The consequences of gambling

[maydna]

Both of you are right. We should have self-control as you said, we need to make a limit on every time we gamble, so we don't lose the money we have. Being addicted to gambling is not good for all people because that will make us have a strong passion for staying at gambling games without the want to quit gambling.

The worst is our life will screw, and our family will get the same things as us. We have a bad temper, and we don't want to stop the gambling habit although we know that is not good for our life too. If we can use or treat gambling as a part to enjoy life, then we should act as its that.

True, even in some cases of addiction, addicts don't even care about the side effects they made. Addicts no longer feel responsible for their family and closest people. Unfortunately, gambling can have a very bad impact not only on the addicts, but also on those closest to them. Extra caution is a must!

The worst thing will happen to their closest people, especially their family member. If they cannot realize about that, then get ready to see their relationship will ruin or broken and they will regret it for the rest of their life. I've seen bad things happen to my friend and I don't want to see another bad things happen to other friends, and that is why I always remind them to not getting deeper in the gambling games.

Both of you are right. We should have self-control as you said, we need to make a limit on every time we gamble, so we don't lose the money we have. Being addicted to gambling is not good for all people because that will make us have a strong passion for staying at gambling games without the want to quit gambling.

The worst is our life will screw, and our family will get the same things as us. We have a bad temper, and we don't want to stop the gambling habit although we know that is not good for our life too. If we can use or treat gambling as a part to enjoy life, then we should act as its that.

True, even in some cases of addiction, addicts don't even care about the side effects they made. Addicts no longer feel responsible for their family and closest people. Unfortunately, gambling can have a very bad impact not only on the addicts, but also on those closest to them. Extra caution is a must!

Any strong addiction affects family and friendship. Gamblers truly have to be very careful while gambling to avoid possible extra problems.

Be careful is a thing that we must have in the gambling games and we really need to prevent from the addiction itself because once we forget this, we will be losing the money plus we will lose our beloved people too.

[omonuyak]

Both of you are right. We should have self-control as you said, we need to make a limit on every time we gamble, so we don't lose the money we have. Being addicted to gambling is not good for all people because that will make us have a strong passion for staying at gambling games without the want to quit gambling.

The worst is our life will screw, and our family will get the same things as us. We have a bad temper, and we don't want to stop the gambling habit although we know that is not good for our life too. If we can use or treat gambling as a part to enjoy life, then we should act as its that.

True, even in some cases of addiction, addicts don't even care about the side effects they made. Addicts no longer feel responsible for their family and closest people. Unfortunately, gambling can have a very bad impact not only on the addicts, but also on those closest to them. Extra caution is a must!

The worst thing will happen to their closest people, especially their family member. If they cannot realize about that, then get ready to see their relationship will ruin or broken and they will regret it for the rest of their life. I've seen bad things happen to my friend and I don't want to see another bad things happen to other friends, and that is why I always remind them to not getting deeper in the gambling games.

Both of you are right. We should have self-control as you said, we need to make a limit on every time we gamble, so we don't lose the money we have. Being addicted to gambling is not good for all people because that will make us have a strong passion for staying at gambling games without the want to quit gambling.

The worst is our life will screw, and our family will get the same things as us. We have a bad temper, and we don't want to stop the gambling habit although we know that is not good for our life too. If we can use or treat gambling as a part to enjoy life, then we should act as its that.

True, even in some cases of addiction, addicts don't even care about the side effects they made. Addicts no longer feel responsible for their family and closest people. Unfortunately, gambling can have a very bad impact not only on the addicts, but also on those closest to them. Extra caution is a must!

Any strong addiction affects family and friendship. Gamblers truly have to be very careful while gambling to avoid possible extra problems.

Be careful is a thing that we must have in the gambling games and we really need to prevent from the addiction itself because once we forget this, we will be losing the money plus we will lose our beloved people too.

Gambling addict is very bad and I think the most dangerous addict exception of drugs. It makes you to forget the needs of you family and people around you. I think we can relate some gamblers that are addicted always be in financial mess with their family and some of them are in big debt today. Gambling is good but play it in a way that you will not be addicted is far better.

