Disadvantages of Gambling

[qwertyup23]

It looks like most of the user here believes that gambling is all about disadvantage, well i have to agree with them and to summary all their thoughts, gambling is base on how you greed you are. If you are too much greedy, then you will lose big but if you know how to be contented and to just have fun then gambling is good to you even if you are also losing. 

I never felt this sense of positivity whenever I lose in gambling. Ever since I started to gamble before, my focus was solely on winning and not losing which slowly increases my addiction overtime.
Some people might argue that they view gambling as a form of entertainment but that only applies to people who have resources larger than most of the people who go there and gamble.

Going to casinos give the chances to meet lot of new faces so this can be an opportunity to make lot of friends for us.But gambling with our money is not going to help in making new friends.

Most people you would meet in the casino would be "friends" that would ask you for loans etc.

Reminds me of the dice website, I tried it for 5 minutes and got so many requests from people for loans and other shady stuff.

The existence of online gambling sites address anonymity factors, privacy, and convenience and I find it ironic that people continues this kind of attitude. What makes gambling (or any other hobby) harmful is the addiction you develop afterwards to the point that it affects the people around you. Without having self-control and discipline, it will slowly cloud your judgement which will eventually cascade to bad decision making.

[Get-Paid.com]

The existence of online gambling sites address anonymity factors, privacy, and convenience and I find it ironic that people continues this kind of attitude. What makes gambling (or any other hobby) harmful is the addiction you develop afterwards to the point that it affects the people around you. Without having self-control and discipline, it will slowly cloud your judgement which will eventually cascade to bad decision making.

Well said qwerty.

[Oceat]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

When we talk about addiction, it could be anything that we really like to do because there is a pleasure in it that we keep on searching.
Addiction is just a very broad word that could mean anything but why is that we do get addicted to the things that would eventually destroy us?
I think this is what they say that not too little, not too much, but just right.

[onrise]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

It was still better that you used to play with video game which did not involved any money. As had it be money then mostly you would have lost money in the long run and addiction is other effect to it. So it is good that you ave recovered from your old habit and also you enjoy gambling now.

[Aikidoka]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

I think to be addicted to video games is better than in gambling, because in gambling you will lose money and you'll not lose that in video games, so it's really a good thing. I don't say that addiction to video games is good, of course, it's so bad as your health will be probated, but at least you will not lose money, cause there is thousands of gamblers losing a lot of money every single day.

[sheenshane]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

It was still better that you used to play with video game which did not involved any money. As had it be money then mostly you would have lost money in the long run and addiction is other effect to it. So it is good that you ave recovered from your old habit and also you enjoy gambling now.

I remember before playing online games and it is involved money, I so fan in playing dota2 and do gamble on this as well.
It took my whole time playing on that online game and I think that was an addicted, just like gambling, if you addicted to it there's a lot of negative sides you've been encounter. Spending a lot of time and of course, it is involved money which is the worst thing if you have lost everything just because of gambling.

[justdimin]

In contradict to most people here, I am not finding any disadvantage with my gambling. I gamble for money and for entertainment as well. But, I love what I am doing hence I believe there are less possibilities for me to list out any disadvantages I am facing with my gambling.

When something is profitable to you through your own gambling or by affiliate income or through bank-roll investments, I guess no one might be having any inconveniences with that. I know how to gamble regardless of whether I am trying in dicing or slots or lottery. I know my limits and I know when to quit for a day or for week. I enjoy my gambling along with my cryptos.

[whirlcoin]

This person started a thread about benefits of gambling:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2047546.0

btw in English you say "benefits from of gambling", not from.

I would like to open a thread about the opposite.
Here are some disadvantages that come to my mind when gambling is involved, I did not copy-paste any text from anywhere, this is purely my own thoughts about it:

1) Gambling brings you loneliness, or makes you feel alone or want to be alone, it can isolate you from society or from other important events in your life.
2) It can suck your energy or your happiness, it can get inside your head and won't leave you alone until you gamble again.
3) Not to mention it can can destroy you financially, you can lose a lot of money in a matter of seconds/minutes/hours/days. Some stories show how people lost over millions of dollars in a matter of hours or days.
4) Gambling can also destroy you individually, not only financially, you can lose your family, your job, your friends or relatives.

All in all gambling is a losing proposition, these drawbacks weigh much more than any possible benefits you can ever come up with when it comes to gambling.

what I'm saying in gambling the main disadvantage was it will not give profit in most of the time so I think there is only one percentage of people will get their money back to their home and the remaining people will only get the last for their home so it will definitely a big disadvantage for the camera and also it affect the gambling field also.

[beerlover]

In contradict to most people here, I am not finding any disadvantage with my gambling. I gamble for money and for entertainment as well. But, I love what I am doing hence I believe there are less possibilities for me to list out any disadvantages I am facing with my gambling.

When something is profitable to you through your own gambling or by affiliate income or through bank-roll investments, I guess no one might be having any inconveniences with that. I know how to gamble regardless of whether I am trying in dicing or slots or lottery. I know my limits and I know when to quit for a day or for week. I enjoy my gambling along with my cryptos.

That is really great to hear. I believe every gambler here will be learning something from you but you're not sharing exactly what you are doing with your gambling. I mean how you are controlling yourself against your limits for gambling.

