How gambling addiction develops

[Zoomic]

Every individual's experience with gambling addiction is quite different. Actually, it is true alot of people get addicted after winning (beginner's luck especially), note that, that is just one of the major causes of addiction. Some gamblers actually got addicted simply by being inspired and motivated by other people's gambling success. They have not recorded any significant win, all they've got is hope for better days and they believe strongly that they would win someday.

All these gets worse that they have to chase losses until they begin to feel like it's too late to quit. Why will they quit when they've come all the way and are just a step away from winning?

With all said, you will agree with me that the root cause of gambling addiction is lack of self control. No matter what happens before or after gambling, a gambler with self control will never get addicted.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

Gambling addiction is something one can't fight against but can likely avoid it when the appropriate majors is applied, but sometimes we over undermine it because the strong feelings that they can't fall into addiction therefore are in control of their activities and behavior online. For one to be far from addiction is to avoid those things you have outlined above and of course one should take appropriate precautions on their gambling activities by setting limitations, restrictions and gambling moderately without a compulsively gambling methods. Though there are lot of posts that has covered a gambling discussion post, but since it's most common issues faced here so post like this shouldn't be underrated and underestimated.

It is extremely difficult to fight gambling addiction especially when you are at the last stage but when one discover you are gradually becoming an addict at the early stage, measures can still be taken which later help to avoid becoming an addict. The problem here is that people often ignore those signs of gradually becoming an addict due to the hope of winning soon.

In fact, people are in a hurry to be happy. People want to get rich quickly. And in this addiction to get rich quickly, people can do anything. They want to get rich by sitting idle. And the only way to do that is gambling. So lazy people choose gambling as a way to get rich quickly. They forget the things that were there to win in gambling and there are certain rules and regulations to get addicted to gambling. These gamblers ignore all the rules and regulations in the addiction to get rich quickly.

[Negotiation]

I think gambling addiction is a complex mental problem that develops slowly when gamblers win they get a feeling of instant reward in their brains which feels like a reward to their brains. This can create a kind of addiction also many people think that they will win when the time is right although this is just a misconception. Such thinking can lead them to gamble more the combination of these factors can lead to gambling addiction which at one point gets out of control and can have a serious impact on the person's social financial and family life. He feels excited when he gambles and becomes restless when he cannot gamble.

[SmartGold01]

I think they aren't that aware of it otherwise no one would fall into addiction, the thing is they don't know when the addiction starts showing up in them. For instance, when they start playing some games online and probably they find such game interesting, you wouldn't be surprised how they could get carried away by the sweetness of the game and at this point they don't know is addictions. Like I do say; the excessiveness of everything or anything causes and gives birth to addiction but most people aren't that careful towards their operations and activities while gambling and we must know when to limit and stop gambling.

I would agree with your points.

Because, most of the time when gamblers fall in to the gambling addiction they get out of their mind main cause the greed to control their mind to stay away from self-control. The end result is that they are even aware of that they act like they don't aware.
In this case, I think it is better to pay less attention to the amount of money someone has won from gambling because these are the things that create greed in our minds and eventually lead to addiction.

That is true and taking proper care of our winning without that deeply wants to make double of our profit while gambling could help to reduce some mental reactions where they could start having and harboring this feelings of having double winning if they continue gambling.
To my own way of view, when someone are conscious or subconscious about their gambling activities and limits it could also reduce their anxiety to make specific amount from continuous gaming or gambling.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

Gambling addict has been a problem of most gamblers. Most gamblers started simple but end up becoming an addict. This develops gradually until they become fully addicted. Gambling addiction progresses are in three main stages: the winning stage, the losing stage, and the chasing/desperation stage.

Winning stage: Gambling addiction starts off with the alluring winning stage, where everything seems perfect, and you are winning more often than you are losing. It's easy to get hooked at this stage, because of the thrill of winning, and the gambler still believes that they are in control. However, this stage is usually short-lived.
Losing stage: Losing stage follows after the winning stage. Here, you start to lose significant amounts of money, but since you know what it’s like to win, you continue to gamble, believing that the next win must be just around the corner.
Chasing/desperation phase: This is when you have lost so much money that you will do anything to win it back. This may involve lying to friends and family members, borrowing or stealing money in order to gamble, and chasing your losses. By this stage, it is extremely difficult to quit, since the gambler is in so much financial ruin that they are desperate for money.

