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Quote from: onrise on March 26, 2019, 11:03:30 AM

Quote from: michellee on March 26, 2019, 05:37:21 AM

Actually, I have no idea about that because so far, my friends and I don't have a trauma before or in the past and we attract to the gambling games is because we are curious and we want to feel what inside the gambling places. But I don't know if there is any correlation between gambling and trauma because it could happen for other people in out there.

Even I am Not really sure if they could have a correlation or may be in trauma people might get the addiction to gambling much quicker than their anticipation or might be it is a depression which could lead to the addiction as one has to overcome and divert their mind in something .

There can be a correlation dude. Sometimes people who experience trauma find gamble as a good outlet for their fears. You make your own decisions, you're in control. Though we know this isn't going to be good all the time. Perhaps for initial relief yes but they're also more prone to addiction and may rely heavily on gambling to ease stress. Which will just make things worse.

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I don't think gambling addiction could appear as a result of a trauma. Maybe only if that person was already gambling before the trauma happened to him/her so now he comes back to gambling but because he is so traumatized he doesn't care anymore about hid/her money and it becomes an addiction for him. Otherwise I can't link trauma with gambling addiction

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It is possible that other addiction cases can be as a result of a traumatic experience but gambling addition is definitely not.

Gambling addiction occurs as a result of too much time spent on the game and lack of self-control, even research has proven that too much time spent on gambling has an effect on the brain that can lead to addiction; I think my best friend is a perfect example of this. He is presently in a Rehab for gambling addiction and he’s gradually recovering.

My friend had never had any trauma all his life. I introduced him to gambling when we were at high school and he fell so much in love with gambling that he couldn’t even stay for hours without playing. He would play both online and offline and it got to a point he started selling all his properties just to gamble.

Please note that he is from a very healthy and wealthy and has never had any history of abuse that could lead to trauma, he has enjoyed all the love he needed from home and he was never playing for money or to ease any form of tension. It was for fun, but it went out of control.

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Quote from: michellee on March 26, 2019, 05:37:21 AM

Actually, I have no idea about that because so far, my friends and I don't have a trauma before or in the past and we attract to the gambling games is because we are curious and we want to feel what inside the gambling places. But I don't know if there is any correlation between gambling and trauma because it could happen for other people in out there.

Even I am Not really sure if they could have a correlation or may be in trauma people might get the addiction to gambling much quicker than their anticipation or might be it is a depression which could lead to the addiction as one has to overcome and divert their mind in something .

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Actually, I have no idea about that because so far, my friends and I don't have a trauma before or in the past and we attract to the gambling games is because we are curious and we want to feel what inside the gambling places. But I don't know if there is any correlation between gambling and trauma because it could happen for other people in out there.

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Trauma can cause a whole lot of psychological illness but I don't believe addiction is one of them. What cause I subscribe to is that it's the reward center in brain going on overdrive.

Humans can get addicted to a lot of things that in our original environment wouldn't have caused us much trouble (sweet or oily food for example).

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Quote from: kryptqnick on March 23, 2019, 12:10:09 PM

I've been watching Crash Course Psychology recently and came by an episode on trauma and addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343ORgL3kIc&index=32&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6. This video argues that addiction results from various sorts of psychological traumas related to different events (rape, physical or emotional abuse, war memories etc.). That is, when a person has a trauma, this person tries to get rid of fixating on it with the help of an alcohol (what's often the case with PTSD) or drugs (a good example is the case of sexual abuse of Edward St Aubyn (Patrick Melrose's prototype) and his subsequent heroin addiction). My question is whether you feel like gambling addiction is also a result of desperate attempts of avoiding focusing on other traumatic issues.
Note that I am talking specifically about gambling addiction here, not about people gambling in general.

I think that gambling addiction is a result of sertain emotional deficits.Those deficits can be caused by some trauma,but this is really hard to be proven.Some gamblers want to "escape" from their shitty life and don't think about it,other gamblers are too desperate for money and they think that with gambling they will eventually get that "big profit".

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Quote from: LogitechMouse on March 24, 2019, 01:12:48 AM

There are many ways for the person to redirect himself/herself from trauma like the use of drugs and the use of alcohol.

The person will just be addicted in to gambling if he will use gambling as a way to redirect himself from trauma. We know that continuous gambling can result into getting addicted into it so if he will not gamble while in a trauma, he will not get addicted into it and vice versa.

