Why Gambling addiction?!

[Gozie51]

There are two aspects to it.
Gambling because you need money or gambling because of habit. But these days the majority of gamblers are people who don't have means of income and they solely depend on the proceed of what luck brings to them. Your friend may fail under those who don't have job and will prefer to take a bath in the morning and go stay in gambling house and trying luck.

Very few gamblers are doing that as habit. Majority of gamblers do it because they want additional money to live and support family.

[michellee]

According to this article https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/compulsive-gambling/symptoms-causes/syc-20355178#:~:text=Gambling%20can%20stimulate%20the%20brain's,fraud%20to%20support%20your%20addiction.

Gambling can stimulate the brain's reward system much like drugs or alcohol can, leading to addiction. If you have a problem with compulsive gambling, you may continually chase bets that lead to losses, hide your behavior, deplete savings, accumulate debt, or even resort to theft or fraud to support your addiction.

And this article https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/why-is-gambling-addictive/

The brain becomes conditioned into wanting more and more to trigger its reward system

So we can say that gambling can stimulate the brain, especially if we can win many times. It happens to those who only want to enjoy gambling or know what gambling is in the real term. They start placing a bet on the games and as they are new in gambling, maybe some of them get lucky by winning for some money. At the end of the games, their brain receives the vibration about gambling to win more in the next days. They will come to gambling games again, whether they will come in the next few days or weeks.

If we do not block the stimulation on our brain, we will be back as soon as possible to have another "good" experience in gambling. But when we lose, our brain will get a new vibration that we still have the other opportunities in the next few days, making us come back repeatedly. Maybe the psychiatrist can explain more details about this as I cannot explain further.

[uneng]

Addicted gamblers are always optimistic from the moment they start playing on, so the glass is always half full in their concept, what makes them blind towards the real risks and dangers they are facing. It leads gamblers to boost a sensation of invincibility and self-esteem inside themselves, consequently developing the addictive behavior, as the brain and the mind becomes more excited and impulsed by the adrenaline and emotions it causes along a gambling session. It's a fact some people enjoy living on the limit and under constant risks, so gambling becomes an option for them to live that lifestyle.

[perfect999]

If you smoke cigarette .... after a while your body will crave for nicotine.

Similarly if you gamble then you will start enjoying adrenaline rush. After a while, if you do not gamble then you will feel like more boredom than usual and your mind will seek same kind of adrenaline rush which is the starting point of gambling addiction and depending on the frequency of seeking adrenaline rush, your gambling addiction will be become severe.

Sometime "I feel better" if I don't place bets nor I place bets.
I have my opinion about this argument but can't fit with all players / users addicted.

The level of gambling addiction is subjective because we are all not living with same kind of society and culture even gambling at same places or same kind of games. It means your mind will relax itself when you are picking some other interesting things which will help you not get addicted to adrenaline rush.

Basically gambling addiction is a psychological thing; when we are not emotionally balanced and able to come over any emotional moments with gambling then we can safe-gamble withing getting addicted to it.

[fiulpro]

Few things :

1. It introduces dopamine in your body and this overtime makes you addicted to the whole idea of Gambling again and again to have the happy chemical circulating in your brain.

2. Then comes the manipulation by the gambling casinos as well sometimes. << some people try and win back their money as well, this does mean that they will loose more and more in hope of getting their money back from the particular game or site  >>

This is honestly something that is quite complicated for a lot of people and then for some it's a habit as well.

[goldkingcoiner]

In real life, I have a good friend that is totally addicted to gambling/sportsbet and he has really no intentions to quit gambling even if he lose a lot of money each year (no he is not "rich").

Why some people get addicted and others no?
People get addicted with drugs because it's like math. If you smoke cigarette .... after a while your body will crave for nicotine.

This is a question that I have a lot of time in my mind while following this section/reading history of other players.
Despite I am placing bets since a while I am able to not bets without any doubts for several months.
Sometime "I feel better" if I don't place bets nor I place bets.
I have my opinion about this argument but can't fit with all players / users addicted.

