Violence and anger could be a sign of gambling addiction in youths

[Wexnident]

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Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

"Telling" them isn't going to do anything. They're humans, they have wants, and needs together with responsibilities. Now if no one actually educates them to understand that those come together in a bundle, it's rather inevitable that they're going to do something wrong. There's a world difference between telling them these things vs letting them understand.

The most effective way really is to have a family that can support them and educate them, but not all households are like that so other than that, there's nothing really. A being is shaped by their surroundings early on, and even if we do say they can filter out what they can and shouldn't take, by the time they understand such logic it might've been a tad bit too late.

[noormcs5]

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Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

"Telling" them isn't going to do anything. They're humans, they have wants, and needs together with responsibilities. Now if no one actually educates them to understand that those come together in a bundle, it's rather inevitable that they're going to do something wrong. There's a world difference between telling them these things vs letting them understand.

The most effective way really is to have a family that can support them and educate them, but not all households are like that so other than that, there's nothing really. A being is shaped by their surroundings early on, and even if we do say they can filter out what they can and shouldn't take, by the time they understand such logic it might've been a tad bit too late.

I understand that guiding them may not have much effect on the addicted gamblers. Instead, those who are violent and aggressive may start teaching you the importance of gambling in a manner that you may feel insulted.

However, this should not mean that we refrain from guiding them only because we fear their reaction or they won't change. Even if by our teaching, 2-5% of gamblers change their habit, it will be good for them and also fulfil the purpose of spreading better practices in our society.

If we do not care for our near and dear ones (the ones involved in excessive gambling), then who may look after them 

[michellee]

From @OP's story, it seems like he has become addicted to gambling, which has affected his psychology, so he has become angry. But we don't know whether he was really addicted to gambling or because of something else. However, they tend to lose self-control and use violence when their wishes are not followed. This has endangered his family members because of the changes within him.

And it seems his gambling may be due to his association with friends. He may have resorted to violence to demand money from his family members or to tell family members who knew about his gambling activities not to tell other family members about it. But whatever it is, this is very worrying because most of the young generation nowadays often use violence if their wishes are not followed.

It is difficult to ask the younger generation to stay home instead of earning money. Maybe they want to help their parent's lives and decide to look for work. This is something to be appreciated because there is awareness on their part to help their parents earn money. But it needs to be reminded again that if their current job is in school and if they want to help earn money, they should not use gambling because it will have bad consequences for their future.

[klidex]

I don't agree on this one. To relate gambling to the fact the individual has become aggressive is just a way to minimize his violent nature. He isn't aggressive because he has been gambling or has become addicted to it. Maybe gambling just raised his aggressivity a little more,

We cannot blame anyone who is violent or aggressive because he is involved in gambling. Gambling is not the only source of being rude and in a mode of tension/depression, there may be many other reasons as well. Even there are people who never gamble yet they are violent,  Why?
It can be because of any family issues or maybe he is involved in drugs etc. which can cause this unusual behavior.

Yes, gambling addicts also have the same symptoms and habits but we need to investigate more to get the actual reasons for this anger behavior.

Yes, of course all violence perpetrated by someone is not necessarily all related to gambling addiction. and I agree with your opinion as you say if a person's causes can be related to reasons other than gambling.
Gambling addiction has a bad impact on a person if they cannot control themselves and if they always experience defeat, it is not impossible that they will become aggressive and vent violence and anger at the people around them, this is very detrimental.

Therefore, we should avoid people like that if we associate with people who are temperamental, not only because they gamble, they don't hesitate to commit violence for other reasons.

[lienfaye]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

Many factors can tempt the youth to try out gambling and one of that is the influence of their friends. The proper guidance of the parents might not be totally the effective way but has a huge impact on the kid's behavior and on how they see things.

Anyway, violence and anger issues can be related to gambling addiction of a person, and it's not limited to youth, but in general. Even adult gamblers who experience losses tend to have such personality (though not all since it depends how you deal with it). This usually happen if you can't accept the outcome then you tend to pour out your anger to someone even it's solely your fault.

