Gambling as an escape

[Etranger]

It's just that the main cause is from each individual themselves who are indeed wrong in gambling because it is too excessive, so they experience many problems such as going bankrupt, being in debt, or other problems, because when gambling is done healthily, there will be no problems that occur, but many people who gamble are indeed wrong in responding to it until they experience various problems and that is not a strange thing in my opinion because many people who gamble are like that and it seems to have become a common thing to do.

I don't quite understand what you mean by wrong actions and perceptions of players. Do you think that gambling is wrong in principle? And that it should not be done under any circumstances? Or do you think that most players simply play wrong because they do not know how to control their emotions, which leads to big losses?

[Oluwa-btc]

Using gambling as a coping mechanism or as a way to distract yourself from reality can get you addicted to it, it's the same thing for those that get addicted to liquor, smoking and drugs they do it so as to derive pleasure and escape emotional discomfort, what most people don't realize is that doing this can actually give you dependency issues. It starts when your brain starts adapting to it, you will always feel like gambling even when you know you are not supposed to, at this point you don't care about winning or losing anymore, your only focus would be to satisfy the urge to gamble.

Hoping and depending that using such medium will relieve them from stress,anxiety and pressure is obviously not a remedy.Truthfully,the reason why people still thinks that gambling is general avenue to fight depression,insecurities and mental challenges.The ability to refrain from unnecessary addictions and mental pressures requires self-control and courage.

[Reid]

I've seen people use gambling as their means to escape problems but it never ended well for them. Now, most of them are buried in debt and still stressed out because of their bad relationship with their families. I think using gambling as an escape is just a bad decision. It can make things worst to the point that everyone might hate us for not absorbing the problem as men and it takes out the respect that we earned from the relatives and friends.
There are better ways to keep our mind busy in case we are in deep problems. Hobbies and sports is a good choice and it will somehow take our mind off our problems.

[Zigabel]

Most poor people don't have money to gamble in casinos constantly, so they hardly ever become addicted to gambling. But middle-class people, people who have jobs, rich people, the case is different. They have money to gamble and start gambling to win more money, and others because they don't like losing and want to show their friends that they can beat the house. And in the part of people who have jobs, and even this has happened with middle-class people and the rich, they tend to have problems in their relationships with coworkers or relatives and as a way of forgetting these fights, they start spending many hours gambling and losing a lot, and as a consequence they become addicted to gambling.

Not having money sometimes is the  limitation for some persons which has made them not to gamble sometimes and they think they are not liable to addiction, but for those who can actually afford to gamble they actually do it as often as they want and try to as well explore the helpful and usefulness of gambling to them in all cases and that is why they actually use it to probably escape situations around them that they have had to suffer all the items at work or with family and all of that which you have rightly mentioned.

[Hispo]

I've seen people use gambling as their means to escape problems but it never ended well for them. Now, most of them are buried in debt and still stressed out because of their bad relationship with their families. I think using gambling as an escape is just a bad decision. It can make things worst to the point that everyone might hate us for not absorbing the problem as men and it takes out the respect that we earned from the relatives and friends.
There are better ways to keep our mind busy in case we are in deep problems. Hobbies and sports is a good choice and it will somehow take our mind off our problems.

I believe it is necessary we establish there is a very important difference between using gambling as an "escape" from problems and using gambling as medium to "avoid" problems, escapism is about temporarily forgetting about anything in our daily life which could easily trigger or stress us out, for the sake of a good mental health. We all need to have a space and time not to think about work or responsibilities, but that does not mean we will abandon them all of a sudden.
Those people you talk about, who allowed gambling to displace responsibilities from their life are usually going through some stage of addiction  and have failed to realize it yet.
I like to gaming for the sake of temporary escapism, but such escape is not supposed to last entire days or weeks just a couple of hours, before going back to work and being productive.