Topic: Violence and anger could be a sign of gambling addiction in youths - page 3. (Read 550 times)

I gambled in the past, still gamble but, have far more control over my gambling now than ever. In fact, I often gamble on the live games and establish a niche for my gambling. Like, that’s how much control I’ve got over the activity.
I never considered myself an addict but, I had a point where it was just another part of my weekly activity if I had funds for it and in most case, gambled because I wanted to win. The reality to the game made me cut these down but, I never had to maltreat anyone for satisfaction.

Gambling for a course of youths aggression? I think not. One of the drive for youths to seek easy money through gambling is because they’ve got no jobs. Give them a job and see some of them withdrawn from the activity.

Be it as it may, people have got a side they show to those that are close by and a side for those that observe at a distance. The two are never the same but, they are a part of the same person. It could be activated bu something but, it’s not caused by that thing. It’s always been there!

The boy might be addicted to gambling and might be facing a great loss, that's why he is just transferring aggression on his younger brother and sister. I am sure if he is not facing any loss, then he won't just be getting angry unnecessarily, but maybe the amount he has lost is what's disturbing him emotionally. I think he really needs proper monitoring, or he might end up doing things that he is not supposed to do.

Being impoverished does not give you permission to do crimes. There are many individuals around you who will be better than you, but they are not committing crime, Poorness shouldn't be the reason for committing crime. I find it annoying when someone give a justification for doing crime. You cannot be satisfied with what you have in life. Everyone will always aspire to be richer, but that doesn't mean we should commit crimes. Even if everyone has the same opportunities, they will all still desire more.

Even if parent take it seriously, it won't stop the child from gambling. The best thing I will recommend is proper education about gambling. Don't tell them gambling is bad, but tell them gambling addiction is bad. You have to be honest with them, just tell them possible things that can be done to avoid gambling addiction and the negative effects of gambling addiction. If you are planning to spoil the gambling reputation of your children, then you are getting it wrong, because if they end up trying to gamble, and if they notice what you told them is wrong, then they will never believe anything you tell them about gambling, they might end up gambling hidden without the parent knowing.

Controlling is the wrong way of doing things, especially when it comes to the youth. They have all means to access information whenever they like, and it is up to them to put good use into what they learn. They have to learn the hard way sometimes in order to stay away from these negative things that we view. You can't really expect yourself to be holding the hands of the youth along the way. The more you try to steer them away from something, the stronger their curiosity will be on that particular thing.

Can we control the youths? They have their own mind to think what's right or wrong.

Some are just not fortunate that turned up being the bad person and at some point, some are forced to do violence for the sake of money as they have no choice because of personal problems. Fortunately, there are youths that being guided properly by their parents or guardians and are currently on the right track.

There is no effective way to make sure youths stay where they are being told. They have their own decision and don't want to be controlled. Let's just do our best to guide them no matter what and give them a nice talk, especially those youths that are already in the worst status of their life.

Committing a crime is not a choice but rather a compulsion because there is a need that they must fulfill as soon as possible and at the same time their finances cannot answer that need. In my opinion, if a teenager is born into a family that is financially well off, then that teenager who is addicted to gambling will prefer to lie to his parents in order to get more money rather than having to commit a crime which has quite a big risk which could be threatening his own life.

So this is where the role of parents is needed to continue to pay attention to their children's growth and development and their relationships, because once they are trapped and addicted to the world of gambling, this will trigger them to do other negative things such as lying to their parents or selling family assets without their parents' knowledge.

The main reason behind the increase percentage of crime is poorness, if each individual have equal opportunities and they have each and everything that is necessary for life then they will never move towards crime. People hardly fulfil their needs due to which they accept to capture money from others and become a gambler after which they also don't shy to become a thief.

Parents should take it serious and from start they should teach their children about it but some parents think gambling as a simple activity of fun but at the end gamblers become cause cause of their hardship and torture them that if they don't give them money they will do something bad with them.

In my opinion, apart from that, the most prominent thing about a teenager that can show that he is addicted to gambling is when he has the behavior of often lying to his parents and other people. When they are teenagers, of course their finances are very limited and most of them can only rely on their parents as their source of finances. So quite a few of them, in order to satisfy their lust for gambling, often lie to their parents so they can get more money apart from the pocket money their parents give them every day.

