Gambling should be considered as a Sickness!!

[Aamir1]

Gambling is risky game of money from which most people lose and just a few wins. Gambling too is addictive and fun especially when you're winning and that's why most people can't get away from gambling once they get in it.
In gambling you only win from the start then you lose whenever you win a certain amount.

I disagree it is not a sickness it is just someone being a risk taker with the believe that the higher the higher the returns. They also believe in chance that its the sole determinant of whether they will lose or win as this cannot be said of sickness. So its not sickness rather its a daring... My 2cents...

It is obviously not a sickness as it is a source of fun for most of the people but it makes those people sick for sure who tries to multiply their investments in it and gets greedy when they win a little and then lose everything in matter of seconds.

[CloudStrife]

There are people who actually need treatment.

[amine14madrid]

Gambling is already considered as a sickness when it become an addiction! But it depends on how you are gambling..There are some people, usually poor people, that invest all their money to hope in a win just because it is a change to change their life. But in this way they will lose more and more, and not just money! Sometimes this is a cause for the lose of the family too!
By the way other people though gambling is not a sickness but a simple way to entertain themself.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Gambling addiction - defined by mental health professionals as a brain disease at its most elemental form — have become so troubling that the state recently dedicated a total of $15 million for three years to fund treatment programs for any California resident who has the addiction or has been hurt by it, including family members of compulsive gamblers.
So as you see gambling addiction is allready considered as sickness.
“They are oftentimes suffering very much. They get depressed and start using drugs themselves,” said psychiatrist Dr. Timothy Fong, co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program,

Yes.  I work at a substance abuse treatment facility, and on one of our questionnaires there's a question about gambling and we have a big poster hanging on a wall about gambling.  It's no joke!  It affects the same part of the brain that drugs and alcohol and sex and food do.  That's why Gamblers Anonymous meetings exist and it's why people self-destruct.  Some people cross over that line into compulsive gambling, but most don't.  Just like any other addiction.

[sabbirshm]

I don't think it should be considered as sickness, it's a very addicted game.And it's become part of life to me.I entertained by gambling and not think that,it is a sickness.rather it's make myself happy and joyfull.

[Xenophoto]

I think the reason why OP thinks gambling should be considered as a sickness/disease is because people get addicted to it. People can get addicted to marijuana, drugs, cigarettes, or even beer but do they consider those things sickness? No. I think a person can only be sick if he gets into something too much. Like he gets these impulses that tells him to do it and the only thing he could do is obey it.

[panjul07]

Gambling is already considered as a sickness when it become an addiction! But it depends on how you are gambling..There are some people, usually poor people, that invest all their money to hope in a win just because it is a change to change their life. But in this way they will lose more and more, and not just money! Sometimes this is a cause for the lose of the family too!
By the way other people though gambling is not a sickness but a simple way to entertain themself.

Addiction is the sickness, not the things that we addicted to. Gambling, drugs, cigarettes or even sex exists for our pleasure so they cant be considered as sickness.
Gambling is not created to make people get a sickness/addiction, only those who can control themselves on gambling and losing so much money will say that gambling is a sickness while in fact their addiction is the sickness.

[Hatuferu]

I think the reason why OP thinks gambling should be considered as a sickness/disease is because people get addicted to it. People can get addicted to marijuana, drugs, cigarettes, or even beer but do they consider those things sickness? No. I think a person can only be sick if he gets into something too much. Like he gets these impulses that tells him to do it and the only thing he could do is obey it.

We are just saying that gambling is considered sickness because most of the time that would be base on our bad experience in gambling and we are just blaming gambling in that matter instead of our self. Responsible gambling does not blame the gambling itself.

[csnorthchina]

yes it should be as there are people who actually need treatment, and get more people need this service nowaday, and the age is decreasing too

[aranachristianjay]

Gambling is risky game of money from which most people lose and just a few wins. Gambling too is addictive and fun especially when you're winning and that's why most people can't get away from gambling once they get in it.
In gambling you only win from the start then you lose whenever you win a certain amount.

It can't be considered a sickness because it is a game.

Addiction to it can kinda be consider as a sickness, but I think gambling addiction is not that serious type of addiction.

Because even a gambler play a large amount of money and still losing where it results in negative effect to them, they do still in sane of their thinking and they do know that they are losing a money.

What do they need is just only a limitation to prevent that negative effects caused by gambling.

[GregH37]

Gambling is risky game of money from which most people lose and just a few wins. Gambling too is addictive and fun especially when you're winning and that's why most people can't get away from gambling once they get in it.
In gambling you only win from the start then you lose whenever you win a certain amount.

I disagree it is not a sickness it is just someone being a risk taker with the believe that the higher the higher the returns. They also believe in chance that its the sole determinant of whether they will lose or win as this cannot be said of sickness. So its not sickness rather its a daring... My 2cents...

It is obviously not a sickness as it is a source of fun for most of the people but it makes those people sick for sure who tries to multiply their investments in it and gets greedy when they win a little and then lose everything in matter of seconds.

well, mostly people don't play gambling just for fun reason. every single person play gambling for getting some profit and getting some extra money. the web is full of thousands of source of entertainments and fun. if someone need to be entertained then he don't need to waste his money in gambling. he can play all these games, like poker, cards, jack games for free.

but if someone play these games for money and with money then they become gambling. and this is really sickness.

