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- Be Careful introducing gambling to people with some certain "Personality Characteristics".

To me this is the most important part where I would be very careful when telling someone about gambling. In case you have struggled in the past with another addiction like alcohol or cigarettes than the chances are much higher that you become addicted to gambling as well. When I was younger I was playing video games all day long on the weekends and evenings, up until the point where my parents send me to a doctor that told me I was addicted to gaming. It took quite a long time to get back to some normal gaming activities again. Even today I need to be careful not to fall back into my old habits. That is why I keep a close eye on my gambling time each week and make sure that I have fixed limits on how much money I can use for gambling each month. Without such strict control I am afraid I could also become addicted to gambling. For example my cousin has struggled with a drug addiction in the past and even today is a heavy smoker and can't quit. I would never take him with me when I go visit a casino with friends, or show him how I play online at a casino from home. For some people the risk is too big and I don't want to feel guilty for introducing him to it.
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I certainly haven't tried inviting one to a gambling den/casino, but I have done some simple friendly bets with my friends. All in all it wasn't a bad influence, even with money involved but that's because there was a factor of fun involved. I highly doubt things would be the same if it wasn't fun, so really, unless they really enjoy gambling or something similar to it, I wouldn't introduce them to casinos.

One question, how is that your friend doing now. Have you checked on him because you might think your bet did nothing to influence him but there has been stories of people turning addictive because of few friendly bets they had and won. After that incident they'll begin thinking they're lucky or have the skills to become successful at gambling.

They beginning gambling but later realize they aren't as good at they thought but maybe by then they have already gone far and it'll be had to break the addiction. Gambling has a way of tricking people like newbies, their few first gamble are usually successful but after then they begin to lose money.
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I don't think I would want to introduced anyone to gambling because I know how this act can mess someone up, especially if the person is not that discipline. I wouldn't want to be blame for turning anyone into a gambling addict because its really hard to come out of the act once you have fully involved yourself. Although it depend on the person choice I can show or teach anyone, who on his/her own decide to learn about gambling with any sportbook am familiar with.

the same as me, even though I like gambling, I have never tried to persuade other people to follow my habits because the future effects for them are quite dangerous and if they are people who have poor self-control, they will enter the abyss of addiction. especially for people who are married and have a family, what I'm afraid of is that they will destroy their family and become addicts (like the story I once made as a topic in this thread)
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I don't have a source that has been the subject of research on this subject, but I do have a personal observation. The official organizers of horse racing and sports betting in my country have cafe style businesses. Every time I go in there I see older people of retirement age inside. I think people who don't have a job but have a pension are more likely to do this kind of work to earn more money. I don't blame them. Some of them do it to achieve a more comfortable life, some do it to spend their free time in fun things.
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I don't think I would want to introduced anyone to gambling because I know how this act can mess someone up, especially if the person is not that discipline. I wouldn't want to be blame for turning anyone into a gambling addict because its really hard to come out of the act once you have fully involved yourself. Although it depend on the person choice I can show or teach anyone, who on his/her own decide to learn about gambling with any sportbook am familiar with.
^It is up to each individual to make their own decisions about whether or not to engage in gambling activities. And if someone expresses interest in learning about gambling, it is important to provide them with accurate information and resources to make informed decisions about their participation in gambling and it is our responsibility to know the negative circumstances and not only tell them to make a profit. We should remind to encourage responsible gambling practices, such as setting limits on time and money spent, and seeking help if gambling becomes a problem. It is better to them to understand first and it should be gambling for fun not for chasing profit and there will be no addiction.
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I think inviting our friends to play gambling without knowing who they are is too risky. That's because gambling can provoke him to spend more money than we imagine. And if he does and doesn't stop, we can imagine he'll get a gambling addiction and when that happens, we'll have a hard time getting him out of gambling. So it's better for us to play gambling as usual without inviting them and if they ask us about gambling, we can only warn them and tell them not to gamble, especially if they don't have good self-control.
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Everyone who starts to gamble has the opportunity to become a gambling addict and this happens very often.
There is no special category it seems that can make someone become an addict.
The average gambler initially only tries gambling out of curiosity and they get a big enough win or loss so that more curiosity arises which makes someone want to continue to be able to bet.
No one can avoid gambling addiction unless the person uses the limits that are accountable from the start so that they don't think too much about gambling.
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To say the truth it's hard to predict who is prone to develop an addictive behavior on gambling, because there are many factors, including hidden biological and genetical ones, despite the person being male, female, young or old. There isn't a perfect recipe to prevent the issue of addiction happening in society due to those factors and their variables, but thankfully what we know is that it's only going to hit a small portion of the total population, as history show us.
There's no precise thing on how to determine if a certain person would get addicted or not because we do have different level of awareness and control of ourselves.We might be even looking for someone who do always