[GigaBit]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

The solution in my opinion is that we should first understand about gambling what it can give us or how much we can expect from it? Should gambling ever be considered a means of making money? We should take a preliminary idea about how much we can gain by gambling for a long time. When a gambler gets the right idea about these things I think that's when a youngster will come back from making money. If a gambler considers gambling only as a center of joy then young people or others will never become addicted to gambling. So before gambling one must have an idea about the long term achievements of a gambler.

[zuzie]

Many factors can tempt the youth to try out gambling and one of that is the influence of their friends. The proper guidance of the parents might not be totally the effective way but has a huge impact on the kid's behavior and on how they see things.

Anyway, violence and anger issues can be related to gambling addiction of a person, and it's not limited to youth, but in general. Even adult gamblers who experience losses tend to have such personality (though not all since it depends how you deal with it). This usually happen if you can't accept the outcome then you tend to pour out your anger to someone even it's solely your fault.

That's right, I agree with your opinion, teenagers are tempted to gamble because one of them is environmental factors, it could be from their friends or even those closest to them. If the teenager cannot control himself then he will become addicted and become a gambling addict. Parental supervision and guidance may not be effective if the teenager himself does not realize that gambling will bring misery to him. And if teenagers are out of control then most of them will do bad things such as committing violence against other people and the anger that appears very unstable suddenly, because what you said is true is that teenagers cannot control their emotions optimally, because of factors -Factors that influence them are their childish nature. is still attached to him, and this is what parents fear if teenagers can do things beyond the limits of their abilities and minds.

[len01]

firrst of all, gambling addiction is always known for poor self control and emotions that exceed limits or can be called emotions that cannot be controlled. so I would not be surprised if someone you know is currently committing violence against his sibling because sometimes its an inappropriate outlet for emotions, such as when he actually just lost more money or lost at gambling and its impossible for him to vent his anger at gambling but instead he takes it out on his own family and I admit that emotions that cannot be controlled are usually closer to gambling addiction, so we always remind each other that self control or controlling emotions is very important in gambling.

in this scenario we must understand better not to involve emotions towards gambling. I mean when you are in an emotional situation it is better to avoid gambling because it will have a bad impact in the long term such as addiction and I have also seen a gambling addict who goes on a rampage every day venting his emotions on his family and this is the result of gambler who fail to have self control and become addicted.

this OP story provides a valuable lesson that this story is a negative impact on someone who is addicted to gambling and this addiction begins with poor self control and negative thought patterns.

[CODE200]

When the situation of the country is too hard to comprehend, youths who are supposed to be the future leaders will start turning into criminals in front of us.

This is the third case that have happened to someone very close to me ( not family ), and they all have one thing in common, SPOUSE ABUSE and CRIME.

I knew this gentle soul growing up in my street, who just turned 24 years old and now he was into gambling without anyone knowing at home for the past 1 year, the only point that I hold unto from his mother is how he maltreated his junior brothers and sisters and he also have anger issues.

I have come to understand that having a negative impact on people close to you or your family could be a sign of compulsive gambling, to the extent that this boy start maltreating his junior ones, I mean inflicting pains on them.

The other two cases that I knew about gambling addict ( one in the family ) also have something similar to this behaviour, anger issues, criminal activities like burglary and disrespect of parents, I think countries with high rate of struggles and hardship will always have this type of problems.

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.
 

Yes, aggression is actually one of the manifestation that a child or person might developed an addiction. And this can be actually the same as when a person is addicted to alcohols. They tend to display aggressive and inappropriate behavior and this can be really alarming. In other cases, they use to steal money from their parents just so they have funds to gamble. But in worse case scenario, they become physical and leads to such abuse.
Probably, one of the factors that might influence youth to perform gambling activities is because of peer pressure. Remember that in this stage of their lives, they get along better with their friends than their parents. So, as parents we should give our full attention on them, and as much possible we should do an effort in knowing their friends.

