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If you're starting your journey on gambling do you think reading about people's bad experiences like losing their savings and getting depressed which leads to loss of jobs and livelihood will help new gamblers to become responsible gamblers for fear that what they read will happen to them?

I ask this because, in our country, our government has mandated cigarette manufacturers to post graphic images of those who suffer from the bad effects of cigarettes on every pack of cigarettes like lung cancer pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis

So do you think it will be the same with gambling?

If someone has not gambled before but reading on the news and online about how a gambler become addicted and gambling become something else in the gambler's life that severely affected the gambler, he may not want to be addicted but gamble responsibly or not gambling at all. I have noticed one thing in life, that people learn from what happen to other people. But despite that, some people will be falling and still not learn from someone that have fallen before. But it will help some people.

Not really.As long as I am entertained while I am gambling I would not be impacted by any story circulating around even the worse of the worse of them that ends with some heavily addicted gamblers suicide.This will not impact me as I think to myself I see no reason to get as deep as him in addiction and I have a great amount of self control that I have earned over time gambling.I have the power to call it a day and quit even when I am having really bad consecutive lost sessions,so no.It will depend on everyone personality though as people are different but personally I would not care much what happens to others regarding gambling.

I agree with your opinion one of the factors that helped me to become a better and more responsible gambler is reading other experiences although I also experienced slippage, I always go back to remember what I read but sometimes you tend to forget this through excitement, and the effects of dopamine in your body you know that it's risky but you are too excited to be a risk taker, but once you remember and realized the bad stories of people who lose control you will come to your senses that you have to be in control.

What you've seen in other people will have an impact on your mindset, when it comes to gambling you don't have to experience the bad things you just have to remember all the lessons coming from other people so you will become a better and more responsible gambler.

Reading about those bad experience from people are like a warning advice them. Kinda like you have been made aware of what might happen but those will not restrict you from doing what you wanted to do.

Just like the smokers who still keep puffing the smoke despite the warnings from the advertisements themselves. It didn't stop me from smoking when a pack of cigarettes itself had a label from the government warning saying: Smoking kills. Freedom is freedom.

If you can understand and you can remember and you're not someone who easily loses control then it can help, it's too risky and bad for your well-being to experience all the bad things in gambling, it will hurt your pocket, your loved ones, and your emotions.
It pays to listen to someone's story if you're willing to listen, understand, and be more concerned about your attitude toward gambling.

We need to understand the many risks attached to gambling and it is only possible if our mindset on gambling is just to enjoy it and not make a living out of it, you will be ruined if you listen to people who brag that they've earned or won huge in gambling, these people do not tell the whole story about their results.

The experience word of the gambler will help the new people get away the loss,it will make the gambler to get away from the damage loss in the gambling.So their are more possibility for the gambler to get away from the full loss,So the new gambler or less experienced gambler should ready to accept the feedback of the old experienced gambler.We are not going to spend any money to hear the voice of the experienced gambler.But the experience will be enough for the new gambler to register their first win in the gambling,you should ready to hear the words.Also you should risk the real money to check whether it work to earn more money from that advice.

Of course this can influence and help someone to become a better gambler, who is wise and responsible. A bad incident that happened to another person caused by an irresponsible and uncontrolled gambling activity, of course, this is a form of appeal and reminder for us to be more careful in playing gambling.
And do we have to fall first in order to know how painful it is. I don't think so, we don't have to experience bad events in gambling to know the negative effects of gambling, as you mentioned "losing savings and experiencing depression that causes the loss of jobs and livelihoods".
and what others have experienced is enough to make us realize that we must be more careful in playing gambling, so that we can avoid the negative effects of reckless gambling. we must be able to do all forms of anticipation so that we do not experience the same thing as others feel.

very often reading post on internet, we don't know a person's background, so we don't necessarily find errors that are useful to us :) ... I mean an experienced will never do some errors ::)

But I change always my point of view.
I don't start from "what not to do" errors but instead from good strategies and methods to achieve a result :)

Do not read bad experiences to decide if it affects you or not, consult your doctor, get a diagnosis and stop believing in witchcraft, Instagram accounts, YouTubers or stories you read.

You can starting from casino, which tells you, come on! that you are going to lose 1% in most games, but you still decide to play, then, it is  because you know what you're doing, right?.

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The thing about cigarettes has left me absorbed, I don't know what country you are from but they have been isolated for at least 20 years, this is law, an obligation and in fact an international agreement of the tobacco companies for many years, to place the warning of ...in short, you can die from cancer.

This is the worst thing you can do when you are new in gambling journey since it will just implant you a scary scenario that might trigger your fear once you are encountering difficulties on gambling.

You have a good chance of winning if your mind is clear and you are calm since you can control your wager properly and avoid chase loss that often give loss to gamblers. I never read people bad experience online when I’m new, I just discover it myself when I’m actually gambling and losing. At least I learn a lot on my experience and enjoy at the same time unlike playing while you are fearing that you will experience the same that will cause you to out of focus.

People will not become addicted to gambling if they hear about other gamblers' bad experiences before they start gambling.  Because from the time of starting gambling, a negative thought about gambling will work in him, due to which he will not use gambling properly. Gambling is a very bad addiction though it is a fun place but when everyone comes to have fun here they fall into a deep addiction due to which they cannot give up gambling easily later on.  So stories of other people's bad gambling experiences can help save us from deep gambling addiction

Personally, I find it very helpful reading about others' bad experiences because it gives me things to stay away from.
It gives us insights on what can be the repercussions of the situation if we fall into one.
It might be difficult to face the same situation but it gives us an edge by knowing the outcome and helps us prepare for it.

It will depend on the subjectivity of each individual. Stubborn people will tend to ignore others' experiences and will still try on their own, while more logical and reasonable people will tend to learn from others' mistakes, avoiding to repeat them on their own lives. Therefore, I think it's completely valid for governments to launch such propagandas to spread awareness to the population. Even though not everyone is reached, there will be always some people who will. And if the worst for the lives of those people can be avoided, it's already a valid measure.

Of course I believe it, is always good to read or ask questions about the effects it has on other people before you could venture into it because it will not only help you but also guide you on how to easily go about the gambling and not being affected negatively.

One of the advantage about asking and learning from people is that, it will make you to be aware of the possible challenges that could likely be caused by gambling, so however you will be guided when gambling so that the possibility of  falling into the same victim with not be possible.

But although it all depends on individual because there are people who knows what others pass through in gambling and they still went the same way instead of learning from it.

that's right, the experiences of other gamblers who are trapped either because of debt, their bankruptcy, or other bad things caused by their gambling are good lessons that i can learn from. their bad experiences in gambling can be a good thing which shapes people into gamblers who are wiser in their actions and also responsible both in their finances and their relationships with their families. all of these are very valuable lessons for other gamblers.

and regarding the effects of addiction and other bad things related to gambling, people need to be educated so that they can understand that gambling comes with risks and is not a way to make money. it is just entertainment and one must be able to control themselves so that they do not become addicted and end up with bad news.

People hardly learn from the experiences of others mostly because they cannot relate to the pain and suffering that experience may have caused them.

We have it somewhere at the back of our minds where we tell ourselves that the other person with a bad experience wasn't smart enough and that we are smarter than those persons whose lives have been ruined by gambling addiction. We think it cannot happen to us or before it happens to us we would have prevented it.

However what we do not know is that when the emotional component of gambling comes into play logic AND rational thinking is thrown away for emotions and irrational thinking. Then we start chasing losses, we gamble more than we can afford to lose and before you know it, it is us telling our own sad stories about how gambling has destroyed our lives.

