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I've been watching Crash Course Psychology recently and came by an episode on trauma and addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343ORgL3kIc&index=32&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6. This video argues that addiction results from various sorts of psychological traumas related to different events (rape, physical or emotional abuse, war memories etc.). That is, when a person has a trauma, this person tries to get rid of fixating on it with the help of an alcohol (what's often the case with PTSD) or drugs (a good example is the case of sexual abuse of Edward St Aubyn (Patrick Melrose's prototype) and his subsequent heroin addiction). My question is whether you feel like gambling addiction is also a result of desperate attempts of avoiding focusing on other traumatic issues.
Note that I am talking specifically about gambling addiction here, not about people gambling in general.

Trauma victims open do find ways to get rid of their bad experience alcohol, drugs etc. But for a trauma victim to do gambling I can't find a way to link those two. Gambling addiction often comes from a lack of self-control. Trauma victims cant do gambling as it will only worsen they are experiencing already.

You cant point out that gambling addiction is also a result of trauma.

From my experience in gambling only :
1. I cant sleeps.
2. Really addicted to playing more.
3. Can't control my emotion.
I`m a Typical person can't control my psychology. Just like trade, I try to ask the advice of my friend about in this case, they just give me some of their opinions about try to educate your self by some psychology method.

Any kind of addiction is related psychologically and In my perspective it's because it activates the same brain pathways.

Gambling triggers the brain's reward system so if someone continues to gamble the chances are they will get addicted as the pleasure to win again and again will become worse.

It can be, I have a friend who had very bad family condition or I can call him as a broken home. He received violence from his dad when he was kid long time ago and the trauma keeps haunting him till now. He comes from very rich family, he have so much money to spend but he get less affection from his family. He is now addicted to alcohol, goes to night club almost every single night, spend the money with some girls, and yes he is addicted to online gambling as well. I do believe he do it because he want to forget his trauma when he was a kid. So it can be an example that gambling addiction is also a result of someone who want to forget his/her trauma. Although I believe he will forget it when he is doing what he like only, and he will remember it again once he is not doing nothing.
Overall, gambling addiction may come from from traumatic issues but it is very rare condition imho. Most of addicted gamblers come from their own incapability in controlling themselves.

I don't know what psychology says that but speaking generally, how can trauma result in someone getting addicted to gambling? There is absolutely no co-relation between them. One can't be a result of other and vica-versa. The study must have been conducted on drugs just like the alien theories.

Well, the educational video was not about gambling addiction. People who had traumatic experience often re-live them in dreams or memories. They are basically trying to find something that will distract them from harsh reality. While alcohol and drugs physically distract because of altering the ways of perceiving the world, one could argue that gambling addiction could develop based on traumatic experience, since when you're gambling, you're probably not thinking about anything else. Gambling can distract from reality, even though in a different way from what alcohol or drugs do. And since distraction is the main point here, why can't gambling addiction result from traumatic experience?

I guess there is a probability to it would be the truth. Gambling may be the way to hide from problems and reality to an individual. What kind of problems have place to be we can't know, but it may be some serious trauma as well.

Gambling does have a different effect and everything you mention is those who can no longer control their emotions and end up with negative actions or activities after getting severe losses in gambling. In the beginning such an bad effect was indeed more prevalent in gambling addicts, but as far as I know, gradually when they can play more professionally and still be able to think with common sense, they tend to be better able to control emotions and better themselves able to avoid such bad actions or activities. So, I chose the vote for Sometimes it is, other times it is not.

Well I think it is true for others we have different opinion and different reason why we gamble.
Some of us gamble just for fun to enjoy our time .
I think there are times back when I was so addictive in gambling I used to play just to avoid being lonely.

I think it's a result of a desperate attempt if one is doing it as a source of investment or profit.

Whether one wins or loses, one feels like they have to gamble again to make more money or make up for the lost money in case they lost before.
So to me it more of a desperate attempt that can sometimes lead to psychological disorders such as depression if things so south really quick.

But as the OP was asking, is gambling addiction owed to previous trauma? In my opinion, I couldn't relate the two subjects here. Maybe there are people who got addicted in gambling because of their personal traumas. But I believe only few people would be in gambling, most of them are using drugs, or alcohol. Never encounter yet that a person with traumatic experience got hooked in gambling.

That could be another reason for them to become addicted to certain things like smoking, drinking, drugs, and gambling. Some people tend to smoke or drink a lot if they get too much stress and is almost depressed because of the problem that they were facing at the moment. But with the help of their friends, relatives, and family it could be a lifesaving move if they have to tell it to them.

