Only gambling addicts understand the feeling aka adrenaline rush after huge wins and our brain look for same taste after playing casino games. We keep looking for dopamine no matter it happens on huge slot multipliers or on original house games, some guys don't even respect their red line and keep depositing to win back losses. Only small portion of gambling addicts get back what they lost btw, sad but true.
Yes, the feeling when you are winning is the feeling that cannot be stop so easily. Winning consecutively will give you too much adrenaline that if you will continue to play and play you might now missed that feeling, we need to manage our emotions because all us might be the subject of addiction some other people still play regularly but I can't say they are addicted, maybe when the time comes that they don't have money anymore and started to sell of their things or they started to disturb other people. 
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People all deal with losses in their own way. The term addiction is of course often used, but when exactly is someone addicted? You can't link certain standards to that. Someone who plays with bets of 1 euro and does this for hours every day is also addicted. But someone who loses 100k in a match once a month and does not gamble further, is in principle not addicted? Of course, the aggression is expressed much earlier in someone who loses a lot of money, but that also makes sense. However, many gamblers are only gambling online and if they lose no one will notice that aggression quickly.
I think gambling is better to quit if you can't control it by gambling he lost hundreds of times more money than he won. Gambling is an addiction in which you will always be in a daze, you will feel like playing this one more time, taking the profit, and not playing again. Then when you win you will say let's play for the last time when you lose everything while playing for the last time you will say, I will take the original and resign from gambling. Then that last time will leave you destitute.
That's roughly like the general picture that happens to people who gamble. The first time he had a different experience and wanted to do it again because, at that time, he could get the win. But it turned out that he couldn't win at all on the second occasion and wanted to do it again on the third occasion. On the third occasion, he could only get a small victory that made him want to continue the game. This will slowly make him addicted to finding something challenging to beat. And, of course, he would use more money to try his luck every time he lost. If you can't control it, it's better to walk away from gambling and never come back. Otherwise, you will experience a gambling addiction you don't know about. So before it's too late, think about what you've got in gambling. And if it's bad for you, it's better to leave than you lose all your money.
That's what gambling's all about, no? Jokes aside, though, gambling addiction ain't a laughing matter. Starts off innocent enough – just killing time, then bam! You're tossing your life's worth at a one-armed bandit, praying for a windfall. So take it from our pal here, know when to bow out. Better to pocket some change than end up penniless and hooked on the gamble.
Generally those elder people will act more responsible in their life but there is exception in everything and this poor guy tried something probably inspired from a story somewhere and try to replicate the same but at the end it backfired. Since you mentioned there is not much enough details reported by news so we can't really conclude that is the reality or not but at the end of the day the person committed violence is paying back now in prison probably for the rest of his life.
The story looks very odd as grandparents are those who look after their grandchildren more and not kidnapping them. Maybe they don't give the man money and he has problem he needs to solved with money then saw this as the only way out.
Then after he was caught, he used the gambling story to cover up as kidnapping your own child just to get ransom to gamble doesn't sound realistic. Why don't he just take the ransom and use for himself instead if gambling again.
I know gambling addict are very unpredictable as they can do anything to keep on gambling but this stories doesn't sound like something a grandfather will do. Maybe if the relationship wasn't very close like a cousin or someone else I'll believe the story.
I think gambling is better to quit if you can't control it by gambling he lost hundreds of times more money than he won. Gambling is an addiction in which you will always be in a daze, you will feel like playing this one more time, taking the profit, and not playing again. Then when you win you will say let's play for the last time when you lose everything while playing for the last time you will say, I will take the original and resign from gambling. Then that last time will leave you destitute.
That's roughly like the general picture that happens to people who gamble. The first time he had a different experience and wanted to do it again because, at that time, he could get the win. But it turned out that he couldn't win at all on the second occasion and wanted to do it again on the third occasion. On the third occasion, he could only get a small victory that made him want to continue the game. This will slowly make him addicted to finding something challenging to beat. And, of course, he would use more money to try his luck every time he lost. If you can't control it, it's better to walk away from gambling and never come back. Otherwise, you will experience a gambling addiction you don't know about. So before it's too late, think about what you've got in gambling. And if it's bad for you, it's better to leave than you lose all your money. 
