Does gambling affect your overall lifestyle?

[fortunecrypto]

How you gamble and its results will have a direct impact on your lifestyle unless you are filthy rich and you can control your gambling habit, if you don't know how to control yourself, your lifestyle will be in ruin,  what you will allocate to your lifestyle will now be allocated to your gambling.

[Questat]

How you gamble and its results will have a direct impact on your lifestyle unless you are filthy rich and you can control your gambling habit, if you don't know how to control yourself, your lifestyle will be in ruin,  what you will allocate to your lifestyle will now be allocated to your gambling.

That would make you a failure in the long run, you don't follow the rules which is to gamble what you can afford to lose.
Gambling should not even be part of your lifestyle as it's just part of your entertainment and you don't fully focus on it as we know how expensive this kind of entertainment, at risky as well because we have a chance to win and that will get us tempted along the way.

[AjithBtc]

You know, some might not get this but for me, gambling gave me a lesson that I will never, ever forget. I am addicted to gambling in the past, luckily I have my wife and my future family that stopped me and I was forced again to go back to the usual path, I am still gambling and I can tell you that it can still affect my lifestyle, my family and other people. Not just money, but other things can be affected.

Gambling can really affect our lifestyle if we also let it happen.But if we only gamble with limits,we never lose or win often,so our lifestyles would still be the same.Even in my own experience,i have been gambling for years too but i always see to it that gambling won't become my first priority.I only see it as an entertainment purposes only.

Gambling has got the potential to make make a big change in one's life. This can be positive as well negative. Users who are lucky will have the positive impact of gambling and the users who are unlucky, greed and spend without limits and analyzing about the strategies will get their life affected negatively experiencing loss.

[Ucy]

What kind of gambling did you make the continuous wins if I may ask? Was it a probability or skill based gambling?

I guess you risk too much or gamble with what you can't afford to lose hence the going "back to zero".

Besides, I do not think it's OK to see gambling as a source of income.

[Coyster]

Gambling can only affect your overall lifestyle if you let it do, gambling affects the mind, no doubt but that's if you let the desire to always win and get rich through gambling sink deep into your mind.
If you want to control your gambling habits, you must take it as a form of sport, you can either win or lose, and since there is an option of loss, you must curtail how much you put into it.
I am a gambler, but I effectively control my gambling habits, thus it hasn't been able to affect my overall lifestyle in any way.

[qwertyup23]

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First and foremost, I would like to extend my gratitude for getting out of the cycle of gambling. You have made a leap forward towards a successful and peaceful life. Gambling, if not, is considered one of the most deceiving ways of earning money. It starts when you start winning your first bet and the addiction you get makes everything uncontrollable from that point.

Most gamblers that I know personally have fallen and succumb to addiction. Unfortunately, they still are trapped in the illusion of gambling but I always support them in the best way I could. You have made the right decision and with that, I hope you become an inspiration to people who are having difficulties from removing this dangerous addiction/habit.

[roosbit]

With the way gambling has been elaborated in the OP which many players go through then gambling will make your lifestyle very difficult and boring because you will be a broke gambler chasing your loses and bad social skills.

[Oilacris]

So far i've been playing for more than a year and i haven't been fallen to that kind of situation just like you OP. I am just playing gambling because i want to entertain myself and i like to socialize a little since my kind of work is kind of stressful. I always set my bankroll specifically gambling only whether i win or lose as long as i am contented with the company.

Sometimes it's hard to control once you felt that you aren't satisfied with what the result due to the unlucky days but i just take a deep breath and i call it a day.

Calling it a day thing would really be hard to be followed by most gamblers yet they would continue to chase up loses.Reactions or actions will depend on how you do look towards gambling.

If you do play for the sake of making money then actions like this would be definitely followed but when you do play for sake of entertainment then you wont really end up on having this situation.

[tippytoes]

With the way gambling has been elaborated in the OP which many players go through then gambling will make your lifestyle very difficult and boring because you will be a broke gambler chasing your loses and bad social skills.