Having a trauma is a serious illness in our mind that needs a lot of time to help it to overcome, sometimes people get drunk just to forget about their trauma. But it is not a good solution to their problem because it will keep coming to them after they wake up.

I may say that, trauma is more than of being in a state of addiction. Yeah, it is a serious illness or a mental disorder coming depression and to much stress which it needs a serious and long medication. If that person have such thing, it really can't make a right decision and even get worst when it commits some criminal activities and lead him into out of control.
And so, we need to control ourself cause addiction would lead into something away from goodness and even committing illegalities and crimes.

First thing first if you really want to get rid of your addiction to gambling. Control your bankrolls or give it to someone whom you trust the most and your funds will be safe with them and you can only take it if you want to use it for buying something and not by playing in gambling.

The fun part is that Gambling addiction itself results in Trauma. People tend to be addicted to gambling not just in a single day or a month. Some start with a little money, win through a series of games and subsequently due to the profits they have seen in the gambling makes them addicted towards these. Prolonged Gambling experience leads a person to experience traumatic issues probably. Alcohol and other drugs are consumed by people in a higher stress sorts of issues but Gambling doesn't get that way.

But, if the person has been in trauma due to the loss of money in his business there are higher chances for him to get involved in gambling to regain the money. So, if he wins through the games he might eventually continue it as an addiction. We also need to note that, recent studies which took place in 2017 also shows that Gambling addiction takes place due to the gamblers facing a pressurized childhood such as with the parents being violent to them, abuse taking place in colleges and schools. That being said, gambling addiction has its roots in the earlier stages of the life or the situations which were hard to forget made them move towards gambling.

Thats why to stop addiction you have to improve your psychology, even the worst you need the help of a psychiatrist. but for the causes of addiction itself can be various things, not only trauma. people who do not have jobs can also become addicts, people who like to gamble are also prone to becoming addicts, and many reasons..

There are many ways for the person to redirect himself/herself from trauma like the use of drugs and the use of alcohol.

The person will just be addicted in to gambling if he will use gambling as a way to redirect himself from trauma. We know that continuous gambling can result into getting addicted into it so if he will not gamble while in a trauma, he will not get addicted into it and vice versa.

That is truth and gambling can result in to trauma and depression and that means one will find it very difficult to control his mind or think well and habit or addictions will step in.  Gambling is too risky and it is very difficult to make consistent profits without losing.

Addiction is very influential in life and the work system of the brain is very easy to change if it does have the determination to limit because addiction starts from excessive victory and optimism when it gets a defeat so it becomes very high emotion from that point he tries to keep playing to get victory and lots behavior can affect it, it cannot be avoided if you cannot minimize the game.

I don't think trauma can make people addicted because if you think clearly, trauma will never return until the trauma disappears.

I don't think a trauma in life can have an impact in gambling addiction in most of the cases.There are a few isolated cases however that a trauma can be an impact and that is when the person in order to try and forget the trauma finds comfort in gambling, in this case gambling addiction is almost sure to happen.

Why not? I think there is. Look, different people have different experienced when it comes gambling some are rid in trauma some are don't but usually, people encountered that because of lack of emotional control. Too much worrying on their loose that makes them traumatize, causes are neglecting personal hygiene and can't sleep because of chasing money. Gambling isn't too much bad but always keep in mind that gambling is not a source of income that is for entertainment only to break boringness.

Trauma has a profound effect on our lives.  People don't realize how serious past events have on us, whether it is physical or emotional abuse.  A common issue is these people tendto self sabotage because they don't think too highly of themselves so they live in sorrow.

Of course it is. The reason why this issue is important is that is can hint the ways of curing addiction. If addiction is a symptom of trauma, then it's the trauma one has to deal with (through therapy and perhaps medication), and the addiction will not be there anymore.
Thanks! I did not know about such research, but it's definitely in favour of adding gambling addiction to the list of other addictions that are caused by traumatic experience. In the case you offer it seems that we have the following situation: traumatic experience from the past -> gambling addiction -> new trauma. It's an interesting insight, thanks!It sure has. I don't have gambling addiction, but I have some  other troubles caused by my somewhat traumatic childhood (physical abuse and encountering exhibitionists as a young female teenager).

Its possible though. If a person is a gambling addict,he should find a way to satisfy himself and to always gamble. If he do not do this, he will put the pressure on something else or maybe to himself like doing drugs or alcohol to put gambling on other attention. He can also be abusive to his wife or children. If a person is destroyed mentally, he can do anything crazy.

I quickly voted for no but after reading all of the comments i'm convinced that the real answer is sometimes. I know people who have an addiction and uses it to distract themselves but never a gambling addiction.

Imo it can because there are so many trauma events that can happen on different persons.