Some of the most serious diseases that can be caused by smoking cigarettes are printed on the front and back side of cigarette packets with graphics to warn people, but people still do not appreciate it. While the cigarette packet itself shows how harmful smoking is to health, then people do not stop smoking cigarettes. Even if the price of cigarettes increases or there are major diseases caused by cigarettes, people will still smoke cigarettes. Just as people cannot quit smoking even after seeing the real form of cigarettes, similarly those who become addicted to gambling cannot bring themselves out of gambling even after realizing the negative aspects of gambling. If a person takes gambling for fun then gambling is fine for him but when he becomes addicted to gambling for fun then gambling becomes very bad for him. If we can control our gambling, gambling cannot harm us.

With all my honesty, I think it's important for anyone to know about the risks and to listen to more experienced people, but when I started betting, I didn't pay any attention to it
What's more, I think most bettors end up having their own experience and have to go through it
And one more thing, a bettor usually starts with a very small bankroll, so some of the experiences you've mentioned may not be that relevant to a beginner

In the beginning I tested various methods, I think every bettor starts out thinking they're going to get rich with the Martingale method, after all it seems infallible and you don't want to hear from other people that it might not work hehehe

In my country there are also warnings about tobacco, even on the cigarette packets themselves, but I've never seen anyone say that they stopped because of this campaign

I don't believe that gambling is a bad thing because I see it as a form of entertainment. But if I saw gambling as a passive income model, I would say that it is a bad thing. I think it's all about how we see it, so it doesn't bother me to read about other people's bad experiences. The pictures on cigarette packs don't bother me either. I don't think life is black and white. There are also gray colors. And sometimes the gray colors are more intense and inclusive if you evaluate them correctly.

But this action does not stop people from smoking.  This remind me of what I saw this morning while walking home, I saw a man carrying a box of cigarette with a label of "smoking can cause death".  But still that label does not stop stores from selling cigarette and at the same time smokers still continue to smoke.


Reading and learning from bad experience of people will not stop a person from gambling but I think it will have an effect on how a person approach gambling.  With the knowledge on how a person got addicted, gambler can determine if they are getting addicted or not and they can stop at the right time avoiding gambling addiction. 

Aside from that learning the mistakes of other gambler make a person avoid that mistakes which can have a better result.

that is so true. look at those smokers who continuously buy pack of cigarettes even if there are so horrible photos in those packs. and so reading bad experiences owed to gambling won't deter these gamblers to gamble. maybe, personal bad experience can alter the gambler's lifestyle like his loved ones are slowly drifting away from his life or a gang is after him because of bad debts in gambling.

To me I think it will, let’s say that a beginner starts to read about how those that have been gambling for a long time started doing something’s that eventually led them to become addicted or unable to control their bankroll and soon spent their savings lavishly on gambling; or how they started gambling regularly to the point that they could no longer do without gambling.

If a newbie that actually learns from what they read comes across such life experience article it will be difficult for them to fall that same thing and if per adventure they start doing it unknowingly to them once it’s pointed to them by other they’ll be able to stop because they already know what lies ahead of them if they continue, while for them it might just be another fairytale and won’t practice any safety tips from those articles which means such articles will help some and also be of no use to some.

If that would have as devastating impact to cost to society and health, then it would be possible that your (and my) government would took take similar approach.
But you don't get lung cancer from gambling. That doesn't mean that government wouldn't combat against it in some way, but i don't think it will be such a vivid attack on morals.
Most likely it will be more subtle, giving help instead of judging.

And i think that biggest problem they see in it, is possible tax evasion, so they just want to track your money in more effective way.

Sometimes people always think about seeing their experiences outside the consequences of gambling who have to lose savings funds with their livelihoods, but it will be difficult if someone starts gambling with curiosity, maybe at the beginning they are normal but if they can't control it then they will lose their responsibility for gambling, back to themselves even though they have seen the consequences of others with their suffering sometimes it is not cared about by themselves.

Like cigarettes that have a warning on the packaging about the suffering that will be experienced if you are addicted to cigarettes, but still people ignore it so it is difficult for them even though there is a warning in it, this also applies to gambling.

I believe this will really help. Do you know that most people only know about the positive side of gambling? They don't really know about how people get addicted, lose their properties, change their mindset, and become very obsessed with gambling.
 
If a memo about how gambling can affect someone negatively can even be made readily available, like what your country has made the cigarette companies do, it will help enlighten young gamblers on the part that they should follow and how to set up a good working betting plan with the mindset of not seeing gambling as a source of income, as most people fluently gamble winnings online as part of the things that have made them successful.
 
Most people are good at learning from others mistakes, and it helps them to set their own part towards not repeating the same mistakes that have been done by others, so such stories, especially from the mouths of those who have experienced them, can be some sort of inspiration for others to learn from.

Having knowledge about what you are going to do and what are the things you have to face as consequences will definitely be a positive thing.It can be acquired in two ways either learning from your own mistakes or mistakes from others and the latter comes at no cost so its an extra benefit. I am not sure it will not eliminate the risk of addiction because it's subjective the individual's mental strenth but its good to have something better than nothing.

I understand that people learn differently; some learn from the experience of others while some only learn when they have their personal experience.  Whichever case, the experience of others is a wonderful instrument for anyone venturing into gambling.

Just like academic knowledge are predominantly the experience of others, shared gambling experience can influce the decisions and approach of others. For instance, some people have shared some tips here like taking a break after a major win; others can easily integrate this into their gambling decision because they have known the consequences of not doing that. Indeed, there are many ways to benefit from the experience of others as regards to gambling.

reading or hearing or even witnessing the pain that other people have had or are going through because of gambling will help a lot of people to be more careful with gambling, and of course many people are stubborn, they always think: "this won't happen to me" and continued abusing the game and later destroyed their lives. and they will blame the games, but when in fact the games, the casinos are not to blame. The only people to blame are people who don't gamble responsibly. I believe that in all the countries on this forum there are cases of car accidents involving people who were driving the car while under the influence of alcohol. Every day we see news about car accidents in which many people die

But even though we see many people dying every day due to driving under the influence of alcohol, many people still go and drink a lot of beer and then drive a car. people simply ignore the many deaths, people simply ignore the laws and continue driving under the influence of alcohol. with gambling it's the same thing, casinos try hard to comply with the laws, they put up TOS and yet people ignore all this and create accounts even though they know they are underage

other people know that the money they have is not for them to gamble, yet they take the same money and go play at the casino, after they lose everything they blame themselves and others blame the casino. something meaningless. I've seen cases of gambling addicts who canceled their casino account and started playing again and lost, and blamed the casino. It's a fact that most people don't listen to. no matter how dangerous and sad and disastrous what they see, they will still do the same thing

Depends on a certain person because there are ones who would really be having that kind of reaction and there are ones who dont really care at all even if they would really be seeing others people unfortunate conditions.
Whether we are speaking or talking about gambling then it would really be just the same. Somewhat it is really that part of human instinct and behavior that whenever we do see something on others condition
then it would really be normal for us to have those kind of impressions and thinking that we should really be avoiding it. If ever you would really be tending to have those kind of engagement
then you would really be definitely be trying out to minimize or simply you would really be that completely stopping. It would really be that depending on a certain individual as i said earlier.

um, i'm not sure i'll give a good answer but i think some people use gambling as a means of entertainment, even though they spend or lose a lot of money from the gambling they do.  anyway, if it is damaged by smoking, actually the shape can be seen with the eyes because it is a disease, but if it is damaged or destroyed due to gambling, it cannot be seen directly with the eyes, the effect is direct poverty.  After all, gambling is embedded in our DNA, only a few people will definitely become corrupt or addicted to gambling, so spreading other people's experiences about the bad effects of gambling is ineffective.

