Topic: The need for mental section or public orientation for new gamblers. - page 2. (Read 338 times)

If you're make a request for the administrator to add mental section in this forum, then you need to move this topic to Meta, not here. This board discuss about gambling discussion, not to ask something for the forum.

There was someone make a request about this similar discussion Suggestion: Gambling > Gambling Awareness board , until now there's no action yet.

I don't think you're right with the first few lines of your response. This forum is a high DA site and any thread shared on this board ranks immediately on Google. People who search using the keyword associated with the topics in this board visit this forum in enormous numbers. The forum generates over 1 million visitors each month. So, don't think that only a few people visit the gambling board, the gambling board is a place where visitors read reviews on different cryptocurrency casinos before depositing money into the casino. Your other suggestions are great. Governments in countries like Australia are working strides ahead to help mentally disordered gamblers suffering from addiction. Such people need adequate attention to save them from this struggle. Many harm themselves physically by wasting funds meant for other financial responsibilities on gambling. Depression and anxiety eat their joy up and leave them lonely and neglected.

In the society of today, people are offered different forms of difficulties from hikes in prices of commodities to low weekly salaries. They'll hardly focus on helping depressed gamblers. Instead, they'll blame the person for their problem, which puts the addicted gambler in a more severe problem. Even when in therapy the gambler still has to suffer from the treatments he got from close relatives who neglected his problems and didn't care for him. These challenges also push the gambler out of therapy, as he'll think nobody would be able to help him except himself. Gambling addiction isn't a type of addiction to cure alone. So, the sharing of flyers in society could only have a minor effect on helping mentally disordered gamblers. It can still build up the number of addicts in society, as, no bad publicity. Whether it teaches the disadvantage of gambling, publicity remains publicity, newbies who haven't heard or read of gambling would give it a shot. Take sexual intercourse for example, the more its disadvantages like STDs are spread across on radios and TVs the more people engage in it.

A valid point if I am asked!

People will consider it of high demand when it comes to live. You know, there exists no system of regulating and counselling people before they adventure into the gambling space.

Just like been warned about the dangers of getting involved in a partiular trade, people adventuring into it are more informed and are armed for any danger that might arise.

How many number of gamblers come to this forum day by day I mean not already existing members of the forum but those who just come in here as a result of them wanting to start gambling, you will see that the number is less which means even if such orientation is to be set we only don’t such active here but gambling sites or government of some countries should make it necessary to educate the youth about the danger of gambling addiction if possible they can be sharing flyers and banner with detail information about testimonies from experience gamblers so that they can learn from there.

Ads on gambling sites and casino regarding such could also be very helpful as they can just pop up on users face when ever they want to visit any casino it will not be left with them to either study about what have been shown to them or play a blind eyes to it.

Yeah, that's one problem as well that majority of us will agree, unless there's someone who will allot his time to watch that board and clean it up, it will be a nightmare for moderators and maybe we will lose the essence of having that board in the first place.

Just discuss everything here and we will be ok. And as we can see, there's thread here that sometimes pop up and discusses the mental health issues and we have seen members giving good advise as well. It's just to the OP on how he will take those suggestions and advises.

I couldn’t agree more. It would be full of spam and irrelevant information. All the advise one would ever need against irresponsible gambling has been already posted on here. People just need to search and read the numerous threads in various topics concerning irresponsible gambling.
Asides all of that, even if there were to be a thread concerning all these, a lot old people could ignore the sub board as they’ve ignored these threads stating more or less the same thing.

I think the gambling discussion is enough to cover your concern.  There had been lots of thread created about gambling and addictions.  In the same way, a person in a confusion can open a thread to ask for advice about his gambling activities on this gambling discussion board and members will surely hop in, trying to help in solving the issue laid by the threas OP.

So I also do not think that there is a need for a separate board for public orientation for new gamblers.  Most probably a pinned thread can do.  This way those who are lazy searching the forum can easily find the topic at the top of the thread discussion posted.

This might discourage new players to gamble on the site but this can be a big help and I also support this one.
Having the first tour about the site, giving out information about gambling in general can be a big help to prevent excessive gambling and addiction.

This is just like an orientation when you got a new job, it's the company responsibility to give information about policies. This can also be implemented on the casinos, since we all know not all new comers are reading the terms and conditions and it's actually there for a formality only.

This is a good suggestion and its like having a quiz first and you have to passed it before you can actually enjoy the whole features of the platform. If they will also asked questions about their rules and terms, I’m sure many gamblers will be forced to read it and they will be more aware about the casino itself. Having another section specifically for gambling here might not help at all, many will surely not talked about it especially if all about rules, suggestions and opinions because gamblers want to talk more about results and predictions here.

This is a pretty good idea. but actually, we can find many threads related to gambling addiction, treatment, prevention, and so on. The problem is do these beginners want to learn or read these various threads and information? Well, this is the problem. Not only in this forum but on various platforms and media, we can find various things to prevent gambling addiction. However, the problem is that many people are trapped in addiction because they are not ready from the start, ready in various ways, including managing emotions and desires. So they are easily influenced by the desire to continue gambling. In this case, it is undeniable that if they enter the world of gaming without proper knowledge, insight and consideration with wise emotional and financial management skills, they will be more susceptible to gambling addiction.