Gambling has known to destroy a lot of families and we all know that. Not only your family but your own self at first. If a gambler doesn't know how to hold himself in front of gambling games, he will probably end up broke and have a messy life. So as we can see, gambling has really impact on gambler's life but as for me, since I am not a regular gambler, it doesn't affect my lifestyle.

[shield132]

I had been gambling for years before I met with a very big accidental loss that almost killed me. It took me a lot of time to get out of the shock I got from that loss as it was all I saved for my family that I put as a bet and lose. To me, gambling had the power to drag me in death's mouth by ruining everything for me due to my own false decisions, did you have the same experiences - bitter or sweet, you would want to share? I would point it out like this:

- I started gambling
- Set goals
- Win
- Win again
- Wow, again a lot of wins and I now have enough money to pay for bills and food for 5 full years
- I don't stop there
- I play
- I lose
- I played again with bigger amount
- EV not positive any more
- Still playing
- I made a lot of bets where I lost half of all those wins
- I didn't quit
- I made a single bet where I put the remaining half
- & I lost finally, everything that I made + what I put in it that was mine
- It ruined the lifestyle we were living and I am back to 0.

Please clarify, what was your goals? As I understood, it was profit and this is the biggest mistake which you did. Gambling isn't for profit, maybe my words are now late for you but I and a lot of people have repeated that. I was gambling but it didn't affect my lifestyle because I was getting fun, excitement and adrenaline from it, knew where to stop and when to continue which you failed sadly. At least you learned on your mistake, on very hard example but believe me, a lot of people still can't learn on hardest moments.

[bisdak40]

Gambling has known to destroy a lot of families and we all know that. Not only your family but your own self at first. If a gambler doesn't know how to hold himself in front of gambling games, he will probably end up broke and have a messy life. So as we can see, gambling has really impact on gambler's life but as for me, since I am not a regular gambler, it doesn't affect my lifestyle.

Almost all of the families where the breadwinner is a gambler is destroyed, that's what i've seen. The good thing for me is that i see to it that i won't end up like the others. I'm a gambler online/offline and experienced rough ride on life too due to it but instead of whining about it, i took it as a lesson and make some ways on how to improve my gambling ways as not to affect my lifestyle. I know nobody became rich on gambling alone but just don't know why people is being drag into it.

@OP, sorry for your experience and thank you for sharing it here as many could relate and will take precaution not to fall on that same fate.

[Ayiranorea]

With the way gambling has been elaborated in the OP which many players go through then gambling will make your lifestyle very difficult and boring because you will be a broke gambler chasing your loses and bad social skills.

Gambling has known to destroy a lot of families and we all know that. Not only your family but your own self at first. If a gambler doesn't know how to hold himself in front of gambling games, he will probably end up broke and have a messy life. So as we can see, gambling has really impact on gambler's life but as for me, since I am not a regular gambler, it doesn't affect my lifestyle.

This is real, gambling when done without self control the destruction caused is very big. Just for an understanding if an user has lost $10 in gambling, and on the consecutive match he'll place $20 to get back the loss as well the winning profit for the match. This needs to be understood and spend. Once on loss getting out of control takes place often. User should be take time and spend, so it might help in identifying the mistakes too.

[Best Dreams]

I keep my expectations in check and don't overdo it.  I use gambling as more of a social activity and only use a small amount.  Undoubtedly, many people take it too far and end up sleep deprived and broke.  I think some people just have something wired in their brain that makes them become more addicted.

You will have to know as much as you will learn you will be able to achieve your goal of using gambling. Reality is that gambling has the guts to make our life gioid it allows us so much to earn only with miner effort. Gambling made my life good I use it as an additional source of earning and helps me to use my spare time as constructively

[miningguru]

I keep my expectations in check and don't overdo it.  I use gambling as more of a social activity and only use a small amount.  Undoubtedly, many people take it too far and end up sleep deprived and broke.  I think some people just have something wired in their brain that makes them become more addicted.