.. What happens with gambling?

Please post here in this topic your (serious) opinion about gambling addiction.
Topic self-moderated to avoid spam/useless comment.

People get addicted to many things. There are people addicted to eating, people addicted to drugs, people addicted to bad behaivors. There are many ways to get addicted to basically anything. It all has to do with the way your brain gets rewired after performing an activity that makes the brain keep giving out too much happy signals (Dopamine)
So everytime you do something that makes your brain think its supposed to dump out dopamine, it makes you happy.

[Rruchi man]

We are all completely different and each of us has our own preferences.

Completely different individuals with varying preferences such that every preference is satisfied. These preferences are most times influenced by the first experience one had with something. I believe the way one experiences something for the first time is a big determinant if the person will return to replicate their first experience. If your first experience of gambling was spectacular, you will definitely want to replicate the experience to me. This is how addiction begins.

[Lanatsa]

We do differ in;

mindset
control your emotion
goals in mind
perception/views

Towards gambling or generally speaking with leisure things which people could simply skip or quit out instantly without having that craving inside on playing gambling.

Addiction would only be created if you couldn't really resist in doing so or being impulsive but if you could just simply stop without any problems no matter how long
it would be then I would consider that you are a person who don't easily get addicted or having a good control.

[paxmao]

The profile of someone who gets addicted to gaming is usually linked to other addiction in which you a very strong "high" when you win and it does not matter what you need to go through to get that "high". Everyone likes winning, but the typical human is very risk adverse. The gaming addict gets much more positive reinforcement from a small win that he or she gets from many losses. Along with that, they tend to have an inability to just stop when it is affecting their life.

[Silberman]

In real life, I have a good friend that is totally addicted to gambling/sportsbet and he has really no intentions to quit gambling even if he lose a lot of money each year (no he is not "rich").

Why some people get addicted and others no?
People get addicted with drugs because it's like math. If you smoke cigarette .... after a while your body will crave for nicotine.

This is a question that I have a lot of time in my mind while following this section/reading history of other players.
Despite I am placing bets since a while I am able to not bets without any doubts for several months.
Sometime "I feel better" if I don't place bets nor I place bets.
I have my opinion about this argument but can't fit with all players / users addicted.

.. What happens with gambling?

Please post here in this topic your (serious) opinion about gambling addiction.
Topic self-moderated to avoid spam/useless comment.

In fact what happens is that the brain can produce very similar substances or in some cases the same substances that we call recreational drugs, so what happens is that in some people some behaviors stimulate that response making people trying to go through the same experience over and over again, becoming addicted to the activity itself as it is what produces those drugs inside their brains, so as you can see a behavioral addiction like gambling or sex addiction is in principle the same as being addicted to an illegal drug.

[Mauser]

This is a question that I have a lot of time in my mind while following this section/reading history of other players.
Despite I am placing bets since a while I am able to not bets without any doubts for several months.
Sometime "I feel better" if I don't place bets nor I place bets.
I have my opinion about this argument but can't fit with all players / users addicted.

This is very good for you, it shows that you are not at risk to become addicted to gambling. As someone who doesn't feel that urge to keep gambling when it's better to stop, it can be hard to understand the compulsory behaviour of addicted people. We humans are not all the same, there are some of us who are more vulnerable towards addictions than others. In general I would not distinguish between gambling, drug, alcohol or even a gaming addiction. It becomes very difficult for a person to control their own action, even though they know it is wrong and will harm them. We also see that if some is struggling with addiction on one area, he is more likely to become addicted to something else. I have seen this myself with a good friend of me, we both started smoking during high-school but he was smoking much more than me. After high-school we both tried to stop but he just couldn't, it took him so many attempts but he still fell back into his old patterns. Only later when he went into gaming and started drinking he managed to stop smoking. Unfortunately he just switched his addiction for something new and was still unable to control his actions. Something we can't understand our friends why they are doing something. The only thing we can do is try to help them.