Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 33. (Read 15689 times)

Addiction does not happen all at once, but occurs in gradual stages, each stage getting worse than the previous one to a degree or more, until the condition becomes more severe with the final stages before falling prey to behavioral addiction to addiction. These are the stages that any patient with addiction goes through, because there is no disease called addiction that is transmitted by infection or influence.

In a previous comment, I referred to the experience that one of my relatives went through, who lost his entire life because he fell prey to addiction and refused help from anyone, even his wife and children. Today he is in prison serving a long sentence after his wife divorced him and took custody of the children, after he lost his only source of income and sold all the household equipment. This is considered a form of madness in the popular, colloquial sense, but it is interpreted as the most destructive degree of addiction that any gambler may reach who does not know how to control his practices wisely.

Yes and one of the things that is more likely to be affected is our financial situation which will certainly be disrupted and you will lose balance in terms of financial strength, not only that because this also affects the people around us, and the scenario is that when you have excessive involvement in gambling then surely when you run out of money at least you will definitely think of borrowing as an alternative and surely you will borrow money from one of your closest people, and after that it is clear that this is the starting point for a new disaster to begin, you will not be so easy to repay the debt because when you have money then the main thing that comes to mind is gambling and finally the money is again used up in gambling.

Running out of money, experiencing mental and psychological pressure and also being in debt is an alarming combination for someone who will end up in a slump, not everyone can get through a situation like this and most of them usually end up with stress or depression due to not being able to withstand the pressure of a situation like this. Therefore, of course, as I said above, having the right understanding and also with a good level of awareness to implement various precautions is the main key to keep you safe.

Those who are crazy about gambling will not be able to see other things that are more interesting because their focus is already on gambling, and there are no other things that can make them want to try it. All they have in mind is playing gambling continuously so that they might end up using even more money. When only gambling is on their mind, they will try to provide money to gamble, and they can get it in various ways. Gamblers who are addicted to gambling are no longer aware of losing large amounts of money because, in their minds, they only want to gamble. It's not normal, and the people around them should realize it and start making them aware of it before they get deeper into gambling.

Yes, casinos will always provide the best offers for gamblers because that is how the gambling business works. Only gamblers who do not have responsibility, discipline, and self-control will fall deeper into gambling. Meanwhile, those who can use gambling properly will not fall into gambling and can even use gambling as entertainment. They will always try to avoid problems such as losing too much money or becoming addicted to gambling because they have seen what it does to people.

It can also be basically doing the same over and over again expecting a different outcome.

When people continue to gamble, they just hope to stop, but if they continue the same behavior they will never stop.

It's a hard thing to change, but it is possible.

Madness is also defined as "behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous : extreme folly"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madness
From the above definition, you can clearly see that the before of the man cited advice is very foolish and dangerous, which connects to the topic of this thread and validated that the man is actually MAD. From the moment anyone loses control of his involvements in gambling, tho the extent of doing irrational things either to acquire money to sustain your addiction or  to victimize your family or those around you, you've clearly lost your mind and need help.
Gambling addiction itself is madness because its a foolish and irrational behavior, its very  painful that people make choices to be mad instead of remaining sane with moderate gambling, or not gambling at all.  I wish every gambler out there sanity of moderate gambling because the insanity that comes with addiction is very destructive in nature.

That is it, too much of everything is always bad and for that we all need to constantly continue to educate ourselves on the essence and important of too much gambling, because for sure it can effects everything around an individual and also forcing him to act or behaive in a way that the overall outcome may not be good for everyone around, this has always been the case with most gambling addict's, majority of them have overly been involved with excesive gambling and for sure, the outcome yave not being that good for the entire community.

This is why, we have being harmaring on the importance of of controlled gambling and gambling within a limited rules and guides.

More like those GTA Sandrea's days where CJ would over feed and vomits it, as a result of having enough money to cover for those food bills. Gambling to the level that the brain no longer could control the impulses that drives us to gamble will be hard to withstand the urge to stay gambling responsibly. The best thing to do is being regulative of the way we gamble. And not get carried away by anything whatsoever, which may change the mind of the gambler to keep going despite losing lots of money in the process. Many gamblers who have worn such shoes, some, never lived to regret it, the troubles and disgrace problem gambling caused them, left a lot in a state of mind that could cost the person's life in this big blue marble.