[goldcoinminer]

Gambling is risky game of money from which most people lose and just a few wins. Gambling too is addictive and fun especially when you're winning and that's why most people can't get away from gambling once they get in it.
In gambling you only win from the start then you lose whenever you win a certain amount.

I disagree it is not a sickness it is just someone being a risk taker with the believe that the higher the higher the returns. They also believe in chance that its the sole determinant of whether they will lose or win as this cannot be said of sickness. So its not sickness rather its a daring... My 2cents...

It is obviously not a sickness as it is a source of fun for most of the people but it makes those people sick for sure who tries to multiply their investments in it and gets greedy when they win a little and then lose everything in matter of seconds.

well, mostly people don't play gambling just for fun reason. every single person play gambling for getting some profit and getting some extra money. the web is full of thousands of source of entertainments and fun. if someone need to be entertained then he don't need to waste his money in gambling. he can play all these games, like poker, cards, jack games for free.

but if someone play these games for money and with money then they become gambling. and this is really sickness.

We are not thinking actually that we are wasting our money when we try to gamble, we always think that we can win enough money to make us happy at a certain day but it is just that we realize after a big lose that we are just wasting our money then.

[subhiii]

Its is bad to do of course. And people are getting easily addicted to it and that is the problem. They must realize that it is all wasted money.
And I hope that more people will stop gambling and just play a little sometimes. Dont play to much or you will get poor.

[GregH37]

Gambling is risky game of money from which most people lose and just a few wins. Gambling too is addictive and fun especially when you're winning and that's why most people can't get away from gambling once they get in it.
In gambling you only win from the start then you lose whenever you win a certain amount.

I disagree it is not a sickness it is just someone being a risk taker with the believe that the higher the higher the returns. They also believe in chance that its the sole determinant of whether they will lose or win as this cannot be said of sickness. So its not sickness rather its a daring... My 2cents...

It is obviously not a sickness as it is a source of fun for most of the people but it makes those people sick for sure who tries to multiply their investments in it and gets greedy when they win a little and then lose everything in matter of seconds.

well, mostly people don't play gambling just for fun reason. every single person play gambling for getting some profit and getting some extra money. the web is full of thousands of source of entertainments and fun. if someone need to be entertained then he don't need to waste his money in gambling. he can play all these games, like poker, cards, jack games for free.

but if someone play these games for money and with money then they become gambling. and this is really sickness.

[Roboabhishek]

i don't think so.
a car is a dangerous vehicle if you drive it madly and hit a brick wall at top speed, should cars be banned too?

gambling is the same, it is just a game that you can use to have fun while taking risks. the fact that some people get addicted and lose a lot of money while having an illusion of getting rich doesn't change any facts.

Agreed that was a perfect example to explain the OP about gambling.

In gambling what you should do is Make up your mind till a certain profit and move out if you have achieved the goal.

If you keep on gambling without any stopping strategy then sure for 100% that you will loose because you don't know where to stop and your mind will tell you to get more profit. !!

Cheers  

[crytoboost]

I think the reason why OP thinks gambling should be considered as a sickness/disease is because people get addicted to it. People can get addicted to marijuana, drugs, cigarettes, or even beer but do they consider those things sickness? No. I think a person can only be sick if he gets into something too much. Like he gets these impulses that tells him to do it and the only thing he could do is obey it.

I think nothing can be more dangerous than addiction of any thing, when people lose control over themselves than it can take them to more worse condition, addiction of gambling is surely sickness because people are losing their regularly on daily basis so that we can consider it as sickness.

[goldcoinminer]

I think the reason why OP thinks gambling should be considered as a sickness/disease is because people get addicted to it. People can get addicted to marijuana, drugs, cigarettes, or even beer but do they consider those things sickness? No. I think a person can only be sick if he gets into something too much. Like he gets these impulses that tells him to do it and the only thing he could do is obey it.

I think nothing can be more dangerous than addiction of any thing, when people lose control over themselves than it can take them to more worse condition, addiction of gambling is surely sickness because people are losing their regularly on daily basis so that we can consider it as sickness.

Yeah! addiction is only considered as sickness but should not be gambling as overall because like me I love to do gambling as I am having a good time with it but never felt that it has ruin my life so I would still never consider gambling as Sickness although I lose most of the time.

[Lexiatel]

Well, alcoholism is considered a sickness, so I could agree with this. But just as with drinking alcohol, if you don't let it consume your life(some of us have that type of control, surprising, which is probably why it's legal), then it's okay.

Just because I gamble, doesn't mean I'm sick, but I'm not betting my life away either.

[shanem]

Gambling alone is not wrong.
It is only wrong if you are addicted.

Any addiction of something is considered a sickness. Seeking help is necessary if you are addicted to something.

[pereira4]

If you can manage your losses then gambling is not really a sickness is just some other activity you do like any other stuff like investing and so on, so if you consider gambling a sickness you must consider investing a sickness too.