Being Lonely drives you towards Gambling....!

[traderethereum]

I think if you’re gambling when you’re lonely it could be a coping device that might not be very healthy. Nothing wrong with gambling online while you’re alone, but if you’re only doing it out of boredom I think you’ll find that it is an expensive way to deal with being alone. If it is a problem then I’d treat it like an addiction and do your best to replace it with a different way to pass the time.

He may need to find another way not to feel alone because that can also influence his mind to do other things that might be bad for him.
But if you are alone and just want to have fun and are not in a bad mood, you can play gambling but still have to control your game so you can stop anytime.
Gambling when alone is fun but the risk is that once we can feel the fun and excitement, we can forget to stop and this has happened to many gamblers and they end up losing all their money.
And there are many ways that we can do to spend time instead of just playing gambling but it will come back to each person.

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[Cookdata]

Your thread explains the usual phrase when people say an Idle mind is just a devil's workshop. There is nothing that scares me like boredom, it gives you room to think deeply and that's when you start thinking unnecessary kinds of stuff, and before you blink an eye, gambling thoughts come in and the bad side of it is that you don't care if it crosses your monthly gambling budget.

I have a rule and I stick to it, I know some games and matches could be tempting to wager an amount but once I know I don't have any money from my gambling budget, I don't stake a kobo(cent) on any game and when I'm lonely, I switch to sports event or channels to entertain myself to avoid unnecessary loss or matches I didn't plan for in the first place.

[Mauser]

Does anybody have this experience or this is happening with me. Most of my gambling losses have taken place when I feel lonely.
Today one such incident have taken place. I've kept my last few weeks signature earning aside to meet some medical needs. Today my mother got hospitalised and I'm her attender. She is supposed to take a minor surgery as her vision isn't clear. She's been taken to the Operation Theatre and I was left alone in the room. If anything required the nursing staff would call me. By thos time my mind didn't think about anything. All of the sudden why don't you gamble? and I started and made 0.009BTC close to 0.01BTC and the greed didn't left me. Finally lost all my month's earning kept aside.

Through this I would like to remind be careful when you are alone. If your mind wish to gamble, go for it. But don't consider it as a way to pass your time and keep on wagering. The outcome might hurt, because most of the time loneliness is felt when our mind is in a bad mood. Some enjoy being lonely, but the reality used to be different.

Really sorry to hear that buddy, hopefully your mother is good and the operation was a success. I know the feeling of being lonely very well from my past, but I never tried to fight it with gambling. My main go to place to numb the pain where alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. It was a really dark time for me back then, it took me a long time to realise that this was a cry for help and I used all those substances to try and avoid changing my situation. Like me it seems that you are unhappy in your situation and should work to change it. How about you call an old friend or some family member you haven't spoken to in a while? Gambling while dealing with strong emotions is not a good idea in my opinion. When it comes to evaluating risk and remain in control of our actions we should be emotionally stable. That is why I never try to gamble when I am drunk or angry and mad. With your big loss you only make things worse and will feel terrible afterwards. We shouldn't be looking at gambling as a tool to make us feel better, because the chances of us losing is higher than of us winning.
   

[Pierre 2]

Being idle is not something good to be in such condition but taking good opportunity to gamble while being idle is a very good decision because it help whine away time doing something tangible and in a fun and pleasurable atmosphere in gambling, but we must never take it as an excuse for an addiction, we have the right to caution and discipline ourselves if we wanted to, gambling is a giver of a refreshing moment to keep us handy and busy doing something while engaged in gambling.

I definitely agree with this. When I was sick and not be able to work in office for long I felt lonely so I started playing lottery out of nowhere. I win nothing but yet I felt busy. I think gambling is not the best way to fill that void in your life. People can go with more creative and productive ways when they are idle. Gambling is nice escape mechanism from life's misery but its far better to gamble when you are totally mentally good. Being alone makes people vulnerable to be addicted.

[Poker Player]

Through this I would like to remind be careful when you are alone. If your mind wish to gamble, go for it. But don't consider it as a way to pass your time and keep on wagering. The outcome might hurt, because most of the time loneliness is felt when our mind is in a bad mood. Some enjoy being lonely, but the reality used to be different.

In reality, you are playing an EV-game, so the expected result, and more in the long term, is a loss. Feeling lonely or having other types of negative emotions, only enhances this and accelerates the process. Casino gambling should be for entertainment or fun, because it is not a good way to win money. What happens is that I understand that in situations like the one you are talking about, sometimes emotions drive you.

[peter0425]

sorry to hear that mate , and sad to see that instead of keeping that money so you can help with your mother operation ? you manage to gamble and lose them all for that I hate that attitude, and please don't blame gambling or loneliness to becoming a gambler because that is a stupid counter to your mistake , imagine that your mother is in the operation moment and instead of praying or wishing she won't lose her eyes , you gamble?
please do this mistake as eye opener and never to do the same mistake Ever again.

