of trauma. While at an early stage you can avoid this problem and having self-discipline is a must.

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Quote from: sujonali1819 on April 05, 2019, 01:47:45 AM

Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

This happens, I experience the same with sports betting. Particularly on tennis, with full confidence I bet and when things go out of our predictions unable to accept the loss. This won't allow to concentrate on any of the work properly. Anything that is giving mental pressure will lead to trauma, gambling too is the same and it isn't an exception.

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Quote from: Cherylstar86 on April 05, 2019, 04:09:32 AM

You won't seek gambling if you're in trauma, and if you're thinking that probability gambling is the effect of trauma; well I don't think so. Probably you're in trauma after you've been addicted to a certain thing not just with gambling but also with another matters. So being into traumatic experience is a situations that you won't hope that it will not happen again, but still lingered in our mind. Mostly, people who undergo this type of scenario will have anxieties and become stressed, thinking that they won't recover after such those bad experiences on gambling addiction.

It's not that you start gambling right after you've experiences trauma, you start engaging in addictive and destructive behaviors after a while.
People do that to cope with the general bad feelings that remain after the trauma.

It's actually something that's pretty well researched, so you're just completely wrong with your statement there.

Here's one research paper that tasks specifically of the prevalence of gambling addiction after experiencing childhood trauma.
The study was done on twins.

https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2007/01000/Association_Between_Exposure_to_Childhood_and.12.aspx

Summary of the study:

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The present study seeks to estimate the strength of the association between exposure to lifetime traumatic events and gambling problems while accounting for the potential contribution of psychiatric disorders, genetic factors, and family environmental influences.

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Quote from: sujonali1819 on April 05, 2019, 01:47:45 AM

Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

You won't seek gambling if you're in trauma, and if you're thinking that probability gambling is the effect of trauma; well I don't think so. Probably you're in trauma after you've been addicted to a certain thing not just with gambling but also with another matters. So being into traumatic experience is a situations that you won't hope that it will not happen again, but still lingered in our mind. Mostly, people who undergo this type of scenario will have anxieties and become stressed, thinking that they won't recover after such those bad experiences on gambling addiction.

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Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

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Addictive can be defined as one of the effects and impacts when we are involved in gambling, whenever it is. We will be addicted to being a winner after playing in some gamblings and we always believe that winning will be in our hands. Well, it may be also trauma when we always lose again and again and lose many funds in gambling. It is two types of formula and impacts in gambling, always be.

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It really depends on the situation, some people use it as a coping mechanism to take their mind away from stuff that has happened to them in the past, others do not.
I think that some people are also just genetically more prone to getting addicted, though I'm not sure if studies about that have proven it with 100% certainty.

Also, having certain genetic predispositions doesn't automatically mean that you'll become an addict.

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Quote from: carlfebz2 on April 03, 2019, 05:53:29 PM

Quote from: lienfaye on April 03, 2019, 05:45:22 PM

It might be true because people with traumatic experience tend to diversify their attention to other activities wherein they can feel at ease or somehow forget temporarily their bad experience.

But gambling is not often their option, because those people that I know with such experience find alcohol as the answer for their problem that led to addiction.

I think majority of gamblers who became addicted in gambling are those who treat it as their source of income, after losing they chase their losses to recover it back then failed. Lets admit the fact that they thought it as easy money.

Gambling can really give out that easy money that you seek but in exchange its also the easy way to be poor too which would lead to trauma when you experience hardship that comes to a point on where you havent anything left even just for food that circumstance will really give a big impact to your emotion and recovery on such thing wont really be that easy.

Failure and causing our assets to disappear will certainly cause a trauma. This is a necessity that we need to know. The risk of gambling is really great, but as long as we have good ability to maintain good emotional control we can take care of this. The gambling game is actually very fun, but when the person is unable to control properly then that will make it difficult for someone's life. So do emotional control well so that we will be able to get a pleasure.

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