Why there are so many people who get addicted on gambling?

[ethereumhunter]

Every gambler will encounter an situation of going back the losses to recover. By the time most of the gamblers inner mind has the feeling not to gamble anymore after recovering what's been lost. This won't happen in reality, because very few lucky ones get to recover the lost funds while the rest keeps chasing until the wallet gets to zero balance. This is how gamblers easily gets addicted.

Gamblers will have difficulty if they want to recover the losses in gambling because they should know that they don't have a big chance to win unless they have luck. A gambler who can recover he lose will be the lucky one while the other gamblers don't have the luck but only get another loss. The gambling owner knows about that, so the owner gives another promotion to their members to attract them back to the gambling places. And that makes the gamblers come again and again, and start to be addicted to gambling.

[Betwrong]

Gambling is everything especially for those what we called compulsive gamblers or those addict on gambling, but it made me realize, why they get so addicted in gambling? if gambling can be the reason for them to lost their money, properties, relationship to family and friends, mental health and physical health. I know that there are gamblers who play because of fun and entertainment, but actually there are so many ways for us to make ourselves entertained without even losing our money.
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Actually, almost any entertainment comes with a cost. Whether it be a video game for $50, or cinema outing for $10, or a meal out for $15, ... well, you got the idea. We must spend, or "lose", if you will, some money, if we want to be entertained.

And gambling is no different in this regard. Take me, for example. Apart from those rare times when I win, I normally lose to gambling $20-$30 per month, but I don't go restaurants, and I don't buy video games, I prefer to spend the saved money on gambling.

[DabsPoorVersion]

Many people get addicted to gambling because people love to make money,

It is already in the nature of every person that's why a certain individual who gets into gambling will get addicted later or sooner once he/she started gambling.

But aside from the said reason above, the other reason why people get addicted is that gambling has a psychological effect that temporarily affects their behavior that becomes permanently later on.

[LogitechMouse]

Every gambler will encounter an situation of going back the losses to recover. By the time most of the gamblers inner mind has the feeling not to gamble anymore after recovering what's been lost. This won't happen in reality, because very few lucky ones get to recover the lost funds while the rest keeps chasing until the wallet gets to zero balance. This is how gamblers easily gets addicted.

This is a very wrong move of the gambler (I intentionally combine very wrong ).

What they are doing is when they lose their initial capital in gambling, they will find another to recover their losses. Most of the gamblers who are doing this still lose their added funds and only few of them are luckily recovering their losses. Now the problem is that if this few gamblers recovered their losses, they will become greedy therefore they will continue to gamble hoping that they can go home with profit. Their only plan is to recover their losses but because they have been eaten by greed, they continued to gamble until they lose again. Lucky if they go home with profit but most of them ending up losing it all.

This is why I don't want to spend money and time with gambling. I don't want to get addicted into it because if I will then it will be hard for me to recover anymore.

[bitcoinst]

Every gambler will encounter an situation of going back the losses to recover. By the time most of the gamblers inner mind has the feeling not to gamble anymore after recovering what's been lost. This won't happen in reality, because very few lucky ones get to recover the lost funds while the rest keeps chasing until the wallet gets to zero balance. This is how gamblers easily gets addicted.

In fact, this is just a cocktail from the pleasure of victory, and the desire to win back from losses is thereby what ties players to gambling for a long time.
Each time we promise ourselves not to continue the game, the brain can easily deceive us and convince us that it is worth continuing.

[Captain Corporate]

 I guess it is fun? I mean I know that it is risky and it is addiction and it is bad, however it is quite fun as well. Thats the thing with almost all addictions, it takes you away from the boring regular life, lets be honest not everybody has absolutely lovely life, the most common life of every human is waking up, going to work, coming back home, do something for few hours and sleep, thats literally all we do. Some people prefer watching netflix, some people prefer reading, some people prefer something else but for just some people they prefer gambling.

 I get that gambling is much worse than watching movies or anything, but it is still something people basically run away from their regular boring life, anyone who has a very fun life to live, usually do not gamble all that much, at least not get addicted.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I know that there are gamblers who play because of fun and entertainment, but actually there are so many ways for us to make ourselves entertained without even losing our money.

It isn't about lossing money but the fun that comes when individuals engage in gambling activities irrespective of the intention behind them gambling within themselves be it for fun or to make money. The zeal of winning the games brings about anxiety that not much other activity can boost of.

