Topic: Will you find it offensive to be referred to as an addicted gambler? - page 14. (Read 1500 times)
June 18, 2023, 04:50:48 PM
Excessive gambling leads to a depressing lifestyle sooner or later, it has been proven many times by different gamblers. IMO, the gambler who plays a lot and wins money doesn't accept this as offensive but it is not the same reaction by the gambler when he hears this word combination. If you win money and you make your life better with gambling money, all good but when you borrow money from close people to feed your gambling addiction, it is probably offensive for such gamblers.
June 18, 2023, 04:28:57 PM
As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict?
No, that's not an insult. But if they insult and demean me in public, then obviously I feel offended by them.I feel offended if someone tells my addiction to gambling in public in the real world, especially if they tell my family directly. It's an insult to me, but if they say it online especially in this forum, then I'm fine.
June 18, 2023, 04:28:22 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
I can identify myself if I'm already addicted or not. I know that people can also tell me and look if my habits is already on the way for being a gambling addict. But, this cannot be avoided when someone gives his/her opinion about you being noticed your activities and tells that you're an addicted gambler. And if that's being said to me, I'll justify myself that I'm good and I know myself better than the others. Honestly, sometimes the reality sucks and it's painful because we can't admit that we're already there and one of those addicted gamblers. You know that there are offending ways of expressing their opinions to the other people and that's why sometimes it's hard to accept the fact. June 18, 2023, 04:26:45 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
It is indeed offensive if someone think that a person is addicted to gambling even though he is not. It is disrespectful to the person. I will also feel the same, but i will choose to ignore them than explaining myself to them. I have a firm belief that as far as I know myself, I won't mind what other people say. I am not born to please them so I just let them to their assumption. Aside from that, they are committing a sin because the are judging people without knowing if their assumption is right or wrong.
June 18, 2023, 04:24:29 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
When it comes to gambling I know myself more than other people so there's no problem at all if people think I am addicted to gambling as long I know that I'm not chasing losses, not taking a loan to gamble, and not spending the whole day or night playing in casinos.being addicted or what but they dont really actually know on what a certain person been thinking or really their status when it comes into their gambling activity.
June 18, 2023, 04:21:54 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
Mmm... kind of, yea. I mean I'd accept it if I am, I ain't that blinded, but I'm doing a lot of things to prevent me from being addicted imo. Properly financing my gambling money so that it doesn't affect me financially, scheduling my gambling so I can know my limits, stuff like that. Imo an "addict" is only one if it starts to negatively affect you, mentally and financially. In both cases? I consider myself perfectly fine. If a 3rd party consideration is needed then I'm 100% willing to grab my friend and tell him to judge me. And being identified as an addict will always make people judge you, no matter what kind of addiction it is. I reckon it's only a lot worse if you consider it's a gambling addiction though.
June 18, 2023, 04:12:34 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
When it comes to gambling I know myself more than other people so there's no problem at all if people think I am addicted to gambling as long I know that I'm not chasing losses, not taking a loan to gamble, and not spending the whole day or night playing in casinos.People will never know if you will not tell them how you play or gamble they are left to themselves guessing if you are really are addicted to gambling, you know people they tend to create misinformation about other people.
June 18, 2023, 04:12:11 PM
Most probably yes since most of the addicted gambler are still on a denial stage and of course they have no right to call you addict, but if its already obvious and they think you need a help already then maybe you have to listen to them. I don’t want myself to be on this situation, this is why I continue to limit my gambling activities and be more responsible, being addict already can make a lot of stress to you and that is not ok.
June 18, 2023, 04:05:52 PM
I would easily accept it, if someone in my family or my friends said I was addicted gambling or anything. If I'm an addicted then they will try to pressure me, and will make me realize that it's not good, first aid is family. Who can support you, if not your family and your friends? believe it or not being an addict is sick, preferring not to eat than not doing that's habit. So I don't mind being called that, because it will make easier for me to be better and to be responsible.