[skivrmt]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Gambling is an activity that has big probability to turn into addiction. So it's really necessary for every gambler to be careful while gambling.

[Fredomago]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Gambling is an activity that has big probability to turn into addiction. So it's really necessary for every gambler to be careful while gambling.

It's best to set limitations and you have to work with your emotions, you are not prone to any addictions if you can set your limits and you can keep it
that way, you have to mark it up and never to exceed because the sooner you forget about it the quicker addictions can comes up and conquer your mindsets.

[imstillthebest]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Gambling is an activity that has big probability to turn into addiction. So it's really necessary for every gambler to be careful while gambling.

It's best to set limitations and you have to work with your emotions, you are not prone to any addictions if you can set your limits and you can keep it
that way, you have to mark it up and never to exceed because the sooner you forget about it the quicker addictions can comes up and conquer your mindsets.

i have no problem with my emotions but i have a problem on setting my limits because no matter how set my limit i still have an urge to play gambling and once i start to gamble i cannot control my self anymore i guess the addiction is already my habit because i also got addicted on other stuffs like watching an  x rated videos and playing a video game  . so far i am continuing to fight this addiction of mine but i dont try to seek for the help of others because im too shy and im afraid to be scolded by them .

[FlightyPouch]

Gambling is an activity that has big probability to turn into addiction. So it's really necessary for every gambler to be careful while gambling.

That depends on the gambler himself. There are a lot of ways a gambler can protect himself from gambling but it is true that it has a high probability to turn gamblers into addicted gamblers. If you want to gamble, you should be responsible for what you want to do. Be sure that you can afford to gamble since it will really cost you a fortune if you don't.

[Dontme]

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?

I am not gambler addicted but my family on my mother side was. In my own opinion as I can see them I think one of the consequences they experienced was they never have savings and because they are addicted they also borrowed money sometimes just only to play gambling in order to win so that they can play again tommorow. It’s just like they do it as work or extra income but ended up losing sometimes.

[quarkfx]

I am not addicted to gambling I was doing trading and investing before starting gambling so I pretty much knew how to manage risk and when to take risk so I didn't face any losses and hard time in gambling

[Capt00]

I am not addicted to gambling I was doing trading and investing before starting gambling so I pretty much knew how to manage risk and when to take risk so I didn't face any losses and hard time in gambling

Everyone have its choice either will keep safe and stay at low risk or tried to go at the high risk. Trading and gambling are different, both are in high risk but trading don't need luck in order to earn money unlike in gambling.
Giving into the scenario that gambling will give us huge loses than we might lose in trading will make them to stop in gambling and jump into trading.

[kodtycoon]

I am not addicted to gambling I was doing trading and investing before starting gambling so I pretty much knew how to manage risk and when to take risk so I didn't face any losses and hard time in gambling

Everyone have its choice either will keep safe and stay at low risk or tried to go at the high risk. Trading and gambling are different, both are in high risk but trading don't need luck in order to earn money unlike in gambling.
Giving into the scenario that gambling will give us huge loses than we might lose in trading will make them to stop in gambling and jump into trading.

if you feel you have experience in this field then it is clear that trading and gambling are very different things, in gambling even though you make low risk bets it still does not guarantee you can get a profit, but in trading no matter how risky but when you have experience, then you still have good potential to get a good profit

[mich]

There are many negative consequences of the degenerate gambler and thankfully I am not worried about any of them.
Gambling all the time is not good for your mind- the stress you encounter and the anxiety itself are unhealthily
Obviously you can lose all your money or a lot of it but to me most important is the family
I have a pal who wife left him and took the kids since he was unable to avoid playing the craps game

[yvesp110]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Gambling is an activity that has big probability to turn into addiction. So it's really necessary for every gambler to be careful while gambling.

You know what, gamblers are very sharp minded and they are very efficient in making technical decisions in suspense and risk. They are risky people who can take risk but besides all the braveries a gambler should also be good at increasing the winning chances. He must be good at applying strategies and tricks so the consequences will be positive but in contrast the consequences will be bad.