It started very simply, because they got a win at the beginning of gambling which then made them believe that their luck in gambling was very high, so they wanted to place bets again and again. without thinking further if they have already spent a lot of money on gambling. And their inability to control their emotions and desire to gamble is what causes many people to become addicted to gambling and it is difficult to cure it.

Setting up a mental health board in a forum where there are no or few mental health practitioners or psychotherapists to help addicts, won't offer enough help to the victims who complain in the section. I'd suggest that the gambling discussion board is enough. The general discussion would help the victim and also maintain the fact that the instructions or discussion isn't from a professional, but crypto enthusiast interested in gambling. There are lots of gambling sites where therapists share ideas regarding addiction. Gambling addicts can easily visit the sites, it rank on Google's first page in the mental health keywords. Op's idea is great, but gambling addiction isn't something that a substandard contribution on a Bitcoin forum would be able to solve. I mean it's rare for an addicted gambler to get a cure through online discussions. Even the mental health sites can only share a few first-aid ideas and then redirect the victim to a therapist.

Therefore, the board you want to be added to the forum will only be less active, as every other issue regarding gambling; addiction, strategy, etc fits into this board. However, addicted newbies feel reluctant to openly share their problems, but could summon the courage to share it online. At least gamblers who have gone through addiction can share their healing process with the newbie and he'd begin to apply it in his daily life. Like any other response above, reading this board is enough for any kind of advice an addict requires to begin his healing process as a gambling addict. In a nutshell, I'd prefer that they undergo this process with professionals in the mental health field. Which will speed up their healing process. The advice shared here is of different perspectives and not all would be useful to the addicted player.  And he'll have a hard time choosing whose advice to abide by, or hard time winnowing out the useful ones from the loads of advice that'll be shared.

That would be helpful if all casino sites would accept this. But I think their privacy, terms and policies on all gambling sites. All information is written there to help new users to adhere to the rules and not fall for misinformation. Some gambling sites also have blogs where they topics for beginners are being shared on the public.

It might help at first but sooner or later, beginners will just ignore it again.

What if a casino site requires every gambler to read the beginners guidelines and instructions before they can use the platform? By doing this at least they spreading knowledge about gamblers and they can help beginners to actually understand gambling and how risky it is. This might be a big hassle at first but its impact can last forever.

For so many times this addiction topic has been discussed for so many times here and I guess that's enough since it will just give a load of work to the administrators and also I don't think this is really necessary since we can talk about everything about gambling and addiction is included with this on gambling discussion section.

Maybe a single dedicated thread just like the same or having similar with "wall of observer btc/usd" thread on speculation section and all related to addiction topic and advice will be place properly. Responsible gambling is really needed and its important to read some good information about it so its good if we have easy to grab thread where we can read that informations and advices easily.

I don't think mental orientation is needed for new gamblers but rather is needed for both new and experienced gamblers who are deep down into addiction.They both need mental guide or some program where they both will be treated mentally in order to save themselves from this illness.

Public orientation is all over the place in the sense that everywhere,even when gambling sites make an ad on TV or radio they end it with gamble responsibly and generally in the public the perceived idea for gambling is bad so there is not much need for a public orientation,however if it can be improved it can do a better work for these type of gamblers.

Since this suggestion has been raise severally and it has not been welcomed I will only have to suggest that if you sincerely want to do something good about mental health on gambling instead of creating a sub board, you can bring up all the threads that discussed about the mental health issues in a list and create an interesting thread to be pin here in gambling discussion.

I guess his a fan of the great philosopher Socrates that claims the famous statement "I know not what means I know nothing". His trying to say his not perfect with that. Lol

That thread if it is ever created will be a place of spam. All that anyone need to know about gambling and how to gamble safely is here. The search button is a tool that if used effectively will provide links to all the topics on gambling and mental health, the stories that a beginner need to be aware of.

well said! for non experts, It's a little bit diffucult for us to give an advice because we are aware that every people has a different perspective, Challenges and problems and we can't assess that by simply listening to their stories. So, this public orientation idea is much better and helpful once implemented and I hope proffesional advice will be given since some people doesn't have much money for consultation and professional fee.,

This is probably the most accurate reply. Gambling addiction is real and is often paired with other mental illnesses that may or may not have led to becoming addicted to every available form—gambling, alcohol, you name it. First of all, I don't find it necessary; the discussion board is open to any kind of gambling-related topic, and I don't think there's a need for a separate section. Most importantly, though, mental illnesses and addictions are serious matters that require assistance from professionals. Although I believe that the majority of users here would have good intentions if something relevant was posted, it's a trivial matter that should be trusted to professionals; the wrong kind of advice can easily take a turn for the worse, and there's no need for that.

No need to mention anything regarding promotions and other interests as alani123 already mentioned, I think we all understand what is implied.

Creating a request for an additional subboard should be requested in the meta section but I don't recommend that you move or create a thread for your request because it will not be welcome, because the gambling section is full of redundant topics and discussion

We have hundreds of threads for this and every week there's always a discussion about mental health and gambling concerns sometimes there are topics about sports betting and dice games that will direct to topics about mental health and gambling concerns it will just mess up the whole board so we are already good that we have two boards, adding more will mess up everything.

I discouraged this and I'm sure I'm not the only one besides, this is not a gambling forum it's a Bitcoin forum.