Topic: Is gambling addiction mainly due to loneliness and dissatisfaction? - page 12. (Read 3595 times)

The point here is support. When you are in trouble it is really to hard to find people around you who care, when it comes to problems usually people turn away from you, cause of its much easier, no matter about what kinfld of addiction the point is, gambling or drugs.

I don't think so. It is about the person, if the person doesn't want it, anyone can not affect him/her.

Personally, I think loneliness and dissatisfaction, it's really just a very silly reason, it even seems like a blatant justification and lie, I never believed a person who was addicted to gambling just because they were lonely and dissatisfied. They should be honest, they have too much free time and greed in gambling, that makes them gambling more and become addicted, they can not control themselves, should not be blamed for loneliness and dissatisfaction, if we are addicted to gambling because of this reason, I believe most people around the world have become addicts

Loneliness?nope i guess this is not the reason for gamblers become addict since theres a lot of friend out there that willing to be wit us,the problem is we are the one whos not letting them enter our lifes

But the dissatisfaction?perfect catch people that has an attitude like this mostly become addicted because the contentment getting higher the more they win

Yes, I agree with what you said because ones residing environs is just like a school and we both know that most people that reside in Texas will be addicted to gambling. However, the company ones keep and an unacceptable direction giving to juveniles  will also determine ones terms of addiction. Therefore, I don't believe loneliness and dissatisfaction can make ones addicted to gamble if live in good environment with proper direction.

The environment in which a person lives can also be a cause of addiction. For example, a person who lives in an environment where most of the residents are gamblers, it is likely that the person will follow what is done by the majority. In short, many things can cause someone to become an addict.

I think that it may be one of the reason, but not necessary, I think that one of the most common reason for becoming a gambling is lack of jobs opportunity, people even after getting a lot of education they find it hard to find any job for earning their livelihood which in fact compel they to start playing gambling.

I think you meant we're going to come back to gambling whenever we're sad in order to cope up with the loneliness. It really depends on your situation and how can you handle it. Do you get lonely whenever you're alone because of this problem? Then you sure will be gambling a lot. But, are you the type of person that only gets lonely sometimes? Then even when you have gambling as a way to cope with it, you wouldn't be gambling much since you're seldom lonely.

Another thing that we can put into consideration is our ability to solve the problem. If we are able to get rid of the problem, we have no more reason to be lonely, thus, no more reason to gamble. It really depends on a lot of things but the ending will always be you actually solving the problem.

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Sometimes we're not really addicted to something. It's just that we don't have anything else to do. Before, I used to think that I have a drinking problem because I'm going out a lot with my friends we used to drink almost every day. When I put some thought to it, we all don't have anything else to do with each other. We like different things and we all have different hobbies. Basically we're bonded by the alcohol. At some point, I stopped coming just to see if I actually had a problem. Turns out, I don't. I used the time I would spend drinking (which I thought was my addiction) doing something else like taking photos and editing them. I didn't even feel the need to drink at all. The addiction was nothing but an illusion and I was able to give it up right away by just filling the time with something else.

This is exactly correct! Physical and Psychological addiction are the same thing. They take advantage of the reward centers in your brain, which makes you want to have more. Gambling can easily do this (and it does), video games can become addictive this way, and even those crappy mobile games use the same tactic. All they do is trigger the reward center and cause your brain to release some dopamine, and your hooked, trying to get your next hit. That is facebooks business model actually.

maybe the same as drug addiction with gambling addiction may be just a different sensation, addiction to gambling is caused more by the dissatisfaction of what they achieve so it will be difficult to get out of the circle as long as the feeling continues.

I think it's true tbh. People who don't have any hobby, have so much free time in his life, don't have anything to do and lonely, all are makes people do gambling and sometimes become addicted to gambling because they don't have anything to do beside do gambling.

If you do anything while you are lonely then it will become your habit since your mind is very eager to do something so if you gamble while your are lonely then it will become and addiction.The other reason is that greediness people just want to be a rich person in very short time and they think the gambling can do that for them but actually they are going to lose their money here so they will keep chasing the money and will get addicted.

If people are finding the best for them then why would hey go to a casino or visit a gambling site to gamble? Are they thinking that gambling is a solution for problems? Gambling is just gambling, it ruin lives, it leads you to bankruptcy and it will take away all your loved ones, is that a good solution to a problem? No. Being responsible is the solution for problems.

"I am not really a gambler" though I was gambling through bitonmarket in 2011 and 2012! Since I lost heavily I decided to stay far from gambling and just focus on cryptocurrencies trading and rendering services for bitcoin.

People are really finding what's best for them specially when they needs to have to listen there own problems and to comfort with them too. We can't control what people's like and want to do in their own lifes. Play gambling with a self control and not to waste with your life.

I guess what you are trying to say here is that you are not the type of people that really waste their time and money on gambling since you know it will ruin it. You don't need to say that "your will be ruined if you play gambling" since you are already gambling as you have said.

I am confused on what you are saying really since you are saying that you are enjoying a good life and you are also saying that you want to enjoy gambling like others too, What are you pointing here?

That probably is true for some and you can't really generalize addicted gamblers in the same bracket. Also drugs addiction and gambling addiction are two different things. People who love to stay in a hallucinating world, becomes addicted to drugs but gambling addiction is a hard reality and no place for hallucination. I believe the gambling addiction is triggered by the greed and not by the loneliness and dissatisfaction. That probably is true for the alcohol addiction but not gambling!

Neither alcohol, barbiturates, or nicotine have any activity at µ receptors, so you are mistaken. Most drugs, like gambling, exert their addictive effects through secondary activation of the mesolimbic pathway and endogenous dopamine release.

It can also be one reason to justify their addiction, someone who can't help himself from addiction will think of a reason just to pursue his hobby.

About the peer pressure, that's another thing and it's happening most of the time.

I experienced that before but for someone that really has no idea of what gambling is and don't have interest on it can say no.

Actually, it's not, physical addiction takes place when certain chemicals (µ opioid agonists, such as alcohol, barbiturates, nicotine, etc.) bind to µ opioid receptors. And the chemicals that can be released when playing poker due to excitements are most likely catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine) which can only cause psychological dependence. So forget that myth once and for all.
Gambling can be sort of a distraction from your problems if you started to gamble before those problems emerged. But if one is already in trouble I think it's unlikely he will start gambling to get well.