Topic: Who does gambling addiction affect the most? - page 17. (Read 2507 times)

I'd say the immediate family specifically children. while I understand the addict is suffering from addiction and its effects, the family is feeling the impact of it too, especially the children(if they have children). gambling addiction can ruin families, childhood, stability, security, etc... all of these things will greatly affect a child if they are exposed to these things.

The family will experience the impact of gambling addiction, although the gambler also experiences a more severe impact because he can lose everything he has. Each person in the gambler's circle will experience the impact so it cannot be denied that it will destroy the gambler's relationship with his family and environment if the gambler has wider consequences. It hurts to see a family that can initially be harmonious, peaceful, and happy. But when one of the family members is involved in gambling, this will slowly disappear and be replaced by arguments between them. But behind it all, some children will experience trauma because they have seen their families fall apart. After all, the gambler has developed a gambling addiction and made other family members leave him.

of course it is his family that gets the biggest bad impact because he has a family that bears the burden of shame or torment when frustrated while the gambling addict has no shame, bad mindset and almost no self-esteem because all he thinks about is being able to gamble again and will ignore things whatever is prioritized is only fulfilling his addictive desires.

this is the bad impact caused by gamblers who do not understand how gambling works, abusing gambling to make money or having big hopes, whereas gambling was created to provide facilities for playing by risking a small amount of money, but an addict never understands this.
In reality, gambling is actually never wrong and all risks are borne by the gamblers who are responsible for their gambling.

so that a story like this gives us the experience that even though gambling is a fun place, behind it all there are very bad risks if we can't control ourselves and always remember that whatever happens, we can't beat the casino and prioritize family a lot better.

I think it affects both but in a different way. An individual can have a gambling addition problem but he does disturb his family with the problem. Many gambling addicts don't let their family or loved ones to know, they try to hide it as they're ashamed of their addiction problem but they can't stop. Some gamblers hide it successfully for many years before their family members will find out but by then they're into many debts already and that's when it might affect their family members.

While some gamblers addiction get exposed at their early stages and it affects the family members due to the mood after they have lost many bets and they come home angry and let their family members get all their frustrations. They also borrow money from the family members to waste all on gambling. But since the family members know their sibling or spouse is addicted to gambling they can help him on time.

All family members will feel the impact of gambling addiction experienced by one of them, if father or head of the family experiences gambling addiction then happiness in the family has ended.
An addict will prioritize activities that he enjoys and that have made him addicted, he likes gambling to the point of addiction, so all the money he has will only be used to fulfill his gambling desires.
No gambling addict can control himself and no gambling addict has clear mindset, they will consider gambling as their main need and this is why many families are destroyed when the head of the family is involved in gambling and becomes gambling addict.
They will neglect their families and they don't care about their children's growth and development so the negative impact that arises is clearly very influential on their children.
This is very unfortunate because child who should get attention is instead abandoned because of gambling.

From various cases like this it should raise awareness for all people who are familiar with gambling, they should be able to limit it and at least put pressure on self-control so that they don't go any further.
They must be able to think about their families and provide the best for their families as much as possible.

I think there's no need to both, whether who's side is more affected, the gambler or its immediate family. For me, both sides are. Think of this: the gambler is being too addicted and cannot be controlled even with the help of its family. Of course, the gambler itself will suffer or be affected because of its own consequences, and the family will also be affected or will suffer for different reasons. Maybe the gambler is stealing or selling the properties of the family or anything about what a gambler can do to its family.
The family will also suffer emotionally because who wants to see a family member on a wrong path on a path where we know it will be hard to recover or to stop? Gambling or gamblers will not just affect themselves; the other people who surround him will also be affected. That's why I would say both sides will be affected by any cause.

I think it's the immediate family. The addicted gambler is most probably enjoying his useless addiction. He is spending money. He is having fun gambling. All the while his family is probably going hungry, having no money to buy other basic needs, bothered and worried about him and his vice, etc. But the gambler himself who is already addicted probably doesn't care at all about his family and what they've been through. What's important for him is his selfish pleasure. So he's not really affected a lot, but his family is already having the worst experience in their lives.

I would say it negatively affects both, however I also believe it is a process which develops into stages and in each of those stages one of those suffer more or less.
When the person who is addicted to gambling starts to recklessly spend money on it those who suffer are they immediate family, because money which is supposed to be used to buy food and more important things is being gambled away, during this period of time the gambler won't suffer because he still has money to spend and ease the thrist for thrill and excitement on the casino. After the money is gone and there is no more of it to be gambled away, then the gambler himself also starts to suffer a lot, because he will start to go through unpleasant situations in order to find the money he needs to fuel his addiction further.
At this point it is very likely he had already lost all support from his family and it would be matter of time before starts to engage in criminal activity, the family will eventually find a way to survive without him and probably kick him out their life. In the end both suffer if the problem is not addresses in the early stages of addiction / hooking up.

That is just my opinion, as usual.

The gambler is more affected by addiction because of the trouble he's causing to himself and the family. It's known that the gambler doesn't feel his pain. But on the long run he'd begin to understand the pain he's caused his families. Those memories would stay on his brain for quite a long time, and may cause the gambler to feel bad of himself. But while he's still under addiction, the family feels the pain more than the gambler. Because the gambler has no record of what is his problems. He doesn't feel it, the addiction, only his immediate family would undergo the stress of trying to change him. Putting him to therapy would eat up lots of family wealth. However everyone in the family takes a fair share of the memory it creates in them. So, I'd say that both parties suffers it, especially when the gambler is not in his right senses and can be able to control himself.