If you got in trauma beyond gambling i think its different but if you got addicted into this one, it can result to a trauma to you especially if you lose big money. This can be the negative effect of bitcoin and we can't easily recover form this one if you're in trauma. So better if you could still help yourself away from this addiction, try to do it as early as possible so you cannot make the situation much worst.

Depends on the situation, if you get too addicted in gambling I think there is no big trauma aside from losing big money because when you get addict you still keep playing even if you don't have money anymore. The trauma may start from the people around you, there might be a change when it comes to relationship with your family, addiction can effect everything.

from what i understand , trauma means you are shock  . for example you witness a killing for the first time and that results you to become traumatize  . while addiction or being addicted to someone else like for example in gambling you will tend to feel happy and thats the reason why you play more  .  so that's it , both syndrome are different based on my own deffinition  .

I do agree with your statement. The manifestation is purely relative and depends upon the person on where they would displace their trauma. Some people do drugs, become alcoholics, get addicted to something, or even do recreational activities. It really depends upon the person on how he/she will react to the situation and if gambling seems to be their scapegoat, then that would explain some of the causes of gambling addiction.

Again, it is purely relative and depends upon the person's displacement of trauma.


The trauma would be based on past experiences on winning/losing. The problem with gambling is that if you do not stop, you will only succumb to addiction in the long-run. You may feel that you are actually winning on some days but in reality, you just recovered the losses that you incurred from your streaks. Gambling can never be profitable in the long-run.

I have a brother and someway related to gambling addiction, he's totally broke with no wife and kids. He sold his valuable stuffs like ( Cellphones, Rides, Laptops, Jewelries, Etc.) just to fill his crave for gambling when he doesn't have the money anymore. He is like this since he went high school and never have changed from this time on.We thought it was friends influence but we are not sure. Now we worry that he might lose his sanity and go nuts as some people addicted to gambling ends up. We continuously tells him that he should stop this but never does. When he loses in a gamble (all of his money) he goes silent and reminiscing what he had lose on an earlier game. I don't know if that was trauma but I guess it is closed to that.

When people keep on involving into gambling activities there mind never thinks of anything. This sometimes leads to trauma, which is very rare. In a recent news came to know about a player who got paralyzed spending weeks without taking rest on the popular game pubG. When one doesn't get the required rest some negative impact gets reflected over the body.

It could be, some of the people I knew did that, when they face certain probkem they will go to gambling to forget the problem, most of them are broken home trauma, but the percentage is very small usually people become addicted to gambling due to the greed and can't accept losing

Generally, only weak mind gamblers become addicted very fast, not all of them. But it is really hard who to save them from addiction. Because i will tell you in my words but act upon wise it is hard to do it. Addiction is very bad it is like a poison in our body. So it is not matter is it addiction of gambling, or drug or anything, but it will be destroy our life, So we should keep it our mind and control ourself from addiction.   

Thats what they mean, people who are traumatized or have psychological problems will certainly look for ways to forget it,
and some of them may try to gamble to get rid of the trauma, but instead become addicts. that might happen, but only a few cases

Trying to escape from some issues in minds leads them to engage with gambling and due to some facts, they become addicted thinking that they've already forget those past problems but results to a much bigger one, there's cases that people wanted to forget and find ways how to deal with it
and addictions is the results of this temporary solutions.

There is a possible connection through the idea of post traumatic stress which would lead to reoccurring instances of the initial trauma.    This is a bit of a extrapolation for such a casual forum though, its possible someone could distract themselves from trauma such as this through drinking or even gambling or high risk behaviour.   That doesn't seem too far fetched but its a big topic to assume without personal details of a subject.

I'd say its possible but this requires professional examination and discussion and whoever the OP is referring to might want to discuss it in person with a professional as part of overall treatment.   Theres no bad question when someone goes through an extreme experience but its hard to discuss properly on a forum imo

It could be because I think some people run from his problem and come to gambling and finally, he found a place which he can release his feeling. Maybe that person is desperate to think about how to make money because he cannot make it in many ways. And he found that gambling is the fastest way to earn money so he tried to play and suddenly, he can win the jackpot for once in his life.

But in the next time he plays, he cannot win again like before, but he only gets losses. In the end, he cannot always win because he forgets that in gambling games, he needs to have luck and that will make him feel more desperate on making money.

I think this article is good to read:

I don't think so because for me gambling addiction is mainly because of greediness. A person that always think of easy money. They always use or think of "what if". Trauma is kinda different for me, you're in shock or maybe speechless or have a less confident in yourself, always scared.

