Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 75. (Read 15791 times)

When people first start gambling, people think this is just a game, but over time it becomes a habit and leads to dependence. If addicted to gambling, players will constantly pursue bets leading to losses, extracting available money, even stealing, and cheating to get money to satisfy addiction. Regularly plan to get more gambling money, such as lying to family or acquaintances to borrow money to gamble. When the loss is extreme, family and friends stay away from the creditor to come to them. They can be psychologically unstable, sometimes leading to suicidal thoughts.

Indeed, people should be able to treat gambling as entertainment and no longer regard gambling as a place to make money. Especially after they have suffered many losses every time they gamble and have spent much money too. If they realize that, they can avoid the big problem, gambling addiction because they play gambling only for fun. If they can get pleasure from other things, their desire to gamble will probably decrease, so that will reduce the money used for gambling as well.

At least we can do this and not follow people in gambling so that we are still within reasonable limits of using gambling as entertainment. By limiting that, we can limit the greed that will come as soon as possible to keep tempting us to keep playing. But with these restrictions, we will not be tempted to continue gambling.

being desperate is only good in life or death situations, and even then could hurt more than help

I see money as a magnifying glass, it makes your qualities and characteristics bigger, a bad person with money will have more power to do bad stuff, money won't necessarily change someone's morals, it'll just give them more power and speed to execute their choices in real life.

Many would think the action of the man has gone beyond gambling addiction but it just addiction and nothing far from addiction.  Sometimes gambling addiction can make someone behave in a certain way which can make one think if the person has lost his/her senses.  People still money just because to meet up with their gambling games. People needs to be very conscious about their gambling lifestyle to avoid going into the level of addiction.

Treating gambling as an entertainment venue will lessen the chance of any big problem that may possible to happen if you go far and become addicted.

Just let it serve its purpose and enjoy, win or lose you satisfied yourself, unlike if you are treating
it as venue to earn money, you are being forced to keep continuing and pushing things even you
are already making bad decisions with your finances. You need to avoid that and keep always in
the driver's seat not to allow greed to dominate you.

The habit of gambling grows like a snowball, especially if the player got a big win at the very beginning of his addiction to games. For example, I know a person who won an express bet on football and got 18 times more winnings than his bet was. It's impossible to stop after that. At the time of this crazy win, he was a student, and a lot of money turned his head.Where can a student earn that much? And the fact is that if after such a person begins to lose rapidly, he tries at ANY COST to return the feeling in which he felt like a winner. The smartest, the most understanding of the game and the luckiest. And this feeling does not come. And he starts borrowing money from the mafia, or doing what is described in the article. These are all absolutely real cases. And unfortunately, anyone addicted to games in a matter of weeks descends to such acts.

Some peroson don't even know they're addicted and pick offense whenever they try to correct them, and if they don't get help at this stage it becomes very serious and hard to be controlled it is the dubious act by such people that makes some people condemn gambling and tag it as a sin or improper act, there's no doubt that reckless gambling have ruined many lives but people should understand that it's effect is not sane on everyone because their are some people that gamble responsibly and have made a fortune through it.
 There are many factors that cause people to becomes addicts but my focus is not on that but rather how to help people that's become addicted to it, yes it in our best interest to help people from getting to addicted and turn to point of these madness, like suicide, theft fraud, etc left for me i feel showing them love and constant education concerning effect of addiction also therapy would go along way to help bettors from becoming addicts.

Yes, for the sake of money, people are capable of many things, but in many cases, just competition or the desire to be the best is enough for motivation. For example, there are many videos on YouTube where people set records for the speed of passing old games that no one is interested in (which they spent thousands of hours on) or various tricks for assembling and disassembling pyramids from cups. There is no money here but people train like crazy to get better at these absurd pursuits.

Our own time of facing individual challenge may differs but it's something everyone is likely to face in life at a certain point in time, but facing such will only not create boldness in us, it will give us more courage to face other subsequent challenges ahead anytime they showed up, when it comes, we need to embrace the challenge.


Money can lead us in doing things we never expected to see happen to us, we can go to any length especially when we are desperate about money and a challenge is being made in which money is involved to dare us, some were actually a test of our believe and confidence together with how determined we are in facing any obstacles or challenges in life.

starting to play in a casino is like knowing you are playing a rigged game that you probably will miss and lose
if your mindset when starting is being ok with the idea of losing all your money: proceed
otherwise, reavaliate your principles and actions

best to approach like that.

I think there must be a balance, sometimes we play because we want to feel that emotion, that adrenaline, sometimes that sensation that we get when we play, these are things that we normally want to experience, it is necessary to feel, because sometimes in the almost they reach us those feelings that are not harmful, we cannot lose common sense either, we must respond to our obligations as people, we cannot neglect our daily life or our family just to feel those things, we have to have a balance there too.

As for the limitations, I think that the vast majority of us our limitations are the same as always, the money and the amount of money that we are willing to lose, that is where everything lies, in that sense things when little by little are enjoying , having profits, even if they are minimal, but they are profits, you have to remain satisfied. I think that the maturity of the player is what makes us grow, and the emotions and all those feelings that we have can diminish and we get used to feeling those things. Without leaving aside the most improvised, I say that the biggest problem in all of this is greed, greed, which always wants more, but it is something that we must handle very prudently.

What if we must avoid for all things is to fall into addiction, because addiction does stop good things and does not make us move forward, it is one of the things that we always have to take care of ourselves, I personally have my rules not to fall into it That is why there are times when everyone has their own method, which is something super respectable.

In the case of any type of addiction, no matter that it is only casino, it must be controlled or at least stopped, the havoc caused by any addiction will never be good, any person who can be treated in time will save them bad moments herself and her family, that's why as players who don't have any kind of problem our duty is to help, sometimes we could be saving a life or many lives, personally I think that's the goal.

It is unlikely that we will be able to win from the house, even though we can win a little from the house, and it feels like that is enough for us because the money we win can sometimes be bigger than other people who have also won it. Getting success from gambling is not easy, and we must realize that and not try it because the risks will be bigger than we think. The same is felt by people who have gambled in the past because they see the possibility of winning a lot of money is not as big as we feel now. So rather than we can only be disappointed knowing that we are still far from being successful in gambling, we shouldn't insist on continuing to play gambling to become successful gamblers. Maybe it's better for us because we can enjoy gambling as we should.

Ah yes, what happens is that I say a robot and the case that they do not show feelings or feel other types of things like us humans, in that case it is that a robot has zero emotions, when we bet, it gives us more sometimes feeling of adrenaline, fears, panics, or maybe excitement and we want to bet more or less, it is something normal, some of the people can give you that kind of feelings when you play,

Now the madness of an addict or addicts is because, honestly, things in the game produce so many emotions that they lose control quickly and that is something that is recognized when they are not able to take control, sometimes people are not able to control this, but you have to have it to be able to handle more responsibilities.

When we play, the way we can win whatever we want will always be activated, and sometimes we even lose the value of money, because there are times when the game is so good, so exciting because money looks like chips, something like in the traditional casinos, that is why it is so comfortable to play with cryptocurrencies because there is better control or at least I see it as easier with crypto than with fiat money, of course it is a matter of preference, and that is why there are many threads where this is discussed and they are quite right that sometimes people who have crypto love online casinos that have to do with Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies in general, for this reason we must have absolute control, because without money there is no fun , we must take care of our money , to avoid decapitalizing us and apart from our mental health.

That is what many gamblers simply refuse to accept, we have stories of successful gamblers that made money for a very long time, but this was decades ago, can that kind of success still be gotten today? And I have my sincere doubts about it, and even if it is still possible it should be many times harder than back in those days and anyone thinking about reaching that kind of goal is simply wasting their time and running the risk of becoming addicted to gambling in the process.

A kind of exemption for experienced gamblers who managed to take advantage of using their good bankroll management and emotional control.

But then again, the vast majorities are not capable of setting up their limitations, and most have that same
impression that they can quickly earn money with some luck behind, but when they lose and have no money left
they can think something unusual and expect that they can exceed from how ordinary people think and do things
that will surprise everyone who knows the person.

some people are better resisting to urges than other
that's life
probably has to do with our dopamine and serotonin receptors and how fast we clean up neurotransmiters from the brain

some people won't mind games at all and find them boring while others will get addicted really fast
we have these two extremes and everything in between

A piece of the story that is quite interesting as a lesson for the future. Sometimes selfishness makes us forget everything, we forget that there are many people around us who love us, especially our family. Likewise arrogance when making bets without considering it first which makes us forget that there is something more important than just betting with big bets. And it's true that in order to get out of this phase apart from our internal encouragement, we also need external encouragement so that we are even stronger to face it. However, sometimes a person is reluctant to share the problem, especially when talking about gambling, which in my opinion is quite sensitive and private.

Realizing that we cannot leave gambling because after all some of our fun is in it and what we need to improve is our playing patterns and be wiser in gambling.

such incident, and lying to the people we care about is something I don't want to repeat a second time. Where was I after getting paid for work that I should have brought home to my family to meet daily needs but how stupid I was at that time I used the money to play gambling capital. And when playing, you see defeat before your eyes, that's where your heart beats fast and your body goes weak. I didn't dare to go home because there was no money and in the end I went home because there was no place to rest and while saying to the people I care about that the payday has been postponed.

But how extraordinary we are, you and all who are able to go through that phase. not leaving gambling but can minimize the negative impacts that arise. By not playing selfishly and arrogantly who are able to control themselves.

When humans face challenges that other people think are crazy, impossible, or even very dangerous, they want to challenge themselves to try. As he said, many people would probably say it was crazy to jump from the 2nd floor just for a bet. But he really did it for the money and for the money too, people would be willing or able to do things that other people thought were impossible to do. There we will see that if someone is under pressure but sees it as a way to show people he can, he will do it. For the sake of money, we can do anything.

If I didn't read about David Walsh, an Australian professional gambler, I wouldn't have believed that some people actually can manage to win against the casino in the long term.

He also did this a long time ago when everything wasn't as sophisticated, so I reckon it's almost really impossible these days.

But yeah, it's pretty much impossible to win against the house.