Mind to describe what kind of trauma are you talking about? I would assume and if I am not wrong, a mental trauma due to loss of money in business can lead you to get involved in certain activities like drugs and gambling which represents the curiosity of a human mind to make things good again, I believe that is not the solution. Business can give you return as well and loss or trauma should be treated as an opportunity to learn more and make more efforts.

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Quote from: LogitechMouse on March 24, 2019, 01:12:48 AM

There are many ways for the person to redirect himself/herself from trauma like the use of drugs and the use of alcohol.

The person will just be addicted in to gambling if he will use gambling as a way to redirect himself from trauma. We know that continuous gambling can result into getting addicted into it so if he will not gamble while in a trauma, he will not get addicted into it and vice versa.

We already knew that there's so many ways in resolving any kind of addiction but the truth is that not all of the people who experienced any forms of trauma are willing to redirect themselves and even undergo for treatment as there are so many reasons too that these people don't want to share to others instead they choose to keep it to themselves.

To tell you honestly I have friends that are addicted to drugs(meth) and they used it as a maintenance for their daily lives that's why I can relate to addiction because I know their stories and no matter how you want them to change for the good they'll just only listen but still they'll do what they want.

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I don't think so because for me gambling addiction is mainly because of greediness. A person that always think of easy money. They always use or think of "what if". Trauma is kinda different for me, you're in shock or maybe speechless or have a less confident in yourself, always scared.

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It could be because I think some people run from his problem and come to gambling and finally, he found a place which he can release his feeling. Maybe that person is desperate to think about how to make money because he cannot make it in many ways. And he found that gambling is the fastest way to earn money so he tried to play and suddenly, he can win the jackpot for once in his life.

But in the next time he plays, he cannot win again like before, but he only gets losses. In the end, he cannot always win because he forgets that in gambling games, he needs to have luck and that will make him feel more desperate on making money.

I think this article is good to read:

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-addiction-gambling-trauma-idUSKCN1AX1YY

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Quote from: shoreno on March 24, 2019, 09:18:55 PM

from what i understand , trauma means you are shock . for example you witness a killing for the first time and that results you to become traumatize . while addiction or being addicted to someone else like for example in gambling you will tend to feel happy and thats the reason why you play more . so that's it , both syndrome are different based on my own deffinition .

There is a possible connection through the idea of post traumatic stress which would lead to reoccurring instances of the initial trauma. This is a bit of a extrapolation for such a casual forum though, its possible someone could distract themselves from trauma such as this through drinking or even gambling or high risk behaviour. That doesn't seem too far fetched but its a big topic to assume without personal details of a subject.

I'd say its possible but this requires professional examination and discussion and whoever the OP is referring to might want to discuss it in person with a professional as part of overall treatment. Theres no bad question when someone goes through an extreme experience but its hard to discuss properly on a forum imo

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Quote from: MFahad on March 25, 2019, 12:24:09 AM

Quote from: kryptqnick on March 23, 2019, 12:10:09 PM

I've been watching Crash Course Psychology recently and came by an episode on trauma and addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343ORgL3kIc&index=32&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6. This video argues that addiction results from various sorts of psychological traumas related to different events (rape, physical or emotional abuse, war memories etc.). That is, when a person has a trauma, this person tries to get rid of fixating on it with the help of an alcohol (what's often the case with PTSD) or drugs (a good example is the case of sexual abuse of Edward St Aubyn (Patrick Melrose's prototype) and his subsequent heroin addiction). My question is whether you feel like gambling addiction is also a result of desperate attempts of avoiding focusing on other traumatic issues.
Note that I am talking specifically about gambling addiction here, not about people gambling in general.

Generally, only weak mind gamblers become addicted very fast, not all of them. But it is really hard who to save them from addiction. Because i will tell you in my words but act upon wise it is hard to do it. Addiction is very bad it is like a poison in our body. So it is not matter is it addiction of gambling, or drug or anything, but it will be destroy our life, So we should keep it our mind and control ourself from addiction.

Trying to escape from some issues in minds leads them to engage with gambling and due to some facts, they become addicted thinking that they've already forget those past problems but results to a much bigger one, there's cases that people wanted to forget and find ways how to deal with it
and addictions is the results of this temporary solutions.

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Quote from: swogerino on March 24, 2019, 08:48:25 AM

I don't think a trauma in life can have an impact in gambling addiction in most of the cases.There are a few isolated cases however that a trauma can be an impact and that is when the person in order to try and forget the trauma finds comfort in gambling, in this case gambling addiction is almost sure to happen.