Of course it helps reading other people's experiences. This is the whole idea behind reading books. You read other people's opinions/experiences so you can understand the matter even better. Some people don't follow this idea though. They prefer to experience it themselves instead of reading texts and while this has an advantage (it makes you understand the bad experience better) but the disadvantage is equally great because you have to pay for this bad experience. (it often means you'll lose money) We read books to avoid paying a high price for the bad experiences. (a book usually consts $10-$20) Getting the experience is a greater teacher than reading books but it also costs a lot more. How many times have you read articles telling you that the martingale strategy isn't working? Probably many times. And what did you do? I tried it anyway and lost money. You too probably.  That's where reading texts fail because we want to pay for the experience because it is a better teacher.

I can tell you that it doesn't work. People who add these pictures to cigarettes are grasping at straws, hoping that if they can save 1 out of 100 people it's still worth it, but that's all they're going to get with these pics. I have some friends who smoke and they all have these packs of cigarettes with pictures of cancer patients and they still smoke them. They ignore the pictures and go on like they used to.
The willing will find a way to climb a mountain. The unwilling will not, even if you make stairs for him all the way to the top. For this reason I doubt reading about other people/s experience will help an addict quit, unless he really wants to, but in that case he'd be able to do it even without all the reading.

I don't think it will help me in any way. If it's about bad experience from a platform, then I think it will help me. But personal experiences, grievances, and frustrations? That doesn't really add anything to my gambling experiences. Will it deter me from gambling knowing that other people have worse fates than me? I don't think so. Most of these people who have lost a lot of money in gambling didn't know the word 'control,' and will not stop from gambling until after their last penny has been spent trying to take back what they lost in gambling.

Everything in moderation is okay. People who don't take things in such tempo are those who are bound to get defeated by something that they thoroughly enjoy.

And also it could really be able to make you avoid on dealing up on something which you do know that it would really be giving out that bad results or outcome on which just like been most people been saying that
it wont really be that necessary for you to experience those unfortunate things before you would really be able to make out some adjustments on which you could eventually make out that adjustment without needing to experience for yourself and we know that there are really things in life on which we do really encounter up conditions or situation on which it might look something new for us. We do really get easily having that curiosity
and we are really that bound to test it for ourselves. It is really just that there are people whom do really love on taking risks and making some involvement for the sake of feeding up their
curiosity and doesnt mind whether it would be ending up positive or negative.

Bad experiences is normal but its not something that necessary that you would really be needing to experience for yourself first before you would be making out adjustments.
You could eventually be able to avoid things on just simply reading up someones condition and assess whether you should proceed or not.

Yes, I believe that, because to become a better person in doing everything, be it in a business and whatever it is, even gambling. then we are required to be able to learn and evaluate from every experience and be it an event that we have experienced or an event that someone else has experienced. So that with this can allow us to always be careful in doing everything including gambling. and with this caution will make us always alert and always prepare all forms of anticipation to prevent all the bad possibilities that will befall us. and as it is said in a proverb, "Prepare an umbrella before it rains" and now the rain has started to approach you, are you just going to stand by without doing any anticipation so that you don't get caught in the rain ..?

There's always a says that said "do not wait for what happened to others to happen to you before you start leaning". Meaning you have to learn from what happened to others in order for you not to fall prey any time when such is approaching to you, hence with the experience of other people you can control your habits from what has happened to other people. Any responsible and learned gambler doesn't always want to gamble to get addicted for people around to start noticing they are addictive gamblers.

Many cases of various negative impacts from other people's gambling activities have been studied to increase knowledge so that you are not one of them. You have only taken one case of gambling related to loss of control or emotional gambling, but other cases include interpersonal problems with partners and friends, and cases of gambling addiction have psychological and mental effects. We can learn from many experiences to take anticipatory steps for ourselves to prevent the bad effects of gambling.

Many things are discussed on gambling boards regarding news about gambling experiences from outside sources or experiences from forum members which can be used as lessons to be careful when gambling. The more things you know the more you will gamble responsibly. .

If you are a responsible gambler, this will be nothing to you. It is people that see gambling as a means to make profit that might get scared of such news because it is a warning to them that gambling irresponsible will lead to regrets. On the other hand, a gamble addict will not bother about such stories because he thinks that he will be able to recover his loss by allowing himself to be controlled by his emotion and will ignore whatever he hears or reads. For the addicted gamblers, it is only when they have made up their mind to stop gambling that they will stop or when they have learnt a hard lesson.

As a beginner it would be helpful, the experiences of those victims of gambling addiction you read from the articles learning their life story will stand as a bell ringing in your head as a reminder not to gamble irresponsibly. The mentality that a starter in gambling who was able to read about the depressing experiences of other gamblers would have will be completely distinct from the other guy who didn't read about any article but just started gambling without knowing that gambling can be harmful. Vaguely, I succumb to the believe that reading about other gamblers worse experience would be helpful.

That's what I think too.

I've never seen someone who stopped being addicted after reading about some random person's downfall, just as I haven't seen someone resign from an activity due to someone else's bad experience.
If that was a friend or a family member it's a different situation, but we tend to ignore advice given by people we don't know, especially when this advice is not being personalized, i.e. not targeted at us.
We don't even know if the story is real.

It may have an impact if you can remember and take action while you are playing, all that you know about gambling addiction will go to waste and will just be thrown out in a window, if you lack control and are too deep in your gambling experience I have experienced this so many times, I know that what I'm doing is potentially risky but still opted to proceed so I got the same experience.
You'll just blame yourself if you know the bad outcome but you still take the risk, over time you'll gain control if you keep checking other people's bad experiences and take note of them so you know what to avoid.
 

It may, but to some limit.. "remember things don't just happen - the may be hidden reasons behind every awful setback like that" - they would all think... Truth is, if people's failed experience doesn't motivate you routewise, nothing will...some peeps don't even wanna come out if they've still got a house leftover to stake - assuming they staked everything they got.
You definitely should be a physiotherapist...lol.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

And the impact is still the same, many people will disregard those warnings and continue gambling.
The truth is that gambling can't be stopped as long as it is still allowed by the government just like selling cigarettes but if that is fully regulated and bans those sites, that will be possible. But I don't think the government will do that because there is money in these institutions and that was also helping a lot to our economic growth. This is the reality --people already know the consequences of gambling and their chances of winning but they choose to do that because of this one reason, money and the chance to get rich instantly.

Everyone knows that, smoking and drinking causes death, but still many of us smokes, drinks. Why is that? Is it because we are addict or is it because we don't know of it's consequences? I say, we do this because we enjoy this. Not that we need it. The same thing goes for gambling. We gamble because we enjoy gambling and some words from another won't matter to us that much. There can be some exceptions for addicts. But still, one can't stop his gambling habit, unless he realizes the consequences himself.

It is one of the best ways to learn, by learning from someone's experience. If you're inexperienced and you are trying to get some idea on how it goes then reading people's experience will help you through your gambling journey.

You don't have to go through with the same experience as theirs and you have the idea what's the impact of those severe gambling addiction that can't be stopped by the sharer.

