The consequences of gambling

[crwth]

If there is no money involved then the game of cards you play with your friend does not come into the circle of gambling because this it is not a game exactly. It is more like just placing your money on any sort of activity. If the results are according to your predictions and in your favor, you become the new owner of all the money. Simply playing cards is an entire different matter.

I think any type of game could be turned into gambling as long as something is at stake. If you think about it, it's going to be hard to understand what you could do when you have possessions and if it's value is high. It's not fiat money or cryptocurrency, it's just something that has value. If you risk it, then it's a gamble too.

[OrangeSeller]

You can be a millionaire in overnight or you can come to the middle of street these are the two extreme consequences of gambling,and more people are getting addicted to gambling because they forget that gambling is an entertainment purpose,most of us think it is an money making business.

Yeah, they come for the entertainment purposes and seeking fun but what they get at the end, a loss. The big loss can always happens to a gambler because what he is manipulating, it is just rubbish. There are no chances for a gambler to win in day except if his luck gets some high priority. But the very next day all the winnings are so immediately converted to the whole sad and loss.

[Kiweikoo]

Pathological gambling can leave extremely difficult and long-lasting consequences per person!

They can be classified into several groups:

Physical consequences are happening due to frequent, stressful situations. A person which is gambling survives stress when finding gambling assets during gambling, in situations when he loses and wins, and finally, when he/she feels guilty because he/she gambled again. As a consequence of this condition, health problems are starting to appear.

Some examples are:
digestion disorder, headaches, insomnia, mumps, loss of appetite or increased appetite, increased consumption of alcohol and cigarettes or psychoactive substances, migraine, rapid heart rate, cardiovascular disease, skin diseases, dandruff, tics, trembling, increased sweating, and other stress-related illnesses.


Psychic Consequences from the gambling addiction can cause mental disorders, which are manifested by:
weaker concentration, poor memory, difficulty in thinking, frequent and inadequate mood swings, slowness, depression, impulsiveness, reduced motivation and narrowing of interest.

Also, there are also characteristic changes and the establishment of an addictive behavioral pattern characterized by behavior based on the "principle of affection," which is inherent in children, not the "principle of reality" that is inherent to adults.
Characteristics are:
lying, manipulation, selfishness, egocentricity, immaturity, insensibility, irresponsibility, negative attitude towards authorities.
 

In addition to these, other specific personality traits that are specifically connected with of gamblers are appearing:
parasitism, laziness, inability to deal with productive work, grandiosity, and omnipotence develop.

In the group of psychological consequences, the so-called comorbidity is also a rule, and not as an exception. With gambling, other psychological disorders are appearing such as:
nicotinism, alcoholism, drug addiction, anxiety disorders, depression, hyperactive pores, eye and attention deficit.



The social consequences relate to the problems that gambling causes in the social environment of addicts, in several areas of social life:

Professional consequences are first expressed in:
absentia from work, illness, poor quality of work, poor communication with colleagues and intolerance towards superiors if the addict is employed.
If a person is in the process of education, there are:
[color=greenabsences from classes or lectures, pauses in education or his break, worse results and grades, problems with colleagues and professors.
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Consequences in interpersonal communication - This group includes problems in communicating with people who are reflected in:
increasingly frequent conflict situations, fights, quarrels, criticism of others, glorification of one's own and degrading other people's work.
Communication problems arise: in relation to partners, friends, family members, colleagues, neighbors ... Relations with them become weak and superficial, and communication termination often comes to an end.

The economic consequences are often and most pronounced. Due to frequent losses of large amounts of money, constant loans from family, friends and at the end of taking money from the loaner, the gambler, and his family are beginning to suffer on the financial plan as well. It takes several years for the gambler and his family to recover from these consequences (provided that the person no longer gambles). Unfortunately, there is not a small number of those who never recover from these consequences.

Criminal-legal consequences arise mainly after all sources of money "dry up" from the family to those "from whom they could almost borrow". In order to get money, addicts resort to the commission of crimes and most often robbery -  stealing and robbery.

Family consequences are also included in a group of social consequences, but are, for the sake of importance, separated into a personal group. The problem of gambling is also the problem of the entire family system. Relations within family become worse, more conflicting. Communication among members becomes superficial and insincere and family roles are disturbed. The family begins to isolate itself from the social environment, contacts with friends and relatives are reduced. It will take a long time from the moment when it is learned that one member is an addicted gambler until the moment of this same gambler going to the treatment. During this time, the family is going through a paradoxical process, in which (despite the best intentions for the addicted member), it will contribute to various ways of further developing and pushing the gambler to stay in the addiction phase. All of this is a result of defense mechanisms by family members.

Thus, for example, following mechanisms of defense that are appearing in the wife and mother are:
negation-type - they are convinced that the gambling habits are only temporary - that's the current thinking, according to the principle "it will not happen to me".

minimizing - he/she is not a gambler he is just betting

projection -  society is guilty for everything, they have brought him in this phase

There are also other defense mechanisms but the list is too long to write them all in a single post!