engage with gambling but still having the good control of emotion and finances and just really playing for fun and could stop in midway which does really indicate that they arent addicted after all.

We cant really be able to point out fingers unless if it turns out to be obvious already but in general sense, there's no way on knowing that either.
This is why we cant just make out some conclusions directly on someone who do engage on gambling.
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in my country months ago a gaming company appeared, managed to obtain a license and started operating, they paid many famous influencers in my country to publicize their games of chance, people of course are curious and nobody wants to miss the chance to win a lot of money fast they started to play a lot and when I say " they started to play a lot " I'm not exaggerating, people only thought about earning a lot of money fast that greed completely blinded them that they didn't even think about the high number of losses they were having, the situation went on for many months and today there was news in my country's newspaper about the losses of people who are in these games

Of course, as the company has a license and is not breaking the laws, then you can't blame the gambling company for creating more poverty in people, it's the fault of people who, because of the greed of wanting to win a lot in a short time, don't control, the person most of the time may even be playing in moderation and comment with the friend who is playing, but has no intention of taking the friend to the wrong path, the person is just counting on the greatest innocence but the friend for being greedy will gamble to win a lot and lose it all, that's not the fault of the person who told you about gambling
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To say the truth it's hard to predict who is prone to develop an addictive behavior on gambling, because there are many factors, including hidden biological and genetical ones, despite the person being male, female, young or old. There isn't a perfect recipe to prevent the issue of addiction happening in society due to those factors and their variables, but thankfully what we know is that it's only going to hit a small portion of the total population, as history show us.
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I don't think I would want to introduced anyone to gambling because I know how this act can mess someone up, especially if the person is not that discipline. I wouldn't want to be blame for turning anyone into a gambling addict because its really hard to come out of the act once you have fully involved yourself. Although it depend on the person choice I can show or teach anyone, who on his/her own decide to learn about gambling with any sportbook am familiar with.
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A person who is desperately in need of money can do anything to get money. Gambling is a shortcut to money and many fall for this trap.
So people who are desperately in need of money will easily get addicted to gambling.
What I know, people who really need money urgently are more likely to choose borrowing money, not gambling. Everyone knows that it requires money to gamble, it is not for free. And most people know that gambling isn't an instant way to earn money, it is because we more often get losses than won the games. It is a rare case that people can be rich instantly because of playing gambling. So, I don't think that people become addicted because they really need money.

Gambling addiction shouldn't be blamed on the person who introduced gambling because it's a personal choice. Anyone can listen to gambling introductions but it is our personal perspective whether to gamble responsibly or fall for gambling addiction. If we are influenced by gamblers, it doesn't mean that we have to be compulsive gamblers. We still have a choice to control ourselves and have the proper mindset toward it.
I can a bit agree with you. Someone gets an addiction because of his bad habit of gambling. The bad habit isn't caused by the person who introduced the gambling but it is caused by himself. Sure, to prevent addiction, we must be disciplined and have good self-control. That's why someone who can't control himself well, is better to avoid gambling.

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In general, I know some forum users may like to respond saying we should be careful generally who we introduce gambling to, which is true, but since may not possibly be avoided, there are some categories of person's that we should be on the look out for in the society.

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Well, you have answered it yourself and my conclusion is the same.