Gambling isn't just an activity but a culture since it has become a way of life for most people who're sport lovers. That many people are getting addicted is simply as a result of their ignorance, they're simply letting their human side get advantage over their decision making since gambling addiction isn't that complex and can be avoided.

[skarais]

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Lust is a very difficult thing to control. We all have the desire, and when the desire to get a lot of money from gambling cannot be controlled then someone might be said to be a gambling addict.

Someone might say that if their goal is to bet for fun, but I am not sure if they can play 3-4 times a week they are not categorized as addicts. Someone who aims to bet for the sake of pleasure usually only bet on a few occasions and it is very limited. There are many other ways to have fun besides gambling, but maybe they dont want to be called gambling addicts. I am very sure that the average gambler is those who need money and they hope by making a bet that they can get money.

[RealMalatesta]

I guess it is a psychological thing. I have talked with a friend before about being addicted to fast food and I know fast food and gambling has absolutely no connection at all the addiction thing has something common between ALL addictions. People who have addictions, doesn't matter if it is eating, drugs, gambling or anything, they can't really give up because they have something in their psychology that they are trying to surpass usually.

It means they have some sort of emotional gap in their soul, in their mind or whatever you believe in and they are trying to fill that gap with something. That gap could be anything, a hurt from a lover, a financial dispute, feeling inadequate, basically ANYTHING, when a person feels vulnerable, even while not realizing it, they are more open to addiction.

[BlackFor3st]

Gambling is everything especially for those what we called compulsive gamblers or those addict on gambling, but it made me realize, why they get so addicted in gambling? if gambling can be the reason for them to lost their money, properties, relationship to family and friends, mental health and physical health. I know that there are gamblers who play because of fun and entertainment, but actually there are so many ways for us to make ourselves entertained without even losing our money.

But anyway, I can not judge and blame all those people because we are all different, we have different story in life.

One reason why I think most of the people got addicted of gambling is because of the thrill while thinking how much they will win at that time that they are gambling. If we are in a state of gambling, we compete to each other especially if we gamble to player vs player and we want to win of course but we didn't think anymore how much we lost because we just tell ourselves that we will do better tomorrow if we will lost today.

I am not a gambling addict but this is what I am experiencing every time I gamble so there is a big chance that others are feeling the same way.

[maydna]

Every gambler will encounter an situation of going back the losses to recover. By the time most of the gamblers inner mind has the feeling not to gamble anymore after recovering what's been lost. This won't happen in reality, because very few lucky ones get to recover the lost funds while the rest keeps chasing until the wallet gets to zero balance. This is how gamblers easily gets addicted.

In fact, this is just a cocktail from the pleasure of victory, and the desire to win back from losses is thereby what ties players to gambling for a long time.
Each time we promise ourselves not to continue the game, the brain can easily deceive us and convince us that it is worth continuing.

When a gambler always thinks about recovering the lost, that will attract them to try one more chance to play. They don't know if the next round will be their winning, so they keep trying to roll one more time, but the fact is just another loss for them. The desire to win back will be on every gambler who lose their money, but it is our job not to continue and not to try to recover the loss because that will not easy to do. We must know that we need to control that desire not to trick us into losing more money.

[Betwrong]

Every gambler will encounter an situation of going back the losses to recover. By the time most of the gamblers inner mind has the feeling not to gamble anymore after recovering what's been lost. This won't happen in reality, because very few lucky ones get to recover the lost funds while the rest keeps chasing until the wallet gets to zero balance. This is how gamblers easily gets addicted.

In fact, this is just a cocktail from the pleasure of victory, and the desire to win back from losses is thereby what ties players to gambling for a long time.
Each time we promise ourselves not to continue the game, the brain can easily deceive us and convince us that it is worth continuing.

I can assure you that this doesn't happen to everyone. If it happens to you, don't think it's a normal thing, go and see a specialist, the sooner the better.

What you describe are symptoms of problem gambling, and only from 3% to 5% of gamblers can fall in this category.

[Natalim]

These are people who are irresponsible, they are addicted because they don't know how to minimize the risk by controlling themselves.
Also, they are greedy, they think that gambling is the only solution that could give them success financially without realizing the reality that gambling industry is growing because casinos are always winning against its gamblers.

let's just be realistic and eventually, the number of people addicted in gambling will be reduce.

[SacriFries11]

In fact, this is just a cocktail from the pleasure of victory, and the desire to win back from losses is thereby what ties players to gambling for a long time.
Each time we promise ourselves not to continue the game, the brain can easily deceive us and convince us that it is worth continuing.