[ethereumhunter]

There is no effective way to ensure that young people stay where they are or at home because their social circle is now getting wider. And even though they are asked to stay at home, they will ask to have a connection to the internet so they can browse the internet. And that's not a solution because they can still get caught up in bad things. But everything can be overcome with guidance from their parents so that their children will not do things that negatively impact their lives. Underage children or teenagers still have to be under the supervision of their parents and parents need to provide an understanding of what they can and cannot do. It's a good idea to frequently invite children to discuss many things to build closer relationships between children and their parents.

[Crypt0Gore]

You are not entirely right, are you saying that any kid that starts misbehaving is into gambling? Some are thought to behave in such ways by the friends they keep, it's right to look deep into their private stuff especially if they have a smartphone but it's also smart to find information about the friends they keep.

This was how a boy turned into a secret cult in my city, he was unable to open up to his parents because he had been warned that if the secret was let out they would kill his parent right in front of his eyes, this was why this boy turned into anger, he needed help but he doesn't know how to go about it.

Don't just assume that when a child starts doing things that they haven't done before it is a sign of gambling, a cousin of mine was also a gambling addict, he was just 18 years old and he loved football, but we don't know he is into gambling until he used his school fees to gamble and lost the money.

He cried his eyes out for days and he hated that he did such a thing, from where he grew up and forbade gambling, he is doing fine now and I don't see any traces that he is into gambling, I do lecture him that even if he feels like gambling some day again, he should learn about how to be a responsible gambler.

[coin-investor]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

What happened to them is that they were not properly educated on the value of money and the value of working for it based on hard work and working for it in legal ways if they see that they could make money from gambling early on before they learn to make money through hard work, they will prefer the easy and riskier, the youth or minors who are deep into this should be rehabilitated because the addiction could deeply embedded, addiction can easily penetrate the mind of the youth and its hard to weed out only rehabilitation can.

It is a failure of the government and the family and institutions if there are too many youths that are deep into gambling addiction, the government could ban any form of casinos if they see the moral fiber of the country going down, family is where youth gets nurtured so the family should be strengthened for to avoid youth addiction.

[mindrust]

Add computer games addiction too. Both of these addictions pretty much have the same symptoms. I know it because I used to be a gaming addict. I was so furious when a dumb fuck couldn’t use his ulti on time and made us lose the game. Do you know how hard it is to gain MMR’s in public games? It only takes one quitter/newb/afk to fuck everything up! Game after game I had to deal with these morons and I was losing most of the games. My MMR was taking a nose dive… then In one of these games something unusual happened. This time the quitter was on the other team. But guess what… the other team had a fucking god player which dominated our team alone. He was taking us on 1v5. That was the moment I said: “enough”. Nearly 10 years has passed and not a single game was played since then and I am a happier person. Fvkin nubz.

[swogerino]

When the situation of the country is too hard to comprehend, youths who are supposed to be the future leaders will start turning into criminals in front of us.

This is the third case that have happened to someone very close to me ( not family ), and they all have one thing in common, SPOUSE ABUSE and CRIME.

I knew this gentle soul growing up in my street, who just turned 24 years old and now he was into gambling without anyone knowing at home for the past 1 year, the only point that I hold unto from his mother is how he maltreated his junior brothers and sisters and he also have anger issues.

I have come to understand that having a negative impact on people close to you or your family could be a sign of compulsive gambling, to the extent that this boy start maltreating his junior ones, I mean inflicting pains on them.

The other two cases that I knew about gambling addict ( one in the family ) also have something similar to this behaviour, anger issues, criminal activities like burglary and disrespect of parents, I think countries with high rate of struggles and hardship will always have this type of problems.

