What causes a person to become intensely addicted to gambling?

[mydicebot]

because......

any choice in every bodies’ life is actually a gambling…

choose a wise husband from a bunch of boys is a gambling
choose a school to study is a gambling
choose a boss to work with is a gambling

so, gambling is addictive…

no one can escape...

[Janation]

It might be true that what people are choosing is their gamble with their lives, but I don't think that in that every turn, it is gambling most of them are inevitable to happen.

When you go to school, that is inevitable since it is a common activity as a child, you must go to school. Studying, planning your career and building your own future, that is inevitable since there will be a lot of things that will happen that will push yourself to do things that will be valuable to you in the future. You work hard, it is inevitable that something will happen either you will be promoted or you will be fired.

[Get-Paid.com]

choose a wise husband from a bunch of boys is a gambling
choose a school to study is a gambling
choose a boss to work with is a gambling

Choosing a spouse is not something most people do in 10 seconds or minutes, they dedicate time and energy to it.
Choosing a school - yes, it's a little bit more risky, but most parents tend to read and hear reviews and in the worse case they can always change their decision later on.
Choosing a boos is similar to school, in our era changing a job has become something extremely normal.

You can't however change your bet once you choose red in the roulette or under 215.5 in a basketball game, or choosing wrongly the losing team. In gambling once you gave away the money - poof, it's gone, you cannot consider your choices anymore, you cannot regret, you cannot undo what you did except for taking a new bet.

Yes, if you bet on over 199.5 and the game hasn't started - you can place an opposite bet if you don't like what you did, but then you would have to pay a minimum of 5% (if not 10%-20%) aka "vig" on these bets, before the game has even started.

All in all,
When you place a bet and gamble you don't improve your life.

Choosing a spouse - can improve your life.
Choosing a school - can improve your life.
Choosing a boss - can improve your life.

How's choosing RED in the Roulette going to improve your life?
How's betting on over XXX points or under going to make you a better person or pave your way in your life?

Want to treat it as a drop of adrenaline and rush? You can, but it is no different than drugs.

And I have nothing against good drugs, Cannabis can cure many types of cancer, but this is when you take it properly, not as a "joint" or anything ... and yes, it's okay not to go always by the book in life, it's okay to "have fun" (although I cannot see anything fun in gambling) - but it's definitely not going to make you a better person.

[Kemarit]

Of course you have choices, but the most difficult part is making the right choice in life. And as you put down in your example even choosing a partner in life could be gambling as well because definitely you don't know what will the future if you marry someone. But as @Get-Paid.com have said, choosing a spouse is a long process, you can go on a date and learn the person very well before deciding to settle down, so its a calculate risk both on your part. Its not like gambling wherein you will choose them like you are simply betting in a roulette or pushing play in a slot machine, its totally different.

[Get-Paid.com]

Of course you have choices, but the most difficult part is making the right choice in life. And as you put down in your example even choosing a partner in life could be gambling as well because definitely you don't know what will the future if you marry someone. But as @Get-Paid.com have said, choosing a spouse is a long process, you can go on a date and learn the person very well before deciding to settle down, so its a calculate risk both on your part. Its not like gambling wherein you will choose them like you are simply betting in a roulette or pushing play in a slot machine, its totally different.

Well said.

It's just impossible to compare a slot machine to a wife (god forbid, I say slot with 'o' no pun intended haha).

Gambling is about making quick money --> for the house, not for the average Joe.

It was, is, and has been like that for decades.

[Ipwich]

It's different to the gambling I know, all of the above mention are less risky compared to risking your money to grow by gambling.
Some addiction could lead to a positive effect but not in gambling because there is only less chance you can win in the long run, well, that is the reality.

You choose your work, you can already find feedback from people, or your friends, but in gambling, the outcome is either correct or not based on your bet.

[FlightyPouch]

Gambling and the gambling that you are saying is the same and different at the same time. It is true that they are gambling, we are gambling every time in our life but that gambling and the gambling we do in casinos is different in the terms of the risks that we take. We risks money and obviously on gambling, while the gambling that you are saying, we risk our lives since the result of those choices is important to our future.

[sunsilk]

any choice in every bodies’ life is actually a gambling…

Yes this is right that everything we do in life is actually a gamble. But that happens for the things that we are doing for the first time and if we are already used to that thing it becomes part of our daily routine which isn't a gamble to us anymore.

As you mentioned picking out your partner in life is a gamble, no its not a gamble. You can say that if your marriage is fixed and you don't have the time to get to know each other.