You will have to know as much as you will learn you will be able to achieve your goal of using gambling. Reality is that gambling has the guts to make our life gioid it allows us so much to earn only with miner effort. Gambling made my life good I use it as an additional source of earning and helps me to use my spare time as constructively

It's good if gambling had turned your life into a contructive one. But most gamblers nowadays had made their lives miserable because they always tolerate their losses in gambling until they end up being broken already. I used to gamble before and really made huge losses but now that i learned my lesson, i only gamble very seldom and gamble only with a small amount. I always make sure that i will not be hooked with it anymore.

Those are the basic things we have to remember otherwise, we will end up in huge loss through the gambling. In the beginning, everything seems to be very efficient but once we are addictive we might start losing money through gambling. That's why we shouldn't be addictive to gambling, we should always with the small amounts of money and it should affect our lifestyle.

[Pmalek]

Yeah, most of the time it doesn't cross my mind even when i'm bored. I guess gambling roots itself on just certain kind of people, not everyone. And though we can say that many people are putting gambling high in their priorities, not all of them are willing to compromise the more important things like family and career.

Well said!
I think it is more of a mental thing. My family has always been able to prioritize things in life. My father smoked for many years. The day my mother got pregnant he stopped smoking and has never smoked a cigarette ever since. He doesn't believe or accept such addictions and I kind of inherited that way of thinking. Even though he smoked, for whatever reason, he was able to give it up over night. I gamble when I feel like it but I can also not gamble whenever I want to.

 

[Botnake]

I gamble when I feel like it but I can also not gamble whenever I want to.

This should be the kind of attitude every gambler has.
When we are in control, there is no risk that gambling will affect our lifestyle and there is no chance we will get addicted.

It shows how smart we are if we have control because we didn't allow our emotion to dictate our mind and knowing how gambling gives mix emotions, without control this would not be entertaining anymore.

[redsun114]

I have been gambling for over 3 years now and I can say that nothing has really changed, I think this is because I entered into gambling with the right motive. I didn’t come into gambling to make money but rather than having fun and this is exactly what I have got since I started. There are challenging times, maybe when I lose more than I expected but not really that bad because I only play what I am able to afford to lose.

Back to the OP's post, how could you play a game that rendered you reckless? I am sorry to ask, what exactly were you thinking about and how why did you allow yourself get to that point. If you are honest, I believe you would admit that you became greedy at a point because gambling for me is the most interesting game I have ever seen and it makes a players life even better.

[slashz9]

OK, I will share when I am 18 years old I am addicted to gambling, just like you the difference is I am still single and not married, but yes it is still bad, I lost my job and all my salary was spent on gambling.
actually you can win if you are not greedy or you can control your emotions.
don't expect too much, because this is just a game of luck.

Not really, my life's really been nearly the same since I started gambling because I typically don't gamble very large amounts and I only gamble occasionally, mostly on the weekends when I do happen to gamble. I've had some decent wins over the years that I've used to pay off bills and various other expenses that I have to pay off, but nothing I would consider life-changing (that'll be from holding crypto). Just a source of entertainment  that I utilize when I'm bored at home in the end for me. I've always had good self-control so I rarely have problems with gambling too much money, but there's been times when I've slipped before.

well, i think we must learn from this guy , when im starting gamble i was 18 years old, greedy cant control emotion and careless.
that god think dont think gamble can finish your finansial problem because its just lucky game.
recently im play again and can control my emotions.

[proTECH77]

Frankly speaking it does because most of my lifestyle are not shifted toward a life style of a gambler. There are things that actually I was not doing before I venture into the world of gambling but since I have joined the gamblers community, I have seen more.changes around based on the gambling life and also on my general life.

[omonuyak]

Frankly speaking it does because most of my lifestyle are not shifted toward a life style of a gambler. There are things that actually I was not doing before I venture into the world of gambling but since I have joined the gamblers community, I have seen more. changes around based on the gambling life and also on my general life.

The change you have in your life is it positive or negative? I think many of us are suffering loses and few are really making a good life in gambling and therefore we can notice a change of lifestyle by the way we live. I almost get depressed when I lose 0.02btc last week Saturday through dice and since then little thing makes me unhappy. Gambling is a game and we must do it for fun if we want a positive change in habits and lifestyle.