Reference: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.algamus.org/blog/how-to-get-over-gambling-loss%3fhs_amp=true

CONCLUSION: Gambling may be a great problem if adequate measure isn't take. One should just to observe himself/herself for necessary changes in case one observed he/she is gradually becoming an addict.

Exactly! this is the way a person become an addict, Remember the thing we call BEGINNER'S LUCK? That is actually the first level up gambling,
You will enjoy the winning and playing and soon you will lose and you will not know that all the winnings are gone and you are losing your own money.
And you will then chase the lose and thkning that luck will be on your side again. You will not stop as long as you have the source to get the money you will bet.
CONTROL! is the best thing to have in life of a gambler, if you cant step back and stop it you will end up nothing. It happened to me! and learned my lesson.

[viljy]

CONCLUSION: Gambling may be a great problem if adequate measure isn't take. One should just to observe himself/herself for necessary changes in case one observed he/she is gradually becoming an addict.

To stop your fall into the abyss of gambling addiction, it is important to stop at the second stage. Here's how to do it. When you are constantly losing, you take a long break until the next game session. If you lose again, you take an even longer break again. This will allow you to calmly reflect on the situation.

At the moment when the frantic urge to win back losses by all means weakens a little, you need to make a decision about strict control of the limited bankroll, which you definitely need to create for yourself. Then, in the future, you will already be protected to some extent from the risk of becoming addicted.

[pinggoki]

Actually gambling addiction do comes in gradual process, it doesn't comes at a time but how to control it in the early stage is always a problem that most gamblers normally having. Because though they would be seeing it as something that very common without realizing that as day goes by that is how they getting more addicted in gambling. So however, I think it's essential to understand when you are getting addicted to gambling and prevent yourself from it, because that is the only way a gambler can be free addiction.

If you're susceptible to addiction, no matter how much advice from other people that says that you have to control your emotions and how you gamble, you will still lose that fight and get addicted, you are right that it's a gradual process but you have to understand that one taste is all it takes, can you all not feel the excitement you've felt when you gamble? That high in dopamine is going to be a thing that your brain is going to look for once the high subsides, it will continue to chase that until it's never enough. There's also the psychological belief that many gambling addicts share which is the belief that as long as they continue gambling, they're eventually going to hit the big win that has been elusive of them since the beginning.

[jcojci]

Gambling addict develop by time. When someone start to gamble following his curiosity, gambling addiction will also follow him. If  he doesn't realize, he will get deeper in gambling and with spending more money, he will stay at the casino longer.

When he feel difficult to stop gambling, he could get addicted to gambling without he notice. If he still doing like that without checking to himself, he will surely get addicted to gambling. And no matter if he win or lose, he will get a problem from his gambling addiction. Losing money in gambling can make him curious and will continue try to recover his losses.

[Cityhunter34]

Gamblers are fully aware of all those stages but not withstanding, anyone that still wants to be addicted, would be addicted. I always say that, before a gambler becomes addicted, they always see the signs and symptoms but they become they ignored it and becomes extremely blinded by their wins or losses and then they allow their emotion to control their decision. One way to overcome all of that is to learn how to control your emotions, always be self determined and conscious never to take unhealthy decisions while gambling.

Exactly, you are absolutely right because gamblers are fully aware of it but yet they still got addicted to gambling. Of course before a gambler would fall totally addiction in gambling he most likely noticed the symptoms and signs, but because of being too reluctant would going to make them to overlook it. Until it becomes a problem to them in such a way that they can't control their self when losing too in gambling.

[Marvell1]

I think gambling addiction is a complex mental problem that develops slowly when gamblers win they get a feeling of instant reward in their brains which feels like a reward to their brains. This can create a kind of addiction also many people think that they will win when the time is right although this is just a misconception. Such thinking can lead them to gamble more the combination of these factors can lead to gambling addiction which at one point gets out of control and can have a serious impact on the person's social financial and family life. He feels excited when he gambles and becomes restless when he cannot gamble.