It's still a different thing if you go over the actuality but if you're careful and appreciates those experiences of people, you will try everything you have to just to avoid it from happening to you.

personally, yeah, but not to the point that I will quit gambling but just to the point that it makes you think what the consequences could be if you became addicted. so yeah, their stories(fake or not) are a great reminder of what could happen to you if you became addicted.

I remember when they started doing this, I heard a lot of parents in my area were angry because the cigarette casing was showing private parts that can be affected by smoking, they said it was extremely inappropriate because kids can see them.

Might seem rude or something but it does make me feel better since I ain't as dumb as them. Well at some point I guess I was one of them, but I grew and moved on (rather quickly as well luckily). In all honesty, it isn't all about just gambling, it's about being responsible. Gamblers are just more obvious because there's a clear-cut reason as to what they weren't responsible for, money. Sadly there are actually quite a few influencers imo that use such strategies to garner an audience, and well, it works.

Anyway back to gambling, I hardly doubt such warnings/sharing experiences work. I mean in your example take a look at cigarettes. They did those but I doubt users dropped. It might've been with the advent of vape, but it was due to vape and not due to those images that made them stop. Same thing here. You'd need an alternative to make gamblers stop, well, gambling.

It is a problem for us that we try to follow another person directly. If someone else succeeds in doing something, we become more motivated to do it and we think that we too will succeed. Again, the failure of someone else breaks our heart and we don't have the courage to do that. Things will not be easy for us as long as we follow others directly, taking success or failure of others as our own. Professional gamblers are never addicted to gambling. A professional gambler has confidence and control over his gambling due to which he does not become addicted to gambling and makes fewer gambling mistakes. I think there is no need to follow anyone in gambling we should proceed with our own plans without looking at who gambled and won a lot of money or who gambled and lost everything.

It would be impactful to some, but for other gamblers, it will just be a story that they listen to. I don't think reading something about what happens to gamblers who get addicted, their bad experiences in life, and what gambling causes them could really help. Especially for those who don't give a damn care about others', you see, being addicted to something is a person's personal choice and decision, and using awareness like what the government used in cigarette packs would have an effect if implemented in gambling. As what is used in cigarette packs is not so effective, there are still a lot of people addicted to smoking. Does that stop them or limit them? No! addiction, and the only cure for that is either rehabilitation or a situation where it's like an end game for them. So I'm sure using the same strategy used in cigarrette will help at all.

Reading won't probably help chronic gamblers. What will probably help is actual experience, may it be personal or a neighbor, a friend, or a relative has gone through gambling addiction and destroyed their lives. I think we human beings are hard-headed. We know that something is bad if done beyond moderation but we still do it. We need to experience something which is painful and penetrates our consciousness so that we decide to act. We're stubborn.

There is no better teacher from losers experiences and testament , imagine their words are more than important to use as method to not become one in the future (unless you are not  believing what they are saying)

I have seen many stories that almost the same in which wrong decision and bad habit so learning from them will help us to understand more .

I believe that about cigarette having graphics about the bad effect is already happening for long time now not only in our country but I  believe it is around the globe .

but do that really helps? because smokers in my country are still increasing and they care for nothing about those graphics sometimes being used also as funny thoughts or joke time.

Reading or hearing bad news of others can take some precautionary steps in oneself but in gambling no matter how much bad news one reads from others there is nothing to do when bad situation comes around. Gambling basically favors luck most of the time and when luck turns bad no amount of cautionary advice is of practical use. However, for those who are new to gambling, advice from experienced people or incidents of bad situations can be of some benefit.

The majority of gambling addicts are stubborn, they will be very difficult to advise, especially if they don't have high empathy, they will only think that it's just other people's bad luck, not all gambling addicts will be down. For people who are unable to control themselves when gambling, they will be trapped in bad things and there is a big possibility that they will fall into poverty and even be trapped in a large forest (there have been many stories about gambling addicts whose lives have been ruined)

Gambling is a game of interest and passion whomever that doesn't have passion for it will never put interest at the first place to gamble, but most times are driven by other people success or failure. When you see people follow those who succeeds in gambling it's assume that they are successful gambler or they are experienced gambler who are more professional in terms of gambling predictions, but there are some people who decides to go extramile about gambling believing that one day they must strike a larger winning whereby they aren't shaping their skills or even upgrade their techniques on how to choose and select games professionally.

If the gambler can think and understand it, it will be very useful in learning from other people bad experiences because it can provide more careful attitude in every action taken and always consider the risks that occur so that what other people experience we don't experience.
But unfortunately some people consider other people bad experiences to be bad luck and instead use them as jokes rather than as learning material.

As long as gamblers always use cool mind in every game or betting session, the thought path to be careful will appear by itself and the feeling of fear of risk can be felt, and that way gambler will not do anything stupid that is careless to make.

I think since gambling also plays our mind, I think it might help to show the negative effects of it and who knows, maybe the gamblers will become intelligent enough to see what could gambling will bring to them in the run.

However, want will be the graphics images that the government will post though? We can't compare smoking to gambling obviously.

Will they show images of some people turning or become criminals because of gambling?

It's very difficult to see how it will affect addicted gamblers though, I mean in gambling there could be a lot of reasons why individuals became addicted though and that should be the point of attack to make them quit. It could be that in the beginning, this individuals just wanted to feel what gambling is, and so we say that we gamble for fun and entertainment. But it can go backfire in the long run and become addicted gamblers. There are also who want to escape from their depression, thus gambling for hours just to forgot their problems.

So it might not be an effective method to have this graphic content and images to show what will be the effect of gambling as everyone has his and her reasons to gamble. So there's no one size fits all strategy. Still up to the person to quit and stop gambling and it could be better if they are going to seek professional help to stop.

Reading the bad experiences of people who have lost money from gambling should provide enlightenment to people who have just joined gambling. But it seems that only a few can understand that when gambling, they need to have self-control to be responsible gamblers. Meanwhile, others will not care about other people's bad experiences because they think that they can still take care of themselves well and will not experience the same things as other people. This is what makes them lose self-control even though they have read about these bad experiences so slowly, they will gamble excessively and in the end, they also lose a lot of money in gambling.

People who can take good care of themselves while they are gambling and after they have finished gambling need to understand that they can only use gambling for fun so they must be able to control themselves and always be responsible gamblers. This is to prevent him from losing a lot of money and also prevent him from becoming addicted to gambling.

Reading other people's bad experiences will not stop us from trying something, but it will certainly make us much more cautious. That's probably the point, it's not good to rush into something without any knowledge and awareness that things can go wrong... and sometimes things go the wrong way. It's good to do your research before getting into something, but unfortunately, many people don't do it. That's why we see many people crying after losing.

Most new gamblers come because they usually see wins on their social media or stream gamblers showing wins so most new gamblers don't come from someone else's bad experience, but instead come because of other people's enjoyment so they are stuck with their own game and are not responsible. so gambling goes beyond limits and becomes addictive.

New gamblers will be responsible if they experience losses that they feel and experience the fact that in casinos that winning is very difficult, it is not as easy as streamers and influencers winning gambling at casinos, it is rare for gamblers to come because of a bad experience, someone who exists is they come because they see the experience someone's victory. It's the same as when new smokers try smoking because they want to look cool and be seen by everyone, not come to smoke because of someone's experience of illness caused by smoking.  ;)

People gamble for various reasons, if we check we might find that many gamblers don't actually gamble for the money but using gambling as a approach to free their mind from the worries of life they are passing through and by constantly doing that to get relieved that's how they indirectly get addicted becoming an uncontrollable behavior.

In agreement to what you said it's through the support of a professional that the addiction can be remedied and not just the reading of articles about the dreadful experiences of gamblers before them. It's an expert that will know where and how to come into the situation to render the actual support.