[joshy23]

There are many negative consequences of the degenerate gambler and thankfully I am not worried about any of them.
Gambling all the time is not good for your mind- the stress you encounter and the anxiety itself are unhealthily
Obviously you can lose all your money or a lot of it but to me most important is the family
I have a pal who wife left him and took the kids since he was unable to avoid playing the craps game

That's one of those bad implications when you already taking too much of gambling, your mindset is just to keep playing and you forget about obligations
that you need to provide with your family, it's no longer safe if you feel that emotions are no longer controllable while you are playing inside the casino.

[maydna]

Gambling addict is very bad and I think the most dangerous addict exception of drugs. It makes you to forget the needs of you family and people around you. I think we can relate some gamblers that are addicted always be in financial mess with their family and some of them are in big debt today. Gambling is good but play it in a way that you will not be addicted is far better.

Yes, drugs addict is the most dangerous addict. But gambling addict can also make people's life worst because they use their money to play more and more. They don't think that what they do in gambling will make they're financial in a mess and they will lose the money. As long as we know how to control our life in gambling, we could prevent addicting, and we can enjoy the games. Perhaps, we need to make a limit on the money and the schedule on how many times in a week we can play gambling so we can prevent losing much money.

[jhonjhon]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Right, addiction can be in many forms not only in gambling but it is the most difficult to cure. For as much as we want gamblers not to be addicted but for some reason they can't do it, I guess their greed is too much that it lead to addiction and also they become in denial of their addiction that is why it is very hard for us to convince them to quit.

[fortunecrypto]

Being addictive to gambling is probably the worse kind of condition you can possibly have, it will ruin everything in you, your family, your relationship your financial, you are left with nothing, and your health will deteriorate, you are living a zombie if nobody helps you to overcome it, that is government set up an intervention for people like this.

[skivrmt]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Right, addiction can be in many forms not only in gambling but it is the most difficult to cure. For as much as we want gamblers not to be addicted but for some reason they can't do it, I guess their greed is too much that it lead to addiction and also they become in denial of their addiction that is why it is very hard for us to convince them to quit.

I think that it's almost impossible to quit a strong addiction all alone. Addicted person truly needs someone to overcome it otherwise there's a huge risk of even more problems.

[Jjewelle29]

Gambling is an addiction, once they get addicted then it would be difficult for them not to gambling even a single day. If not treated in time, it can have dire consequences.

"Gambling" is a recreational activity or hobby and it is not equivalent to addiction. But gambling addiction can be a serious issue for many of the individuals who get involved in gambling. But addiction can happen with a lot many activities and not just gambling. It can happen to smokers, alcoholics, and even to fitness buffs. We need to separate recreational gambling from gambling addiction. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he doesn't fall in to the trap of gambling addiction.

Right, addiction can be in many forms not only in gambling but it is the most difficult to cure. For as much as we want gamblers not to be addicted but for some reason they can't do it, I guess their greed is too much that it lead to addiction and also they become in denial of their addiction that is why it is very hard for us to convince them to quit.

I think that it's almost impossible to quit a strong addiction all alone. Addicted person truly needs someone to overcome it otherwise there's a huge risk of even more problems.

 Sometimes, I think those people who addicted to gambling they can't control they always want to gamble and spend more money then at the end addiction can lead them to a financial disaster. 

[hahay]

Being addictive to gambling is probably the worse kind of condition you can possibly have, it will ruin everything in you, your family, your relationship your financial, you are left with nothing, and your health will deteriorate, you are living a zombie if nobody helps you to overcome it, that is government set up an intervention for people like this.

I think that is an excessive consequence because gambling addicts are not as bad as you might think, I'm sure wise gambling addicts can still control their emotions and may only be bad for themselves and will not involve other people in their addictions in gambling.

[Thanasis]

Being addictive to gambling is probably the worse kind of condition you can possibly have, it will ruin everything in you, your family, your relationship your financial, you are left with nothing, and your health will deteriorate, you are living a zombie if nobody helps you to overcome it, that is government set up an intervention for people like this.

This is just a normal scenario but if someone extremely lucky then it just turns their life into upside down.

I am not saying it will happen for people who like to gamble but it happened and we can see these kind of stories all over internet.