If we cannot control ourselves, we can easily become addicted to  anything. We can become addicted to gambling due to either excessive  winning or excessive losing . For this , we have to try to control ourselves first.

When we start winning money in gambling, we often can't control ourselves, and we want to win more money. So even after  winning a large amount of money, we cannot stop gambling. This is gambling addiction. We must understand  when we have to stop gambling. If we can't understand this, we are addicted to gambling.

[harapan]

Gambling addict has been a problem of most gamblers. Most gamblers started simple but end up becoming an addict. This develops gradually until they become fully addicted. Gambling addiction progresses are in three main stages: the winning stage, the losing stage, and the chasing/desperation stage.

CONCLUSION: Gambling may be a great problem if adequate measure isn't take. One should just to observe himself/herself for necessary changes in case one observed he/she is gradually becoming an addict.

This is entirely correct and most gamblers tend to notice this stages but decide not to give an attention to it and overtime it results into something big and repulsive.They see the gambling addictions as something they can handle but along the line in the quest of having a win gradually it develops into a full time addiction, and at the early stage they can apply the limits of control but  it may seems like less important to them. Gambling addictions is clearly a great problem now looking at the damages it's cost alot of gamblers.

[memehunter]

There is a 4th stage as well where you have understood which games to play and for how much stake. At this level, you are a mature gambler who understands the odds and has developed a great amount of self control. This is especially relevant in games with positive EV where skill matters.

I can't called this kind of people an addict. So far you have self control over your gambling system them it shouldn't be a problem for you to gamble responsibly without an issue.

I mean, addiction is generally associated with dopamine spikes and not able to live without the stimulus. But, for the category I have mentioned, this is not a problem as they treat it as work and rarely get excited because of bankroll management and other skills. The crucial thing is to have an attitude of learning and playing positive EV games.

[Juicyhome]

Firstly, age factor, that's why it's advisable for those under 18yrs not to participate because they have not developed strong emotions on how to deals with failure and winning. Once you can't deal with your emotions then addiction can not bae avoidable.

Secondly, success, your winning can make one be addicted to gambling. Because a friend won huge amount in gambling you want to indulge in gambling to succeed as your friend.  And when the luck isn't coming you keep trying till you can't stay without play gamble. So Peer pleasure can cause addiction. To avoid this, you must accept that you and your friends cannot have sane luck. If he's lucky to win you won't be luck as well. So do what works for you and not what work for others.

Lastly, poverty can leas to addiction, putting all your Hooe on gambling hoping to escape poverty through gambling.  This mindset will only worsening your situation.  If you don't have money avoid using your lastcash

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Gamblers are fully aware of all those stages but not withstanding, anyone that still wants to be addicted, would be addicted. I always say that, before a gambler becomes addicted, they always see the signs and symptoms but they become they ignored it and becomes extremely blinded by their wins or losses and then they allow their emotion to control their decision. One way to overcome all of that is to learn how to control your emotions, always be self determined and conscious never to take unhealthy decisions while gambling.

I think they aren't that aware of it otherwise no one would fall into addiction, the thing is they don't know when the addiction starts showing up in them. For instance, when they start playing some games online and probably they find such game interesting, you wouldn't be surprised how they could get carried away by the sweetness of the game and at this point they don't know is addictions. Like I do say; the excessiveness of everything or anything causes and gives birth to addiction but most people aren't that careful towards their operations and activities while gambling and we must know when to limit and stop gambling.

Yes but one thing I observe concerning gambling addicted personality is that such person has loss of memory that what his doing may not be right at the particular point everything thing become right before him it's the external body that sees the wrong not himself, as there seem to appear a cobwebs that covers it's mind towards that direction they act as one who is tipsy and can do anything to achieve what they have in minds. All this you stated speaks volumes before my thoughts and observation on addicted gambler.