We already knew that there's so many ways in resolving any kind of addiction but the truth is that not all of the people who experienced any forms of trauma are willing to redirect themselves and even undergo for treatment as there are so many reasons too that these people don't want to share to others instead they choose to keep it to themselves.

To tell you honestly I have friends that are addicted to drugs(meth) and they used it as a maintenance for their daily lives that's why I can relate to addiction because I know their stories and no matter how you want them to change for the good they'll just only listen but still they'll do what they want.

Mind to describe what kind of trauma are you talking about? I would assume and if I am not wrong, a mental trauma due to loss of money in business can lead you to get involved in certain activities like drugs and gambling which represents the curiosity of a human mind to make things good again, I believe that is not the solution. Business can give you return as well and loss or trauma should be treated as an opportunity to learn more and make more efforts.

I think that gambling addiction is a result of sertain emotional deficits.Those deficits can be caused by some trauma,but this is really hard to be proven.Some gamblers want to "escape" from their shitty life and don't think about it,other gamblers are too desperate for money and they think that with gambling they will eventually get that "big profit".

Trauma can cause a whole lot of psychological illness but I don't believe addiction is one of them. What cause I subscribe to is that it's the reward center in brain going on overdrive.

Humans can get addicted to a lot of things that in our original environment wouldn't have caused us much trouble (sweet or oily food for example).

Actually, I have no idea about that because so far, my friends and I don't have a trauma before or in the past and we attract to the gambling games is because we are curious and we want to feel what inside the gambling places. But I don't know if there is any correlation between gambling and trauma because it could happen for other people in out there.

Even I am Not really sure if they could have a correlation or may be in trauma people might get the addiction to gambling much quicker than their anticipation or might be it is a depression which could lead to the addiction as one has to overcome and divert their mind in something .

It is possible that other addiction cases can be as a result of a traumatic experience but gambling addition is definitely not.

Gambling addiction occurs as a result of too much time spent on the game and lack of self-control, even research has proven   that too much time spent on gambling has an effect on the brain that can lead to addiction; I think my best friend is a perfect example of this. He is presently in a Rehab for gambling addiction and he’s gradually recovering.

My friend had never had any trauma all his life. I introduced him to gambling when we were at high school and he fell so much in love with gambling that he couldn’t even stay for hours without playing.  He would play both online and offline and it got to a point he started selling all his properties just to gamble.

Please note that he is from a very healthy and wealthy and has never had any history of abuse that could lead to trauma, he has enjoyed all the love he needed from   home and he was never playing for money or to ease any form of tension. It was for fun, but it went out of control.

I don't think gambling addiction could appear as a result of a trauma. Maybe only if that person was already gambling before the trauma happened to him/her so now he comes back to gambling but because he is so traumatized he doesn't care anymore about hid/her money and it becomes an addiction for him. Otherwise I can't link trauma with gambling addiction

There can be a correlation dude. Sometimes people who experience trauma find gamble as a good outlet for their fears. You make your own decisions, you're in control. Though we know this isn't going to be good all the time. Perhaps for initial relief yes but they're also more prone to addiction and may rely heavily on gambling to ease stress. Which will just make things worse.

I don’t think only weak mind gamblers become addicted. Those whom you refer to as weak mind gambler may probably be that way as a result of one single trauma they suffered from in their childhood. Like someone who has suffered loneliness or who has lost a parent might just grow up to become an addicted gambler.

This has nothing to do with control of the mind, the victim might just see gambling as a means of catching fun at the beginning but before you know it, he would be increasing the fun by spending a lot of time and money on the game just to satisfy his or her desire, he would be thinking his healing the pains and won’t be long, the player is already an addicted gambler. I think it is best for those who has suffered any form of abuse not to gamble at all

I agree with you, more than this type of problems there is nothing will happen for most of the people but when it comes to a cute edition it will get into some other addiction like affecting it his daughter Lifestyle.

It definitely change our lifestyle and also affecting our decision making. We can't be in addiction if we know already what possible outcomes in gambling but we just letting it to happen causes to fall into badly. Even we've been into addiction we can still stop this if we want  to help ourself, its not the end of our life in here(gambling) so there still a way to escape from the darkness.

In some cases possibilities are indeed,because winning in gambling giving us a self confidence even in that short time,so if people are traumatized they might find this area as mental booster,the problem is when time comes they are in losing point and this may lead them to more worst scenarios

Traumatic people are vulnerable in all type of vices that brings satisfactions and I believe that Gambling habits can turns them to be addicted so in this case possibilities are indeed

I believe gambling addiction happens to someone when his mind has already been conditioned to be highly gratified when money comes in upon winning on his bets. It all boils down to what one got used to doing to make himself happy or satisfied. If one got used to doing gambling as a major source of satisfaction, chances are he will always feel he's not had enough yet, so he'll come back for more because man in nature is insatiable.

