Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 21. (Read 15689 times)

There are a lot of crazy things that are done when someone is heavily addicted to gambling, they tend to take actions that carry big risks, but they can do it with confidence and don't see the huge risks for themselves, including for their future. It's a shame that they dare to take risks on the wrong things, because if they take big risks, gambling will only destroy their lives, whether it's their health or their relationship with their family or partner.

This one day I will hit it big is what really inspires most of them to go into gambling more and more, even when they have not been winning. They still keep on gambling with the hope that one day, if they win, they will be able to recover all that they have spent on gambling.
 
But one thing about this is that if they calculate all the money they have spent since the very first day they started gambling, they will notice that what they won from that one bet they might claim is big is just a small percentage of what they have spent in the past.

There's this friend of mine who was into gambling. This guy was introduced to betting and got addicted to it for years, and at this level he has gone into virtual games. At some point, he could use all his money, borrow from others, and even use the one given to him by someone for important stuff. This went a long way for him, and his life was becoming miserable as time went on. But with the help of some punishment , self discipline and prayers, he was able to reduce it. And today he doesn't do virtual games. In all this, I noticed that there's this confidence he has that he will hit it big, if not today but one big day, and he will stop it with the money he will hit.
My question was, When is this big day? Yes, you might be lucky one day, but when is that? Is there a guarantee for it? How long will you continue to do this for the big day? It's better to stop today than regret it.

Taking a loan to gamble with is far too many risk to take as a gambler this is because most times the results of such moves have always ended in the negative which could be traced to pressure to recover from Previous loses and at that when you build that capacity to take loans at frequent it becomes a habits which will later translate into addictions on the long run, so many of those wrong thoughts that you can make up for what you lost or being able to make some gains on the long run, from a loan will always end in frustrations.

So it best to decipline yourself to the point that you can easily walk away fr9m gambling when you already exusted your set aside funds and to a point that if you don't have any left over funds you walk away instead of taking loans to gamble with, that is not wise decisions unless and only those who are already addicted to gambling will go that legnt just to satisfy the urge.

There's this friend of mine who was into gambling. This guy was introduced to betting and got addicted to it for years, and at this level he has gone into virtual games. At some point, he could use all his money, borrow from others, and even use the one given to him by someone for important stuff. This went a long way for him, and his life was becoming miserable as time went on. But with the help of some punishment , self discipline and prayers, he was able to reduce it. And today he doesn't do virtual games. In all this, I noticed that there's this confidence he has that he will hit it big, if not today but one big day, and he will stop it with the money he will hit.
My question was, When is this big day? Yes, you might be lucky one day, but when is that? Is there a guarantee for it? How long will you continue to do this for the big day? It's better to stop today than regret it.

The truth is that when a gambler is addicted to gambling, he's very likely to make decisions that's not going to be beneficial for him at that moment because most of the things he'll be doing be will mostly be influenced by his desire to satisfy his gambling addiction. Loan as we all know is mostly taken by people who are trying to invest in their different business endeavors and not to use them for gambling but when a gambler is addicted to gambling, taking loan from any financial institution just to fund their gambling activities won't be a big issue for him.
Most times gambling addict takes this decisions unconsciously and can't just help themselves. Gambling addict have caused so many people to take decisions they would never take when they're completely stable and that's why we as a people must continue to condemn gambling addict and also preach about the consequences of gambling addiction

We think that of all the mistakes that can be made financially is to ask for loans to be able to do something else with that money, a person always lends money thinking that it could make a difference, that is, if they lend $2k they will leave with at least $3 -$4k and this or so, things in the casino work differently, and when they lose the money they lent, things get worse, because not only do they not have money to play, they do not have money to pay the loan And apart from that The player has a family, children, we must add the problems he brings in terms of food expenses, maintenance, and apart from those expenses that have to do with services, and this becomes stress, pressure, something that can make him A person loses control and does not know where to get money from, this is the only worst thing that can happen, because it is already a minimum step to enter into addiction.

Apart from this, when a person has gone into debt like this he cannot demand that things turn out well for him, because he has to get involved in more days and more things that become more complicated as time goes by.

We think that of all the mistakes that can be made financially is to ask for loans to be able to do something else with that money, a person always lends money thinking that it could make a difference, that is, if they lend $2k they will leave with at least $3 -$4k and this or so, things in the casino work differently, and when they lose the money they lent, things get worse, because not only do they not have money to play, they do not have money to pay the loan And apart from that The player has a family, children, we must add the problems he brings in terms of food expenses, maintenance, and apart from those expenses that have to do with services, and this becomes stress, pressure, something that can make him A person loses control and does not know where to get money from, this is the only worst thing that can happen, because it is already a minimum step to enter into addiction.

Apart from this, when a person has gone into debt like this he cannot demand that things turn out well for him, because he has to get involved in more days and more things that become more complicated as time goes by.

taking loans and gambling despite having no money in their pocket etc. Because of this, it is better to keep yourself under control and play limited gambling

Addicts don't possess such luxury of self-examination; their thoughts are no longer in order as it was. Hence whatever goes through their brain has to be related to gambling and jackpots. Addicts also win, but careless on withdrawing, continuous gambling is a priority to addicts. They don't comply to any rules or strategies, an addict can go all in immediately he starts gambling. Playing for fun is out ruled in their jurisdictions. Funds are necessary to addicts, but not useful. The goal is to play further with whatever money they've got. Regardless of the aim for the money. An addict once said he slept in his car for 3 days, because he gambled with the money meant for gas. When the funds were sent to him by his parents, he wagered it all at once. And wasn't able to eat or purchase gas. This shows how gamblers are controlled emotionally, not to care for any other utility other than gambling.

Once the money is available the addict doesn't feel that he's made any mistake with his previous funds. Their consciousness arrives the moment, they've got no money left. And disappears immediately money arrives. Such problem gambling derails the future life expectations of the gambler and needs to be stopped. But this time not by the gambler. Like I said earlier, he's no longer under control. His impulses is clouded by gambling. All he thinks isn't right anymore. For instance, the man in the story, look what he did to his family. That's as a result of no adequate attention to his previous behaviors. I think that wasn't his first mistake or misdeed to the family. But they neglected it, because he's old. Every family with an addict shouldn't allow the player a breathing space of treatment. A therapist works fine in reshaping the gambler's thoughts to a better perspective.