Being Lonely drives you towards Gambling....!

[romero121]

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.

You kept a month of your signature earnings to have some money to be used for your mother's bills and you choose to gamble that instead of just converting it and paying it to the hospital??

What an insane mind you have. I'm a bit disappointed with the decision you made. I don't personally know you, but as a family-oriented man, I will prioritize my family over some hobbies or whatever you want to call to gambling. I will spend that amount to pay bills and not to gamble it. You know the risks of gambling right? If you may, where will you get the supposed funds that you could use to pay those bills of your family member? At least think of your decision next time before taking an action. My apologies to what I said too. As @livingfree said, you might wanna go to an expert because I think you need it.

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.

I will never ever gamble when I'm alone. I'm an introvert and most of the day, I'm alone in my small room and I didn't even think of gambling even a bit. There are many things that you might wanna do when you're alone. Read books, watch videos, play online games but not gambling particularly not gambling using your funds that supposedly be used to pay bills.

A bad day, I'm not addicted as you think. I just spend in $1 and $2, but at some point I missed my control. As you've said I should realise and should understand what needs to be prioritised. A big learning and the same won't happen again, and I've managed the financial difficulty.

Thanks for each and everyone who took time and felt bad for my act of gambling at the wrong time. Even users who go through it too can have it in mind while gambling.

[aioc]

Yes and I agree, when you have nothing to turn to and you feel lonely you want an escape and gambling is one of them, but your case is very different you should do first what matters most, I hate to say this but it's irresponsible when your love one is in the hospital and you are gambling, I also experience being lonely and gamble and lose a lot but this is when I lose a job, I just want something to do and gambling is the one that is accessible.

[Yogee]

Don't put the blame on external circumstances. Your addiction to gambling is probably way up compared to casual gamblers like many of us in here. I mean you maybe betting small but I wouldn't even think about betting when I feel lonely or bored in the first place. Some virtual games on mobile or PC would be my top choice and then there's watching some videos to keep my mind busy.

[goldkingcoiner]

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.

I think the loneliness is really the symptom of something a bit deeper which could be something like depression. And depression itself is just a symptom of a dysfunctional dopamine regulation in one's brain. Gambling really gives you a dopamine rush which makes you really happy for a short while but you need to keep doing it over and over again to retain that dopamine rush. Just like with drugs.

Its better to find the reason why your dopamine is low and fix it instead of relying on short fixes.

[Strongkored]

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.

Hopefully that money is an amount that you can afford to lose and not funds for important things and so on, and if I'm not mistaken, you've also made a thread on how to lose a sizable amount because you're tempted to play via your cellphone while at the barbershop or other place ( sorry if wrong).
I've never gambled like that when I'm lonely but would prefer to play when I'm alone because I feel more comfortable doing it without other people or family seeing it, and I really have to be careful when I'm alone because it's more tempting because it requires a way for entertainment and gambling can be very tempting.

[TheUltraElite]

Sorry to hear about your story but it seems to be that you have a problem and you need treatment as soon as possible. Spending money that has been kept for medical purposes on gambling means that you have developed an addiction and you need to change this habit or your family will suffer because of it.

Lonely and gambling - I dont think there is a direct causation but it can be assumed that those who gamble are more likely to be the single folk. Not every loner is a gambler though, some are very productive, so nope.

Remember that financial troubles will not end if you gamble out the money, rather you will go deeper down into losses and thus the quicker you handle this as a problem the faster you are to recover.

[Yatsan]

I disagree. The idea of earning money easily is what driving an individual to gamble. In the first place, there's no such thing as an easy way to earn money because we would be all rich if it is a fact. However, the idea itself is the misconception in this industry. Indeed there are people who became rich because of gambling but there are also many people who killed themselves because of the problem gambling has given to their lives. Problem is lack of discipline, control, and one's viewpoint of what winning is. Everyone has greed on ourselves. We tend to compare ourselves to others which pushes us to copy other's habits.

[coin-investor]

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

It just happens, but the feeling has nothing to do with your chances to win or lose, in my case I lose more when I'm too excited to play, luck always plays a big factor but your decision to chase your losses can sometimes attribute when you are not at your best to think the best course of action.

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.

That's the bad time to gamble, although it's a minor surgery it's still an emergency situation and all your focus should be on the surgery of your mother, you should learn from this situation, there is a best time to gamble and a worse time and this is one of the worse times.

[Frankolala]

You are an addicted gambler and you should try to discipline yourself in your gambling activities. It wasn't loneliness that caused it but your thought on gambling. Your greed led to the lost of 0.009btc,if not you would have stopped when you started losing but,you thought that you could win back your lost,which led to you losing all your funds.

We have being learning this lesson in the forum almost everyday due to the gambling stories we hear but still people fall victim,because they allow their emotion to control them. Anyway,that is why it is called gamble,when you don't keep a budget for your gambling activities, you will end up gambling all your funds due to thee pleasure you derive in it. Any voice that tells you to gamble, when you are alone,then know that it is the gambling spirit, you can ignore it.