I can never give such a person credit. Someone that gambling matters to than the happiness of his family. I hope other addicted people can learn from this, that gambling can not give them anything but than to be losing more and more if addicted. Our elders should be good examples and role models.
You are right gambling can not give anything good. Once person become addicted in gambling they are not easy to go away. They always want to win and they become greedy. Because the one cause of gambling is greedy for money. They want to gamble because they want big win until they realize that they are becoming addicted. actually, it is not appropriate to say stop gambling in this thread, gambling will not destroy your life if you do it responsibly [Gamble Responsibly], image destroyers about gambling are people like the case in the OP, gambling has changed a lot of a person's life in just 1 night (although some have changed for the better or for the worse). I myself will continue to gamble, I'm not addicted to it, self-control is the main key.
He was being innovative and showing initiative in figuring out how to continue to gamble. Give the guy some credit lol.
I can never give such a person credit. Someone that gambling matters to than the happiness of his family. I hope other addicted people can learn from this, that gambling can not give them anything but than to be losing more and more if addicted. Our elders should be good examples and role models.
Addiction can't easily be forgotten. Let us say that person stops gambling and is being rehabilitated, it doesn't mean that he is totally healed from addiction. Because that person still has the chance to become addicted again when remembering the past and especially, if he did nothing in his life. That is why it is necessary for them to become busy with other things and have their attention and focus on it so they couldn't remember what they are doing in the past and most of all, it was important to regularly engage them in physical activities.
it all depends on each gambler whether they really have the desire to recover from gambling. I will take an example from myself.I used to be a gambling addict around 2018 and that I really became an addict who was crazy to lose all my money and valuables but I had the desire to stop gambling and a strong determination to avoid gambling and was helped by a woman who is now my wife. even though at this time I am still back to gambling but I can control more when gambling and always plan a gambling budget without involving income money from RL only using money from this sigcam. so losing money at gambling is not a problem for me.
and I can conclude that gambling addicts have a mindset about big money and money that they want to get. If a gambling addict who is in rehabilitation then gets positive work activities to make money to open his own business, it will change his mindset to focus on work without having time to think about gambling.
so positive activities are very important during rehabilitation.
Nobody can help them but they themselves, if someone is on the verge of collapsing due to addiction, he or she should realized that he has already stepped into something with no return. I also think the the stages of grief could be apply on this situation since one should be able to accept that he is addicted before voluntarily asking/seeking for help to his closest one or someone he could trust. I have seen so many people forcing their loved ones inside the rehabilitation and in the end there is not that much improvement since they couldn't accept that they are addicted while adding the fact that they felt betrayed by how their families forced them inside to change as if they are being abandoned. From what I have observed just like alcohol, out 10 who were being rehabilitated, there are only 3 in most cases who changed while the rest came back to their old habits or stayed inside the center. Although it is not that accurate prediction I know for sure that it is not the main solution for addiction.
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They will look for money from anywhere to use it to gamble. Gambling addiction can lead to crime because of the urge to have money that will later be used for gambling. If the person doesn't get help soon, he will get worse and may borrow money from other people to gamble. If that happened, he could get into even bigger trouble especially if he couldn't repay the loan. If we see a member of our family experiencing gambling addiction and we know, we must immediately help him so that it doesn't get worse. So he can immediately cure his gambling addiction.
But how do we help them? I mean, when we see a relative or friend that's a gambling addict, how do we help this person?
Just saying "help them" is not helping without actually knowing what to do. Because if I'm being honest, if I see a gambling addict, I won't know how to help him. It's not like I can just tell them to stop and they will stop. Addiction is way deeper than that. It's hard to get rid of an addiction.
Gambling addiction if not managed always ends up putting the addict in debt no matter how rich they may be because if it gets too deep it will get to a level that where you will have to borrow to gamble and slowly it begins to get worst.