I know this is very hard to maintain or learn from because of ignorant, yes we believe that luck aren't the same so those who lost money or lost valuables weren't their time to succeed through gambling or possibly they are not professional with their forms of selections. I can still tell you that even though gambling warning are still posted in every street or local shops maybe as an aids that displays whenever you opened a gambling or casino site you would still see that there will be some people who won't still stop or reduce the rate at which they gamble just as you said about the cigarette until they are being harmed for on the cost of consuming much parks of it, so it's a personal choice to choose whether to adjust or learned from what has happened to other person.

Reading people's gambling experience will help new gamblers on how to to pattern their gambling lifestyle not to end up just like gamblers who are struggling. Some people fall into being addicted because they never thought addiction is real,  they never expect it is Something beyond control. Growing up have seen people who were gambling addicts and they did funny things just to make sure that they satisfied their gambling urge, and I saw how this was toxic. I learned from what I saw and I careful the way I played gambling,  I didn't make it a hobby or alternative of making money when I'm in need  for money.

Hearing someone talk about personal growth honestly is refreshing. Your ability to recognize and change a past behaviour shows resilience. You're reaching a milestone in responsibility. Similar to any risky behaviour, gambling shows a lack of accountability, especially when money is involved. Its true that influencers have taken advantage of these human traits, and it can be hard to tell whats right and wrong.

Warnings and shared experiences have always been a thing. Gambling wina are loud and public, while losses are quiet and typically overlooked by the next great win. The smoking-to-vaping contrast demonstrates that dangerous behaviours persist without a less harmful option. This suggests that a safe or helpful outlet may change gambling tendencies.

What may gambling's 'vape' be? Is it virtual gaming, stock market trading, or something entirely different? Each has its own set of risks and responsibilities. The solutions may not be simple or universal, but discussing them sparks harm reduction innovation.

I do believe it is a good way to make us responsible.
Why? Simply because that happened to me. My father is a gambler, cockfighting, some of my cousins are also gamblers, and my grandfather also spent a lot of money betting for the national lottery every day if I compute the total amount of it.
Because of that, I don't bet large amounts, and as much as possible I could prolong the balance that I have and just hit the wagering amount that I plan for a month. I don't gamble habitually like there's no tomorrow. I don't get angry way too much when I lose.
I think all those experiences from my past made me a better gambler today because I don't want to become like them.
So yes, I do believe that every time we read a story about someone who cannot control their gambling habits, it makes us realize how risky it is when we gamble too. As long as they are real, because I have seen a lot of fake stories and you can tell that they are just making it up for unknown purposes.

As a matter of fact this should help, I am not a addicted gambler because of the stories that my parents shared with me while growing up, my father don't like the sight of gambling at all, they he most times called it the instrument of the devil, to fool people into thinking that they can really make it without breaking any sweat, he warned me to never get close to gambling as it will mess with my mind.

He told me about few people he know that ruined their lives because of gambling, even one that things are going well for because of the new job he got but suddenly this person turned into gambling and everything turned around for him, to the extent of using his house to take loan to gamble and he lost it, this was how his family got separated.

And me taking these warnings very seriously because it scared the shit out of me, and in my mind I started hating gambling, but when I get to know about Bitcoin and engaged in some trading too I decide to give gambling a try when I learnt that crypto is now acceptable, but the warnings of my parent still lives inside of me and it's what I apply when risking money on gambling, so yes I do believe that reading about the bad side of gambling can change your mentality and get you even more prepared before you start gambling.

Every beginners always believe that there is something special about their gambling skills, they want to have the taste in their own way first, so even if you keep shouting on them about how gambling can make them lose all their money they won't listen to you.

Only smart people listen to advice and make good use of the parts that they feel will be useful for them, I have lost money to gambling before and I know how it feels when you lose everything again, because of greed and your stupid way of thinking.

Greed is why a gambler will win a round and still proceed to the next, most times you will lose everything again, and ignorance is why a gambler will ignore the advice of others when gambling because they believe the same thing won't happen to them.

When everyone are chasing the same goal that you want, it's obvious what will happen at the end, this is what gambling is all about, like how many people are you seeing that are living a good life by becoming a 100% gambler with nothing else they are do for money?

I like it when ignorant people learn their lessons the hardest way, when I advice you about what awaits you in gambling and you ignore the advice then you are ready for the max pain.

Exactly, past experienced from people who get wrecked when they are inside this venue will help us to realize that there's always a big risk which we might also experience if we are not careful when we are playing, things that specifically are being mishandled by gamblers who think that it an easy venue to make money only to find themselves losing a lot after playing.

Reading those shared experiences can give us a hint and give us some basis on how we should act and play while inside the venue, making it more responsible and avoiding to have that same fate that those gamblers have when they are actively playing,.

Not necessarily help like people will choose to experience bad things in order to help others. I think its because that just serves as a lesson or reminder to the unfortunate gambler and to the new comers to always know their limits. Real life stories about the negative consequences of gambling can serve as a deterrent and create awareness about the risks involved. Same with cigarette packaging that highlights the potential bad outcomes of gambling may help individuals make more informed and responsible choices.

Those that don't consider the bad experiences of others think that they are just better without them and that's fine. We all have better approach on what we think is best and right for us.

If those people don't see the essence and help from others experience, there's no need to be butthurt with that because it won't change the fact that we're not them, and they're not us.

I agree about having a cool mind, like you're just chilling and gambling and your mind is cooled and no hasty bets and decisions are with you.

It all depends on each new gambler mindset and goals.
I mean if we talk about negative impacts as you said, it can give fear to novice gamblers, it depends on the thinking of the novice gambler because from history I have seen novice gamblers who come to gambling with the mindset of wanting to double their money, they will always ignore the impact. negatives of gambling, but if a novice gambler comes to gambling just to try to play the game he wants and then hears bad news about the negative impacts of gambling, he will definitely understand and will feel afraid and may decide to stay away from gambling.

everything you say may be right or wrong because everything still depends on the thoughts of each gambler who always has a different view.

Bad experiences, bad events will be lessons for those who want to learn. Meanwhile, for those who don't want to think wisely, losing makes them even more eager to gamble more. There are many incidents happening in my neighborhood. When someone becomes an uncontrolled gambler, it doesn't make them wise in gambling. On the contrary, he continued to gamble with greater risks, and he even had to lose a lot of his money. This incident was not just a story for him to use as a lesson, but made him even more uncontrolled in his gambling. The only way for him to stop is no more money to gamble.

Basically, maybe everyone also knows that something bad that they have experienced must be made into a very valuable experience to be a little better and in the sense that they don't let something like that happen again, and it makes sense as you say that "it depends on whether the person wants to learn better or not", it makes a lot of sense friend, because not infrequently we also find people who are stuck in the same hole, none other than because they don't become bad things as an experience to be better in the future.

And the conclusion is that those who always experience a lot of defeat in gambling are people who do not want to learn and do not want to make bad experiences as a consideration and reference for a better future. Of course that's true, so I hope they can immediately realize and take some precautions so as  not to always fall into a large number of defeats, it's better to think from now on before you suffer a larger number of defeats. It's really worrying when they have to lose a lot of money just because of the hope of victory that is absolutely not guaranteed and there is no certainty.

The best teacher is usually personal experience. But sometimes instead of learning from other people's experiences, some individuals will wait until they become victims before they learn. One of the most potent teaching techniques is the storytelling method and it is very simple but impactful. Even most great religious teachers used stories to teach important life lessons. So stories of people who have struggled with gambling addiction or over gambling might serve as deterrents to new gamblers who want to learn.

