Gambling Addiction at its Worst!

[LogitechMouse]

Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

Greed is one of the big factors that gamblers turn to addiction because they aren't able to control themselves. Others might ruin themself and make the worst thing happen. Consequences and outcomes should know gamblers before they will step in into main door of gambling. All forms of addictions are bad so better to stay away while earlier.

Unfortunately, this eats many gamblers' money when they are gambling and I'm thinking too that controlling yourself when you are gambling is that hard to do.

The best thing to do is to not to gamble at all so that your money will not be lose and you will not be addicted into it but if you really want to, you must know the consequences and risks that you may face if the worst situation happens.

[peter0425]

I want to ask my fellow gamblers here, what is the worst thing you have done for your gambling hobby or habit? Have you come to the point of getting addicted to it and how did you counter it?

So far I'm good and I like to keep it that way, it's safe and you will not encounter any problem, I don't want to add misery to my life so I'm not putting more money more than what I can afford to lose, once it happens I will be tempted to do it, given the past bad experiences I've had.

OP is asking about the worst thing you've done about gambling and not your status now,i think you should have mentioned that "Past Bad Experiences" that you had before.anyway its yours if you wanna tell us or not.


but for me i am always open to tell that i am a former addicted and almost done every stupid addicted gamblers do,but not to the extent that i make bad things to others because i only disturb my family and not from outside the house.

[Debonaire217]

Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

[Darker45]

Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

Very far from being the worst. Asking other people for money to fund one's personal gambling habit is bad enough already but certainly not yet the worst. It could be the start, though. If the gambler cannot have the money by properly asking, it could easily lead to pawning or selling one's properties or assets, or worse stealing or robbing, just like the people involved in the news posted on the OP. This could still grow on a larger scale if not checked. Hell, it could even bring down an entire company, as the OP cited.

[DabsPoorVersion]

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The reason behind our gambling does not matter but the thing which is important is our self-control. We should have good control of our emotions and not spend your money if you see you are loosing. People lose more when they invest blindly just to recover the lost. Being an investor we must keep control on emotions and Greed.

It does matter. Because how can you have a better self control if you even disregard the reason behind why you gamble.
It is really hard to have a self control, it is something that we can't achieve overnight or when we said it. So, if you said that we need to have a self control, it is something that we work hard to achieve.

[Betwrong]

I don't know what the statistics are about people who gamble and who become addicted to gambling. But I can talk about the case of my country, so what I follow in my country are very rare cases of people who have become addicted to gambling. That's why I believe the number of people who are addicted to gambling is very small.

I've read many reports on gambling addiction from various countries, and I can say that you are right in this regard. The number of gamblers who have some type of gambling issue is below 5% almost anywhere, and it is below 3% in many places. So, there is no wonder that if you know 10-20 gamblers, none of them is addicted. That is not to say that it's still a big issue, because millions of people in the world are addicted to gambling.

Let's stay on topic, though. Can you explain, why do you think that "if you win too quickly - you would lose that money too quickly, at least the highest chances are that you would lose it"?

Sure.
Money that you don't work hard for is something that you don't appreciate.

Throughout history it has been proven that lottery winners who won the big jackpot have turned their lives to become more miserable than its previous state ... it doesn't imply that people can't be happier with money, of course not - but "easy money" that comes all of a sudden into your life is something that comes with consequences, some of which are ones you cannot imagine before being in that state that has changed your life.

Once you cross that bridge you would see what I'm referring to.

Everyone of us hopes to cross that bridge one day, and, of course, to not lose all the money quickly afterwards. Indeed, I've noticed that too, many people after getting big money (not necessarily form gambling) lose it faster than one would expect. Let's just hope that we can be wiser than that.

[iamsheikhadil]

They will do anything to achieve their goals just like a drug addict would.I think that some years in jail would be the right punishment for such persons and also there to be treated for their illness.

Drug addict doesn't have a goal. They just want to destroy their lives because they want to. That's their own will and once they started, they don't know how to stop. It's the same in gambling, once you started to lose a lot of money, the determined you want to recover it all. That's when greed will allow you to waste all your money in betting.