[Lanatsa]

Gambling addiction is something one can't fight against but can likely avoid it when the appropriate majors is applied, but sometimes we over undermine it because the strong feelings that they can't fall into addiction therefore are in control of their activities and behavior online. For one to be far from addiction is to avoid those things you have outlined above and of course one should take appropriate precautions on their gambling activities by setting limitations, restrictions and gambling moderately without a compulsively gambling methods. Though there are lot of posts that has covered a gambling discussion post, but since it's most common issues faced here so post like this shouldn't be underrated and underestimated.

It is extremely difficult to fight gambling addiction especially when you are at the last stage but when one discover you are gradually becoming an addict at the early stage, measures can still be taken which later help to avoid becoming an addict. The problem here is that people often ignore those signs of gradually becoming an addict due to the hope of winning soon.

In fact, people are in a hurry to be happy. People want to get rich quickly. And in this addiction to get rich quickly, people can do anything. They want to get rich by sitting idle. And the only way to do that is gambling. So lazy people choose gambling as a way to get rich quickly. They forget the things that were there to win in gambling and there are certain rules and regulations to get addicted to gambling. These gamblers ignore all the rules and regulations in the addiction to get rich quickly.

If you are someone whose really that lazy and wants to get rich, then the primary thing that comes up into your mind is to do gambling on which this is indeed the fastest instantaneous when it comes to results on which this will really be your main consideration, the only issue on here is that whenever you do become that desperate then it will really be resulting into having that impulsive on which it will be ending up for you to get addicted. Gambling addiction develops at the time that you dont be able to stop yourself on playing gambling despite of the loses you do keep on experiencing on which you've been still deciding to play even more. We do know that once addiction do happens then it will really be that so hard to stop it along the way or mid-way, not unless if a person is really that dedicated on doing up such thing.

When it comes to control and tolerance then each person will really be that different into this one on which there are people who do become that having no control when it comes to spending and there are those people who are really that be able to control themselves and able to save themselves on total wreckage of their finances on which this is commonly because of what gambling could do into your state in terms of money or financial on which we should really be that careful into this aspect.

[ajanwalker]

My addiction started during my university years. About 25 years ago. A friend of mine used to bet all the time and I didn't even know what betting was.
One day, while I was with friends, he told me that I had won this much money by betting.
A friend and I decided to make a joint bet.
In our first bet, we had written 9 matches. Our last match was the Beşiktaş Ankaragücü match and Beşiktaş would win the match. Beşiktaş won the match and gave us 9 times the amount we bet and I have been betting on sports ever since. Now I am addicted. If the coupon we made hadn't worked, maybe I wouldn't have such an addiction today.

[Zackz5000]

Gamblers are fully aware of all those stages but not withstanding, anyone that still wants to be addicted, would be addicted. I always say that, before a gambler becomes addicted, they always see the signs and symptoms but they become they ignored it and becomes extremely blinded by their wins or losses and then they allow their emotion to control their decision. One way to overcome all of that is to learn how to control your emotions, always be self determined and conscious never to take unhealthy decisions while gambling.

I think they aren't that aware of it otherwise no one would fall into addiction, the thing is they don't know when the addiction starts showing up in them. For instance, when they start playing some games online and probably they find such game interesting, you wouldn't be surprised how they could get carried away by the sweetness of the game and at this point they don't know is addictions. Like I do say; the excessiveness of everything or anything causes and gives birth to addiction but most people aren't that careful towards their operations and activities while gambling and we must know when to limit and stop gambling.

I will partially agree with you that some gamblers cannot read the symptoms of addiction before they become addicted, because I have seen an addicted gambler that does not know that he is addicted. On the other hand, most gambler will know because the urge of winning will always be there.

Controling your emotions is very important for all gamblers, because your losses will reflect in your emotions and if you can control it, you will know that you don't need to gamble at that moment. If you're already gambling, you stop.

Most people become addicted into gambling when they decide to making gambling their source of income maybe at initial stage they will regularly winning though loss sometimes but has more winning percentage at that moment they tend to increase their staking power by increasing the amount they normally gamble with trying to aim high amount at that moment they will want to be very careful with their prediction since they are using bigger amount at that moment they will start losing and one spirit will be telling them to gamble more so they can regain the money they have lost and they will continue losing at that moment they are already addicted into gambling some will start selling property just to gamble hoping they will definitely win big one day.