I won't string the gambling addiction with anger issues because both are different, anyone who is addicted to gambling can be completely harmless to their family even financially while the anger issues should be addressed as Medical condition so it can be only treated with the help of medicine, therapy and support groups like that.

This is where it goes wrong when we don't have what is what and what should be done when something goes wrong but finally every blame falls under the name of gambling.

It isn't really fair to blame the system if people use it wrongly.

Gambling among the youths cannot be prevented or stopped. The youths cannot stop looking for quick money because quick money is what the whole world celebrates over slow money. Gambling may not be the solution out of poverty but that element of hope that it gives the youth is the thread that they hang unto. They are quick to tell you how a friend of a friend made millions from a bet and that someday it is going to be their turn.

But why would I blame the youths. In my country, the social media influencers who advertise these sports betting sites and casinos do it for the quick money too. Do they care if the youths are gambling responsibly? No. They just want to do the 20 minutes sports advert and get their millions.

The only way is to instill respect in the youth and the way to instill that respect is to have a figure that the youth will respect and will listen to, youth are always looking for a father figure that they can emulate, it should start the family if the parents failed to establish respect coming from their children, the child will look for it outside of their homes.
Influence coming from outside of the homes is sometimes bad, they become involved in bad companies, and this is the start of gambling addiction and many other vices to sustain gambling addiction.

There's always a solution. Right parenting.
You see the problem now is most parents are too busy with their work and when they get home they just stay with their phones and computers not thinking their kids could be growing like monsters. That's the problem with this era of smartphones and the internet nowadays, we have more time with social media but we forget about our kids and giving them the proper discipline about what is right or wrong.
I have a 7-year-old with a smartphone in his hand but it's usually just for games and watching kids videos. But, I don't forget to check it always when he goes to sleep so I can make sure he won't bump into anything bad on the internet.
Let's not make them learn how to gamble especially at a young age where they cannot control their rage. We may never understand them because of the difference in eras but we should make sure they won't be influenced by those advertisements and other things coming out in social media.

No not really, kids and young adults don't really like when much older people want to tell them what to do and how to behave. I think it's pretty common for young man to do through a rebel phase, where they don't listen to their parents, teachers or other authority figures. Even good advice that could really help is not being accepted, it comes down to a lot of personal mistakes and that we need to learn from them ourselves. I have been in similar situations myself and regret afterwards not using help that was offered to me. As a young adult I barely had any money and all the cool things I wanted to do cost money. I would go even so far and say this is one of the biggest problems in life, when you are young and healthy you have a lot of time at your hands but no money to enjoy. And when you are older it's the opposite, you have money but no free time to enjoy it. The only way out I see is to try and educate our kids by younger people with similar experiences. It's much easier to listen and accept advice from people in a similar age group who struggled with what the kids are going through.

That is not only in youth but in every age,when people lose it all and get angry for the smallest thing they are asked for then most likely is a great sign of some sort of addiction,gambling above all.Of course gambling is not a solution to anything and especially poverty,people should comprehend that gambling is created by casinos to get profit to themselves in the long run and as such we must never expect anything out of it,if we win in a session great,if not we call it a day and then move on.

The people who fail to realize this continue deep into addiction and in some not so rare cases nowadays they even commit acts of violence against their family and other persons.

Add computer games addiction too. Both of these addictions pretty much have the same symptoms. I know it because I used to be a gaming addict. I was so furious when a dumb fuck couldn’t use his ulti on time and made us lose the game. Do you know how hard it is to gain MMR’s in public games? It only takes one quitter/newb/afk to fuck everything up! Game after game I had to deal with these morons and I was losing most of the games. My MMR was taking a nose dive… then In one of these games something unusual happened. This time the quitter was on the other team. But guess what… the other team had a fucking god player which dominated our team alone. He was taking us on 1v5. That was the moment I said: “enough”. Nearly 10 years has passed and not a single game was played since then and I am a happier person. Fvkin nubz.