To avoid those addictions, at first you should know the possibilities of betting before doing it. Do some research about the advantages and disadvantages of gambling. Also learn how to control emotions in urge of winning more money or recovering all your losses. Learn how to save yourself from greed. If you learned all of that before betting, now you'll prevent loss and addictions

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

[Golftech]

I want to ask my fellow gamblers here, what is the worst thing you have done for your gambling hobby or habit? Have you come to the point of getting addicted to it and how did you counter it?

So far I'm good and I like to keep it that way, it's safe and you will not encounter any problem, I don't want to add misery to my life so I'm not putting more money more than what I can afford to lose, once it happens I will be tempted to do it, given the past bad experiences I've had.

Correct, the chance of getting too much involve will happen once you use larger amount of money that you can't afford to lose, the chance of chasing it back when you lose it will start the misery in your life. Gamblers loses controlled when they start betting huge amount and lose it inside the house, thye will keep on trying to win it back which is very difficult to stop when you are already engaged.

[Aikidoka]

Maybe the worst is when you starts to ask people to have funds in gambling for your own. It doesn't help actually, even if we are certain to have profits or to win, as long as we are exceeding on our limits in gambling or basically to gamble fund that aren't from our own pocket is considered a worst thing to do. I had that one instance in my experience and after losing that money I already realized how bad that decision was so I don't do it again and just share my experience with others.

Exactly, that's gonna be the worst thing when you're even own money for gambling. I meant how can you handle to lose money that's not yours? Indeed, it will be the worst thing and you'll be even risked your life to go to the jail or even risking your family and house.

[Ailmand]

Gambling addiction is a serious problem. I know some people who had become really poor from rich due to addiction. My aunt's friend had sold everything, house, car, all of his belongings as a capital for a loan due to gambling addiction. If you can't control your self when gambling, you should not gamble at all. It can break your life and make it miserable.

[Vishnu.Reang]

From where I live... you can hear dozens of similar stories every month. Here the people are not that educated and they get addicted with all sort of things. And it is not just gambling addiction. Some are addicted to alcohol, drugs or even tobacco. The problem occurs when they take loans to cover their debt, mostly from the loan sharks. The individuals in most cases are unable to pay the amount, and in the end the loan sharks start targeting their family members.

[youdacapt]

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

It is already a different matter because drugs and alcohol are very influential on health, body, and mind, need to be distinguished between habits and addictions. The consequences of gambling are not more severe because it is more psychological with material and objective thoughts, this can still be cured naturally, especially when they realize they have nothing to facilitate their gambling addiction anymore. Some of them will fall, but most will succeed in recovery, all they do in a conscious state even though sometimes without control.

[Natalim]

From where I live... you can hear dozens of similar stories every month. Here the people are not that educated and they get addicted with all sort of things. And it is not just gambling addiction. Some are addicted to alcohol, drugs or even tobacco. The problem occurs when they take loans to cover their debt, mostly from the loan sharks. The individuals in most cases are unable to pay the amount, and in the end the loan sharks start targeting their family members.

There are different stories on how a gambler get addicted, but this one might not be like what you have mentioned that happens every month.

This is around 14 million USD, huge enough for the company to decide its closure after 5 decades of operation.^[1]

its a huge amount of money, I guess only few gamblers can do that and they know they will face serious consequences after that.
if the funds loss were only manageable, the problem might not be that too big, but this is millions of dollars.

[Yamifoud]

I disagree. People just don't take drugs or alcohol to destroy their lives. Many of them are just into depression, after all, in all truth, life actually sucks. It's not a bed of roses for many. Drugs or such are a way to physically suppress the mental agony, not that I'm recommending it.

However, gambling addiction is worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction atleast has a benefit that it reduces depression, but gambling takes away from you, your health, your money, brings depression.

It is already a different matter because drugs and alcohol are very influential on health, body, and mind, need to be distinguished between habits and addictions. The consequences of gambling are not more severe because it is more psychological with material and objective thoughts, this can still be cured naturally, especially when they realize they have nothing to facilitate their gambling addiction anymore. Some of them will fall, but most will succeed in recovery, all they do in a conscious state even though sometimes without control.