Any or everybody had come to that situation where we continue as long as we have money to lose. After it, we blamed ourselves not cut our losses. We can't handle our own emotion towards what is right and that is addicting is all about. It's also the feeling of being in the top of the class and the feeling of winning every time. Being addicted is very difficult to handle and it's takes a lot of time and discipline towards what you really what and its to change.

[JoMarrah Iarim Dan]

Gambling is everything especially for those what we called compulsive gamblers or those addict on gambling, but it made me realize, why they get so addicted in gambling? if gambling can be the reason for them to lost their money, properties, relationship to family and friends, mental health and physical health. I know that there are gamblers who play because of fun and entertainment, but actually there are so many ways for us to make ourselves entertained without even losing our money.
But anyway, I can not judge and blame all those people because we are all different, we have different story in life.

Yes there are other entertainment out there but of course the fun given to them by gambling is different. We can win some true money in it but with a risk of losing the money also. I think one reason why they stick to it is because they think that it can be their only way to earn or it is only the thing they can do to earn instant big.

[KTChampions]

OP, you could as well ask some other rethorical questions like:
Why there are so many drug addicts?
Why there are so many smokers?
Why there are so many workaholics?

People get addicted to things they like doing. Some get addicted to playing computer games, others to gambling. You can't change that.

I think the main point of these questions is precisely to change this. For each of this addiction, there are different tricks to overcome it, and of course there are general techniques. I think no one will argue with the fact that a heavy dependence on gambling is bad and we need to look for options to overcome it.

[Ailurophile]

But anyway, I can not judge and blame all those people because we are all different, we have different story in life.

Yes we couldn't judge them because we don't know what are their reason why they got addicted to it,
We don't know what they have seen or felt on it and why do they still cling to it even if they are losing money or everything on it.
But I guess I understand some of them because I once cling on gambling because I was lonely and gambling makes me feel happy and complete at that time.

[Mumbeeptind1963]

But anyway, I can not judge and blame all those people because we are all different, we have different story in life.

Yes we couldn't judge them because we don't know what are their reason why they got addicted to it,
We don't know what they have seen or felt on it and why do they still cling to it even if they are losing money or everything on it.
But I guess I understand some of them because I once cling on gambling because I was lonely and gambling makes me feel happy and complete at that time.

That is the reason why I don't play gambling because once that you're became an addict, you cannot stop the addiction unless you really wanted to or when you choose to seek help with the professionals. Addiction is not a joke, if you are an addict you will di whatever you wanted to even if you lose your money a couple of times you will still find a way to earn just for gambling. This is the reason why some addicts are triggered to do bad things such as robbery and holdap just for the sake of their addiction.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

But anyway, I can not judge and blame all those people because we are all different, we have different story in life.

Yes we couldn't judge them because we don't know what are their reason why they got addicted to it,
We don't know what they have seen or felt on it and why do they still cling to it even if they are losing money or everything on it.
But I guess I understand some of them because I once cling on gambling because I was lonely and gambling makes me feel happy and complete at that time.

That is the reason why I don't play gambling because once that you're became an addict, you cannot stop the addiction unless you really wanted to or when you choose to seek help with the professionals. Addiction is not a joke, if you are an addict you will di whatever you wanted to even if you lose your money a couple of times you will still find a way to earn just for gambling. This is the reason why some addicts are triggered to do bad things such as robbery and holdap just for the sake of their addiction.

That is why before you get into gambling, you should be responsible enough not to get yourself being greedy or betting too much because once you let yourself lose control in gambling you are already in the wrong path that could lead you to extreme addiction. Addiction in gambling is not that hard to avoid, you should always be responsible and only play gambling for entertainment or leisure time.

[BitcoinTurk]

I think the question that preceds this one is "Have you been gambling?" If the answer is yes, you will certainly know and are familiar why gambling is addictive. The experience and feeling of gambling is really nice. The thrill of looking forward to the outcome or the result of the game, the possibility of winning, the ecstasy of winning itself, the adrenaline to get back whenever lost, and so on are just some of the things I can mention why gamblers are really hooked on it. Even a moderate gambler like me knows how it feels to get lost in the gambling world.

As you ask "Have you been gambling?", i think it would be better to change the question to "Are you actively gambling?". If there are people who answer yes to the question I am talking about, they will already know why they are addicted or will learn while trying to answer this question. Gambling is actually fun to play but also dangerous. Who knows, perhaps this feature of gambling makes it attractive, and therefore people become addicted.