Such threads as this only should be as a warning for gamblers not to be victims of problem gambling to an extent of misbehaving in our various families. Cross addiction is hard when it gets to gambling addiction. That's why the aim of most advisers is to help as many gamblers as possible not to get addicted. The pain is much on the person that he wouldn't let go easily, to build a fresh habit. The money, and time lost, stays in the person's memory, almost, forever. A lot would decide to chase, as a means of removing the thoughts, but it doesn't change them, even though the money is recovered. Because the player will never get satisfied, he'd want to stake higher amount of money to get back bigger. These experiences, create a whole lot of tempting reasons why lots of gamblers will get addicted with the experts not being exempted. We all need to stay careful and be observant of any single behavioral change in us.

Yes that's right, in any case everything that is done in excess is always bad, not only in gambling but for all activities in our real life is also the same, such as one of them excessive diet then obviously you will feel full and it will be quite disturbing to you and the bad thing is that you will suffer from obesity. And of course especially if you overdo it in gambling activities that really have a high level of risk, if you always overdo the involvement because you are too focused on the chances of winning then believe me that way will only make you tormented and lose balance in terms of finances in the long run and if you can't stop it then obviously you will enter a situation of addiction where you can't miss a moment not to gamble.

Basically all that would be great to do if your habit leads to something more positive, but if your habit is basically gambling then obviously I can't imagine how bad the impact will be when you become a chronic addict. Therefore, from now on we must continue to try to apply the following limits along with good assertiveness because the fact is that addiction can come without you realizing it.

there is this constant decision between spending now or saving for later
it happens all the time in life, you have to choose, and that's the beauty of it

I think the variation on this decision is usually really interesting to observe, people either don't give a fuck at all (spending all today, no future time preference, only present, YOLO, life is now) or save too much (way more future preference than present, people who didn't read "die with zero" or don't care about it...)

that's true, but another thing that happens to those who are addicted to gambling in the sense that they are already crazy about gambling, they won't pay attention to it, all they think about is gambling, and even if they have lost a lot of money they won't look at it. , but if they realize that they will lose a large amount of their money, maybe they are aware of this, but it can still be defeated by their belief in winning at gambling. and in my opinion, they're not just sorry, they're annoyed by the loss that occurred, so that could trigger them to gamble again.

Yes, that makes sense, because casinos will of course continue to do their best and with one of them offering clear promotions or bonuses, it can make many gamblers interested in gambling at the casino. and that can trigger them to gamble continuously, sometimes they can feel like they are almost winning and the same thing can trigger them to become addicted to gambling. Those who are addicted to gambling seem to find it difficult to stop if they don't have their own awareness.

yes, that's right, because in my opinion, even though they have won, they will continue to gamble aggressively so who knows what their goal is, losing is still gambling, winning is still gambling, maybe in the end they will experience a very fatal bankruptcy, then they will realize and quit gambling. Also, those who are addicted to gambling will find it difficult to come to their senses, because if they are already addicted, it will not be easy to recover or leave the habit, because it is very likely that it has become a very ingrained habit.

It's true what you said, those who are addicted to gambling tend to do anything that can make money and the goal is to be able to continue gambling, and one of them is taking out loans, they can do this, because as far as I know, someone who is addicted will be more daring to take This possible action is a big risk though. and perhaps what is worse could be that they commit acts that are beyond common sense, such as crimes that harm other people, such as stealing or robbery. and of course this is very risky, because they could get into trouble with the police and get caught up in the law.

Too much of everything is always bad and same with gambling addiction or gambling activeness, because most times, whenever we get too involved in something, that thing tend to get our attention and possibly control our overall behaviour going forward from that point, so addiction comes from what we do consistently and on daily basis that is what transform into addictions when that activities eventually becomes uncontrollable.

So before anyone become fully addicted he or she will first of all go through the phase of over invomennt in gambling which always gives a warning sign to the I dividual before it escalate into bigger problems in the future.

The more a person is involved in gambling and struggle with addiction, his decision wouldn't be accurate. That's why they keep up losing money. So, getting to the level where the gambler is not stable or battle with great decisions, is not nice. Our human brain adapts to whatever activity we invest our time into. That means the player have to be smart, not to fail too much regardless of the gravity dragging him to gamble more. For a player who doesn't mind his behavior and thinks it's getting out of hand can consult his friends, and family. The help will then follow from the family's end. As some addicts would blame his family if they never helped him. So, if he gets troublesome and begin to lend money the family will pay for those debts. If a person begins to realize that his family plays a vital role in changing their mindset, he'd begin to ask himself some useful questions about the need to change. At least to save his family the stress of having to pay so much. The addicts sometimes remember what's happening before it skips their mind again. That means when in their right control or senses, those imaginations begin to erupt in the brain of the person. Where he gets worried of what is going on and why everyone is focused on him as the primary problem. Some are in prison for their crimes, but a gambling addict is suffering from mental imprisonment. Starving the player from getting financial help from others, would help him control the urge of taking loans from people. Thereby relieving his family, the suffering of having to clear debts when the player is healed from his problems.

