Topic: Who are the most vulnerable - page 7. (Read 1602 times)

If the mature ones can still get hooked and fail with their decisions, these kids and teens can also do more failure.

They are carefree.

All they think is to have fun and they are not aware of the consequences or if they do, they still don't care about it. That's why they do what they want to do with or without knowledge about it.

I agree that gambling is contraindicated for a person who is experiencing financial difficulties.

This is due to the fact that such a person will not be able to view gambling solely as entertainment. If a person is constantly in need of money, then this is an incredibly vulnerable position.

And woe to such a player if one day he accidentally wins a fairly impressive sum of money! He will immediately have an irrational logical connection - gambling is a way to improve his financial situation. Gambling is profit (income). This thought is destructive, because it is false.

If a person is also mentally ill or has a low IQ, then things are really bad ... Such a situation was described in his novel "The Gambler" by the great writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I choose to disagree on this. The less privileged people that I have come into contact with—most of them don't even gamble at all and talk more about getting addicted; they are more focused on things of life—real-life hustle that can give them money than trying to waste the little that they will use to feed themselves on gambling, whose outcome is not secured. There is no doubt that some might pick interest in gambling, but generalising it is wrong.

Yes I quite agree with what you said that the tendency to addiction does not depend on how rich you are or how old you are, in the end it depends on how your perspective is in dealing with gambling itself, if you can't use your common sense and rational thinking properly then most likely you will eventually fall into addiction. Education is important, although education is not always a guarantee of success but at least it will make you know about how to use your mind properly and it can also help you in terms of distinguishing more carefully about what makes sense and what doesn't.

Op what you said is also the truth because those vulnerable gamblers want to make more money every time they came to the site. But I will add greedy to what you have said. Greediness can lead someone to become gambling addicted. The lower class families play gamble more than the rich and the only different is that the rich use big amounts to gamble once and if they loss it, they move on but the vulnerable when they loss big, most of them would even asked cashier to refund or cried in the center. And that is why gambling is meant for those who have matured mind. And it is clearly written 18+ of age.

I wanted to say that I agree poor people and less privilege are tend to fall into gambling addiction. But, the poor are more exposed because they've lost everything and people will ask their family, what happened to them.

This is different with the rich, even they're addicted to gambling, they're high unlikely to go broke, making them hard to be exposed.

That's why we often see stories from poor people than the rich.

I read the mental disorder is mostly related to "control", it's why the rate is really high since addiction can happen because you can't control yourself.

I do not completely agreed with you on this that only the less privilege are those prone to getting addicted to gambling, and if you must know we should also remember that not only the less privilege needs money or are eagerly wanting to change their lives, everyone is prone to it as long as they are not applying a safe gambling practice it's easier for anyone to be vulnerable to gambling addiction.

Now can we have a definition of addiction?
To me an addiction is someone constantly engaging him/herself into a particular activity or play without seizing. We can also say that addiction is when someone can not do away a particular habits, characters or becoming used to a particular thing in life were they faces difficulty and becomes a thread to their neighbors, household or relatives.

Now, let's also look at the wikipedia result;
"Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences".

In all I did not see were only the less privilege will get addicted, as a matter of fact it not characterized to a specific groups of people or genders, addiction is addiction be it gambling or other things that leads to addictions.

I do not equate maturity with age but we can not deny that kids are less likely to make mature decisions compared to adults

Or at least we would not expect them to be wise since they have no sense of responsibility and financial management just yet meanwhile adults or at least the functioning ones would know the importance of controlling oneself. It is good for us to sometimes treat ourselves and do something we enjoy but we always go back to being responsible which kids might not want to do ever.

Do you think a 15 year old would care about the consequences of his actions? No because he is not thinking of his future yet but adults are already living the present they need to protect. There are only rare cases where adults are less sensible than kids and might be more vulnerable to falling addicted.

I don't think the propensity to be addicted to gambling depends on age or financial status. Both rich and poor people can chase after winnings, and some teenagers are much wiser than gray-haired stricks. In my opinion, the issue of gambling addiction depends on the psychological profile of each individual and the level of education. The higher the level of education of a person the less likely that he will become gambling addicted, of course, provided that there are no psychological problems, which in fact are observed in most of us.

IMHO, there's really no age bracket on who are the most vulnerable because all of us can be on that situation. But for as long as we're responsible and we know ourselves better, we can't be part of that bracket.

Those that are emotional and have lesser strength to control themselves and emotions, they're very prone in being a gambling addict.

No matter how psychologically we're impacted with our needs and situation and how we're seeing the solutions through gambling, we have to understand that not at all times it's going to be the solution.

Not representative to all male individuals I guess especially on the part of coping up with loneliness and being vulnerable. Also, I don't really look at gender differences, or its relevance with this activity simply because gambling is just an activity. You have in control of your decisions in life inside and outside this industry perhaps whether letting oneself become addicted or to maintain focus and diligence of your own potential mistakes. Loss is more constant than anything else thus, it should automatically be a warning for us to be cautious of our bets. Same goes with other problems one may tackle 'coz bottomline is; you could be engaging to other activities perhaps sports and social relations.

