Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 49. (Read 15791 times)

Yup, if the decision was made with a better understanding of the situation, chances to make something good out from your gambling participation is possible, though same thing with what you are saying, if there's no actual plans and no anticipation, you might end up losing a lot and the chance that you will keep on adding more is not by far.

It's your take and good understanding with how you take care of your gambling participation, else, unusual things might happen to you if you go far and get addicted.

We are well aware of the bad side of gambling but when we go to gambling just for fun and our intention is to gamble in a small amount but when we start gambling we start to like it a lot. When we lose we panic and think we will quit gambling if only we can recover our losses. And if we are able to recover that loss then we have a desire to profit. This is how we suffer a lot in gambling.  But our greed plays the biggest role behind this damage. If we want to save ourselves from gambling, we have to control ourselves and control greed

And because we already know the dangers of experiencing a gambling addiction, we have to be really careful when gambling and not try to chase wins because that will only lead to more losses. This condition will be made worse if someone cannot handle their emotions well and is instead trapped in a situation that is difficult for them to understand so that they will get deeper into gambling. For this reason, we must be able to allocate a certain amount of money that we can use for gambling and not exceed the budget for gambling. If they cannot understand themselves, have started to experience gambling addiction and do not try to reduce their gambling activities, they will only get deeper into gambling and that will make their gambling addiction bigger.

People who become interested in gambling only after hearing about gambling profits should discuss the highest risk, profit and loss of gambling. Newbies are welcome to gambling sites if they can accept maximum risk of gambling and can accept profit and loss. There are many new gamblers who don't have the least idea about gambling but they get very excited about gambling just by seeing other people's profits and without any thought they sign up to various gambling sites and start gambling. We all know the consequences of gambling without knowing anything about gambling. Accepting that it is difficult to take a decision in a new situation, but if we do not take a hasty decision, then it is natural that the decision will go against us. If a decision can be made patiently knowing everything beforehand then that decision will definitely go in favor of a gambler.

Yeah, there's a kind of influence that a friend or a close relative can bring when you are discussing about gambling, especially if you are seeing something in person that he's acheiving good things. The actual interpretation can bring that interest to another person to also experience the entertainment, though the adoption is always different and the outcome mostly not that same with how the person enjoys their gambling participations.

Those that are dealing with it should do it with the aim of not going to the extent that they will have hard. It's hard to get into this situation but when someone wants to quit and they're already addicted, the problem starts from there.

Your mind and heart wants you to quit but then your body just don't follow you. The case here is it should be coordinated with your goal of avoiding in getting addicted.

When you want your body to follow your heart and mind, you have to do it seriously because many of those that says it, don't do it seriously.

Gambling is for everyone and also not for everyone because some individuals go extra mile for the money. Addiction is definitely what I pray against because there's always a room for huge losses in the system. Addicted gamblers are probably the worst of set of gamblers because they keep recording streak losses in the system and they never give, instead they developed this senseless hope of trying everything until they finally hits the jackpot, and when they eventually wins, they will do absolutely nothing with the profits other than re-betting again and aims for more bigger wins from the usual one.

One person's winnings in gambling entices another. If you discuss with your friends or anyone else about your gambling profits, you will find that your friends are asking you a lot of questions about gambling and they will show a lot of interest in gambling. Very few people get into gambling directly, most new gamblers come from hearing someone else's gambling success stories. If a gambler comes to gambling after hearing the success stories of others and if he can gamble without becoming addicted to gambling then he is fine in gambling but whenever he becomes addicted to gambling then this gambling becomes a problem for him.  Most new gamblers become addicted to gambling early in the game, many can recover from this addiction but many gamblers cannot recover from their gambling addiction. It is okay to gamble without becoming addicted to gambling but never become addicted to gambling.

I have read several people to compare gambling addiction to be "like drug" or "like a drug", some stuff like it. I have never been a user of illegal substances and I have never fallen into gambling addiction (though, I know how it feels to get hooked while gambling), but I believe it is a mistake from us to compare a behavioral dependence to a physiological dependence produced by a substance. Granted, both kinds of addictions mess with us by creating a unbalance of chemicals in our brain and driving us to seek for more of it, but a crack addict is not the same as a problem gambler and both certainly would require different kinds of therapy to go through it and overcome their problems.

In the end, does not matter one is addicted to, if can drive one to steal defraud and ruin or moral, it is supposed to be controlled as soon as possible.

Gambling is great, but abusing it isn't. Those addicts, abuse gambling just like drug. We tend to get a bad body response when we abuse anything in life. Gambling shouldn't be exempted. The behavior of gambling addicts in the society is becoming alarming and players must take diligent decisions to avoid being a victim. They have brought bad publicity for gambling in the society. These reasons have made lots of people to have ill thoughts about any gambler they've met. Not knowing that the concept of gambling is different from what they see in addicts. Close friends and families of an addict, rough handle them because they don't comprehend ways to cure them. They think the person is continuously gambling out of his will, but it's a lie. It's a mental disorder and he should be treated accordingly to save the family from further stress in future. They is already a high rate of suicide caused by addiction. Why didn't their family pay close attention to last few behaviors of their ward before he gave up his life. When things do not sit right with people, they look for ways to make money. And because they see few friend who win bucks in gambling. They'll rush to try it, and fail to understand the rules applicable to gambling. Which helps to reduce addiction. After wasting their own money, they'll borrow to play gambling. Most suicide cases, shows that gamblers who ended their life did that do escape paying back the loan they gambled with. It's a difficult situation in the society today. Like a plague it's growing everyday, amongst adults and teenagers. Therefore people must be careful not become victims by following the rules of gambling; playing with spare cash. And not getting too attached to it.