June 18, 2023, 03:57:28 PM
People are also likely to look at you in a perverse and wrong way. You usually don't feel like pity behavior either. And let's face it, those who are often addicted to certain things do not get it easily in life. It is not only being addicted to gambling, being addicted to drugs etc is also a big problem which is not always recognized by society. Addicts often find themselves in a vicious circle and cannot get out of it on their own. But maybe this is a big problem in society than many people realize.
June 18, 2023, 03:53:24 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
A very common kind of reaction if a certain gambler would be called out to be an addicted one which it is mostly be told by your friends or relatives or someone who do knows you and would be telling that you should really be having that moderation with your gambling activity because you are already showing off the signs of an addicted person but in the end you would really be simply denying that you arent that addicted,you have just enjoying the game and you are willing to lose up the money which you've been using. Well its a common reaction by these type of people but just let them be because we know that
its their money they've been using but there are really moments on which we do really been also hurt on watching our loved ones losing up tons and this is why we could really say up those words.
Its true that its none of our business on what they've been doing into their money but somewhat it cant really be just that able to avoid on not to make some involvement or saying up something into it.
June 18, 2023, 03:25:00 PM
Of course, people don't want to be known as an addicted gambler. Because that often means that you have lost huge mountains of money, but also that you basically go through certain phases in life with difficulty and that you cannot control your self-control. So it is not just gambling, but also the problem that you are experiencing an unstable phase of life. And certainly in society and then in the field of work and private life, the situation does not get any better if people know that you are addicted to gambling. As a result, all the necessary marriages and relationships have fallen.
Even though losing pf money is one part of the characteristic of addicts but that also doesn't mean that he is totally lost money but also losing coordination and self-control over involvement in gambling since it makes more or no sense to allow an addict fo have access to large funds that can be wasted on gambling even though they're ready to go into debt just to fulfil their gambling desire. Being an addict is the worst thing that can happen to anyone a d if care is not taken it may lead to the person losing their respect and place in society at large.
June 18, 2023, 02:58:04 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
Anybody that has a problem and fails to accept that he has such a problem will not have the solution. If accepting that I am a gambling addict will set me free from this disorder, I will gladly accept that I have a problem. Gamblers in some cultures are seen as wasters and irresponsible people. A gambling addict will even be wrongly categorized as a criminal. This is why most gamblers hid their disorder from people even when they are aware that they need help. They prefer to suffer in silence than to open up about their struggle with addiction. Until our society understands that you cannot help people by insulting or disgracing them. People that are suffering from gambling disorders should be treated like humans and not like animals. They should be respectfully counseled and not publicly shamed. I will be willing to tell a qualified therapist about my problems but it will always remain a secret.
This is why it is always best to open your struggles within your family or closest friends.
Because they are the ones who can truly understand your situation and want the best for your mental health.
The reality is, people are being judgmental to others. Thus, some gamblers are very secretive to what they are doing.
I can truly understand that. So if I think I am on the verge of being gambling addict, I can only show my true issues to very few people.
I may find it offensive if some people will say bad things towards me, but don't know actually what will I feel as I haven't been in such situation.
June 18, 2023, 02:51:19 PM
I gambled for a long time but apart from my closest people and my partner, no one knew about it because i never showed anyone apart from my closest people and my partner that I was a gambler so i was never called that 
But if in the end i was called that, I probably wouldn't deny it because the evidence is clear that i've been gambling and i've been doing it for a long time.
Even though in this case I only gamble with small money and even then it only revolves around sportsbook but it does not cover the fact that I am a gambler. regardless of being called an addict or not I actually don't really have a problem with it because what I believe in this case is that as long as my gambling does not interfere with my finances (because I always take into account it in every month as a personal expense) then i don't need to feel offended and fortunately my partner is not too concerned about it either.
But if in the end i was called that, I probably wouldn't deny it because the evidence is clear that i've been gambling and i've been doing it for a long time.