I think everyone has their own way to vent their frustration and a sense of stress and trauma. maybe with drugs, fighting, or gambling. everyone has a different way. but certainly not all players play because of that, I myself have never experienced trauma like bankrupt in bussiness then going to gambling, and I gambled and became an addiction not because of trauma, because it has become my habit

Poor self-control is the main reason why gambling is bad, but for someone who can do good emotional control they will get good results. Patience is important and for anyone who cannot control it it will cause severe trauma. Believe that when a gambler can control properly he will be able to avoid everything that is bad.

gambling is not bad . its the person that think negative on gambling  , makes it bad .


sure , emotional control can help you secure your winnings if ever you already won but what if you loose?  maybe it can help you to not loose more but emotional control cant help you bring luck .  luck is still what matter the most here on gambling .


impatient person are not always have a trauma  . its really up to the person if he is emotional or not  .

No, gambling addiction is different
Even though I am not a big gambler by definition, I never drink or use drugs.
So I do not see a correlation between them like you have suggested.

Trauma and addiction are different, of course, and I never said they weren't. The point was that addiction might be a result of trying to cope with a trauma.Yeah, I've seen some stuff on brain activity related to rewards and also read that people are more likely to develop addiction if they are winning when they are first trying to gamble. But addiction is caused by trauma, maybe just not gambling addiction.
Well, it's not about being addicted to all of them at once. A person might be only addicted to alcohol or only to drugs. Apart from that, gambling and being a gambling addict are two different things.

It depends on how strong the emotion of the gambler to control themselves from being broke. There are some addicts on gambling who keeps on fighting life just to survive, and I think there is no trauma at all. Maybe they've learn a lot but not trauma because in gambling its either we lose big money or we learn a lot from that experience.

Trauma on losing more money? I think addiction doesn't create trauma because if its the reason they why gamblers continue to play despite of their big losses? I think you addiction will stay on yourself and it can really ruin your life, not just a simple trauma but it can lose your mind so better to be more disciplined.

Addiction does not create trauma, but what happened in the past will be traumatic, and some people are looking for ways to try to forget trauma. Some people finally arrive at the gambling game, and they enjoy the game because when they play, they can let go of the feeling of trauma and they can feel that they don't have to carry heavy loads.

So it could happen with the addicting person to gambling, and they could have a trauma in their past. They hard to tell other people about the trauma and they think that it's not better to let people know their trauma.

Mostly tension and sleep less will be happened while we are getting addicted to gambling because it is the most common things happening for everyone but you are doing a lots of addiction then only this type of problems will happened to us.

No, I don't think so! To my knowledge, from what I saw from the environment around me, gambling isn't the way chosen by people who were traumatized as their escapement. Usually drugs or liquor that they will choose. Besides that, I don't think gambling can be used as a means to forget the bad things experienced by these people.

Gambling addict is a very hard thing to break and many gamblers are really suffering from this habits.  Tauma is one of thing that lead to most of the hard habits people has developed including gambling one.

Addicts are probably troubled souls looking for happiness or fun stuff. Once they discover the fun stuff they find it hard to abandon such experience for the old sad experience.
Addicts need to consider looking for safe alternatives that are beneficial and make them happy

In my opinion, if we talk about the loss of assets, the person who loose these assets remains in a state of shock and mental trauma and this is human nature that he would want now to recover the loss and restore the value and as a result of which he gamble again and again and this might lead towards addiction. So, I think this could be a reason you might get addicted to gambling.

Gambling addiction is danger like killing life due to psychological disorder as gamblers will not focus anything else but only gambling which may lead to any level of serious disorder too. Hence, addictions should be identified and treated in the beginning days itself.

Not only the fun stuff but they do seek out or already experience the greediness on making even more money by means of gambling.If they do have that motive on getting fun and entertainment with gambling
then later on would be changed when they are already on a winning streak. Motives will change and targets will be different compared when you aren't just starting.
Trauma would be experience if you got broke and experience things that you haven't experience before.

Well, that is true, you can feel trauma when you've got a huge loss from gambling. But I think that scenario can avoid you from serious possible addiction. Meanwhile, you did not encounter that you better to minimized on gambling habit and control your self in doing that. Indeed, gambling is just for fun, not a source of income and chasing money on it.

Yes, I think there is a traumatic injury in gambling addiction. Because gambling addiction is like a drug addiction. As a result, when people lose gambling, they are very harmed. They feel very hurt. So I think gambling can never be an addiction. Gambling will have to play for fun. Gambling cannot be played every day. Because playing gambling every day will become a habit of gambling and will be addicted later. And gambling addicts hurt human beings.