However, by the time the family begins to face this difficult problem which brings consequences which are becoming increasingly apparent and they are trying to help the gambler. There is a range of measures; so-called solution such as:
prayer, conviction, quarreling, threats of divorce and abandonment, tracking and also the movement to another city.

All of these attempts are only temporary solutions, but they also create new problems, which are exacerbating an already unsettling situation. Only at this stage family members are deciding to seek the professional help!

My question is -
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Has gambling left a trace on you; if it has which consequences are you experiencing right now?

This is seems right. There are many consequences of gambling in every gambler but we all end up losers if we really continue even though we know that we have already have but nothing. Because once you become addicted in gambling you should expect that there is big tendency that you will lose everything.

This game basically makes everyone addict of it. So when one person is addicted to gambling, he never consider anything else from this. They just want to earn money from such easy source where nothing to do and big money coming to your account. But this is just their dream and they don’t get any sort of money. Rather losses are in their fate and they eventually become losers.

[Casdinyard]

Even if you give so big details,the gambler will always play gambling until he is not finish his bankroll. So in simple words everyone know about it even then they gamble

That is because people are greedy and they are always in false hope as to when they are going to win. They are just within the darkness in the hope of winning something that will compensate the loss. And even if they win, they will take the risk again because they won. So why not play again. Who knows? That is why people need to back off if they lose because losing a bit amount of money is better than losing it all.

When the money is involve the consequence is just behind it and we should know all what can happen. And being greedy is the nature of some gambler as even they're winning already still he keeps in betting as so the momentum won't stop. Nevertheless, the percentage of winning gets lesser the more you gamble. And of course, don't let our health be compromise in playing as there's no money can regain our health.

[cluit]

In gambling, you will never know if you will be the winner or the loser. Gamblers play most of the time when they feel lucky and are really hoping to win. At this point, this answers what you do not understand. Gamblers still play even tho they are already losing because they are greedy enough to still get what they have lost not thinking that it might be the reason of their another loss.
They are by the way aware of the fact that the might lose again but they are highly risk takers.

Not only in gambling but also in every game you play in your daily life which includes betting or not, you can’t say that I would be the winner of this game because everything depends on luck and there’s no time specified for the changing of luck.

It can change at any time and at any place. The game which you were once thinking that it would be yours would not be yours in the very next moment if you would be unlucky.

[denny27]

For me personally who's still really doesn't feel addict yet on it, I still haven't really felt the effects/consequences or anything related on it that had a negative impact on my life, nope.., it's not yet.
hopefully it will not happen to me, anyway., for now, I'm more rare to touch/visit gambling sites.

[avikz]

Kudos to the OP for taking out time to write such a long and detailed explanation about consequences of gambling. But if you really have control on your greed and emotion, you will not have to face any negative consequences from gambling. It's all within you and you just have to trust yourself. If someone has good on his own instincts, he will never have to face addiction in anything.

[Aleister Crowley]

Kudos to the OP for taking out time to write such a long and detailed explanation about consequences of gambling. But if you really have control on your greed and emotion, you will not have to face any negative consequences from gambling. It's all within you and you just have to trust yourself. If someone has good on his own instincts, he will never have to face addiction in anything.

addiction is a point when we feel happy and have a greedy nature in us and maybe it happens to gamblers because in real gambling it is very difficult to be able to control emotions. because in every gambling we always have a sense of want to conquer

[Reid]

Thank God it is just in my memory but neer affected my lifestyle.
I can still do it over and over but I have the goal to stop it.
It is just that if I start I cannot let go anymore as long as I still have the balance.
Good thing I dont deposit more after I lose the amount of first deposit.

I guess the thought of getting it back will make you pulled by gambling again. I have that kind of idea.

[BlockEye]

Thank God it is just in my memory but neer affected my lifestyle.
I can still do it over and over but I have the goal to stop it.
It is just that if I start I cannot let go anymore as long as I still have the balance.
Good thing I dont deposit more after I lose the amount of first deposit.

I guess the thought of getting it back will make you pulled by gambling again. I have that kind of idea.

Never chased your losses, it will never worked for sure, just try to play whenever you feel lucky and enjoys it. That depositing minimal amount might work to lessen the trigger of playing and to have some limits. I have that deposit-withraw-deposit cycle whenever I want to play. 😅

[Harper6]

It is the case all the time that a gambler is wasting his money as well as his precious time. Gambling cannot be played without money and as it is an activity which if done would consume time. So basically, a person is at loss ultimately.

The chances of winning big amount or even a tiny one is 50% theoretically but in reality, mostly gamblers lose their wealth. Luck goes good hardly.

True gambling is waste of time money and resources and mental stability.

The gambler knows that he/she is doing something that is leading to all these wastes but still they gamble - because their brain wants them to gamble. Still if someone who wins big from the casino and then runs away and never comes back to gamble is the wise person. They took their chance and won and they learnt the lesson that the only winner is the house in the long term - which is why they never came back.