We are choosing gambling for a reason of our own and doesn't really need to be related to other things. We are just associating things due to the image of gambling industry. Reasons such as profit or just drive to be entertained by thrill and risk, that's solely dependent to us without a doubt. Nothing's wrong as long as we're being responsible of our gambling activities.

The most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction is adolescents aged 12-18 especially if they can not control themselves in gambling. We can see what happens to those kids in the gaming that install on their smartphone. They will forget what they must do including doing their homework and when they are with their friends, they also forget to go home. The other risk is that when they become addicted to gambling without anyone knows because they are playing gambling secretly. It is a responsibilities from their parents to watch their kids and always closest to them although that is not easy. But for them, parents will try to do many things.

I agree with you, if someone sees gambling as an option to eliminate poverty or as a way to get rich easily of course it will make them gamble too often and of course it will make them addicted to gambling.
When someone does not have any job and they choose to gamble of course this is very bad not to mention they will be addicted to gambling which makes them feel in many other problems after experiencing addiction.
If someone who already has a job still gambles, of course they will regret it when all their income is spent on gambling and they will experience financial problems again as if they had not yet found a job. If only they could control themselves when gambling, of course this would be better than someone who gambles too often and has high hopes of being able to get a big win that they may not be able to get from gambling.

Because of life circumstances and the search for wealth to be able to provide for the family, men are the ones who are victims of vulnerability to gambling.

Being lonely and not being busy can make one vulnerable to gambling because when the mind and body are not occupied with something tangible like work, what fills it in is the thought of how to be rich easily and fast without stress.

Other individuals who fall to gambling vulnerabilities are those who are divorced or have relationship issues. Those kinda people can choose to gamble to fill up the vacuum of hurt they feel inside so that they can be relieved and be able to let go of the hurt they feel

People who are most vounarable to fall into addiction are those who sees gambling as an option to eradicate poverty or sees it as a way of becoming rich too quickly. I had quite some numbers of friends who becomes addicted because they could hardly find a suitable job to leave the life they expected. After so many years of going to school and graduating without work cause them to become addicted. Because after finding several job and couldn't see any one they accept gambling as a second choice. Now gambling has become a pert of them even leaving it becomes a problem. Now even if they get a good paying job now they will still spend all to gambling.

I can say joblessness and poverty is the most vounarable thing that Leeds to addiction.

Provably it falls more to less privilege people since they usually have this thoughts on where they can possibly earn lots of money from gambling. To bad for some of them commit crimes just to feed up their urge to gamble which is so bad especially they came to the point where they decide to have a sin just to sustain what they want to do in life.

But also see a lot of rich gamblers fall on addiction and they also think that they can earn big then didn't worry about anything especially for having funds since they have lots of money to spend. As gamblers I guess the only thing we could able to do for not going on those worse situation in our life we should have discipline and try to avoid any temptation for wanting more big gains since usually that feeling lead up for gamblers to experience addiction.

The reality is even more grim. A lot of veterans, retired workers and older people gamble - it is a method they use to spend their time while getting that dopamine rush at times of boredom.

The good thing is that this can be prevented if the reason why they became bored of life is corrected. Maybe they dont have anyone to look forward to, their children have moved away or their loved their job and had to leave it.

Bringing them close to those things can start to rehabilitate them to a addiction free life.

The younger generation will get addicted too but they can easily move away and stop gambling but it is tough for the older generation.

The most vulnerable are of course the PEOPLE. This is regardless of whether they are poor or rich, the two classes are susceptible to gambling losses, addiction and devastation. It got worse to the point that the government and the NGOs make little or no awareness of the danger, and for this, the sensitisation and gambling education are very poor. Instead, the government is particular about the money to gain from taxes thereby turning a blind eye to advertising at improper places, among others.

It got worse in my country to the point that our bank apps now display casinos/sportsbooks' adverts, promising bonuses to lure people to it. Ordinarily, someone who never cared gets attracted through the banks which is supposed to be an abomination. What am I even saying? I know some people now getting close to gambling addiction through that. This is ugly!

Well, all that you have said in your post, specially in the part of the post that I snipped out, is really good, stuffs or informations like this is one that every gambler needs to come across because it helps us to put ourselves in check, and make sure that we are not gambling the wrong way.

Talking about adolescent, or teenagers, as most of us understand that from age 12 to 18 is often referred to as teenagers, this ones are more prone to becoming addicted to gambling for several reasons, and one of such reasons is due to the fact that their brains are not yet well developed strong enough to handle the pleasure, excitement, trill or perhaps; pressure, anxiety, discomfort disappointments that comes with gambling.
Less privileged people are more safe than teenagers because most of the time, less privileged person may not even have the money to eat let alone gambling.

I agree that the less privileged are the ones more prone to gambling addiction because it's somehow an escape to poverty if they ever win big. Well, let's say they can just double their money which means they will have a month of ease with their bill payments and other necessities. But, it's too much of a risk so it's better to just stay away from gambling.
I have been playing a lot of online casino games for a long time and I can say there's no real winner in gambling unless you win and quit. This is because addiction could come from winning which is greed and they will come back over and over just to experience the same heavy multiplier one more time. The only problem is, it may not happen anymore.