It is the gambler that's mostly affected by his own addiction. The second comes next are the person that interacts with him everyday and that's his family.

And that his because whatever mood he's got, he'll pass it onto them and that's where the ugly side of gambling is being described by those people that have been sent by the anger of these gambling addicts.

We don't have to be like that as much as we can but sometimes, anger, mood swings, etc., really comes on unexpected times.

Well, I think it depends on the situation of the gambler and his or her family background. In some gambling addiction cases that I am aware of, the gambler is always less concerned and very adamant about their gambling lifestyle, while their family is the one that feels the pain for the bad gambling lifestyle that is possessed by their son, brother, in-law, or whomever the person might be to them.

While I was still in college, there was a friend of mine who was a terrible gambler. He used every money his parents gave him for gambling, he also stole from his parents to gamble. It got so bad that his parents had to restrict him from having access to anything related to money; they paid for him every damn thing he needed, and these were just to make sure that he didn't have access to money, but yet he decided to start stealing and borrowing from people to gamble.

These actually got his parents very worried, and they were all worked up because they had done so many things just to help their child, but all their efforts were futile.

There is also a man in my community; his children hate him because he is a terrible gambler. Any time his parents give him money to carry out a project on their behalf, he will always use the money to gamble. The man was not concerned about his lifestyle, but it gave more concern to his wife and children.

The gambler is the one affected the most imo. Ofc in his perspective it's not anything that big since that's what he wants, but from a neutral perspective, they get hit first since only after they have no sources of money to play with do they try to turn towards their immediate surroundings whether it be friends, family, relatives, heck even neighbors.

This changes though if you view it from who benefits and who gets damaged the most. Naturally, since gambling is aligned with what the gambler wants, he's the one who benefits the most and his surroundings are the ones who get damaged the ones since said benefit comes from that damage.

Be it gambling or not, I must say we should first recognize the father or gamblers poor decision making. Not just in about the predictions they make but, about how they manage their funds.

Now, gambling is addictive to the uncultured and that’s for sure. One person gambling gets to affect the most is the gambler. Of course when you’re the leader or bread winner of the family, it’s going to have some chain reaction but, it’s often first and foremost yourself being the gambler.
What ever drive that got you into gambling the funds you’ve got, it’s probably due to a task at hand which could be, managing your family as well and should you lose, it all becomes real to you what your family have got to endure for your mistakes:addiction and you would be going through that too.
It messes with your head. It’s always going to be the gambler for most affected.

( So I want to ask, between the gambling addict and his immediate family, who does the addiction affect the most? )

I can see that the gambler addict will be more affected than his family, but of course it will also affect his family. I just believe that the gambler is more affected by this because maybe because of his addiction to gambling, his family can leave him, there are many situations like this, many people break up and destroy relationships because of addiction to gambling, apart from the difficulty for him to stop his addiction to gambling left behind He is still with his family or his loved ones, anyone in that situation will have a hard time.

First of all, gambling addiction will first deal with the gambler before extending it to any other person. But that doesn't necessarily mean the gambling addict will be the one to experience the pains in the addiction lifestyle. I agree with arjunmujay that the spouse would be the one to first suffer from the addiction before any other family member. Because most times they might be trying to cover up the mess from their spouse before anyone finds out, but by the time they find out their spouse is not having any thought of changing his mind towards the addiction that is when most person outside their home will find out about the addiction issues.

the earliest to be affected is our spouse, either husband or wife. because this involves finances as well. if finances cannot be met because they often encounter defeat when playing gambling. it is certain that the wife or husband will become a cormorant first.
for children must follow afterwards because they still don't know and their way of thinking is still like children not much like adults.

It depends on the status of the gambler if the gambler is single and on his own, he is the one suffering, if he has a family and the family depends on him then the family is the one suffering, gamblers, especially the addicted one are not good in budgeting or allocating, they prioritize their gambling account more than their family's budget and household bill.

This is why so many divorces happen because of gambling addiction and this is one one the causes of broken families, with this, you can tell if a gambler is a responsible one or not, who he is prioritizing the most.

It's like any addiction that is unhealthy it affects both in different ways but probably the same.  The only thing I can say about the immediate family if it gets real bad they can remove themselves from the situation whereas the gambler can physically choose to change the way they are.  The helplessness from the family is unique as well as the gamblers mental health.  Different animals but both are affected.

It is said that a mad man have no shame for his attitudes and behaviors on the streets, for it is his family and relatives that feel and bears the shame. It is synonymous with a gambling addict, they are addicted to gambling and therefore they don't see any misbehavior in gratifying their gambling pleasure as a problem or of any consequences.

Not that the gambling addict doesn't get affected by the actions of his/her addiction but just that the addiction makes them to be carefree and untroubled about the effect. It is worst if the addict is a parent with children under their care, for the effect of the addiction will definitely have a traumatic and psychological effect on the children all their lifetime because as children they don't have that matured mindset to deal with the condition from someone which they ought to look up to as a role model.

Op your topic is self explanatory. Though your content a understandable but if I will say the person that addicted gamble affect most is the gambler himself and not for any other person though family members might worried more than him because they would think that he is wasting money for the gambling. And from the second part of the answer the gambling addiction affects the society more than the individual because he would come and deposit the habit in the society for everyone to bear it. And that is why every bad character come back to the people of the society. Therefore to do bad is always affect everyone in the society. Gambling addiction affects the person and the society at large.