If you mind to share more information about how you are gambling and what are the practice your following to safeguard yourself against gambling addiction will be helpful for many people to overcome the disadvantages they are facing with gambling.

[greeklogos]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

Gambling addiction for many people turned the same like to you with video games. With time such kind of things move on the top places for us and such important things as family, work/study, obligations are becoming not so important. I also had a period of time when I played video games a loot, teen years, luckily I found other things which appeared more interesting to me and helped me break my soft kind of addiction. I like to gamble from time to time, but I can not came back to this for months when I really have no time or other priorities.

[JeromeTash]

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What you would have actually highlighted would have been the major problems such as
- Depression and stress(very serious health problem in my opinion) some people have even committed suicide due to gambling
- Very addictive and hard to let go

[Finestream]

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What you would have actually highlighted would have been the major problems such as
- Depression and stress(very serious health problem in my opinion) some people have even committed suicide due to gambling
- Very addictive and hard to let go

I agree.There are really those gamblers who have not recover from addiction and so they do things unconsciously.Yes they may commit suicide especially if they cannot bear the pain or depression anymore.For me,all the disadvantages of gambling may not be possible if a gambler knows how to handle himself and has his own limits enough not be addicted with gambling.

[Bagaji]

This person started a thread about benefits of gambling:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2047546.0

btw in English you say "benefits from of gambling", not from.

I would like to open a thread about the opposite.
Here are some disadvantages that come to my mind
4) Gambling can also destroy you individually, not only financially, you can lose your family, your job, your friends or relatives.

OP, I don't believe in your submission that gambling can make you lose your family, friends and relatives as you rightly mentioned above but on the other ones you mentioned are all okay but I don't see any relationship with gambling and losing of family, friends and relatives except if you can buttress further on this particular point.

[finaleshot2016]

I'll debunk your first statements about disadvantages.

1) Gambling brings you loneliness, or makes you feel alone or want to be alone, it can isolate you from society or from other important events in your life.

No it's not, you can socialize with other people in gambling, talk about gambling, there's a lot of players in this world that's always in the casino. You can interact with them and make them as a gambling buddy. I don't think gambling brings loneliness, 'cause when you're betting to a game, there's an excitement and thrill because you're hoping to win it.

2) It can suck your energy or your happiness, it can get inside your head and won't leave you alone until you gamble again.

It's a true disadvantage, you can also insert here "addiction". The real disadvantage and the root of all is addiction, if you're addicted on gambling, it might ruined your life and everything so we must have a control when gambling.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

All the disadvantages we see in gambling are due to the fact that we don't it as a form of entertainment but as a way of earning hence when we make losses we end up with lots of problems such as addiction and stress.

If gambling is purely done for fun and entertainment... some of the challenges can be eliminated

[cryptovigi]

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1) Gambling brings you loneliness, or makes you feel alone or want to be alone, it can isolate you from society or from other important events in your life.
2) It can suck your energy or your happiness, it can get inside your head and won't leave you alone until you gamble again.
3) Not to mention it can can destroy you financially, you can lose a lot of money in a matter of seconds/minutes/hours/days. Some stories show how people lost over millions of dollars in a matter of hours or days.
4) Gambling can also destroy you individually, not only financially, you can lose your family, your job, your friends or relatives.

All in all gambling is a losing proposition, these drawbacks weigh much more than any possible benefits you can ever come up with when it comes to gambling.

I think that the features you describe fit exactly the same kind of addiction - alcoholism, drug addiction, sexoholism etc.
maybe actually in the case of gambling - the financial factor is the most powerful - you can lose everything in one evening (which in the case of other addictions would take several weeks or months) but at the very end we reach the same state ....

[hahay]

In my opinion it is an excessive argument. I'm sure every gambler has his own limits in gambling, if every gambler has wise thinking then they won't make losses in gambling as an excuse to affect his life to be worse, gamblers only need time to be alone so that their emotions are stable and that doesn't mean gamblers isolate himself for a long time all the time and everywhere gamblers will have relatives beside him, that's what I see.

[Botnake]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

When I was younger I was also addicted with video games, well it's normal to gamers like us but there is no risk involve in terms of finances as during my time, we don't put a bet in games, it's just the new generation today loves to gamble in anything.  Addiction can really cause negative things into our life, though we are not in risk financially but your experience tells addiction can lead to damaging your health.

[imstillthebest]

The only time I was really addicted to anything was video games.  It used to be a really bad habit and took a great toll on my health as I barely slept. Luckily I haven't had the same affliction with gambling and I'm able to do it in moderation without any problems.

When I was younger I was also addicted with video games, well it's normal to gamers like us but there is no risk involve in terms of finances as during my time, we don't put a bet in games, it's just the new generation today loves to gamble in anything.  Addiction can really cause negative things into our life, though we are not in risk financially but your experience tells addiction can lead to damaging your health.

you guys werent alone as i myself is also addicted to playing video games but i dont inherit that behavior in gambling maybe because gambling cost a real money and i dont have a money at all times but let say i do have a money i think i will also become an addicted gambler .  thats the only disadvantage of gambling it involves a real cash .

serious addiction can lead to health problems and that can also lead to financial expenses because you need money to medicate your self  .

[Pffrt]

Disadvantages of gambling are huge and can't list at once. People lose huge money, waste time, energy and bevome desperate at one point. Most people avoid gambler and as a result he becomes alone too.