[Dickiy]

The feeling of loneliness is really scary, I also did the same thing as you last night, curiosity and greed are more free in our minds and hearts when we are lonely doing gambling, before that I already had a plan not to spend my money and I have set limits losing before gambling, but what happens is the ambition to win goes crazy, it's different from gambling with friends, they always remind us when we go too far in gambling.
No matter how good the fundamentals a gambler has when playing gambling in loneliness, it is very dangerous.

[maydna]

Once again, greed plays its part in spending our winnings because we don't stop ourselves when we have won a lot of money. 0.009 BTC is quite a lot for someone, especially if you can get it from gambling because people rarely get it.

Perhaps, we must remember not to gamble in a bad mood because it will frustrate us, especially if we get a losing streak. And that can make us even more eager to recover that loss, and in the end, it will only lead to more losses.

[Slow death]

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

your case is very serious, you have become addicted to gambling or I can even venture to tell you that you have become addicted to gambling, my advice: stop gambling immediately, do not gamble for a long time, the best you would stop forever, if you say that when you are alone you only think about playing and you even reached the level of playing while your mother is in the hospital being operated on, that is already a very serious level. you need to stop playing urgently and you have to seek medical help to cure yourself

I see your case and I remember my relatives who were addicted, I can't say much about this subject, but I can assure you that if your mother finds out that you can't be alone without being into gambling, she might end up again in the hospital and this time it will be tension or heart problems because many people know that it is very painful to take care of a person addicted to gambling

[Gozie51]

And if I'm alone, even if those voices come and tell me to gamble, I won't be affected because I gamble only because I want to and not because of the voices.

I think op allowed himself to go into it and probably he has been an addict gambler and when he was "lonely" instead of going to hang out with friends or go out by himself to relax somewhere rather he chose to do what he was used to doing. To make his own matter worse was that he made some profit according to him but kept playing until he lost all his monthly earning. This is to show he enjoys gambling not because he was lonely.

[madnessteat]

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In my opinion, a lot of gamblers don't know how to stop in time. That is exactly your problem. You had an opportunity to quit the game having increased your bankroll by 10 times, but you decided that luck favors you and continued to play until your bankroll is zero.

Greed often plays a cruel joke on us, so I would advise you to learn to quit on time. Of course it doesn't guarantee that you won't lose the rest of your money another time, but at least you will learn to control yourself while playing, which is very important in my opinion.

[bittraffic]

People usually feel sad and lonely after losing. It's the opposite for you.
I have not really gamble when I'm sad. Having a deep emotion affects decision-making afaik, it's the same as when a person is angry. And then your mom is in the hospital.

Just browse the social media account you have, it's there for you not to feel lonely. With it, your siblings and friends can be reached.

[virasisog]

There are people who seek comfort in gambling whenever they feel sad or lonely but since you have experienced loss because of gambling during your emotional times, you should take it as a lesson to avoid gambling as much as possible. I'm sure that you feel disappointed about what you have lost so you must learn from what happened. Try to focus on other things when you're alone such as watching inspirational or fun videos just to feel entertained. Losing our monthly budget because of gambling could only make us suffer for a long time.

[AbuBhakar]

People usually feel sad and lonely after losing. It's the opposite for you.
I have not really gamble when I'm sad. Having a deep emotion affects decision-making afaik, it's the same as when a person is angry. And then your mom is in the hospital.

Just browse the social media account you have, it's there for you not to feel lonely. With it, your siblings and friends can be reached.

People who tends to gambling when they’re lonely became more lonely due to their losses, it is not advisable to do gambling when were not in mood to think or there are other stuffs in our mind since it will only lead to more losses. As much as possible do not gambling if we have problem or when we don’t have extra money. Gambling is a emotion breaker it can makes us too excited, too happy and the opposites of the two. It is like playing our minds and emotion so we must have other things or hobby to ease our mind. Do gambling only with cautions and when we know we have money we can risk to deal with.

[inthelongrun]

I tried it in the past and I mostly lost my bets so I won't do it again. But why gamble a lot when lonely? It is not advised to gamble since people are already in emotional situations. I prefer to choose something that makes me happy to create good vibes like watching movies, videos, or playing online games. Even sports betting during a bad mood might be a factor to produce a bad analysis making the bet a high probability of losing.

Although gambling during times people are lonely isn't that bad if only they know their limits. 

[btc_angela]

I don't think it's being lonely though, maybe it's that something is bothering you and being alone, the only way to cope with that stress or at least some escape from it is to play and gamble by yourself. But if I'm in your situation, I wouldn't think of gambling some money because there is some emergency if front of me, but I guess everyone is very different. I can only wish that everything will be good in your end and that you can be ok in this difficult times. And hopefully you learn your lessons, and not to gamble anymore or at least let this trying time pass first.

[Eternad]

Being lonely is one of the factor that urge me to gamble because I feel bored whenever I’m alone while playing gambling is very good to kill sometime and enjoy at the same time. But most of the time, watching gambler streamer winning huge amount of money is what makes me gamble no matter what is my current state. I always feel the urge to gamble because I became curious whether I can get that same jackpot price or not.

I have a lot of things that I’m doing when I’m alone so it’s very rare for me to get bored unless I saw a gambling post first before I think the things that I want to do.