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

That is not only in youth but in every age,when people lose it all and get angry for the smallest thing they are asked for then most likely is a great sign of some sort of addiction,gambling above all.Of course gambling is not a solution to anything and especially poverty,people should comprehend that gambling is created by casinos to get profit to themselves in the long run and as such we must never expect anything out of it,if we win in a session great,if not we call it a day and then move on.

The people who fail to realize this continue deep into addiction and in some not so rare cases nowadays they even commit acts of violence against their family and other persons.

[Mauser]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

No not really, kids and young adults don't really like when much older people want to tell them what to do and how to behave. I think it's pretty common for young man to do through a rebel phase, where they don't listen to their parents, teachers or other authority figures. Even good advice that could really help is not being accepted, it comes down to a lot of personal mistakes and that we need to learn from them ourselves. I have been in similar situations myself and regret afterwards not using help that was offered to me. As a young adult I barely had any money and all the cool things I wanted to do cost money. I would go even so far and say this is one of the biggest problems in life, when you are young and healthy you have a lot of time at your hands but no money to enjoy. And when you are older it's the opposite, you have money but no free time to enjoy it. The only way out I see is to try and educate our kids by younger people with similar experiences. It's much easier to listen and accept advice from people in a similar age group who struggled with what the kids are going through.

[danherbias07]

There's always a solution. Right parenting.
You see the problem now is most parents are too busy with their work and when they get home they just stay with their phones and computers not thinking their kids could be growing like monsters. That's the problem with this era of smartphones and the internet nowadays, we have more time with social media but we forget about our kids and giving them the proper discipline about what is right or wrong.
I have a 7-year-old with a smartphone in his hand but it's usually just for games and watching kids videos. But, I don't forget to check it always when he goes to sleep so I can make sure he won't bump into anything bad on the internet.
Let's not make them learn how to gamble especially at a young age where they cannot control their rage. We may never understand them because of the difference in eras but we should make sure they won't be influenced by those advertisements and other things coming out in social media.

[aioc]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

The only way is to instill respect in the youth and the way to instill that respect is to have a figure that the youth will respect and will listen to, youth are always looking for a father figure that they can emulate, it should start the family if the parents failed to establish respect coming from their children, the child will look for it outside of their homes.
Influence coming from outside of the homes is sometimes bad, they become involved in bad companies, and this is the start of gambling addiction and many other vices to sustain gambling addiction.

[mvdheuvel1983]

Is there any effective way to make sure youths stays where the are told to stay instead of looking for quick money? Gambling isn't the solution to poverty it will possibly drown you deep into more poverty.

Gambling among the youths cannot be prevented or stopped. The youths cannot stop looking for quick money because quick money is what the whole world celebrates over slow money. Gambling may not be the solution out of poverty but that element of hope that it gives the youth is the thread that they hang unto. They are quick to tell you how a friend of a friend made millions from a bet and that someday it is going to be their turn.

But why would I blame the youths. In my country, the social media influencers who advertise these sports betting sites and casinos do it for the quick money too. Do they care if the youths are gambling responsibly? No. They just want to do the 20 minutes sports advert and get their millions.

[jrrsparkles]

I have come to understand that having a negative impact on people close to you or your family could be a sign of compulsive gambling, to the extent that this boy start maltreating his junior ones, I mean inflicting pains on them.

I won't string the gambling addiction with anger issues because both are different, anyone who is addicted to gambling can be completely harmless to their family even financially while the anger issues should be addressed as Medical condition so it can be only treated with the help of medicine, therapy and support groups like that.

This is where it goes wrong when we don't have what is what and what should be done when something goes wrong but finally every blame falls under the name of gambling.

It isn't really fair to blame the system if people use it wrongly.

[Juse14]

In my opinion, apart from that, the most prominent thing about a teenager that can show that he is addicted to gambling is when he has the behavior of often lying to his parents and other people. When they are teenagers, of course their finances are very limited and most of them can only rely on their parents as their source of finances. So quite a few of them, in order to satisfy their lust for gambling, often lie to their parents so they can get more money apart from the pocket money their parents give them every day.