Thank you

The question is? Would you wait for that thing to happen on you?

If not then better avoid it on the earliest phase of gambling.You should not treat it as a source of income on the very first place nor engaging too much time and money with it.
Just limit all the funding and the activity.

This is the main problem that many gamblers are having by not avoiding such thing until it backfires for them. I don’t even know why gambling should be played as source of income, I see many people who see it this way as an nonserious person that needs to get a better meaning to their life.

In my opinion, the game is best played for fun. Well I don’t know how it feels to experience a traumatic experience out of loss because I don’t play what I cannot afford to lose. Self-control is very important for those playing for money. Try not to be greedy, because an huge loss can actually lead one to trauma.

Yes, most gamblers suffer addiction as a result of trauma; it could be trauma at childhood. In the UK few years back, a research was carried out by Reuters Health on those who are compulsive gamblers and it was realized that a good number of addicted gamblers had suffered one type of trauma or another in their childhood.

From the survey data they realized that UK men from ages 18-64, 5% had minor gambling issues and 7% were serious addicts and from investigation, the 7% compulsive gamblers all had history that they have experienced one form of violence,abuse or assault while growing up. The study shows that compulsive gambling is associated with early and adult trauma.

Well definitely all of us had problems and if one person used to gamble theb he/she may used it as a way to get out from depression. But we know that in gambling the problems couls get worse becuase it will affect decision making when you play. Most likely ine will get home with no gain for one will definitely take more time playing than a normal person with no depression playing.

I suggest if you find your relative, friends and family members having symptoms with depression and addiction to gambling or other things then spend some time with them and give something that could stop the addiction like giving a pet. A pet is one effective way to lure the depress one from addiction. Consult also with psychologist if necessary.

We need to understand that despite the loss in gambling, people still keep on playing gambling. Why ?
The simple answer to this question is that they have lost the money and they play again with the hope to recover the loss. They have strong belief that in the next few games they can not only recover the loss but also gain some good amount of money.
This over confidence can be termed as addiction and it is not good for gambler.

Although, will have people who keep gambling because they see at as a way to past their free time. But did you guys not know that gambling is like alcohol in the system of gambling addicted, I mean gambling also make people high and if you ask gambling addicted the reason why they still continue despite their losses they said it the buzz.

Some people "bury" themselves in gambling as it gives them a sense of being alive by experiencing contrarian emotions in very short amount of time. Others are caught in this addiction by pursuing the amounts lost and getting deeper and deeper into debt even losing their house, job or family.

Exactly mate,greediness of the people and not accepting being loser and the idea of nor admitting an addict turns this trauma into nightmares.
People in traumatic experiences more on becoming a drug addict or a alcoholic but being gambling addict is far from that since gambling addict is seeking for profit and not for anything else more

Well, it may possibly contribute to trauma. But from my experience, I still enjoyed gambling. As long as I am still benefiting and gaining profits from it. Though there are a lot of times that I feel frustrated because of my losses but I still manage myself to still compose myself and go on with my life.

That is great thing, if you are enjoying gambling. But usually gamblers start to play gambling for fun, but time to time their mind and their attitude has been changed and then they start to play gambling only for earn money, and forget it to get fun from it. But it good to know that you are still good gambler.

Mostly in traditional gambling, trauma is present but I don't think gambling in cryptocurrency still results to this since we are anonymous in gambling. In traditional gambling, mostly those people that are rich tends to threaten somebody that took their money out of bet. This happens in real life as its sometimes portray into TV shows. That results into a traumatic experience.

I don't believe it, gambling addiction is created along the process.
When we gamblers are always giving time in gambling, usually that will result to addiction, there are times that it will also become more serious.
Addiction is a problem, but you can cure that problem, and learn from it so the next time you gamble, you will enjoy it.

I share the idea, I have usually sought psychology about the game, and I have read psychology books, many times the authors focus on how certain experiences of our lives relate to the game, and if, some traumas for people try to erase them Through the game, others use those experiences for methods of overcoming the game as a revenge.

Some people who usually combine these traumas with the game, are very susceptible to falling into vice and addiction, because they believe that history repeats itself, that is why some psychologists advise that when the player moves away from his normal habits by playing It is a clear sign that you need help, it is the only way you have so that you do not fall into addiction.

It is true that gambling addiction happens during the process of gambling but the main cause of addiction is trauma. Some people have had some terrible experiences; mostly at childhood and growing up they look for ways to make them forget this things ever happened.

