Topic: Violence and anger could be a sign of gambling addiction in youths - page 4. (Read 811 times)

Many factors can tempt the youth to try out gambling and one of that is the influence of their friends. The proper guidance of the parents might not be totally the effective way but has a huge impact on the kid's behavior and on how they see things.

Anyway, violence and anger issues can be related to gambling addiction of a person, and it's not limited to youth, but in general. Even adult gamblers who experience losses tend to have such personality (though not all since it depends how you deal with it). This usually happen if you can't accept the outcome then you tend to pour out your anger to someone even it's solely your fault.

From @OP's story, it seems like he has become addicted to gambling, which has affected his psychology, so he has become angry. But we don't know whether he was really addicted to gambling or because of something else. However, they tend to lose self-control and use violence when their wishes are not followed. This has endangered his family members because of the changes within him.

And it seems his gambling may be due to his association with friends. He may have resorted to violence to demand money from his family members or to tell family members who knew about his gambling activities not to tell other family members about it. But whatever it is, this is very worrying because most of the young generation nowadays often use violence if their wishes are not followed.

It is difficult to ask the younger generation to stay home instead of earning money. Maybe they want to help their parent's lives and decide to look for work. This is something to be appreciated because there is awareness on their part to help their parents earn money. But it needs to be reminded again that if their current job is in school and if they want to help earn money, they should not use gambling because it will have bad consequences for their future.

I understand that guiding them may not have much effect on the addicted gamblers. Instead, those who are violent and aggressive may start teaching you the importance of gambling in a manner that you may feel insulted.

However, this should not mean that we refrain from guiding them only because we fear their reaction or they won't change. Even if by our teaching, 2-5% of gamblers change their habit, it will be good for them and also fulfil the purpose of spreading better practices in our society.

If we do not care for our near and dear ones (the ones involved in excessive gambling), then who may look after them 

"Telling" them isn't going to do anything. They're humans, they have wants, and needs together with responsibilities. Now if no one actually educates them to understand that those come together in a bundle, it's rather inevitable that they're going to do something wrong. There's a world difference between telling them these things vs letting them understand.

The most effective way really is to have a family that can support them and educate them, but not all households are like that so other than that, there's nothing really. A being is shaped by their surroundings early on, and even if we do say they can filter out what they can and shouldn't take, by the time they understand such logic it might've been a tad bit too late.

There are lots of factors why youths got involved in violence or always at angered state:

- the environment they are living
- the approach to them by the society
- in a worst family status
- broke
- depress
- stress
- mental problem

Gambling might also be a factor but there's always a main core why they turned out like that.

The youth are the responsible person in the country,if the country use their youth wisely.The economy of the country itself increase in the huge way,China is the big example for the usage of youth in good way.Some gambler after getting addiction to the game,they start to do crime to earn money like kidnap of their relations child.The gambler will do this after they not able to manage the money for their future game.So the experienced gamblers will not suppose to advice the freshers to get addicted to the gameling,mostly they advice to play gambling with he gap.

i believe, one thing to combat this kind of behaviour is thru education. if the younger gen will devote themselves to educating themselves, they won't resort to this kind of violence or better yet this path of addiction.
as they will learn more about how to earn good money, they will have other things to think about on how to improve their living by other means, like finding real job.

It is not only people who are trying to beat poverty that gamble, many rich people still gamble but show these character of violence, aggression and anger. So it cannot just be gambling alone, but can also be linked with financial insecurity. Some people easily get angry, violent or aggressive near the point where they do not have enough money for expenditures. This is why people who gamble and loose money start feeling insecure financially because they are loosing money, so they become easily angry, violent or aggressive.

Look, what you say is a small factor in the phenomena that occur in our lives, the environment and even the family. It's not just a problem with gambling, so you have to look for data and percentages to compare how fatal the consequences are. on the other hand, the tendency towards other addictions is more extreme than gambling. There are many addicts who not only commit violence against the people around them, they don't even discriminate as to who their victims are, including hurting themselves. 

Drug addiction can usually be more fatal in cases of violence where a person's psychological condition is very unstable and can change at any time. Likewise in the case of gambling, you don't need to become an addict when you experience defeat, especially if it involves big money. There will be anger that arises within you, if you are unable to suppress it. will ruin your mood, and affect psychological changes. When you are disturbed, you will easily be provoked by emotions which can have fatal consequences, such as the case you described in this thread.

Well, this problem is not just a government problem. However, so does our role as citizens in government itself. The point is, it depends on how a person uses reason and a healthy mind. that in gambling, it is not an opportunity to get rich quickly. and an effective and useful way for young people is that they must be aware and utilize their own resources towards a better future. If it doesn't start from oneself, whatever the government does in any program will not work well and be on target. The point is, does this have anything to do with gambling in general?.

I don't really support the case of attributing violence and anger to gambling addiction alone.
 The youths who engage in gambling too much are simply too jobless or don't have any real responsibility, else there wouldn't be the thought to spare to anger or become violent knowing the consequences of such behavior.
What's more a sign is when they get moody too often mostly on days when others are simply enjoying themselves and having a good time.