[Findingnemo]

On the other hand being alone can give enough room to think and execute your future plans, being alone can make you room to gain knowledge through various sources and the list is endless so being alone doesn't really drive towards gambling only our intention does so when we are clear with what is our need then we can use the loneliness to make things work.

[Shinpako09]

It's actually amazing how you had the mindset to gamble inside the hospital while your mother was under an operation (I'm assuming this is what happened based on your story). If not, well, the core idea still remains, you gambled while under pressure.

I think the obvious reason is that he is thinking about the bills. Financial needs drive someone to gamble which isn't new and it's always one of the main reasons why we play. Maybe he thinks, he can lessen the burden if ever the outcome is favorable to him, at least he will be in a little bit better state, financially. But then when emotions are high, intelligence is low. Not all, but gamblers always got carried by their emotions.

[Reatim]

On the other hand being alone can give enough room to think and execute your future plans,

maybe this will be His next step as he fails for the last act and the Money that he gather for a month just wasted that way.

being alone can make you room to gain knowledge through various sources and the list is endless so being alone doesn't really drive towards gambling only our intention does so when we are clear with what is our need then we can use the loneliness to make things work.

well like what others says? a hard ways to understand and learn .

actually in gambling ? many of us have already taken this and being advised so many times but of course we denies until we experience more bad like this.

[traderethereum]

On the other hand being alone can give enough room to think and execute your future plans, being alone can make you room to gain knowledge through various sources and the list is endless so being alone doesn't really drive towards gambling only our intention does so when we are clear with what is our need then we can use the loneliness to make things work.

That should be what we can do when we are alone and contemplating to prepare our next plans and not play gambling which can even make us lose money.
By being alone, we may get inspiration or ideas or even correct ourselves if we want to change in a better direction.
But if we instead use it to gamble, we really don't feel lonely because we are engrossed in gambling but the risk is that we will lose money.
We can decide what to do and it is better to use it for self-introspection so that we can know what we should improve and do in the future.

[rhomelmabini]

Does anybody have this experience or this is happening with me. Most of my gambling losses have taken place when I feel lonely.

Not just gambling but lot of other addictive stuff. Being human is to have connection with other beings and that's a given, you don't have to isolate yourself towards being lonely. Well, it's a given to be alone when you feel the urge in gambling, but being lonely shouldn't be at fault there are other things to consider, you just need to think of another way to make yourself more productive.

[bitbollo]

@OP
this is not your first post regarding issues in gambling (just a quick selection)...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399348.msg60172581#msg60172581
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396713.msg60006422#msg60006422
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5323311.msg56545827#msg56545827
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317095.msg56342157#msg56342157

I am really sorry to read such kind of posts.
If I can give you a suggestion and I hope this can help... is much better you take a pause from this activity and try to understand better the reason you bet, what you are achieving for.

[Solosanz]

I am really sorry to read such kind of posts.
If I can give you a suggestion and I hope this can help... is much better you take a pause from this activity and try to understand better the reason you bet, what you are achieving for.

I've read few posts on all of his threads, there are a lot users giving advice to @OP to quit gambling because @OP has a gambling addiction issue. But since he's join a signature campaign where the he must post in gambling boards in order to fulfill the campaign requirement, it make @OP has no way to escape gambling.

The best thing here is @OP need to leave gambling campaign and only join the campaign about other niche, but I believe @OP wouldn't do it since right now there's no signature campaign open or accept his rank.

[danherbias07]

@OP
this is not your first post regarding issues in gambling (just a quick selection)...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399348.msg60172581#msg60172581
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396713.msg60006422#msg60006422
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5323311.msg56545827#msg56545827
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317095.msg56342157#msg56342157

I am really sorry to read such kind of posts.
If I can give you a suggestion and I hope this can help... is much better you take a pause from this activity and try to understand better the reason you bet, what you are achieving for.

Good find, I didn't notice that. Maybe OP is actually suffering from gambling addiction but had not noticed it yet. Someone must tell him that it's not going well anymore and it should be changed. Maybe trying to pause making bets will rehabilitate him, it's a good trial to know if you can really control your addiction.
This could be the reason why his go-to application when boredom struck is gambling, unlike other people whose go-to is either social media or online games which as their pass time.
I hope he does read all the opinions of our members here as it might help him. Well, if there's no one who could talk to him about this.

[Taskford]

Does anybody have this experience or this is happening with me. Most of my gambling losses have taken place when I feel lonely.
Today one such incident have taken place. I've kept my last few weeks signature earning aside to meet some medical needs. Today my mother got hospitalised and I'm her attender. She is supposed to take a minor surgery as her vision isn't clear. She's been taken to the Operation Theatre and I was left alone in the room. If anything required the nursing staff would call me. By thos time my mind didn't think about anything. All of the sudden why don't you gamble? and I started and made 0.009BTC close to 0.01BTC and the greed didn't left me. Finally lost all my month's earning kept aside.