Unfortunately gambling been a game that is full of fun and a great place for excitement, they just find themselves in it and out of the pleasure they get, spend so much time and money and the reason why all this is done is to  heal a wound, and before you can tell, the player is now addictive. That’s just how it works

this type of things will always been separated if you are in the beginning stage it will gives only the sleep less and then next gambling interest so when it was came to an end position and you are in critical addiction only this type of things will happen for you.

It might be true because people with traumatic experience tend to diversify their attention to other activities wherein they can feel at ease or somehow forget temporarily their bad experience.

But gambling is not often their option, because those people that I know with such experience find alcohol as the answer for their problem that led to addiction.

I think majority of gamblers who became addicted in gambling are those who treat it as their source of income, after losing they chase their losses to recover it back then failed. Lets admit the fact that they thought it as easy money.

Gambling can really give out that easy money that you seek but in exchange its also the easy way to be poor too which would lead to trauma when you experience hardship that comes to a point on where you havent anything left even just for food that circumstance will really give a big impact to your emotion and recovery on such thing wont really be that easy.

traumatic/traumatize people will divert thier attention to other things ( @lienfaye was right ) but they only do that to forget thier previous problems a.k.a they want to enjoy thier self , they want to feel happy  and we all know that gambling can also provide happiness to someone   .   gambling additction in a nutshell can also caused for a person to experience a trauma especially if he will get busted   .  trauma is a serious illness aside from addiction  but they are possible to combat if a person is wiling to change  .

In my opinion, not all gambling addiction are as a result of trauma but a few cases can be traced down to trauma but a very good number of people who suffer from gambling addiction is not because of trauma, so its self made. Spending too much time gambling leads to addiction.

The gambling game is very interesting and at the same time addictive, players are not advised to spend too much of their time gambling but most gamblers do listen and before you know it they find it difficult to control themselves and in no time, they become too addicted. The few people who gamble as a result of childhood trauma are not as much as those that gamble as a result of excessive time spent on the game.

Failure and causing our assets to disappear will certainly cause a trauma. This is a necessity that we need to know. The risk of gambling is really great, but as long as we have good ability to maintain good emotional control we can take care of this. The gambling game is actually very fun, but when the person is unable to control properly then that will make it difficult for someone's life. So do emotional control well so that we will be able to get a pleasure.

It really depends on the situation, some people use it as a coping mechanism to take their mind away from stuff that has happened to them in the past, others do not.
I think that some people are also just genetically more prone to getting addicted, though I'm not sure if studies about that have proven it with 100% certainty.

Also, having certain genetic predispositions doesn't automatically mean that you'll become an addict.

Addictive can be defined as one of the effects and impacts when we are involved in gambling, whenever it is. We will be addicted to being a winner after playing in some gamblings and we always believe that winning will be in our hands. Well, it may be also trauma when we always lose again and again and lose many funds in gambling. It is two types of formula and impacts in gambling, always be.

Personally, I want to say and voted " Yes, that is probably true ". Though I did not play gamble like other people, sometimes I started before to play some dice game before. And my feeling was I am mad, I can not do work properly because always I was thinking about my investment. Sometimes feel headache and suffer from more depression.

 You won't seek gambling if you're in trauma, and if you're thinking that probability gambling is the effect of trauma; well I don't think so. Probably you're in trauma after you've been addicted to a certain thing not just with gambling but also with another matters. So being into traumatic experience is a situations that you won't hope that it will not happen again, but still lingered in our mind. Mostly, people who undergo this type of scenario will have anxieties and become stressed, thinking that they won't recover after such those bad experiences on gambling addiction.

It's not that you start gambling right after you've experiences trauma, you start engaging in addictive and destructive behaviors after a while.
People do that to cope with the general bad feelings that remain after the trauma.

It's actually something that's pretty well researched, so you're just completely wrong with your statement there.

Here's one research paper that tasks specifically of the prevalence of gambling addiction after experiencing childhood trauma.
The study was done on twins.

https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2007/01000/Association_Between_Exposure_to_Childhood_and.12.aspx

Summary of the study:

This happens, I experience the same with sports betting. Particularly on tennis, with full confidence I bet and when things go out of our predictions unable to accept the loss. This won't allow to concentrate on any of the work properly. Anything that is giving mental pressure will lead to trauma, gambling too is the same and it isn't an exception.

It will gamblers addicts will result in trauma, it is because they expecting too much high profit on gambling. Even if they don't have money they lend someone else just to gamble and hoping a huge earn profit. When suddenly lost everything that will result in mental illness and probable cause of trauma. While at an early stage you can avoid this problem and having self-discipline is a must.

