Topic: Who are the most vulnerable - page 2. (Read 1602 times)

Gambling is a lot easier to access now than before. So it is no surprise if more people find themselves gambling. Unfortunately, not a lot of us can be responsible enough to prevent ourselves from falling into deep addiction. This probes the question, who are the most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction?

We already know that less privileged people are more prone to getting addicted to gambling with the involvement of financial reward. They are the ones chasing more wins because they actually need the money. The more money they get, the deeper they get into the addiction.

Another demographic that is more likely to get addicted to gambling are adolescents. Adolescents are aged 12-18. The rise of online casinos made way to more kids getting access into gambling. It is said that male adolescents are the ones most recorded to have ended up addicted in gambling. Their addiction is usually associated with sports  and mobile games betting.

Lastly, the most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction are those already suffering from pre-existing mental conditions. About 4% of people being treated for substance use also have gambling disorder, as do nearly 7% of psychiatric inpatients and up to 7% of people with Parkinson’s disease. An estimated 96% of people with gambling problems have at least one other psychiatric disorder.

I am sharing this to raise awareness so more people are aware whether they fall under these categories I mentioned and may have high chances of becoming a gambling addict. Let’s keep ourselves informed and in check. Not only ourselves but our loved ones as well.

That also happen in the developing country such as Asian and others because while parents are too busy with their jobs or business, they think about giving careness to other person. But that will not be a solution because children still needs attention from their parents and make a relationship and build a strong bond to their parents. With their parents busy with their works, children can feels alone in their home although they have a big house with a full of everything they need.

Parents need to split their busy work and for their family so everything can be balanced while their children can feels how they can feels to have a real parents who cares with them. Even their parents work, but they can gives attention to their children and they will understand the situation and can adapt with good.

I mentioned Western countries because they are well-developed, and in most families, both father and mother do jobs or handle business, and their children are cared for by the maids. We see a similar thing in 3rd world countries as well. People run after money and forget about their children. They think money will solve everything.  But they destroy their kid's life without even realizing it.

I understand that not every family does this just because they focus on money; some of them have to do it forcefully because either their financial condition is too bad or they are in debt. But in both cases, kids remain alone at home and do things they should not do.

Anybody can be vulnerable when it comes to gambling because anybody can try it, anybody that has access to smartphone and an internet can try it, anybody that has an idea to it can try it, anybody that are curious on what gambling can give to a person can try it as well. I stated that the poor and middle-class people are the ones that are the most vulnerable just because some of them might've seen some advertisements somewhere regarding people who earned lots of money just by doing gambling and will have this thinking of "If they can achieve it, so do I." hence, they will also try it since they're also having a hard time financially and they see gambling as their only way to be rich, or at least live a better life.

Poor people have the desire to be rich so that their lives can change and many poor people fall into gambling because they think that by gambling they can make money easier than having to work hard for this reason that makes them very vulnerable to becoming gambling addicts without them realizing it and in the end they will be trapped in an increasingly difficult situation some take loans to catch up on their previous losses because most poor people are not willing to lose their money in this way.

The most vulnerable are those who bet on something they are not very good at, or those who are into slots, where I think it is almost impossible to win from a casino except for some random chance that I would definitely not rely on. And it also depends on how much the player is ready to take risks and how much money he is ready to play, rich or poor, they can equally lose all their money if they do not stop in time.

You are right because not just in Western countries, in many countries have the same thing so attention for their children will be less. They are busy to work and earn money but they forget to educate, take closest to their children, communicate and other things that will help them to manage their relationship. And when their parents just gives them device and money without trying to gets deeper with their children, they can use that for many things including browsing various and restricted things that they should not do in their ages.

Sophisticated devices and the money they get without any supervision will indeed make children more free to access anything.
Especially if as a parent, you don't know how to use a smartphone to monitor your child's activities.
Trying to pamper the child, even though it is the beginning of destruction for the child because it is without any supervision.

This kind of thing happens a lot in my environment, minors already have their own smartphones and are free to access anything,
because of the lack of parental control.

But it's not just children who are vulnerable, but someone who is desperate and has a hard time making money ends up getting into gambling to make more money.
Maybe their initial deposit is as small as $2-$5 and doesn't affect anything when losing, but they keep doing it in the hope of getting a Big Win Jackpot,
But in the end after making a lot of deposits there is no big win, but only a small win that in the end if calculated will not return their capital.

Gambling addiction always occurs because of obsession and high expectations of winning, meaning that when from the start you only see gambling from the side of the chance of winning and do not know that gambling is not a place to earn or a place to solve financial problems then addiction is a possibility that you will definitely experience consciously or not.

1. If you are jobless you are vulnerable to anything.
2. If all you focused on is getting rich quick you are vulnerable to anything.

The most vulnerable in my opinion are those that are not financially stable, these category of people have more to lose than those that make money constantly..if what you earn monthly is barely enough to take you through out a month then you should reconsider cutting down your stakes or quitting totally because you are highly vulnerable to the negative effects of gambling...As a gambler who doesn't have much you must learn not to always gamble wrecklessly, be disciplined so you don't end up being vulnerable to the effects of this dangerous habit.

In the end, gambling does not actually take into account economic status, whether rich or poor, both will face the risk of addiction.

We already know that less privileged people are more prone to getting addicted to gambling with the involvement of financial reward. They are the ones chasing more wins because they actually need the money. The more money they get, the deeper they get into the addiction.

Another demographic that is more likely to get addicted to gambling are adolescents. Adolescents are aged 12-18. The rise of online casinos made way to more kids getting access into gambling. It is said that male adolescents are the ones most recorded to have ended up addicted in gambling. Their addiction is usually associated with sports  and mobile games betting.

Yes, the possibility of addiction applies to everyone regardless of who they are, old or young, poor or rich, everyone has the opportunity to end up becoming an addict, and in the end the point is not much different from what you said that if we don't want to end up addicted then gamble wisely in the sense of gambling with full limits on time and the amount of money at stake.
Therefore, this is the reason why I often say and advise anyone, especially those closest to me, to first understand what they are actually facing, the way is to rely on a rational mindset in responding to gambling so that you do not misunderstand what is meant by the chance of winning in gambling, and if you have done everything well and correctly then I think you should be free from addiction.

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 And when their parents just gives them device and money without trying to gets deeper with their children, they can use that for many things including browsing various and restricted things that they should not do in their ages.