Through this I would like to remind be careful when you are alone. If your mind wish to gamble, go for it. But don't consider it as a way to pass your time and keep on wagering. The outcome might hurt, because most of the time loneliness is felt when our mind is in a bad mood. Some enjoy being lonely, but the reality used to be different.

That's not always the case, it will matter depends on what you see on the internet and people around you since those one can influence you to gamble because your curiosity risen up when there's money shown or you see people around you enjoying what they are playing and you will get convince to try about what they are doing because you don't want to be left around by them. There's to many option for people to eliminate their boredom and maybe other people see gambling as one of the option.

[Erumo]

@OP
this is not your first post regarding issues in gambling (just a quick selection)...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399348.msg60172581#msg60172581
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396713.msg60006422#msg60006422
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5323311.msg56545827#msg56545827
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317095.msg56342157#msg56342157

I am really sorry to read such kind of posts.
If I can give you a suggestion and I hope this can help... is much better you take a pause from this activity and try to understand better the reason you bet, what you are achieving for.

Great searching skills. I've told that this has nothing with being lonely, greed and addiction are sources of evil. The first problem of addicted to gambling is to admin he is addicted. romero121 is a perfect example. Everyone and everything are guilty for his loss, but not himself.

I would also advice to go to a specialist before it is to late. Few times per year romero121 makes a huge money loss due to gambling. Statistically, spring is bad period for him (based on topic creation dates). It is advisable to give access to wallets and account to someone till summer, or we are going to see new crying topics here.

[Renampun]

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Through this I would like to remind be careful when you are alone. If your mind wish to gamble, go for it.

0.009 BTC for me is big enough, I have also gambled several times when the house is quiet or no one is around me but I will not spend all my capital, if I lose several rounds while playing slots then I will stop to continue it tomorrow.

But don't consider it as a way to pass your time and keep on wagering. The outcome might hurt, because most of the time loneliness is felt when our mind is in a bad mood. Some enjoy being lonely, but the reality used to be different.

looking after someone in the hospital is really very boring but I'm a little curious, why don't you watch a movie - a funny video or call your friend. I'm not sure you will be able to return your losses in a short time, a valuable lesson from your story is to keep your curiosity under control when gambling in lonely conditions.

[Cling18]

Does anybody have this experience or this is happening with me. Most of my gambling losses have taken place when I feel lonely.
Today one such incident have taken place. I've kept my last few weeks signature earning aside to meet some medical needs. Today my mother got hospitalised and I'm her attender. She is supposed to take a minor surgery as her vision isn't clear. She's been taken to the Operation Theatre and I was left alone in the room. If anything required the nursing staff would call me. By thos time my mind didn't think about anything. All of the sudden why don't you gamble? and I started and made 0.009BTC close to 0.01BTC and the greed didn't left me. Finally lost all my month's earning kept aside.

Through this I would like to remind be careful when you are alone. If your mind wish to gamble, go for it. But don't consider it as a way to pass your time and keep on wagering. The outcome might hurt, because most of the time loneliness is felt when our mind is in a bad mood. Some enjoy being lonely, but the reality used to be different.

That's not always the case, it will matter depends on what you see on the internet and people around you since those one can influence you to gamble because your curiosity risen up when there's money shown or you see people around you enjoying what they are playing and you will get convince to try about what they are doing because you don't want to be left around by them. There's to many option for people to eliminate their boredom and maybe other people see gambling as one of the options.

It's normal to be sad if we're experiencing hardships in life and feel lonely if we don't have anyone besides us but relying on the comfort of gambling will not make the situation better. We can only feel more disappointed if we will have losses because we are too emotional. There are still many ways to ease our loneliness and gambling should not be our solution.

[348Judah]

Being lonely and getting busy with gambling is not as bad as that, gambling creates a pleasurable event you can always recqoned with whenever you're on the leisure mood and i don't see it a bad idea if that loneliness of yours eventually drives you into gambling, but either of the two, i believed you must have also be passionate about gambling but never been triggered to give a try not until something called loneliness pushed you into it, which is not also a bad idea, everyone gambling today has one or two things that serves a force that has contributed to their interest in gambling.

[uneng]

It's normal to be sad if we're experiencing hardships in life and feel lonely if we don't have anyone besides us but relying on the comfort of gambling will not make the situation better. We can only feel more disappointed if we will have losses because we are too emotional. There are still many ways to ease our loneliness and gambling should not be our solution.

It looks like OP is facing a hard time in his life due to his mother being hospitalized and urdergoing a surgery, so his mind needed a relief for a brief moment and gambling seemed the perfect choice on that situation he found himself. I really see no issues on that, since it could be benefical for him, however, he should just have been more careful with the amount of money he was going to risk. To risk the whole month's savings is never a viable alternative.

Maybe he should have just allocated a minor budget for gambling activity, like 10% of the savings.