[Perfectbaby]

Gambling addiction is something one can't fight against but can likely avoid it when the appropriate majors is applied, but sometimes we over undermine it because the strong feelings that they can't fall into addiction therefore are in control of their activities and behavior online. For one to be far from addiction is to avoid those things you have outlined above and of course one should take appropriate precautions on their gambling activities by setting limitations, restrictions and gambling moderately without a compulsively gambling methods. Though there are lot of posts that has covered a gambling discussion post, but since it's most common issues faced here so post like this shouldn't be underrated and underestimated.

It is extremely difficult to fight gambling addiction especially when you are at the last stage but when one discover you are gradually becoming an addict at the early stage, measures can still be taken which later help to avoid becoming an addict. The problem here is that people often ignore those signs of gradually becoming an addict due to the hope of winning soon.

In fact, people are in a hurry to be happy. People want to get rich quickly. And in this addiction to get rich quickly, people can do anything. They want to get rich by sitting idle. And the only way to do that is gambling. So lazy people choose gambling as a way to get rich quickly. They forget the things that were there to win in gambling and there are certain rules and regulations to get addicted to gambling. These gamblers ignore all the rules and regulations in the addiction to get rich quickly.

If you are someone whose really that lazy and wants to get rich, then the primary thing that comes up into your mind is to do gambling on which this is indeed the fastest instantaneous when it comes to results on which this will really be your main consideration, the only issue on here is that whenever you do become that desperate then it will really be resulting into having that impulsive on which it will be ending up for you to get addicted. Gambling addiction develops at the time that you dont be able to stop yourself on playing gambling despite of the loses you do keep on experiencing on which you've been still deciding to play even more. We do know that once addiction do happens then it will really be that so hard to stop it along the way or mid-way, not unless if a person is really that dedicated on doing up such thing.

A gambler who must avoid addiction must always learn to stop gambling compulsively because when they gamble this way it's that hard to determine how much they spend while gambling and of course not allocating a specific amount to gamble usually gives rise to addiction because when a gambler is gambling out of control they turns into addiction so quickly, additional is something that is too hard to fight on each when gotten to the worst phase.

[sompitonov]

My addiction started during my university years. About 25 years ago. A friend of mine used to bet all the time and I didn't even know what betting was.
One day, while I was with friends, he told me that I had won this much money by betting.
A friend and I decided to make a joint bet.
In our first bet, we had written 9 matches. Our last match was the Beşiktaş Ankaragücü match and Beşiktaş would win the match. Beşiktaş won the match and gave us 9 times the amount we bet and I have been betting on sports ever since. Now I am addicted. If the coupon we made hadn't worked, maybe I wouldn't have such an addiction today.

A big win at the beginning of the journey forms an emotional attachment in the player, which he then pursues throughout his life, continuing to play. After all, he will remember such an event forever, this strong emotion arises from the fact that the player discovers something new, that money can be earned not only at work, but also in a way that does not require much effort and time, it is enough to simply make the right bet. Of course, the player will never allow the thought that this was an accident, but will always believe that he is an expert in betting and further losses are just exceptions and a great expectation of winning will always be in his head, so he will want to play again and again.

[|MINER|]

That is true and taking proper care of our winning without that deeply wants to make double of our profit while gambling could help to reduce some mental reactions where they could start having and harboring this feelings of having double winning if they continue gambling.
To my own way of view, when someone are conscious or subconscious about their gambling activities and limits it could also reduce their anxiety to make specific amount from continuous gaming or gambling.

To be honest, I think most of the people have made the mistakes at least once in their life that someone around them or on social media who won a prize in gambling encouraged them to gamble too. In my case, this also happened a long time ago when a friend of mine won a huge amount by gambling and then I also tried my luck by watching him but I was unlucky.

But I didn't continue this things for long because I realized that these things were driving me towards addiction. And that's why I said that we must discourage the desire to gamble by seeing other people win prizes.