If we are honest and open and have good intentions to help sincerely, they will see for themselves and be able to accept our intentions so they can get help immediately. Gambling addiction can create many problems for him and will not end easily. So we should try to help him out of his troubles.
They will look for money from anywhere to use it to gamble. Gambling addiction can lead to crime because of the urge to have money that will later be used for gambling. If the person doesn't get help soon, he will get worse and may borrow money from other people to gamble. If that happened, he could get into even bigger trouble especially if he couldn't repay the loan. If we see a member of our family experiencing gambling addiction and we know, we must immediately help him so that it doesn't get worse. So he can immediately cure his gambling addiction.
But how do we help them? I mean, when we see a relative or friend that's a gambling addict, how do we help this person?
Just saying "help them" is not helping without actually knowing what to do. Because if I'm being honest, if I see a gambling addict, I won't know how to help him. It's not like I can just tell them to stop and they will stop. Addiction is way deeper than that. It's hard to get rid of an addiction.
Gambling addiction if not managed always ends up putting the addict in debt no matter how rich they may be because if it gets too deep it will get to a level that where you will have to borrow to gamble and slowly it begins to get worst.
I think it's a bit strange when the family doesn't know, because a gambler will definitely show unusual behavior, such as their money running out quickly or other things related to money. For me personally, from there, questions started to arise, why did his money run out so quickly, for example, and that could be the start of following up on what he was actually doing. I don't think it's possible for a gambling addict not to exhibit unusual habits, especially in financial terms.
Not everyone can be open with other people even though it is their own family, if a gambling addict is a closed person then it is impossible for his family to know how financial he has so it is difficult to find out.On the other hand, I believe not many people want to tell or show their finances because this stage is a privacy that is so guarded.
Yes, it is clear that gambling activities and addiction can be shown when someone holds a cellphone or uses a PC all the time while gambling because a gambling addict can spend a very long time using a cellphone or PC for them to play.
Unless the parents don't really care. But indeed in this case, especially from the point of view of the parents who have indeed freed this, maybe this is one of the reasons because in this case, when we as children are adults, there will definitely be privacy, which of course must be maintained.
They will look for money from anywhere to use it to gamble. Gambling addiction can lead to crime because of the urge to have money that will later be used for gambling. If the person doesn't get help soon, he will get worse and may borrow money from other people to gamble. If that happened, he could get into even bigger trouble especially if he couldn't repay the loan. If we see a member of our family experiencing gambling addiction and we know, we must immediately help him so that it doesn't get worse. So he can immediately cure his gambling addiction.
But how do we help them? I mean, when we see a relative or friend that's a gambling addict, how do we help this person?
Just saying "help them" is not helping without actually knowing what to do. Because if I'm being honest, if I see a gambling addict, I won't know how to help him. It's not like I can just tell them to stop and they will stop. Addiction is way deeper than that. It's hard to get rid of an addiction.
Gambling addiction if not managed always ends up putting the addict in debt no matter how rich they may be because if it gets too deep it will get to a level that where you will have to borrow to gamble and slowly it begins to get worst.
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It seems to me that this man's behavior cannot be justified, no matter what nation or creed he may belong to. You can't blame his environment for his gambling addiction to this extent. We make the world around us, and if he wanted to, he was not surrounded by gambling, but by walking in the park with his granddaughter. He chose to gamble and brought himself to what I would call an inadequate state.
Try to keep an eye on your relatives because such stories can happen to anyone.
They will look for money from anywhere to use it to gamble. Gambling addiction can lead to crime because of the urge to have money that will later be used for gambling. If the person doesn't get help soon, he will get worse and may borrow money from other people to gamble. If that happened, he could get into even bigger trouble especially if he couldn't repay the loan. If we see a member of our family experiencing gambling addiction and we know, we must immediately help him so that it doesn't get worse. So he can immediately cure his gambling addiction.
But how do we help them? I mean, when we see a relative or friend that's a gambling addict, how do we help this person?