Both of them will affect our life the same. Being in addiction will consider it also as habitual actions that a person will do. They are totally out of control and ruining their lives and their family. Drugs and gambling addiction will give nothing to us. Yes, they are of different sources but the result will be the same and lead to us mental disorder of not given a cure. But to think which one is the worst, it probably drugs addiction...it won't give anything in return unlike what will happen to gambling which we could still have a chance to win and make some money.

[Triffin]

~It is easy to judge from the outside if a person is greedy or not but when you are gambling you do not think with a cool head and you don’t understand that you have become addicted until a big level of addiction is achieved.Therefore saying it is you who are responsible for your choice we would not have any addicted gamblers but the actual fact is that we have many.

I don't judge those people mostly because I've been in their shoes many times, and I'm no better than they are in this regard, but I can judge myself, right? So, I think, it was extremely stupid of me to bet again and again, until my balance was zero, waiting for a big win, like I did the other day. In fact what I lost was a little bit more than what I previously won on the same site, but still I feel like I was addicted for more than an hour, and being addicted is a bad thing. But who's fault was that apart from my own? No one was forcing me to continue, so it was completely my fault.

Even if a person who has never played gambling should never judge gamblers on the basis of this habit only because definitely they are a lot more than this. Indeed it is not wise to do anything in excessive amount because even the right acts can hurt one way or the other when not done in limited amount. The only reason why it is advised to play in limits is to keep oneself safe from destroying.

[ethereumhunter]

Even if a person who has never played gambling should never judge gamblers on the basis of this habit only because definitely they are a lot more than this. Indeed it is not wise to do anything in excessive amount because even the right acts can hurt one way or the other when not done in limited amount. The only reason why it is advised to play in limits is to keep oneself safe from destroying.

When we do something excessively, especially in gambling, we will not get a better result because the result can lose the money. It will hurt to feel the loss, but that is what we will get if we are late to stop. Gambling will give you a worse experience if you don't know what you should do in gambling or you don't know how to enjoy it. The result from gambling for a long time will be addicting.

[gabbie2010]

Gambling addiction is a serious problem. I know some people who had become really poor from rich due to addiction. My aunt's friend had sold everything, house, car, all of his belongings as a capital for a loan due to gambling addiction. If you can't control your self when gambling, you should not gamble at all. It can break your life and make it miserable.

I also had a very close relative who is a gambling addict he majors in playing pools which eventually lead his disastrous state of living having used his pension and sold some of his properties like car and a house to play  pool expecting to win millions of dollars but eventually loss I had really learnt some lessons from their ways of life thus to desist from any form of gambling addictions which can ruin ones life and lead to an addict leaving in a miserable life.  Although I do gamble but I only spend the money I can afford to lose thus it's doesn't hurt me an inch if I lose.

[jets567]

This incident involved another gambling addict who tried to burn down the casino inside Resorts World Manila.

For a gambler to reach this point is really worst, they really need some medication or support from their friends and family. Losing money and your temper in gambling is natural but doing this kind of stuff is out of this world because for me it looks like that the gambler worship gambling too much that leads him to come this far.

[Shinpako09]

I rarely watch news that's why I haven't seen or read this. Any kind of addiction if not treated as soon as possible will lead into insane doing. That's a lot of money he stole especially in 3rd world country. That's the worst i've ever seen. One of the reason why I don't want to go in physical casino is because of this effect. The addiction or effect of playing physically is on another level. You're going to feel it more emotionally and you are more eager to comeback.

[supercanada1]

I rarely watch news that's why I haven't seen or read this. Any kind of addiction if not treated as soon as possible will lead into insane doing. That's a lot of money he stole especially in 3rd world country. That's the worst i've ever seen. One of the reason why I don't want to go in physical casino is because of this effect. The addiction or effect of playing physically is on another level. You're going to feel it more emotionally and you are more eager to comeback.

This incident could be regarded as one of the worst situations that have ever occurred in the history of gambling. I agree to your decision of avoiding physical casinos because it always includes a risk of one’s life. Hence to play safe and ensure your personal safety must be a priority for all who are involved in it. Gambling addiction has become common nowadays therefore one should remain careful before getting into any of the available streams.