So, From all the points you said, the essence that I get is, be careful to introduce gambling. especially, for young people and the people around us. But, actually the problem of addiction can come from anywhere and the most vulnerable is from association. whether it's the home environment, friendship, be it young or old, everything is the same and has the potential to become an addict. Also, free internet access can also be the beginning for someone to get to know gambling.

Well, everyone has the potential to become an addict, especially those of us who are very familiar with gambling. but yes, i agree with you. that young people, will be very easily influenced whether he is male or female. does not rule out, potentially becoming an addict, whatever it is, including gambling.
by the way, to be honest, I have never introduced gambling to anyone even if he is the closest person. also, I don't think that they will become addicts. for me, gambling is a hobby that I enjoy and this is personal. except, some people who have the same frequency with this hobby. even then, only limited to discussion, especially related to football. the rest, I enjoy it for my own satisfaction.
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In summary, just don't introduce it to anyone that you know that are not capable of controlling their emotions because you'll never know on up to what point they can control themselves.

Because the time might even come that you'll be the one to be blamed by those people whom you've introduced gambling. That's not a new story and there have been cases like that they were blamed and made it looked bad because they've just introduced those addicted gamblers to gambling.

Avoid being the trigger of others that may fall into gambling addiction if you don't want to get involved and be blamed for.
As long as they won’t be productive in the long run, then never introduce it to them in the first place. Gambling may always trigger addiction especially if the one involved has a difficult way of controlling his greed and emotions. Instead of quitting gambling after losing, most of them will even gamble more to chase their losses or some to chase more of their luck for bigger profits. The reason why we should always be responsible not to drag people on gambling especially if those people have hard time controlling not just their emotions, but their finances as well. They may even consider that gambling is a quick way to make money, when the real fact is gambling could mean more losses than profits.
That's why if someone really asks important things about gambling and becomes encouraged based on how you explained it, you better watch out and keep them reminded that you've just been speaking based on what you know and the experience as a gambler. But you're not encouraging them to gamble and risk is at high and it never changes once they're in.

Be responsible enough not to attract people in gambling particularly for those who may think that gambling can be a good source of living. If they do, they will always want to try their luck gambling most of the time and end up losing all their funds. And for people who may gamble just for fun, don’t be too confident that they won’t develop addiction in the long run. Gambling is very addictive, if you’re not good at resisting and controlling your urge, you will always fall for gambling addiction even if you will keep on saying that you only gamble for fun.
It's the sign when someone thinks of it and he's not yet a gambler or just gamble less. Thinking of it as a source of income triggers their greediness and once someone gets up to that point, well, I'd say that you better be away from them before things becomes worst.

We've seen those people that have been in gambling that have come to that point and they've got no one to blame, if they can't blame themselves for the situation they're in. They'll look for one and you'll be on that hot seat if you're the last person that they've talked to about gambling.

I guess that's the real point here, we should stop encouraging people who gamble who are soft hearted because it may destroy their mental health once losing everything they have. Let them be the one who come to you and ask about it if they really want to so in the end you wont get blamed if they lose. To be honest ones you enter gambling its really hard to stop especially if you experience winning. It will boost you and trigger you to play and bet more higher value for a higher profit but once you loss with that big bet, it will not make you stop, it will push you more to keep gambling to get back what you loss and you cant notice that it slowly getting all your money that you have because you didn't control your emotion.

Gambling is fun, but it is very addictive so better be careful and learn how to control or limit yourself first before entering on it.
It's fun and no doubt that it's an income stream for those experienced gamblers. But it changes when someone thinks of it outside the box that if it happened to the other gamblers, it may happen to them as well.

That's not the point of it, if they want it the hard way then they'll see that it's not the same from those gamblers that they're looking up to as if they've found success in here.

There are lots of categories, but I think this is the one that's on the top in terms of who you shouldn't introduce gambling for.

