Do you gamble to escape your problem?

[Cesar22]

I gamble sometimes just to experience the rush

[Slow death]

one day i asked people who consume alcoholic beverages why do they drink a lot and exaggerate? the answer they gave me was this: we drink a lot to forget about problems. But I saw them drinking every day and their life did not seem to be a bad life, on the contrary they were having a good life and even so they continued to drink under the argument that they are drinking because they want to forget their problems. When people become addicted they start using the argument that they want to hide their problems because they don't want to admit that they are addicted

For sure people they will like this, casino is loud but this is a place where you can enjoy, have some drink while you are gambling.
Even myself, when I have a problem, I don't want to go to quite places as I would just think my problem on and on, if I like to forget for awhile, I'll choose to go some place where I can divert my attention and that is a casino or going to the bar drinking with my friends.

the problem is that everyone has problems and problems arise every day. If the person thinks that the solution to the problems is in the casino or going to drink with friends then that person will have to stay every day in the casino or will have to stay every day in the places where they sell drinks to drink with friends

[pwnrman]

I think i gamble for the same reason many other people gamble, for a chance of profit.

I also watch people on Bustabit winning & say "well this isn't too hard". Then when i try it, its extremely hard.

[CarnagexD]

I'm not highly recommended to play gambling when you are not mentally stable because you can not make good decisions instead of having a lot of mistakes and easily anger because of the decisions you made. We all know that we have a lot of problems and if you want to take care of the things you should have you do not pressure your self about things happen. In gambling, it gives a lot of pressure to you because it is good because it can cause damage to you again and now you cannot make good decisions because you are now slowly feeling desperate and experiencing depression towards having anxiety. Better to play gambling if you are now fully prepared with your mental, emotional and physical state.

[stadus]

I think i gamble for the same reason many other people gamble, for a chance of profit.

Most of us, we gamble for profit but at the same time we like to have fun as well, the entertainment that we experience is something that really makes us comes back to play from time to time, aside from being challenge on the game/s that we have been playing.

I also watch people on Bustabit winning & say "well this isn't too hard". Then when i try it, its extremely hard.

Well, that's the reality, it's easier to say than to do it and we can't deny the fact that majority of the gamblers loses money, that's the formula that would result to gambling sites being so profitable.

[nakamura12]

Even if there is a thread with the same topic but I will still share my answer here. First, gambling in a casino doesn't solve or can help you escape your problem instead it will only add more problems related to money so you shoulnd't gamble just to escape your problem. It's not a good idea and better find another solution.

[Wexnident]

one day i asked people who consume alcoholic beverages why do they drink a lot and exaggerate? the answer they gave me was this: we drink a lot to forget about problems. But I saw them drinking every day and their life did not seem to be a bad life, on the contrary they were having a good life and even so they continued to drink under the argument that they are drinking because they want to forget their problems. When people become addicted they start using the argument that they want to hide their problems because they don't want to admit that they are addicted

Judging someone by what you "seem" to see seems to be wrong to me. A person can have a lot of pent up problems and a person can also live while hiding those problems from the naked eye of others. Here's the thing, addiction is something that happens when someone is in deep sht and they tend to remove themselves from reality. Hard. Saying the excuse of to drink to forget problems doesn't necessarily mean that one is addicted or anything of the like. Its still completely under debate imo, and it's pretty much up to the person themselves to judge if they are really addicted or not.

I'm not highly recommended to play gambling when you are not mentally stable because you can not make good decisions instead of having a lot of mistakes and easily anger because of the decisions you made. We all know that we have a lot of problems and if you want to take care of the things you should have you do not pressure your self about things happen. In gambling, it gives a lot of pressure to you because it is good because it can cause damage to you again and now you cannot make good decisions because you are now slowly feeling desperate and experiencing depression towards having anxiety. Better to play gambling if you are now fully prepared with your mental, emotional and physical state.

The pressure isn't really a negative thing. Being under pressure can actually help you develop mentally imo, just that, it's only that. It doesn't really help in anything emotional hence, when people start being emotional, they tend to forget the pressure. They don't really feel anything and just act based on emotions, not on pressure. It should probably be emotionally unstable instead of mentally I think.