Even though in this case I only gamble with small money and even then it only revolves around sportsbook but it does not cover the fact that I am a gambler. regardless of being called an addict or not I actually don't really have a problem with it because what I believe in this case is that as long as my gambling does not interfere with my finances (because I always take into account it in every month as a personal expense) then i don't need to feel offended and fortunately my partner is not too concerned about it either.
June 18, 2023, 02:42:11 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do,
Why will you see me and you will start calling me addicted gambler, it's really wrong, I might be a gambler and am not addicted, in my society, if they see that you are a gambler, they already concluded about the kind of person you are even if they don't truly know you, a gambler is seen as a bad influence to the society and they see every gambler as a addicted gamber. If am being called a gamber, I won't really care about that but don't call me a addicted gambler. saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
Some people think everyone is just addicted to gambling even as some people are not addicted, if you are see, gambling a lot of people see you as addicted gambler, some people might be gambling frequently and they are not addicted, some of them gamble with just little amount so even when they lose it means nothing to them. Actually some of gamblers are addicted but they keep on claiming they are not addicted but we should know that not all gamblers are addicted. 
June 18, 2023, 02:27:06 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
Anybody that has a problem and fails to accept that he has such a problem will not have the solution. If accepting that I am a gambling addict will set me free from this disorder, I will gladly accept that I have a problem. Gamblers in some cultures are seen as wasters and irresponsible people. A gambling addict will even be wrongly categorized as a criminal. This is why most gamblers hid their disorder from people even when they are aware that they need help. They prefer to suffer in silence than to open up about their struggle with addiction. Until our society understands that you cannot help people by insulting or disgracing them. People that are suffering from gambling disorders should be treated like humans and not like animals. They should be respectfully counseled and not publicly shamed. I will be willing to tell a qualified therapist about my problems but it will always remain a secret.
June 18, 2023, 02:10:46 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
I don't think the issue of "will they accept the branding" is the issue here. The problem is accepting that they have a problem, the branding comes after that. Of course gamblers, addicted or not, will have a negative reaction when you call them addicted gamblers, most especially if you mean the branding. But a responsible gambler will not carry on with his shit upon hearing something like that, he'd assess himself, and would most likely takea break, most definitely a gambler that's spiraled into addiction will see this as something offensive, rant about it/bitch about it elsewhere, and then carry on with his/her unhealthy practices. It's all about self-awareness and the willingness to see the picture from a different angle. Addicted gamblers will have a one-track mind dedicated solely for gambling so you can't reason with them even if your life depended on it, the more desperate they are the harder it will be to convince them they are addicted too. So yeah, to me it's not about if they are offended about being called that, it's about what they do after that matters most. 
June 18, 2023, 02:09:45 PM
Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
We live in an online era where not even my closest friends know that I gamble,only my wife knows because I have told her and she is OK with it as long as I don't overdo it,she consider that 100 dollars weekly spent gambling as entertaining for me,kinda like going to the movies and every thing is OK within family walls.In my work they don't even remotely know that I can be a gambler let alone an addicted and this because I never talk about gambling at all there even when my colleagues talk about sport games I listen to them when in reality I am the expert that should be talking about them as I have been betting on such games from quite a lot of time
.So for people who feel bad being stereotyped by other people I let them know that as long as you do it online no one can stereotype you at all. June 18, 2023, 02:09:30 PM
Of course, people don't want to be known as an addicted gambler. Because that often means that you have lost huge mountains of money, but also that you basically go through certain phases in life with difficulty and that you cannot control your self-control. So it is not just gambling, but also the problem that you are experiencing an unstable phase of life. And certainly in society and then in the field of work and private life, the situation does not get any better if people know that you are addicted to gambling. As a result, all the necessary marriages and relationships have fallen.
June 18, 2023, 01:57:45 PM
As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there.
I think this will depend on the person's mindset, I mean right now I won't find it offensive because I know to myself that I am not a gambling addict and my action proves that. now If I do have a gambling problem, my mindset could be different and being referred to as a gambling addict might offend me since from what I have read, people with gambling problems would often deny or justify their problematic gambling habits. Jump to: