Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 82. (Read 15791 times)

Everyone here is merely human, with feelings and impulses just like everyone else's. Because the pain of loss is magnified double compared to the pleasure of gain, loss aversion is innate. The battle isnt over after you put down your phone or computer; its happening in your head.

But here's an interesting idea to think about. Im wondering if you're familiar with the term "Emotional Intelligence." The key is learning to identify and control one's own feelings as well as those of others. Physical fitness may be improved, and so can mental fitness. Maintain a state of receptive awareness; meditate. Your responses to heartbreak will change as time goes on. Also helpful is keeping a trade journal. Keep a record of your accomplishments and failures alike. Never give up the battle, mate!

Greedy human nature that each of us must control so that we don't chase losses or even chase wins. But most people will try to chase losses because we are not used to seeing defeat after gambling so we keep gambling and recovering losses. And it's true what you say that a person cannot control himself when he experiences a loss because his emotions will peak and the desire to recover the loss will increase. When that couldn't be controlled, it was only a matter of time before he saw that person suffer a total loss.

People who are alcohol addict, their mind stops working when they drink more alcohol but still they don't make decision which ruin their lives whereas the gambling addicts are so cruel to themselves, their mins is also working yet they keep on playing, take loan, sell their belongings only to play more gamble or recover their losses.

I guess the reason for this is that there is money addiction, greediness in gambling, which may not be in other forms of addiction.

Yeah, it's a tricky addiction, because it's so expensive.

You can literally lose all your life savings in an afternoon.

Nothing else comes even close, no drugs or luxurious lifestyle can get to that level. There's just not enough time to spend that much on things or experiences, whereas in a casino you can lose it all in minutes.

Gamblers are desperate and willing to take any risk for the purpose to place wagers in the system. Loss is impossible to avoid; quantifying losses merely contributes to the instability of our emotions, regrets, and feelings of remorse for what we have done. Addiction is the most devastating incident that can happen to a gambler; it is one of the extreme levels that will undoubtedly result in losses and account liquidation. Gambling is simple to begin but extremely difficult to stop; I've come across numerous gamblers who tried everything they could to stop but couldn't, instead preferring to indulge in gambling further.

on the one hand, we are always reminded by other people, even the casino gives a warning that gambling responsibly prevents someone from chasing defeat. but nevertheless it is human nature that a sacrificial defeat will certainly make regret afterwards emotional and uncontrollable.
what's worse, if someone who can't control himself will become more addicted and become more crazy losing everything he has.

I very much agree with this.

Winning and losing are both part of gambling. If you really want to be successful in gambling then it should be engraved in your mindset that there are consequences in risking. While it is true that you will reap more if you risk more, it is also true that you can possibly lose more if you do it. So from there, you must pick your take wisely to avoid regrets in the future. Because after all, money isn't easily earned. It takes time to earn money which makes it valuable.

Keeping track of your expenses in gambling together with your losses and winnings will provide a better view of what to do and to avoid doing.

If someone has experienced a loss or a losing streak, he should stop immediately because that could trigger him to recover his losses by playing longer bets. This will not work in their favour as they will play with such passion that they will lose control of themselves and again, they will lose. The next loss may be even bigger and harbouring disappointment from the previous defeat, making them even more disappointed. And they can keep playing gambling until they lose in large numbers.

Trying to catch up on gambling losses will only increase the number of our losses and even get bigger because there is no guarantee we can win in the next round. We should immediately change our mindset so that we don't have to experience big losses or consecutive losses, especially since we have often seen many people suffer consecutive losses. If we have lost, it is better to rest and even better if we stop gambling at that time. That means we care more about ourselves than chasing losses that are difficult to recover from.

When we see that someone close to us has a gambling addiction, we can try to help him by taking him to a therapist to get help. But we shouldn't force him because it's not his wish, so we can only suggest it. Or we can invite him to create a new habit that will make him forget the thought of gambling so that slowly he can realize that he is too deep into gambling. And doing something like that can at least make the gambling addict realize that he has to fix it soon or his life will be messier.

Many of us make mistakes along the way and cause us to experience big losses in gambling and only by realizing it is all we can do, we want to fix it. By reflecting on what we have done and gained from gambling, at least we can see whether gambling has brought benefits or harm to us so that we can think about stopping and staying away from gambling. It will also reduce the emotional tension we get because the more often we experience defeat, our emotions will be triggered and cause us to get angry easily.

It is very important for us to always accept our loses and nit because we made some loses and go and come back to get it back. I know many of us might have made this kind of mistake before which might have resulted in a big loses that we never expected. The more we gamble, the more experience we are going to get that will guide us on making decisions that could help those would are newbies in gambling. Loses is not as a result of bad strategy or in accurate planning but it is a normal thing that every gamblers do experience as a player. You either win or lose.

Gambling is one bad thing that is very hard to abstain from as long as you are addicted to it.So many times people try to stop the habbit,but find it difficult to because its already part of them,and the little fund they have at hand,they rush to play it.Well,as long as I know,there is no solution to stopping gambling,and it's very difficult to make up one's mind to actually stop it totally.
The havoc that gambling has caused to many people's life today is so alarming, people have lost their lifes,properties, possessions and almost all they have because of addiction,the only thing I think can make one stop gambling is total avoidance of any casino site or gambling hall.

The current online casinos throw many ads on the public platforms to promote their service and that is why there were boom days during the pandemic lockdown for increasing casino users. If the gambler can't stop his addiction, he should take into consideration professional support from a psychiatrist. Losses can grow and destroy a person's life due to the urge with a snowball effect.

It's one thing to be very conversant with something but a totally different different thing to be an addict of something. In reality, they have similar attributes but the later is more difficult to let go than the former.
It's very difficult for a gambling addict to wake up one morning and say that he's not gonna gamble again. But I think the best way to help an addict is to get a therapist who can help in talk him/her away from the addiction and also proffer other meaningful things he can do apart from gambling

Lets us make it look entirely like such move doesn't favor some gamblers, what I believe we should be talking about is the fact that, such move doesn't favor most gambler, it only favors the very lucky few..
I am talking about chasing after gambling losses, and one other thing I must lay emphasis on is that, losing is not such a bad thing after all, it all depends on the gamblers and their individual mindset, if a gambler is losing and yet, keep gambling, and still losing but refuse to stop, that's very fine as long as he is OK with  the loses.

But then again, if the gambler is losing and refuse to stop gambling, and later on comes around to complain about losing too much, then such a gambler is mentally ill.

And as result one could just take their own life or kidnap their own grand daughter for ransom. We just don't know what really goes on inside the mind of the gambler when they lost some money that can't be won anymore.  Neurosis of a person is just as limitless though so whatever symptom of stress has to be taken seriously while others just steal money for his gambling some kills.

Losing is never a nice experience as every single person out there has a sense of win or loss and they want for things to turn out on their favor, and even if we understand that when we gamble the odds are against us we still want for things to go our way, however there are gamblers which take this too far and instead of accepting that defeat is part of gambling they stubbornly decide to keep gambling in order to transform their loss into a win, not realizing they are just transforming a small loss into a big loss instead.

It's just that it's something logical, the casinos have their business model, what they do is offer their services, make it look like the best, that's something very striking, that they have all the actions to make anyone fall in love with playing, and if I I like to see the promotions, the bonuses, but as I say, when I discover that the bonuses are quite difficult to meet expectations, with their bets or similar things, well these things are strategies, advertising, signature campaigns, all this is what it is put in context.

We as players must always see that we have the responsibility for everything, because casinos are quite good at entertaining us, and casinos should not be seen as something bad, it is the means of entertainment that every Adult can have, and whatever they want. spend, do, I think that's what it's all about, no.

That is why we as people, before being players, must be clear about everything before playing, the deposit, the amount of money that we owe or be willing to lose, all of this causes what we call liability, it may be that we have money to play and whether we win or lose it, but if we win it we must go calmly, not betting again, because it is very likely to lose it, but also know how to win and not lose control believing ourselves superman when it comes to continuing playing and that we are the luckiest beings in the world world, because it is not so.

And by trying to chase loss, they will become emotional, making them forget that defeat is a sure thing that happens in gambling. If one loses in gambling, all the negative feelings will gather together and if he cannot have peace, he will only sink deeper into gambling and even when it becomes a gambling addiction, he will spend more money. And when a person has become addicted to gambling, he will think of nothing but gambling and just want to gamble all the time.

it is difficult if someone is too comfortable in gambling which will end up being addicted it is difficult to stop and when they have the desire to stop and do more positive activities only their family can help. if we talk about addiction it will never end but how else sometimes many new people try gambling after that they are lucky to get big wins and from that someone will become addicted because they feel they are getting something big without realizing they will lose continuously when trying to bet and lose after that chasing losses.

Yes it is true that it is a choice that must be taken, after all sometimes it is strange why they can't quit their addiction, for example I am a cigarette addict almost every day I finish 2 packs of cigarettes or even more but on the one hand I have been a cigarette addict for quite a long time , but for the sake of my health I tried to reduce it slowly and was determined to stop. after a few months I quit smoking until now almost 3 years without smoking.

Many people are too much with their addiction as if they will die if they don't do it, it's just about mindset, I always thought that I would not die if I didn't smoke that's what made me quit smoking, let alone gambling, it's obvious that I can overcome by reducing and changing the mindset so you don't become an addict, it's hard but I'm sure everyone can do it.

It's because they don't want to kick the addiction and are too comfortable with it for it to be difficult. If they want, they can ask for help from other people to help them create new habits and accompany them so they don't feel alone. After all, when we lose, it makes us feel annoyed and there is a desire to recover from that loss, which can make us come back to the casinos and gamble. We hope to recover from those losses and also get wins and that's the beginning of a gambling addiction that we may not even be aware of.