[onrise]

OP - What you have compared is the personal life stuff with the gambling. Gambling is for fun and does not necessarily be life long but the rest of the things is your life long like wise/husband, kids etc. You can opt not to gamble you money in casinos but to have a good life it always better to have a complete family. Addiction to gambling is worst but to the family and your kids etc is great.

[Findingnemo]

Gambling and addiction both are different,we can say the gambling is addictive but it literally means betting or risking our money to make more money so it will be differs from the cases you have mentioned in @OP.

[emberbekas]

because......

any choice in every bodies’ life is actually a gambling…

choose a wise husband from a bunch of boys is a gambling
choose a school to study is a gambling
choose a boss to work with is a gambling

so, gambling is addictive…

no one can escape...

I do not agree. In gambling the results of our actions will be seen instantly / in a relatively short time. Gambling doesn't require hard effort and it will be like that from time to time. Luck is the only thing that will influence the end result of our habits. Whereas all the examples that you give; chossing wife/husband, studying, working, will require our hard effort if we want to do it correctly. The result will rely on how hard we try, not just because of luck.

[YuginKadoya]

Every Aspect of life is sure is gambling but we can not say that all are really addicting, because when you say gambling addiction that would be put to a different topic than bringing it here and saying that all part of gambling is addicting,

When you say gambling addiction or compulsive gambling there is an urge in you to do that it continues despite harmful negative consequences and I really think that it became a phycological disorder that would certainly need care and therapy for a certain individual to stop. 

[izanagi narukami]

Gambling can be addicted if there is not protection over the gambler.
The protection I mean are family and religion because most people aware that gambling is risky activity and people realize enough to choose whenever they still want to keep gambling or not.

[zupdawg]

All decisions made in our life we can call gambling but those are decided us which to take and which to not. Calling life gambling as addictive as it like betting with money is insane. I am sure you do not really know what you are pointing

[el kaka22]

any choice in every bodies’ life is actually a gambling…

choose a wise husband from a bunch of boys is a gambling
choose a school to study is a gambling
choose a boss to work with is a gambling

so, gambling is addictive…

The main problem is having nothing better to do and turning gambling into some sort of hobby. That was the reason for me, I have literally nothing to do after work and even during work so I get bored and gambling is so easy that when you have the money sent to a casino or dice or sportsbook in a minute and start gambling it becomes one of those fun things you do to get away from your life.

My life was incredibly boring (well it still is but thankfully I stopped gambling like an addict) and I just ran away to gambling in order to have some fun. When you lack things to do in your life and you start gambling it kinda feels a hole in your life and you get addicted to it because you have nothing else to do. That could be a big reason for many people not just me.

[shield132]

OP since you are a person behind mydicebot, I wasn't expecting this question, nor this answer, a little bit different direction...
Btw I would change word gamble with word choice in your sentences. Btw if you call gambling to life, no, it's not addictive for everyone and that's why some of them make decision to break free.
I can't take your proposal in direct way, that's why I made some changes too.

[hahay]

Although we can find many things in our lives as gambling but I don't think if choosing a school is gambling, because gambling is basically both parties who have different destinies, such as someone who benefits and someone who is disadvantaged. In choosing a school that can receive profits and losses, only one individual i.e he who registers. Choosing a school is complicated, but it's not gambling. e.g
If you choose the right school, then you are lucky / benefited.
If you choose a school that is not suitable for you, then you are the loser.
So in this case the one who receives the profits and losses is only one individual and the school does not.

[avikz]

because......

any choice in every bodies’ life is actually a gambling…

choose a wise husband from a bunch of boys is a gambling
choose a school to study is a gambling
choose a boss to work with is a gambling

so, gambling is addictive…

no one can escape...

Lol!! These are called informed gambling and not based on pure luck! It involves a lot of information research before we actually take a decision on choosing a husband and wife or school or a boss!

The gambling is based on pure luck in majority of the cases. So the examples you've cited here, doesn't really hold its ground.

[Wete]

Like the others, they are addicted to gambling because they want to get a lot of money quickly. And usually those gambling addicts have felt victory at the beginning of their gambling, and that made them forget themselves and addicted to continuing to gamble.

[leowonderful]

Mostly people that don't have a lot of money and need more, who also don't know that all games are against them (house edge). I have known some gambling addicts in my life, and a good portion of the people that I knew fit this category. Some people also don't have the mental willpower to stop gambling, which makes gambling a difficult thing to get out of unless someone is able to secure help for the person in question who is addicted to gambling.

At the same time, gambling can also be a perfectly good source of entertainment if you exercise the right precautions to ensure you aren't spending more than you can afford. I personally do this, and I'm not addicted to gambling at all, but I still do gamble quite often with the money I can afford to spend.