There are a series of gambling stories in this forum that have taught me some lessons on how to remain a responsible gambler. The responses and discussions from these gambling threads have been impactful. They don't just teach how to be free from gambling addiction but also how to avoid it.

It may or may not have an impact on someone based on their mindset about gambling or things in general. People who tend to learn from the mistakes that others make will surely find such stories and readings useful as they will become more careful and vigilant when gambling, but there can also be people who wouldn't care about what others have experienced and they will say that they will have a different experience and these stories aren't true or whatever.

What I believe is that one should at least read such stories and stuff for educational and knowledge purposes so that they should at least know the negative consequences of certain things that they might do while gambling and if they know about them, they might avoid doing those things like chasing losses, etc.

The same way they inscribe "cigarettes is dangerous to health, is the same way government has mandated them to put "18+" and "gamble responsibly" on their betting platforms. If you don't see this on the landing page, you will see this on the footer of the website. For the physical betting shops, you will see it bodly written on their banner front shops.

Gambling responsibility is independent on what you have in mind. It's all about how descipline you are as a person and how financial stable you are helps you control urge to gamble. If have money and you are not descipline, you will gamble repeatedly likewise if you don't have don't have too much money but you are descipline, you will gamble less. But if you don't have money and you also don't have descipline, you will borrowed money here and there and gamble the hell out of betting platforms without winning anything.

People that will gamble will continue to gamble, even if the government limit people to gamble twice a week, there are people that will gamble from morning to night for that two days given to gamble. It's all about descipline and how prepare you are because it's very easy to become addicted to gambling.

Each person does have their own different approach when it comes to gambling but it could really be just only having that two possible ways whether gambling for fun or gambling for money. We do know that when it comes to intents then each person does have their own. Not all the time people would really be just playing for money but also there are really individuals who are really that doing it for the sake of entertainment and leisure truly. Upon reading up on others unfortunate condition then it would really be that so impossible that you wont really be able to realize something as an individual and making use of your
own common sense.

There are really just those people who do really that reject out the idea and those things on the time that they've read it up and would really be that still continuing on the things that they've been
doing even if they are already that fully aware on the things that you do gonna do. You cant really just not anytime you do have that kind of control as long your mindset is fixed
or dedicated into something then you would really be failing up on following on the things that you are really that gonna trying to do.
It all matters on moderation in the end of the day.

Who on earth hasn't heard or known how gambling is negatively affecting some people's financial lives? Nevertheless, a lot of individuals choose to ignore all the warning indications they have seen about the dangers of gambling addiction in people's lives. Still on still, they will continue to permit such events to occur to them.

The fact remains that many would rather learn things the hard way. When they hear of other people's bad experiences with gambling, they are not moved or stopped unless they are painfully experiencing the worst with them. By then, they'll start moving on from their addiction to something more positive.

That's the kind of thing we see in today's people's lives.  They prefer to experience it first before quitting any bad addiction that will cost their lives.

Hmm. It's true that gambling can affect someone financial status, but these individuals do really know it can crush them to zero if they got involved with it heavily, and when I say heavily it means addiction taking bet outside their financial capability.
Maybe because they think that we do have our own lives, stories from other people or experience from others does not necessarily mean that they have going the same fate, but with gambling there's just two way, winning and losing, comes at worst the losing streak and become addicted to regain their losses.
Definitely, some are not moved by other's stories unless it happened to them, not just with gambling specifically. Funny how they wanna experience some tragedy before realizing.

i think it's the nature of humans. we wait for something tragic before we take action and sometimes its even too late before we do something to prevent it. the gamblers in the forum are very much aware of addiction but we are up to bet our coins thinking we could double the amount after.

when we win, we still aren't satisfied and once again we're up to continue betting. just like the smoker who knows it can cause lung cancer but there they are enjoying the smoke. yeap sometimes the bad experiences are not that helpful, it even ignites curiosity. but it sometimes serves as a warning for the fearful.

I admit that this is somehow true, We tend to wait for something bad might happen before we take an action and decide what's the best for ourself. Actually even if there's a lot of topic here about preventions and safety measures about gambling, others may read it but they won't apply it in their life or they are having a hard time to absorb all information's that they learned. For me, it's better not to experience or we don't have to wait for some things to happen, avoid and prevent it as fast as possible.

Yes, basically it's just an ordinary warning and it's true that sometimes people often feel curious about it and feel like they don't care either, everyone has the right to choose whether they want to continue or not even though they already know that the results will be bad or not good. Just consider the risks in gambling. , but if we don't experience it ourselves it might be difficult to believe in a warning.

Even though there are many facts that appear before our eyes or see the news on the internet where many failed gamblers become bankrupt because of gambling, let alone end their lives by killing themselves, of course we should be able to learn from someone's bad experiences in gambling because that can be our limit so that we don't out of bounds. Whether someone's bad experience helps or not depends on each person's point of view

I usually try to learn from mistakes that other people make because I don't want to learn on my own mistakes, I know that can cost a lot for me. So, in my experience, hearing of other people's bad experienced was something that probably made me to not get addicted to gambling and only gamble for fun but to be frank, I rarely gamble, only bet on UFC if anything.

Logically, when you see that if you smoke, you'll become like them who you see on images, you should feel scared and throw away your pack of cigarette but I have never seen anyone doing that, nor has the number of smokers decreased. To sum up, probably 99% of people only learn from their own mistakes and half of them even fail to learn from their own mistakes too if not repeated multiple times.

On a personal level, reading the bad experiences other people had in or with gambling will sure help me apply responsible gambling to all my gambling activities, as i believe, nobody wants or likes to make headline for an unfortunate incident, but we all will like to make headline for good stories.

This is actually an adage i think i have mentioned here on several occasions, but i am still going to say it again, and that is that, they say experience is the best teacher, but i say that, other people's experience is the perfect best teacher, for a wise man must not wait until something unfortunate happens to him before he learns, a wise man will pay attention and learn from what happened to other people.

So, for me, reading about other people's bad experiences will sure help me in organizing myself well to make sure that such a thing or something ever Worster than that, does not happen to me.

But on a general level, i do not think that such bad experiences will stop people from gambling.

I was watching one show yesterday on how many days it will take for one to spend a billions. After the calculations, it's going to take one 27 years of his life to be spending $100k everyday for the rest of his life and if the person refuse to work, he can averagely live his life without doing anything for that amount. The essence the show was to tell you how much wealth people are gathering and still looking for more. They keep struggling for more even with what they have can sustain them for the rest of the their life.

It's just a natural thing for human to want more even when they had enough, the enough is never enough and that's exactly how gambling is also. They will keep playing and playing because there is no maximum satisfaction in making money but the moment you make a single lost, that's it; you will wake up from that state but the problem here is that some gamblers don't know when to stop, they will keep trying until they lose everything they already made.

To even think that people are been told to gamble for fun, they don't do that anymore and that's why I do tell people, no matter the regulations set on gambling, people will find a way to still do it because when there is money involved in a particular place, rules are always difficult to implement for such people, reason why we have addiction today and it's very disturb to see that we do ignore how people are addicted to gambling without we or government doing anything about it.

Yes, I always pay attention to the bad experiences that others have had and shared because having knowledge in gambling is as important as gaining experience. Even though just reading and understanding the bad experiences of others is not directly equal to the experience I will gain myself, I think it has contributed to me.