I do not think that gambling addiction make this person do these things.  This kind of attitude is already embedded on your friend core value and just getting out due to frustration of not being able to gamble.  I have known many gamblers in my neighborhood but not all of them resort to this kind of violence.



This is all about moral issues I believe.  If the person had been brought up by parents correctly, there should not be a problem like this.  This kind of attitude reflects the core value of the person.  Probably the better thing to do is be influenced by religious group or be rehabilitated if already in the situation of being addicted to gambling

Effective way in general? I think there is none.

These youths are obviously have their own family. It will depend on how these youths will grow up on that family. Their own family will construct them to become a better and responsible person while they are growing up. Just trust them to grow up nicely.

We can't solely just consider gambling as the reason why turned sh*t.

Okay lets focus first about that poverty thing,presuming that the individual been involved do really include out on a family which are really that not good when it comes to financial status and turns out that one of their members did really turn out to be a gambler just because they are really that eager on winning money with gambling because of such condition then it would really be building up that kind of eagerness and
really that dedicated and molding up that kind of desperation on which if the results wont really be going as you do plan knowing that gambling does result most likely in negative then upset and anger would really be
there and control would really be entirely be depending on a certain individual since there are ones who are really that good on controlling their emotions or simply their anger and there are ones who cant really just resist on making out those harsh actions despite on facing or been together with their own family.

It would really be creating that kind of action if you are that someone whose desperate on making some money and ending up on devastated instead on getting those gains on which 20+ age arent that
young anymore i should say on which these age brackets are already that mature enough and able to distinguish between good or bad things. We know that regret do always come at the end and if you do make yourself that tolerate into those things that you do have in mind which are bad act ones then expect on what would be the consequences if things turns out to be severe.
It would really just matter with common sense and control towards your emotions and mindset because you wont really be ending up on a disaster if you are really just that
responsible with your spending. Gambling isnt bad but on the time that you are treating it as a source of income then this is where things becomes shit.

It is the choices we make in life as we grow that will help shape our future. As you have stated, you grow up together with this person in particular but you choose the part that will be most beneficial to you positively despite the everyday challenges.
Those who express their anger and frustration in gambling and crimes have no excuse except to face the consequences of their actions because they can also choose to toil the right part.
There are thousands of ways youth can manage to avoid crimes but the major problem with today's youth is trying to live in the Fastlane.
Gambling is not the solution to getting out of a financial hole, rather you get sunk even deeper. Thanks to social media, almost everyone is a content creator, get creative.

A person can be violent regardless if he's into gambling or not. It can be because of his childhood trauma and past but that shouldn't be a reason enough to fall into gambling addiction or even hurt the people around him.
We can't always blame our past or even our environment because it is our personal choice to do gambling . We can actually manage to control our emotions if we are wise enough to do the right things efficiently. It will always be our personal choice on which path we shall take. We can gamble without violence or without hurting anyone.

I'm not invalidating your story that what these people experienced or have become, actually, I do sympathize with you knowing that people you know and your relatives have struggled with these situation. However, I do think that they're problem isn't about gambling addiction but rather something else such as family or personal problem, trauma, or even a possibility of usage of illegal substance. Whereas, gambling only made these underlying problem worst.

I've personally known people who are like these but aren't even gambling where they'll be too aggressive or easily be irritated by anything and some even stole money or items such as appliances, jewelries, devices or even anything they find that they can make money off whether it's from someone they know or not just to buy illegal substance.

As for your question, it varies depending on each individual situation on how they can easily avoid gambling however lecturing them is one way start it off.

There are many cases of violence in which the perpetrator does not engage in gambling activity. Violence can be relate to the upbringing from being a kid witnessing violence which the kid will grow up thinking violence can be justified if inflicted on someone who he thinks deserves it.

But for a grown-up man, it's more of a money problem that makes him irate with his surroundings. For a man who can't do something to earn, he will really be irate and would seek someone to blame. It's not always a gambling addiction but you will relate it to gambling addiction if the guy loses money and turns violent.

From the negative stories I have found on internet, there are two possible ways a person struggling with gambling loses can show his feelings: either through anger or depression.

The case you are describing is an obvious one on someone who does not have control over their feelings and prefer to direct his hatred towards others to cope with the fact he lost money, instead of the easy win he expected to get.

On the other hand, there are cases like that African youth who lost his college fund due to sport betting and instead redirecting that pain towards other, he decided to end his existence, basically depression.

Neither case is a good one and neither of both outcomes are a happy one , hence why true money management and responsibility is important, not only for gambling but in general.

It could be that it is his character and not his gambling because it all depends on the individual because many gamblers or addicts are not like that either, and my advice is to just leave him like that until he is involved with the police and punished.
And maybe that way he will realize his actions, because they have harmed other people and even his own family.
And in my opinion, people like that cannot be advised and if they don't like them they will fight, it's better to just ignore them.