Uhm, that's totally not what the thread is about... It's not about gambling giving you trauma, it's about gambling addiction being a result of trauma.
Though I guess in some extreme cases, gambling addiction itself may cause some trauma. If you've just lost all your savings to gambling or something.

We need to convince our self that we are playing gambling for fun and not for the sake of earning money. Although this is difficult to believe but if we have made the fun to be the ultimate objective of gambling, than most of the problems are solved including gambling addiction.

Yes, not all addiction can be traced to trauma makes a lot of sense. I’ve always been saying it that some people who get addicted to gambling did that to themselves. How can a man who stay on a gambling site from morning till night, and repeat this same pattern for days not get addicted ? Not just in gambling, whatever we spend too much time on gets into us , and might have effect, just like I am addicted to Bitcoin forum lol.

Seriously gambling game IS super interesting and a high level of self-control is needed to resist the urge not to fall victim of addition. I think anyone who must play must not just be matured in age but also be matured at heart, although it is like you have said there are still cases of those who are addicted to gambling as a result of childhood trauma. I suggest those in this category should not even go close to gambling in the first place.

I would say that gambling addition is mostly due trauma especially childhood trauma. Anyone who has had a traumatic experience will know that if it’s not handled well can lead to addiction and mostly gambling addiction.

This is because gambling gives a lot of joy and happiness to the player and anyone who has suffered trauma will definitely be looking for things to do to experience happiness and forget the trauma, even though it’s a childhood trauma, the only people who has record of trauma and it doesn’t affect their gambling game are those who have been through a rehabilitation program

Childhood traumas only increase the chance of someone getting addicted to something but it doesn't necessarily have to start that addiction. You can't get addicted to something if you never done that thing before, so people choose to start gambling even though they know the chances are they will get addicted and a person that suffered a trauma in his life will only increase his chances of getting addicted

Not sure, how can a person get traumatized by gambling and then become a gambling addict. If they are traumatized in childhood about gambling they will leave gambling and will never return, even though they still want to fight the trauma by continuing to gamble as if it will not cause addiction because of the trauma that makes them have the experience to be able control themselves.

At first place we do play gambling for the sake of entertainment but if you are already disrupting yourself into stress on playing it then I don't see any point for you to play gambling.You know that you are short tempered or do easily got affected when you do loss money then gambling isn't really for you.There are lots of things that do entertain without the need of spending too much money.

Anyone that has suffered trauma especially at childhood will end up addicted if it not properly checked whether they play for fun or for money. The problem with addition is not just the objective. Childhood trauma has a way it affects gamblers irrespective of the motive they take into the game. My suggestion is whoever that has the history of trauma should ensure to stay clear from gambling or they must play, the time they spend in playing must really be limited because much time spent in playing can trigger addiction, so it is better to control it from the beginning days itself.

When we talk about childhood trauma, I am sure that it will give a big impact until he grew up. He cannot forget the trauma, and he will start to forget his pain by searching a new thing that can give them a feeling about satisfying himself. And perhaps, gambling can give that feeling since he can forget his problem in the past, he can play without anyone care. But if we let him play for a long time, then he cannot leave the gambling, and he will get big trouble in the future. I guess that childhood trauma is difficult to be a cure and it could be another cause for the person who becomes addicting in gambling.

But maybe the psychiatric can explain the correlation between childhood trauma and gambling or another else that can make someone addicting.

Well that is right. I believe that gambling addiction is a result of motivation for making money. You think it is going to make you money because it is a billion dollar industry; you become part of it and quest to make it possible. This contains both losses and gains and it is human nature that he or she will try to compensate things and try to recover losses by trying again and again which ultimately leads to addiction so I think that it could just be a financial trauma or some unexpected emergency situation of not being rich.

A gambler may avoid addictions by keeping gambling rarely still we do see periodic gamblers are slowly turning as regular gambler as they are getting addicted at their own pace. In summary, not gambling at all may be the only solution to avoiding addictions, it seems.

Traumatized people look for or need any outlet they can get and gambling easily can be one of those. Easily accessed, doesn't need other people's  approval, fun and can quickly pass time. The sad part there is, one traumatizing  experience can lead to another. Most traumatized people aren't emotionally stable yet and gambling can just be another emotional bomb waiting to go off.

I find it hard to believe that childhood trauma could lead a man to becoming an addicted gambler. Off all things to heal the pains or forget the trauma, why did he choose gambling ? I think there are so many other things anyone who has experienced childhood trauma will think of doing like drinking, smoking or even womanizing but definitely not going into gambling.

Majority of addicted gamblers are greedy gamblers who take gambling as a good source of income. Real gamblers who see it as fun, never get addicted because they know how to control themselves in the game.