For example, let's assume that a person consumes all his/her money due to gambling addiction then consumes his/her credit card limit and loses it again by borrowing money from his/her friend. Even though this is someone else's bad experience, the experience this person will tell will reduce my chances of making a similar mistake. In other words, instead of gaining expensive experience I will have an idea about the process with the information I can access.

As I mentioned, although a person learns what to do more easily through his/her own experiences, he/she can also create some rules for himself/herself by being informed about the bad experiences of someone else. For this reason I think that gaining knowledge of a bad event experienced by others will definitely be beneficial for me as well. This information will help you avoid possible mistakes and will also help you benefit from someone else's experience free of charge.

We have to be confronted directly by the negative consequences of bad habits, otherwise we will only continue lying to ourselves in order to get what we want. This is why there are those disgusting and horrifying pictures on cigarette boxes. And the same would be good for all bad habits, including alcohol and gambling. But a lot of people would rather continue lying to themselves as long as they can get another hit of fake happiness.

Or perhaps I am just viewing the world in darker shades of gray today...  ::)

Reading about someone else's negative experience doesn't always help you avoid mistakes. If a person is very gambling, he or she will think that he or she is luckier than others and that he or she will be lucky, unlike others

People can easily carried away when in the middle of gambling. Even with a lot of topics about the problems/effects of gambling, people tend to take their own path to experience the good and bad in gambling. It's not that they won't apply it in their life, but they often forget about it due to their emotion.

The experience will make a person learn from their mistakes. Even with different precautions, people will never learn till the time come to experience the result of their action. When it happens, it's all about them on how they take action based on the experience of other people.

Warnings about the dangers of gambling can be found anywhere, especially in everyday environments. That's why the warnings that have been seen are bad for those who gamble, but they still carry out gambling activities, actually the warning is worse than cases that have occurred, for example: punishment, arrest and so on, but still gambling is gambling, cases are cases, it has no impact on them.

In other situations we can see it, especially in Muslim-majority countries, whatever negative advice is suggested, they still gamble, it is prohibited openly, they do it in secret, the point is that the bad experience has no effect on them. Likewise, smokers in the morning, the more warnings affixed to cigarette packs, the more people who smoke each day increase sharply.

It's like we know the risks, and the choice to continue or stop is a personal decision. Compared to smoking, I think it's more of a warning to addicts than it is to newbies. Previously, I had read statistics about the death rate caused by smoking, which had an impressive number, but it was not as much as other pressures from society such as traffic accidents, war,... But going back to the issue of reading about bad experiences, I myself have experienced those things, so I also realized the need to change my own life. I have come into contact with many people who are considered gambling addicts, and the real lesson is to watch their lives. Their relationships in society gradually deteriorate, and their own lives also have ups and downs, even worse is debt and trying to escape, there are even people who have to be punished in prison. So I don't want that to happen in my life, and I hope it doesn't happen in anyone else's life. But sometimes this life has an invisible fairness, and we don't know whether things get worse or change for the better, it's up to us to decide.

My answer to your question is that, I do not believe that reading other people's experience either good or bad will help you. What I do believe though is that reading other people's bad experiences will make us create our own bad experience. It is very unavoidable. The gambling experience is dynamic and not static therefore we must have our story on either the gambling hall of fame or hall of shame. Whichever may be the case the learning experience is for us only.

I dont believe it will help the gamblers at all, because their adrenaline at gambling has make them enjoy it in their heartbeat, they already know those bad experiences are the risk that they may experience by them self. having to risk something they have is a fun for many people, not only gamblers, but also anyone who like challenges.

I do believe it will help people who want to start gambling. those people need to know how gambling works on their life, how gamblers life goes. if they really want to start gambling, they will realize that they need to put limit of the risk they can afford.

Not really a best way, but the best way is when we learn from our own mistakes or experiences. Reading someone else experience is a good addition after reading the basics in gambling and other information about it, so that we can minimize errors and get a decent experience even if we are only just a starter on it.

Those who share their testimonies can be an on going addict whose goal is to give awareness but I believe many of those who share are already cured. No one want's to get addicted because the effects of it are brutal. It's just that it can mostly occur because gambling is one of those activities where we can forget the consequences easily or we can easily get carried away by its goodness.

It is important to take a lesson from others experience and if you are not getting the basic points from others experience and initiate risky way then you cannot get advantageous results. Gambling is risky thing and I have examined that all gamblers have face troubles and they don't get what they want and they always loss their money so why we are also accepting this risky way even we know the reality.

Wise people will never enter into gambling and if one gambler is present in your family then you will learn from his defeat and will never enter into the same field but if you are unable to utilise your thinking power then there is a probability that you will follow this bad way and will ruin your life with your own hands. Always remember that those who cannot use their knowledge and are unable to get education as well as cannot continue their jobs will accept gambler because they think that it will provide them larger sum in shorter time but they don't know that this can also convert their larger sum into zero sum.

Every writer must have a storyline to speak on, else, what's the point of the great stories and writings we have read or had the opportunity of reading currently.  This forum had helped people read more and understand what BTC and the idea of crypto is as well as the ills associated with gambling.
 Am more confident because of the sorry and sad tales and it has helped also to narrow the focus and know what works both for gambling, mixing, trading, investment, Blockchain, crypto.

Still, gamblers will gamble and the world will not crumble. Smokers will smoke nonetheless despite the bizarre photographic display of ailment befalling many cigarette users.

Reading people's bad experience sure helps one know exactly what is wanted in this life's pursuit. It does more than help one stay focused and be exact at the right time.

Well, if reading about other gamblers bad experiences would help other gamblers, then it must be a new gambler who has not yet been gambling. If it's a new gambler, they will definitely read and learn and will not want to fall into the same situation that has been the mistake of other gamblers. For example, there was a story of a college student who gambled off a huge amount that didn't belong to them and lost that bet. Because he could not bear the loss, he went and committed suicide. There was another case too where the woman and her son duped someone off their money and used it to gamble, but at the end, both of them were sentenced to prison. If a newbie gambler reads some of those stories, they will want to gamble with self-control so as not to be victims of such situations.

There might be a different views with regards to this and yes every gambler have their own perception to others experience. Personally, I learn a lot from other people’s success story or even with their bad experiences since that could be a warning for me not to do the same thing or else I’ll end up into a wrong situation too. If you will see that bad experience as your green signal on what to do, the better but of course having your own strategy is still way better especially on dealing with those problems.

Seeing others situation could really give out that kind of idea on which you could really definitely apply for yourself.Some would really be having that kind of realization and some dont really care.
This is why we would really be seeing different situations or conditions basing up on what a certain person would do. Some would be sticking into the things that they do have in mind
and some would really be just be going on what they do have in mind. Bad experiences could really be leading into learnings but doesnt mean that you would really be that
sticking into that kind of idea on letting yourself that experience it first before you would be making adjustments on which i dont see for it to be ideal.

I think yes. When we read about someone's bad experiences, we will know what risks might occur when we become a gambling addict, so that we can gamble more responsibly. Although it is not a guarantee because there are times when a gambler loses self-control and chases losses, when conditions like this occur we usually end up spending more money than usual. Because we have read about the dangers of chasing losses in gambling, we will immediately be aware of the dangers of chasing losses so that we don't fall into the circle of gambling addicts.

Definitely, there are some things that it's best know without you experiencing it first hand, not only in gambling but to almost everything. That's also why people share our thoughts and experiences to others to make them aware of what may or will happen when they do this and that. In terms, to gambling people share their strategy and experiences to help people maximize profit and avoid poor judgement to their gambling decisions and also gambling addiction. It will shows us gamblers what will happen if someone loses control and go overboard with their gambling habits to help us avoid it without them experiencing it. But still, there are some people who might not be affected by these until they experienced it themselves.