Thats what they mean, people who are traumatized or have psychological problems will certainly look for ways to forget it,
and some of them may try to gamble to get rid of the trauma, but instead become addicts. that might happen, but only a few cases

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Quote from: kryptqnick on March 23, 2019, 12:10:09 PM

I've been watching Crash Course Psychology recently and came by an episode on trauma and addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343ORgL3kIc&index=32&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6. This video argues that addiction results from various sorts of psychological traumas related to different events (rape, physical or emotional abuse, war memories etc.). That is, when a person has a trauma, this person tries to get rid of fixating on it with the help of an alcohol (what's often the case with PTSD) or drugs (a good example is the case of sexual abuse of Edward St Aubyn (Patrick Melrose's prototype) and his subsequent heroin addiction). My question is whether you feel like gambling addiction is also a result of desperate attempts of avoiding focusing on other traumatic issues.
Note that I am talking specifically about gambling addiction here, not about people gambling in general.

Generally, only weak mind gamblers become addicted very fast, not all of them. But it is really hard who to save them from addiction. Because i will tell you in my words but act upon wise it is hard to do it. Addiction is very bad it is like a poison in our body. So it is not matter is it addiction of gambling, or drug or anything, but it will be destroy our life, So we should keep it our mind and control ourself from addiction.

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It could be, some of the people I knew did that, when they face certain probkem they will go to gambling to forget the problem, most of them are broken home trauma, but the percentage is very small usually people become addicted to gambling due to the greed and can't accept losing

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Quote from: Dreamchaser21 on March 24, 2019, 07:42:26 PM

Depends on the situation, if you get too addicted in gambling I think there is no big trauma aside from losing big money because when you get addict you still keep playing even if you don't have money anymore. The trauma may start from the people around you, there might be a change when it comes to relationship with your family, addiction can effect everything.

When people keep on involving into gambling activities there mind never thinks of anything. This sometimes leads to trauma, which is very rare. In a recent news came to know about a player who got paralyzed spending weeks without taking rest on the popular game pubG. When one doesn't get the required rest some negative impact gets reflected over the body.

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I have a brother and someway related to gambling addiction, he's totally broke with no wife and kids. He sold his valuable stuffs like ( Cellphones, Rides, Laptops, Jewelries, Etc.) just to fill his crave for gambling when he doesn't have the money anymore. He is like this since he went high school and never have changed from this time on.We thought it was friends influence but we are not sure. Now we worry that he might lose his sanity and go nuts as some people addicted to gambling ends up. We continuously tells him that he should stop this but never does. When he loses in a gamble (all of his money) he goes silent and reminiscing what he had lose on an earlier game. I don't know if that was trauma but I guess it is closed to that.

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Quote from: LogitechMouse on March 24, 2019, 01:12:48 AM

There are many ways for the person to redirect himself/herself from trauma like the use of drugs and the use of alcohol.

The person will just be addicted in to gambling if he will use gambling as a way to redirect himself from trauma. We know that continuous gambling can result into getting addicted into it so if he will not gamble while in a trauma, he will not get addicted into it and vice versa.

I do agree with your statement. The manifestation is purely relative and depends upon the person on where they would displace their trauma. Some people do drugs, become alcoholics, get addicted to something, or even do recreational activities. It really depends upon the person on how he/she will react to the situation and if gambling seems to be their scapegoat, then that would explain some of the causes of gambling addiction.

Again, it is purely relative and depends upon the person's displacement of trauma.

Quote from: Dreamchaser21 on March 24, 2019, 07:42:26 PM

Depends on the situation, if you get too addicted in gambling I think there is no big trauma aside from losing big money because when you get addict you still keep playing even if you don't have money anymore. The trauma may start from the people around you, there might be a change when it comes to relationship with your family, addiction can effect everything.

The trauma would be based on past experiences on winning/losing. The problem with gambling is that if you do not stop, you will only succumb to addiction in the long-run. You may feel that you are actually winning on some days but in reality, you just recovered the losses that you incurred from your streaks. Gambling can never be profitable in the long-run.

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from what i understand , trauma means you are shock . for example you witness a killing for the first time and that results you to become traumatize . while addiction or being addicted to someone else like for example in gambling you will tend to feel happy and thats the reason why you play more . so that's it , both syndrome are different based on my own deffinition .

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