We already know that people who are full of emotions often loses their money whether it's on gambling, or trading etc. Traders who are full of emotion most of the time ending up losing their money. On the other hand, those people who want to gamble that are also full of emotions lost their money all the time. People with full of emotions might make some bad decisions that would make their current situation even worse. Some even go to a point where they will borrow money into their family members.

This is also the reason why I'm not introducing gambling to anybody. I'm not gambling that much, but I'm afraid that whenever I introduce gambling to other people, there might be a chance that they will get addicted, and for sure I will blame myself if something bad happens to that person which will cause a domino effect on me.
When someone's emotion gets triggered, we will never know what crazy things they can do. There are people that can't accept defeat and they will do all the means just to take back their losses and glory that they've lost in the process.

What if they've got no money left? And that's the craziest part comes in that some of them might sell their important assets because they want to pursue and chase their losses.
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Actually, I believe everyone is susceptible to gambling addiction.  Even the most disciplined person is susceptible to addiction.  It is obvious that, the one lacking self control is more prone to gambling addiction regardless of age bracket.

I also think that there are way more adults in terms of statistics to be addicted to gambling the teens because teens have more forms of spending their time and is more active in different activities.  Besides teens are less capable to gamble huge amounts of money than adult one.  More or less, teens gambling time is more limited than those of adults.

So this is where it is important for us to learn to control ourselves with a healthy mindset.

Gambling addiction is always controlled by self-discipline.  It is the most essential factor in combatting any kind of addiction.
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Addiction makes it difficult for a person's mindset to change their habits and the way you practice may be one of the solutions that can be applied by those who are addicted. The problem is most people don't see the impact on their decision to gamble but always talk about the opportunities, this is where the problem lies because they are not able to consider carefully. For me gambling is not a problem for those who are able to control it, as long as they don't place gambling as their main job.

Because without being introduced gambling has penetrated into the world of smartphones and the internet, so that without realizing it is so easy for someone to connect. The standard lies in individual decisions, control is very important whether gambling is placed as one of the pleasure loopholes or addiction.
So this is where it is important for us to learn to control ourselves with a healthy mindset. Gambling fights lust, and its worst enemy is lust. So it's true what you said, it's okay to gamble as long as you don't make gambling your main job, you have to know when to stop playing even if you lose/win, don't be greedy and don't be in a hurry. chase defeat. So gamble you guys and remember your enemy is lust.

Another impact of gambling is becoming a gambler with an acute addiction, this is very dangerous because of this kind of addiction. In gambling, people can get addicted to their money/cards/game. If he is addicted to money, he can steal, cheat, rob etc. In addition, the acute gambler is addicted to the excitement, the feeling of the heart fluttering between the lows of winning and losing, life and death is what makes him addicted. In the world of medicine, adrenaline junkie addicts are categorized as mental disorders.
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You will agree that some category of people will most probably become addicted to gambling if exposed to it than some other people. If you are the type that likes to refer and tell people to try out new things, you should avoid encouraging this category of people listed below to try out gambling even as a way to relax or for fun.

- Be careful introducing gambling to teens, especially young male teens.
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Young people are more vulnerable to developing a gambling disorder than adults. According to the Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior, around 5% of teenagers in the United States have problems with compulsive gambling. By contrast, only about 1% of adults have a severe gambling problem.
And there is a specific about "males" because
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men are at a higher risk of compulsive gambling than women in all age groups. What accounts for this difference? One study found that men are more likely to take risks and experience social anxiety than women, contributing to problem gambling.
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- Be Careful introducing gambling to people with some certain "Personality Characteristics".
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Certain personality traits are associated with a higher risk of developing a gambling addiction
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individuals who are highly competitive or get bored easily may also be at higher risk of compulsive gambling.
People that you notice have a poor opinion of themselves,
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low self-esteem connects to addictive behaviors, including compulsive gambling and substance use
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- Be careful introducing gambling to people who have a good access to enough money and no discipline in spending, they may not mind gambling to win money, but for other reasons, and because of their good access to money, they may just become addicted without even knowing.

- Be careful introducing gambling to someone who you know is poor and needs a better way to earn a livelihood. The person may mistake gambling as a way to earn a living.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know easily gets addicted to new things.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know has a drug use problem.