Well, that's also true but the experience given by the writer could help us somehow to be cautious about things that we haven't experienced yet. I think that's the real purpose of that and we learn from it. If in damn bad luck we'd be in that same position, we can remember that statement given by the writer and maybe avoid it.
That's not how I view it.
I can still remember some bad experiences of other people that I got to use somehow to avoid it. One gambler that I read said about not sticking with one game because it will just bury your wallet and that makes me remember to always jump to another game after a win. Well, some may not be helpful but others who write informative testimonies can help us be reminded of things like I said above.
I think it's still a good thing for both the reader and the writer because somehow the writer can also express his frustration in words instead of getting mad all by himself.

Being addicted in gambling should as result of the funds you have lose and sometimes if you are greedy and you want to recover everything you have gained, so I believe you recovering everything you have lose should be one of the major things why some people use to be addicted in gambling, being gambling addictive should be as result of your interest in gambling and your target and someone who have not tested or participated in gambling before can not be addicted through online or seeing gambling online, you most win or lose before you become addicted because the money you won will encourage that you will more in gambling, or when you lose you be looking foe a way to recover your lost

There are many of us probably who personally know of somebody in the neighborhood or in the family who has gone through bad experiences in gambling. Gambling addicts are everywhere whether it's a developed or developing country. There is always somebody who falls victim to his urges to bet more, beyond what's moderate. I myself know of a friend who had his life turned upside down due to his gambling addiction. His gambling experience is like a lesson for us.

It may not help me significantly, but their experience can be a lesson for me to be able to manage my gambling activities. Especially those who told me they went bankrupt because they couldn't control their emotions and greed when gambling, that was quite an important experience that I could learn from them to avoid these bad things happening to me.

Do I believe that reading about people’s bad experience would help deter someone new to the gambling industry? Yes. I do believe that. Reading about the bad experiences of other gamblers could help change the minds of prospective gamblers from gambling much or not at all.
Reading about losses people have accumulated over the years would be a reminder that gambling is a win or lose situation and you can’t afford to earn a living from gambling.

Those experiences are what keeps me going,when I have people telling me about their ugly experiences on
gambling,it makes me adjust.I have learnt my lessons and won't get my self so much involved in it any more because what happened to me recently is one that I can't forget.Gambling affected my financial life to the extend that I don't have any personal savings anywhere.I wanted to save,but I haven't been able to do that because the debt I haven't cleared.It is just better to abstain from gambling because it is indeed not good.And at thesame time,it better to give it a try because you don't know the day it will pay you.Sometimes I feel like quitting,but at the same time,I encourage myself to keep on trying because quitters never win.

Being able to learn from other people's losses can certainly make us more careful in gambling and we can also control ourselves in the games we play. Everyone will certainly be very affected in their financial situation and will not be able to have savings because they spend a lot on gambling.
Gambling without being able to control your emotions will certainly not be good because the more money we will spend on gambling, it would be better for us to gamble relaxedly so we can win in the games we play.

Many of the bad experiences we encounter in gambling even result in death due to depression or other things. And in my opinion, for old gamblers, this will be a reminder not to gamble excessively and beyond our financial capabilities, and can make us gamble responsibly and use money that we can afford to lose and be aware of self-control when playing.
And reading about the bad experiences of novice gamblers can influence them and cause them to feel scared and afraid of experiencing something similar, and the bad experiences of gamblers can be a lesson and remind us not to be like them.

-  A gambler who reads an article about a bad gambler's experience will serve as a reminder or warning to other casino players.
It is also possible for those who have no experience gambling in the casino that this will also be a warning to them that instead of trying to gamble, it will be delayed because of the bad experience they had in gambling. So I agree with that title made by OP.


The bad experience of other gamblers is like a sign of age that gives us what to do if we are going to go or do it; we will have preparation or reminders at the same time.

It will help some people but I do not think it will have too much of an effect, for what I can tell many people think that bad things only happen to other people and not to them as they do not see themselves becoming just another statistic, and when that happens to them they are still unable to believe that it did, so it will require a very special kind of person to read those bad experiences and learn from them without actually having to go through them by themselves.

I presume experience is the best teacher, being its best teacher, why are newbies into gambling not reading and learning from the fails and success of those before them.That is the best way to learn. If you let the bad experience happen to you before  you do, then you remain a big fool. For it is said that the wise learn from.the errors and mistakes done by others.
People should  be gambling aware, the companies need not do too much. They can only  go with a logo of play what you can afford  to lose and if they don't understand just keep quiet.

A professional gambler thinks everything through and then decides to gamble. Gambling is not just about betting on one match to win and betting on losing money. Gambling is all about minimizing mistakes. If there is a mistake in gambling, then the entire money will be lost, so a gambler needs to be very focused on where he needs to gain sufficient knowledge before gambling or where he needs to improve his gambling skills. As you said a gambler should learn from where others have succeeded or failed. If we do not learn from the failures and successes of others, we are less likely to make mistakes in gambling.

I don't think this applies at all, even if I read the story and use it as a reference, in reality someone's gambling conditions will be different, thus triggering an uncertain mental involvement. Maybe when I'm conscious and in control, I have to be able to control my emotions and win. But believe it or not, after being in gambling, this kind of atmosphere cannot really be controlled easily. Therefore, gamble with an amount that you can afford to lose, because to realize that when you lose you have agreed to what you have spent.

There is nothing scary about gambling, it's the gamblers that make gambling to be scary because of what they expect and how they risk their money, what should be your target when gambling is learning how to minimize your risks, because oh boy, gambling is full of risks.

If you can minimize your risks with gambling you won't get pulled under by casinos, learn to manage the money you choose to risk on gambling, many gamblers don't do this and it's the perfect way to handle gambling, I have risked some money on new crypto projects that turned scam and few turned into big money, you can't win anything if you aren't ready to risk anything, but make sure that what you are risking is not meant to be your life saver e.g your savings.

If a newbie ask me about how they can be a good gambler I will tell them to go online and find gambling reviews, they need to feel the pain that those who gamble like their lives depends on gambling also felt, bad experience in gambling is a good warning for those who are about to start gambling.

The mistake that can be corrected in gambling is if having a budget for it and also making sure you do not spend more than the budget. I am talking about minimizing the risk also. To avoid the mistake, having the gambling budget is very important.

I think this is what you mean:

If we do not learn from the failures and successes of others, we are less likely to make mistakes in gambling.

Yes, we learn from other people past lives.

Yes of course it will. There will be a possible careful behavior or awareness to those who are newbies in gambling if only if they tend to listen and keep that lesson in mind. Some newbies don't really care about that as they only think about winning. About the cigarrette thing same with what the government did here in my country as well unfortunately those who are addicted to it won't mind about the packaging itself.

The final votes in my poll
Do You Believe That Reading People's Bad Experience Will Help You
Yes   - 27 (79.4%)
No   - 7 (20.6%)
So based on the community's opinion, it's okay to share our bad experiences in gambling for others to learn from it, we have to be honest with ourselves if we want to improve our gambling habit and we should be ready to take feedback because once we lose ourselves in gambling we don't want to listen to other people's opinion anymore and read other people's experience so while we are not yet deep on it, check other people's experience because what happened to them could happen to you if you don't read and ignore those warnings.
Locking this thread and thanking all those who participated in the discussion and voting.