[Shimmiry]

Are you one of those people who gamble just to escape your problem? If you are one of them, I just wanna say that gamble will not solve your problem, yes you have escaped the problem but once you are done gambling the problem is still there and you still need to face it.

Gambling can also add to your problem, imagine if you already have a problem then you are also losing your money in gambling, what would you feel from that?  
There are already gamblers who lost everything because of it, whenever you have a problem and you are still gambling you wouldn't think to quit because you want to the game and that is the time where you can lose everything in you.

Take a look with this link, those people who lost everything, cars, home, marriages and more because of gambling: https://addiction-treatment.com/blog/six-gambling-addicts-who-lost-everything-cars-homes-marriages-and-more

Personally I have never done gambling for me just to be able to escape from my problems. It is unhealthy because you can just easily lost everything because of it. Whenever you are experiencing problems, it is better if you just calm yourself down and start thinking and searching solutions than wasting away your time gambling, throwing your money away. Other thing is that, a lot of us cannot think at our best on times like this, so better avoid gambling to cope or to escape from your problems in life.
Live a better life and pick the best choices that you have. Solve the problem and do not run away from them. Escapism might be effective on some people it is still better if you do it moderately.

[pakhitheboss]

How can you enjoy gambling if you have problems?

For me gambling is another way to entertain myself from my busy schedule. I do not gamble everyday and when I gamble I do know my limit. I take it as way to get entertained, I have never used it as escapism. If I have an issue in my life I would first try to solve it than gamble my way out of that issue.

[deisik]

The pressure isn't really a negative thing. Being under pressure can actually help you develop mentally imo, just that, it's only that

I would say it depends

The emotional pressure is good only as long as you can successfully cope with it and have plenty of time to recuperate and recover from it. Then supercompensation kicks in, and you come off stronger and more resilient than before. However, there are certain and definite limits to this process, and in most cases, the stress is almost always of chronic nature (just like losses). There's no way a chronic stress, especially the one bordering on outright distress, can be positive as it is severely exhausting, both mentally and physically

[stadus]

How can you enjoy gambling if you have problems?

I can do that, in fact I temporarily forget my problem when I gamble, losing is not going to be a problem as I make sure I don't spend a lot, I just gamble to have fun, that's why I get entertain, it would be different if I gamble and get very ambitions to win, I would certainly feel bad if I lose my money.

If you are a gambler, you will experience that there are times that you can just easily let go of your loses because you are having fun.

[ShowOff]

Even if there is a thread with the same topic but I will still share my answer here. First, gambling in a casino doesn't solve or can help you escape your problem instead it will only add more problems related to money so you shoulnd't gamble just to escape your problem. It's not a good idea and better find another solution.

Many cases of people who come to gambling are to avoid "family, financial and other problems". But from all those efforts, I think it will only add to the burden of the mind and will only make things worse. Instead of solving problems but in reality only adding to problems. Its up to what he thinks is good or not, but in my opinion this step is not useful enough "at least for me".

[LogitechMouse]

I'm not gambling anymore but I don't think that I will do this kind of thing when I have a problem.

Maybe for some then they see gambling as a way to escape their problem but I know that most of them will end up losing their money as they can't get their focus because they have a problem that they need to face after gambling. For me, this isn't a good idea to do that you will use gambling as a tool to escape your problem because the opposite can happen. Instead of escaping the problem with the help of gambling, gambling will just add up to your problems.

[Russlenat]

I'm not gambling anymore but I don't think that I will do this kind of thing when I have a problem.

Maybe for some then they see gambling as a way to escape their problem but I know that most of them will end up losing their money as they can't get their focus because they have a problem that they need to face after gambling. For me, this isn't a good idea to do that you will use gambling as a tool to escape your problem because the opposite can happen. Instead of escaping the problem with the help of gambling, gambling will just add up to your problems.