In general, I know some forum users may like to respond saying we should be careful generally who we introduce gambling to, which is true, but since may not possibly be avoided, there are some categories of person's that we should be on the look out for in the society.

Join the discussion by extending the list if possible.

TL;DR, don't recommend gambling to people, especially those you know you wouldn't be able to persuade down the line when things get murky.

I don't recommend people to gamble at all, it is a personal preference that I will keep to myself and would never loop people into. If they ask if I gamble, sure I'll answer truthfully, maybe even teach them what games I play if they became so pressing about it. But to outright recommend gambling to people, that's just not my thing. For the most part, I wouldn't have control over the person, and I could become an outlet of their blame when things go south, on the other hand, I don't want to ruin a person's life over gambling. I do not know if they are as disciplined as me when it comes to losses, and I don't know if they could manage their losses as well as I do. So, I never tell people they should gamble, not even for any reason.
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If you are already addicted, the way to overcome it according to my experience is to change your mindset. For example, diverting the concentration of thinking to positive things but what the patient's soul likes, for example, I like sports, when playing sports, I forget to gamble. So this is the best way I can do it.

Gambling is actually not a problem as long as it is done for fun and can be controlled. It is true that the OP said that it is better not to introduce gambling to relatives or close friends who cannot control their finances.
Addiction makes it difficult for a person's mindset to change their habits and the way you practice may be one of the solutions that can be applied by those who are addicted. The problem is most people don't see the impact on their decision to gamble but always talk about the opportunities, this is where the problem lies because they are not able to consider carefully. For me gambling is not a problem for those who are able to control it, as long as they don't place gambling as their main job.

Because without being introduced gambling has penetrated into the world of smartphones and the internet, so that without realizing it is so easy for someone to connect. The standard lies in individual decisions, control is very important whether gambling is placed as one of the pleasure loopholes or addiction.
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I think every gambling site has its own level of accessibility and introduction...do we have any one that doesn't consider the gambler's status before allowing to wager them games?? Ofcourse they should... Even TV channels offer descriptional viewing tips,how much more a casino??
Secondly, when a child sees or hears anything, they'll simply wanna try it since Thier brains are very assimilating... They really need to avoid gambling cus whatever begins and gets into addiction at a young age, is almost impossible to stop... But in this case, I won't really blame the kids, I'll blame every careless parent.

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A person who is desperately in need of money can do anything to get money. Gambling is a shortcut to money and many fall for this trap.
So people who are desperately in need of money will easily get addicted to gambling.

Gambling addiction shouldn't be blamed on the person who introduced gambling because it's a personal choice. Anyone can listen to gambling introductions but it is our personal perspective whether to gamble responsibly or fall for gambling addiction. If we are influenced by gamblers, it doesn't mean that we have to be compulsive gamblers. We still have a choice to control ourselves and have the proper mindset toward it.

How can "losing self control" be a choice when it's happening without the individual's choice?
A person who is unable to control himself isn't doing it by choice. He/She is just falling for it without any self control and without any choice.
Example: A smoker who wants to quit smoking but is unable to do it because of his addiction.
He wants to quit smoking by choice but we know how strong an addiction can be. Same goes to gambling addiction.
Ha! You reckon we possess volition in the face of dependency? Amusing, pal. Addiction's like a boss showdown in a game - victory's no casual selection. You gotta hone your abilities, and fortify your gear, and even then, it's a gamble. Yet, surrender isn't an option. Ingenuity and unconventional thinking are paramount in combating addiction. Harnessing the potency of artistic expression and innovation, we can share our tribulations and resonate with fellow warriors.

Alternatively, science and tech could hold the key. Envision a reality where genetic editing eradicates predispositions to addiction. Mind-boggling, huh? And let's emphasize scholarly exploration and enlightenment. To fathom the intricacies of addiction, its neurological and behavioral implications, we must delve into the realm of academia. Knowledge paves the way for formidable preventative and remedial measures.
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