If an individual has no other option in his or her life except trying his luck through gambling and the result is exactly what he wants at his end then surely he is not going to consider it as a waste of time. But yes the harsh reality is that you always have to invest some amount for it and in other words risk your earnings only to earn more via less efforts .

[vina.lugtu]

I think the lasting effect of gambling is the addiction to it. Some will not notice it, but the more we lose to gambling, the we are hooked. Gambling has its way of enticing us even if we already lost a fortune because of it. Maybe some people just want the feeling of losing everything and they never learn. I will never go back to gambling because it never got me anywhere.

[ethereumhunter]

Thank God it is just in my memory but neer affected my lifestyle.
I can still do it over and over but I have the goal to stop it.
It is just that if I start I cannot let go anymore as long as I still have the balance.
Good thing I dont deposit more after I lose the amount of first deposit.

I guess the thought of getting it back will make you pulled by gambling again. I have that kind of idea.

Never chased your losses, it will never worked for sure, just try to play whenever you feel lucky and enjoys it. That depositing minimal amount might work to lessen the trigger of playing and to have some limits. I have that deposit-withraw-deposit cycle whenever I want to play. 😅

it is always better to play the games and enjoy the games without having a passion to chased the money or the losses because we don't have a big chance to do that. besides that, we need to know that in gambling games, we really need to have a luck and good timing to win the games. and the other things that we need to know that we don't need to deposit a big money just to play gambling and only use the money that we are ready for lose.

[wack slacker]

Gambling really does not bring real value to the society and the gambler itself. The first thing to gamble is to transfer money from one wallet to another. Gambling takes us time and destroys our health, losing our passion for labor. Gambling makes people greedy and vicious.

[cupic]

I have witnessed many people and families become unhappy with participating in gambling. They lost the money they earned, they lost themselves, lost the trust of their loved ones, eventually became drug addicts. I advise you not to participate in gambling, first a fun habit, then it will take away all you have. Be alert to thinking of getting rich from gambling.

[bachanhlac]

Gambling will destroy your self. If you gambling,  you will lost many thing.  First,  you will lost many money.  Second,  you lost some relationship: your friends, not enough time to your family, to your wife, your son, etc. And you also lost many good thing surround your life. Moreover, if you are a greedy human, you will lost many thing you have and become a crime to have enough money to gambling!

So,  STOP GAMBLING. Use free time that you have to your family,  your passion.

[crwth]

Kudos to the OP for taking out time to write such a long and detailed explanation about consequences of gambling. But if you really have control on your greed and emotion, you will not have to face any negative consequences from gambling. It's all within you and you just have to trust yourself. If someone has good on his own instincts, he will never have to face addiction in anything.

I have never thought about it that way that in order to have a great control of yourself you need to trust yourself first. It's like knowing yourself thoroughly and giving yourself the right treatment and find a way to improve yourself and prevent past mistakes. We should all be like this and in control.

[Oilacris]

I have witnessed many people and families become unhappy with participating in gambling. They lost the money they earned, they lost themselves, lost the trust of their loved ones, eventually became drug addicts. I advise you not to participate in gambling, first a fun habit, then it will take away all you have. Be alert to thinking of getting rich from gambling.

You would really come to a point on where you would able to suffer consequences like losing up your family or being got drug addicted due to lots of money but we know most gamblers are on opposite way which they do have negative profit instead which it will really mainly affect your entire life if you engage in gambling too much.

[aishyoo17]

I have witnessed many people and families become unhappy with participating in gambling. They lost the money they earned, they lost themselves, lost the trust of their loved ones, eventually became drug addicts. I advise you not to participate in gambling, first a fun habit, then it will take away all you have. Be alert to thinking of getting rich from gambling.

You would really come to a point on where you would able to suffer consequences like losing up your family or being got drug addicted due to lots of money but we know most gamblers are on opposite way which they do have negative profit instead which it will really mainly affect your entire life if you engage in gambling too much.

One of out family member got really addicted to gambling until he came to a point that he chose to gamble than to spend time to his family. He got broke and end up losing everything including his family.

[crwth]

I have witnessed many people and families become unhappy with participating in gambling. They lost the money they earned, they lost themselves, lost the trust of their loved ones, eventually became drug addicts. I advise you not to participate in gambling, first a fun habit, then it will take away all you have. Be alert to thinking of getting rich from gambling.

You would really come to a point on where you would able to suffer consequences like losing up your family or being got drug addicted due to lots of money but we know most gamblers are on opposite way which they do have negative profit instead which it will really mainly affect your entire life if you engage in gambling too much.

One of out family member got really addicted to gambling until he came to a point that he chose to gamble than to spend time to his family. He got broke and end up losing everything including his family.

That's a really sad story knowing that you have no one else to be with and no money. It's okay to have no money as long as you can rely on someone or be with family. It's depressing to be alone but there are times that it's better to be alone.