Everyone have different ways of entertaining themselves, me either, I don't gamble when I have a problem but I do drink with my friends of course since it's more fun when you have someone to talk to than drinking alone, and it's opposite when I'm gambling as I like to do it alone, just to make sure I can concentrate and I can make the best decision.

[FontSeli]

I'm not sure that some people gamble because of problems at home, at work, or with friends. Many people gamble in order to solve problems with lack of money. And they lose even more money and that's when they start to have all the above problems.

Play gambling games only for the purpose of having fun and having a good time. And you won't have any problems.

We can't tell and maybe there really are people who gamble to escape problems.

They see gambling as their escape gate to reality. We have different crazy ideas and hobbies which helps us think better or temporarily escape problems.

Of course, there are exceptions to any rule. There may be different situations in our life. However, the situations I mentioned are much more common. People go to casinos first of all with problems in earning money.

Yes, and it is the reason why we don't know if there are really people that just go to casinos just to relieve themselves.

As you say, there might be different situations and we don't know what others are going through but you are right that mostly gamble for money.

I'm the exception to the rule. All my trips to the casino with friends were just for the purpose of having a good time, playing and drinking alcohol.

However, I have seen different people in the casino, many of them come with the hope of a big win and earning money.

[jossiel]

I gamble sometimes just to experience the rush

Never heard of this but I think that you gamble rarely.

I don't think that escaping your problem by gambling is not a good idea in my opinion as it will only add more problems. My suggestion is that you should divert your attention in other things so that you won't always remember your problem. If your problem is financial then it would only make it worse.

Sometimes we are mentally weak to look for solutions to our problems. And if we can't find a solution and this is the only activity we know that can help us avoid those problems temporarily, mentally, it helps. But, it's the reality that we should think of. You may escape the problem but you have to face it no matter how big or small it is. Afterwards, you'll face the truth that you have avoided it for the meanwhile but you still have to look for answers or solve it in anyway that you can.

[ethereumhunter]

I think i gamble for the same reason many other people gamble, for a chance of profit.

I also watch people on Bustabit winning & say "well this isn't too hard". Then when i try it, its extremely hard.

You shouldn't use gambling to search for a chance of profit because you will feel that it is too difficult to get. You will better to search for the other way for making a profit such as you can do trading to make a profit than to use gambling. You already try it, so I guess you have the experience of making money from gambling, and you should not continue to gamble for a chance of profit.

[Clark05]

We don't need to play gambling to escape our problem we need to face it so we can solve it once you play gambling once you have problem and you lose it for sure you will be suffer more so better for us once we play we have clear mind so we can focus in playing gambling because I believe if you have that high possibility for you to win in gambling because you know what is startegy you will use playing .

Facing problems is good becuse you will going to solve it and I suggestto every player once you have problems just skip playing until you find a solution to the problem.

[TheGreatPython]

No, I will never gamble for my personal preferences but I will go only as per my predetermined schedule.

That is a simple practice I am following for many years because only when I do gamble as per my schedule I believe I can avoid gambling addictions. If you notice, people who are gambling at their wish, easily getting addicted over the time. Because once they get practice to gambling and its excitement, they will never prefer to get out of gambling. That must be the core reason why gambling is more dangerous for making people addicted.

I agree gambling is for entertainment then why not go for it to escape from of a problem. But, in my opinion people are escaping from other problem but entering into a very big problem of their lifetime which must be gambling addiction if they prefer to go for gambling to skip facing life's other problems.

[bitcoinst]

I don't think that escaping your problem by gambling is not a good idea in my opinion as it will only add more problems. My suggestion is that you should divert your attention in other things so that you won't always remember your problem. If your problem is financial then it would only make it worse.

Avoiding problems is always bad because the problem is not solved and comes back again and again.
Avoiding the problem over and over again, we enjoy a passing sense of comfort from the fact that we did not have to strain the gyrus to solve it, but this is just an illusion.
The problem will come back again and again, and the situation may worsen each time.

In addition, we will constantly think that we have a problem that needs to be solved, which will prevent us from being effective in other areas of life.
Any avoidance is avoidance, whether it is gambling, drinking or computer games.