Just saying "help them" is not helping without actually knowing what to do. Because if I'm being honest, if I see a gambling addict, I won't know how to help him. It's not like I can just tell them to stop and they will stop. Addiction is way deeper than that. It's hard to get rid of an addiction.
Gambling addiction if not managed always ends up putting the addict in debt no matter how rich they may be because if it gets too deep it will get to a level that where you will have to borrow to gamble and slowly it begins to get worst.
The problem is how you put gambling, if done only for fun in spare time is not a problem. But when gambling is done as a substitute for permanent work, this will be far more problematic and it is very difficult to control, the decision is in each of us and as much as possible avoid addiction in gambling.
Indeed, my friend. It all depends on how you interpret your gambling experiences. If you view them as something you do every day, you'll inevitably become dependent on them. Although what @lizarder said is the right course of action, if you gamble regularly, you run the risk of becoming addicted. Which, in my opinion, will result in a variety of outcomes because no one can control it any longer, especially for some young people who have no other employment options.Since they have nothing else to do besides spend what little money they have on gambling, I think that some people must be addicted to it. Once their money runs out, they may then engage in dishonest activities like scamming, robbing people of their property, or selling their own possessions. One of the major reasons I think people get easier addicted in gambling is the fact that they tend to chase after their losses and get sk carried away and if you'll agree with me that the act of chasing after losses has never yielded any positive result but mostly negative results and possibly blowing bof account.
I think the man who wanted to kidnap his granddaughter should be taken for a mental check up to know what actually is wrong with him rather than just making conclusions.
The problem is how you put gambling, if done only for fun in spare time is not a problem. But when gambling is done as a substitute for permanent work, this will be far more problematic and it is very difficult to control, the decision is in each of us and as much as possible avoid addiction in gambling.
Indeed, my friend. It all depends on how you interpret your gambling experiences. If you view them as something you do every day, you'll inevitably become dependent on them. Although what @lizarder said is the right course of action, if you gamble regularly, you run the risk of becoming addicted. Which, in my opinion, will result in a variety of outcomes because no one can control it any longer, especially for some young people who have no other employment options.Since they have nothing else to do besides spend what little money they have on gambling, I think that some people must be addicted to it. Once their money runs out, they may then engage in dishonest activities like scamming, robbing people of their property, or selling their own possessions. One of the major reasons I think people get easier addicted in gambling is the fact that they tend to chase after their losses and get sk carried away and if you'll agree with me that the act of chasing after losses has never yielded any positive result but mostly negative results and possibly blowing bof account.
I think the man who wanted to kidnap his granddaughter should be taken for a mental check up to know what actually is wrong with him rather than just making conclusions.
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It seems to me that this man's behavior cannot be justified, no matter what nation or creed he may belong to. You can't blame his environment for his gambling addiction to this extent. We make the world around us, and if he wanted to, he was not surrounded by gambling, but by walking in the park with his granddaughter. He chose to gamble and brought himself to what I would call an inadequate state.
Try to keep an eye on your relatives because such stories can happen to anyone.
Family members could have seen it coming but not this kidnapping. The grandpa must have show signs of his addiction and probably ask money to babysit the kid for awhile. Thinking he could gamble after getting his fee all the time. Its not so far fetch to think can't wait to get back to his usual gambling spree so he just ask for ransom as its the same as winning a lumpsum.
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It seems to me that this man's behavior cannot be justified, no matter what nation or creed he may belong to. You can't blame his environment for his gambling addiction to this extent. We make the world around us, and if he wanted to, he was not surrounded by gambling, but by walking in the park with his granddaughter. He chose to gamble and brought himself to what I would call an inadequate state.
Try to keep an eye on your relatives because such stories can happen to anyone.
I think it's a bit strange when the family doesn't know, because a gambler will definitely show unusual behavior, such as their money running out quickly or other things related to money. For me personally, from there, questions started to arise, why did his money run out so quickly, for example, and that could be the start of following up on what he was actually doing. I don't think it's possible for a gambling addict not to exhibit unusual habits, especially in financial terms.
Basically, it's all ahout culture and tradition.
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