Sonmany people think gambling is not enough to be able to get one depressed and even go mad,but I can always clear them and tell them that I have seen people who suffer and die because they lost a game,and because they have used their life savings for a game that wasn't even proven that it will play.
One thing about being addicted to gambling is that,it takes control of you gradually,that you will think you know what you are doing,but unknowingly to you that you might be acting the way you do because you just can't get your mind off the amount of money gambling has taken from you since you started playing games.

It's true that before stepping into the gambling arena it is advisable to set clear goals. for example today I want to win $500 in gambling, and if I lose I only want to lose $200. if you have a target like that, I'm sure you will be more able to manage your brain so as not to fall into greed which ultimately makes you lose all the money you bring when playing gambling.

As has already been discussed many times, continuing to play after a win (as well as a loss) is wrong (because you need to focus on the limits that you set for yourself before the game), and from a mathematical point of view, you shouldn’t even start playing at all. But for those who are addicted to gambling, what really matters is not the result, but the process - they are addicted to the game itself, and there have been many examples when such addicts won large sums of money, but instead of changing their lives, they continued to gamble.

Sometimes I also think in that direction, like questioning myself with some of the points that you said one of them and the answer can change over time and usually only ask questions like that when I am overcome by emotions in one of the sessions that I do, it usually happens when I am experiencing other problems in the real world and instead vent it on gambling which in the end obviously everything is even worse which as a result the situation is out of control.

On the other hand I think few people ask themselves this question even those who are already addicted feel that they are fine in the sense that they do not suffer from addiction when in fact they have excessive involvement behavior like addicts, such people are aware that they are experiencing one of the problems as a result of their gambling such as losing balance in finances but they do not realize that it is due to their gambling with the wrong approach. The other thing is that if a gambler really experiences some of the points you mentioned then it can be clearly concluded that they have entered the addiction phase consciously or unconsciously.

That's the power of addiction in gambling telling you how far it can went to ensure that a gambler is affected by either ways, gambling is not what shouldn't be under our control, we are the ones that should determine what we want to do while gambling at our own advantage, but many will prefer going by the way of it without having direction untill it took them where they least expect, know this that it all start from how discipline we are in gambling.

In other case, maybe some through their own greedy ways will want to have more opportunities to win more having this from their first experience, they instead begin to loose and the more they are running after the loss the higher the losses are becoming till they have nothing left at the cause and all the money won gone back to the same place it came.

not only thinking about winning but a gambling addict doesn't have a definite goal but all they think about is gambling and continuing to gamble and if you say a gambling addict wants to win they will still continue to gamble until they end up losing all their money and what I know at the moment is a addict those who are truly addicted to gambling do not have healthy thinking and tend to do everything to continue gambling without thinking about whether they will win or lose, the important thing is that they continue gambling.

If we realize that we have been gambling for too long, we really have to stop before we get into trouble from gambling. But most people will think about continuing to gamble as long as they still have money left because they can turn things around by winning a lot of money with their remaining money. This thinking is not wrong, but it is not right because gambling is not a place to make money, so we have to understand that we need to stop gambling to relieve the tension. We don't need to take the risk of losing more money from gambling because we have to control the use of money so that we don't run out of money in one day.

Addiction is the biggest problem faced by every gambler who gambles excessively. They will not realize their gambling addiction even though there is a lot of advice or criticism that comes to them. But that doesn't stop them from gambling. Instead, they will become even more enthusiastic about gambling and think that after this defeat, they will be able to win and recover from their losses.

For this reason, a gambler should know that after gambling for a long time, they must stop gambling and leave the casino. This is to stop the desire to continue gambling because it can lead to the use of even more money. We don't need to gamble for too long, especially if we have implemented clear boundaries in gambling. This limit is a reminder for us not to gamble excessively, but most people forget this limit and continue gambling. That's what makes them end up losing more money. Just imagine if they had won but continued gambling and lost. It will make them very regretful because they didn't withdraw their money and left a little money in their gambling account but instead used all their money, including their winnings, to gamble.

If they can make money from gambling, they should be able to stop their gambling activities quickly. Otherwise, they will be tempted by promotions at the casino, and their desire to chase wins will be even greater. That will make them continue gambling until they finally lose completely. We can't keep hoping to win, but we are more likely to lose, especially if we have already won a certain amount of money. That is why we really have to control ourselves well so that we can prevent losing a lot of money and also not experience gambling addiction like other gamblers.