That's very true, that addiction has levels and not all gambling addicts are at the highest level, so when you feel that the gambling you are doing and maybe someone close to you knows is getting worse, you have to stop and try to cure it, if if you continue to let it happen then the one who loses is yourself, currently, there are many non-profit communities that can be a place of healing for gambling addicts, come there and focus on your healing because being a gambling addict is not good, your life will be ruined and your morals will be damaged, winning at gambling is delicious but losing at gambling can destroy your mentality and thoughts.

Gambling addiction is like a drug,sometimes can even be worst and causes problems to everyone around you. I think there are levels of additcion. Some people cannot function if they dont bet,the addition gets worst when you start borrowing money to gamble. So the saying is true dont gamble with the money you cannot afford to lose. When addition gets serious and like you said you lose a lot of money and you dont have a way out people due suicide and it is important that people go to therapy and try and cure themselfs once things go out of control.

The gambler will have different experience based on the game he playing in the gambling sites.If the gambler had huge knowledge in the dice game,he only can easy win of the dice game with the experience.So the gambler who had experienced in poker doesn't play the dice game and made the big win in the dice game.So the gambler who had experienced in the specific game will do that game and win the maximum win.This avoid of the thinking about the profit of the other gamblers in the gambling sites.Not one gambler will be master in all the game.If the gambler was in continuous loss,he should away from the gambling site,because the loss will made the gambler emotional fool.

It could be said that it is a temptation in gambling, we all don't know what the temptations in gambling places are like, as you said, one of them is just listening to other people's stories when they win because of the gambling game. very easy to play.
And if the person has weak control then they are easily tempted and will do it without thinking carefully, namely playing continuously until they hope to win.

As long as we can take care of ourselves after learning from other people's experiences, we will be fine and can even avoid mistakes made by that person so that nothing will happen to us because our goal in gambling is just to get pleasure. Even though he is a gambling addict, we can learn from what he experienced so that we don't experience the same thing as him. We also won't experience gambling addiction because we can limit ourselves and control our emotions well.

Yes, other people's experiences can be a lesson for us so that we don't have bad experiences. We can also always be alert and try to be careful when gambling.

there a slight misunderstanding here and try re-reading reply I marked.
I have said that the best experience to be used as a valuable lesson is only the experience of what you have done yourself and other people bad experiences are just additions to give you a preference for not doing the same thing, it does not mean you have to do the same thing and I also said that if I am worried that when you think the best thing is other people bad experiences that you use as a benchmark, it very dangerous, when maybe mentally you dont have strong thoughts, maybe you are actually curious and want to prove other people bad experiences, like I've done.
so I say this because I myself have done something bad like what I said and for more details you can read the reply from @bangjoe which has been explained in more detail.

Yes, however, if we become an addict it will usually have bad consequences. We should immediately ask for help from other people or professionals if we feel we have become a gambling addict, so that we can regain control of ourselves and our emotions so that it doesn't have bad consequences in the future.

Gambling is ideally a fun activity, if gambling activities make us stressed because we lose a lot of money then we should stop for a moment and clear our minds. Taking a vacation might be a solution to calm your mind and forget about the losses that has occurred

Addicts do have consequences, gambling addiction are the worst terrible thing that could happen to any gambler in the syste, we just have to be careful when we're Gambling because we can never be this close to a system. Learning from people's mistakes will not only safe us from making certain mistakes but also guarantee us to make a safe path into the system. Gambling is not hereditary to anyone, it's just there for the intelligent gamblers to stake on games, these set gamblers do apply disciplinary principles for the purpose to continue gambling and reaping significant profits.

An addiction, irrespective of what the habit is, isn’t good. And I think you’re right. It’s almost like a spell that won’t allow one to think rationally until there is no more money left to feed the habit. And when your funds are exhausted, borrowing is what comes to mind.
For an addict, It’s a never ending cycle and like you noted, a helpless situation. For someone having a steady income from work and unfortunately develops an addiction, it won’t be long before the income that was previously enough to meet basic needs with some left for savings will suddenly become never enough.
Addiction never ends well and it’s best to control your habits and not the other way around.

I think one of the wisest decisions on earth is to learn from other people's mistakes instead of trying to make same mistakes that has grave consequences before one can actually learn. Gambling addiction is one of the worst things that can happen to any individual and it's very good to learn from it's effects on other people who refused to gamble responsibly instead of trying to become a gambling addict before one can learn from it because at the end, the person might not even be psychological strong enough to come out of the addiction