What happened to them is that they were not properly educated on the value of money and the value of working for it based on hard work and working for it in legal ways if they see that they could make money from gambling early on before they learn to make money through hard work, they will prefer the easy and riskier, the youth or minors who are deep into this should be rehabilitated because the addiction could deeply embedded, addiction can easily penetrate the mind of the youth and its hard to weed out only rehabilitation can.

It is a failure of the government and the family and institutions if there are too many youths that are deep into gambling addiction, the government could ban any form of casinos if they see the moral fiber of the country going down, family is where youth gets nurtured so the family should be strengthened for to avoid youth addiction.

You are not entirely right, are you saying that any kid that starts misbehaving is into gambling? Some are thought to behave in such ways by the friends they keep, it's right to look deep into their private stuff especially if they have a smartphone but it's also smart to find information about the friends they keep.

This was how a boy turned into a secret cult in my city, he was unable to open up to his parents because he had been warned that if the secret was let out they would kill his parent right in front of his eyes, this was why this boy turned into anger, he needed help but he doesn't know how to go about it.

Don't just assume that when a child starts doing things that they haven't done before it is a sign of gambling, a cousin of mine was also a gambling addict, he was just 18 years old and he loved football, but we don't know he is into gambling until he used his school fees to gamble and lost the money.

He cried his eyes out for days and he hated that he did such a thing, from where he grew up and forbade gambling, he is doing fine now and I don't see any traces that he is into gambling, I do lecture him that even if he feels like gambling some day again, he should learn about how to be a responsible gambler.

There is no effective way to ensure that young people stay where they are or at home because their social circle is now getting wider. And even though they are asked to stay at home, they will ask to have a connection to the internet so they can browse the internet. And that's not a solution because they can still get caught up in bad things. But everything can be overcome with guidance from their parents so that their children will not do things that negatively impact their lives. Underage children or teenagers still have to be under the supervision of their parents and parents need to provide an understanding of what they can and cannot do. It's a good idea to frequently invite children to discuss many things to build closer relationships between children and their parents.

Yes, aggression is actually one of the manifestation that a child or person might developed an addiction. And this can be actually the same as when a person is addicted to alcohols. They tend to display aggressive and inappropriate behavior and this can be really alarming. In other cases, they use to steal money from their parents just so they have funds to gamble. But in worse case scenario, they become physical and leads to such abuse.
Probably, one of the factors that might influence youth to perform gambling activities is because of peer pressure. Remember that in this stage of their lives, they get along better with their friends than their parents. So, as parents we should give our full attention on them, and as much possible we should do an effort in knowing their friends.

firrst of all, gambling addiction is always known for poor self control and emotions that exceed limits or can be called emotions that cannot be controlled. so I would not be surprised if someone you know is currently committing violence against his sibling because sometimes its an inappropriate outlet for emotions, such as when he actually just lost more money or lost at gambling and its impossible for him to vent his anger at gambling but instead he takes it out on his own family and I admit that emotions that cannot be controlled are usually closer to gambling addiction, so we always remind each other that self control or controlling emotions is very important in gambling.

in this scenario we must understand better not to involve emotions towards gambling. I mean when you are in an emotional situation it is better to avoid gambling because it will have a bad impact in the long term such as addiction and I have also seen a gambling addict who goes on a rampage every day venting his emotions on his family and this is the result of gambler who fail to have self control and become addicted.

this OP story provides a valuable lesson that this story is a negative impact on someone who is addicted to gambling and this addiction begins with poor self control and negative thought patterns.

That's right, I agree with your opinion, teenagers are tempted to gamble because one of them is environmental factors, it could be from their friends or even those closest to them. If the teenager cannot control himself then he will become addicted and become a gambling addict. Parental supervision and guidance may not be effective if the teenager himself does not realize that gambling will bring misery to him. And if teenagers are out of control then most of them will do bad things such as committing violence against other people and the anger that appears very unstable suddenly, because what you said is true is that teenagers cannot control their emotions optimally, because of factors -Factors that influence them are their childish nature. is still attached to him, and this is what parents fear if teenagers can do things beyond the limits of their abilities and minds.