gambling vs doomscrolling

[nullama]

Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of user-generated content or news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media

basically doomscrolling is aimlessly scrollig through social media without any real intentions. being on social media also generates dopamine which is the same happy hormone that gambling can give you. we both doomscroll or gamble when we are bored. what do you think is worse, gambling or doomscrolling?

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

Both are bad, really, but gambling might be worse faster.

And by that, I mean that a gambler might end up losing all their life savings in a single night.

Whereas doomscrolling might take longer to take a healthy person into depression, etc.

[SATWAT]

Both doomscrolling and excessive gambling are unhealthy habits but excessive gambling is much worse. Doomscrolling is unhealthy habit that can harm your mental health leading to anxiety and sadness and it can also be waste of time. However it does not usually cause financial ruin. But excessive gambling is far more dangerous because it can cause severe financial loss and debt and ruin. Negative effects of gambling are much more widespread mostly destroying family financial security and damaging relationships and harming person physical and mental health. And both activities are unhealthy when done to excess but potential for severe widespread harm makes gambling far more destructive.

Doomscrolling and gambling both have the worst results for any healthy person as things have never been on the same level gambling has a more significant impact due to financial losses but if someone becomes addicted it's unlikely that things will ever be back on track easily.
Gambling addiction is often driven by greediness or having big dreams which are common because people want to win big and feel encouraged if they fail to maintain balance, things become unmanageable as the pressure of staying in the game can be overwhelming.
Doomscrolling always hurts badly mentally causing sadness that can lead to unhealthy habits and even brain disorders which is a terrible outcome for anyone.

[Pandu Geddon]

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

Something excessive can certainly lead to negative consequences for those who engage in it. The same goes for gambling or doomscrolling. Excessive gambling can result in addiction. Likewise, doomscrolling can consume a lot of time, especially if the information obtained tends to be bad news or misinformation. This can affect a person's thoughts on a particular topic. The effects can also extend to someone's social life. Whether it is healthy or not depends on how a person engages in it. But for me, anything done excessively is surely unhealthy.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

Something excessive can certainly lead to negative consequences for those who engage in it. The same goes for gambling or doomscrolling. Excessive gambling can result in addiction. Likewise, doomscrolling can consume a lot of time, especially if the information obtained tends to be bad news or misinformation.

You are absolutely right, something that is done excessively out of self control can create a problem. One thing that might not create a problem if done excessively is "consistency" In doing what you know can guarantee your success but as for doom scrolling and gambling, when done excessively can lead to bad addiction problem. I was telling us about someone that almost got their house burned because of doom scrolling, while we also have a story of a father that left his infants at home and went to gamble at a casino near his house. All of these could have been a very worse situation, that's why both is not so good of one gets addicted to it.

[Royal Cap]

Is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

In my opinion they both may be harmful though differently. Doomscrolling wastes your time and consumes your brain with the negativity, on the other hand gambling loses your money and your feelings. I would say that doomscrolling is a slow depletion of the mindset and gambling destroys your money in a single evening when you lose control.

They are both unhealthy in excess, but at least in the case of doom scrolling, you only waste time, and not your money.

[bubilas]

You are absolutely right, something that is done excessively out of self control can create a problem. One thing that might not create a problem if done excessively is "consistency" In doing what you know can guarantee your success but as for doom scrolling and gambling, when done excessively can lead to bad addiction problem. I was telling us about someone that almost got their house burned because of doom scrolling, while we also have a story of a father that left his infants at home and went to gamble at a casino near his house. All of these could have been a very worse situation, that's why both is not so good of one gets addicted to it.

In the country where I live there is a saying "everything is good in moderation". And, of course, it applies to gambling and betting more than anywhere else, because excessive passion is bad in everything. Even in love or work, because it can lead to insanity or professional burnout, but in gambling, of course, the worst consequences are: lying to loved ones, leaving the family and complete bankruptcy.

[gunhell16]

With Crypto and bitcoin sportsbook nowadays you can gamble in any sport in any place of the world! Of course people have too much info.
The best way is just to focus on a small portion of this big market. Anyway, most of gamblers that I know  in real life (maybe because they are old man like me) decide their bets just looking the name of a team or the current leaderboard.

Many gamblers use Bitcoin to bet on sports in various online casinos. In my opinion, gambling and doomscrolling
are pretty much the same in many aspects.

What I'm trying to say is, we spend time and waste money on both, so they're no different.
It's just up to us as gamblers what we choose to do.

[Oluwa-btc]

Neither gambling or doomscrolling is good for long term or has any well being purposes.Gambling deals to financial losses and careless addiction, doomscrolling engages psychological declination.On a health perspective,it's just better you don't engage in either of them, they're both damaging and draining activities.

[allthebitandbobs]

Well I do both, and interestingly I like them together but it seems they arent related at all. The fact that they both ease our boredom but in such different way could help. Like the first one whom time will spend more on information and news while the other is leisure to play but spent money at all.

There is no surprise on why we like them. It is because they can give us a dopamine.

Technically yeah, each are different but both gives an almost equal amount of dopamine. No wonder why the OP compare the two. Doomscrolling from its term, is about scrolling but it was the negative information is the ones that we are usually seeing here.

[nullama]

Neither gambling or doomscrolling is good for long term or has any well being purposes.Gambling deals to financial losses and careless addiction, doomscrolling engages psychological declination.On a health perspective,it's just better you don't engage in either of them, they're both damaging and draining activities.

What if you're doomscrolling about gambling?

Yeah, I think they're both bad for you in the long term, but at least doomscrolling you keep your money.

One might lead to the other, though...

[eisen33]

Something excessive can certainly lead to negative consequences for those who engage in it. The same goes for gambling or doomscrolling. Excessive gambling can result in addiction. Likewise, doomscrolling can consume a lot of time, especially if the information obtained tends to be bad news or misinformation. This can affect a person's thoughts on a particular topic. The effects can also extend to someone's social life. Whether it is healthy or not depends on how a person engages in it. But for me, anything done excessively is surely unhealthy.

Social networks are full of false information that we do not need, and if you often scroll through the news feed, it turns into a waste of time. The same can be said about gambling, if a player only loses and says that he plays for fun, then in this case it seems to me that for gambling it is worth limiting the time so as not to waste too much time on such entertainment. If you want to make a few bets, then do it, but do not spend too much time on it, it is better to do something useful, and this will bring much more benefit.

[Hispo]

Neither gambling or doomscrolling is good for long term or has any well being purposes.Gambling deals to financial losses and careless addiction, doomscrolling engages psychological declination.On a health perspective,it's just better you don't engage in either of them, they're both damaging and draining activities.

What if you're doomscrolling about gambling?

Yeah, I think they're both bad for you in the long term, but at least doomscrolling you keep your money.

One might lead to the other, though...

Doom-scrolling may be less likely to happen, in my opinion, as content related to gambling and betting on sports is far more restricted in social media than other topics, like viral challenges or music videos released by celebrities and such. It would take much feedback for the algorithm to only recommend content related to gambling if the social medium itself does not allow it to happen.
Though, I agree with you that seeing content about gambling on the internet could easily push someone to try gambling for the first time, and with out proper education, that can be a radio devolution towards addiction.

[Accardo]

Social networks are full of false information that we do not need, and if you often scroll through the news feed, it turns into a waste of time. The same can be said about gambling, if a player only loses and says that he plays for fun, then in this case it seems to me that for gambling it is worth limiting the time so as not to waste too much time on such entertainment. If you want to make a few bets, then do it, but do not spend too much time on it, it is better to do something useful, and this will bring much more benefit.

Doomscrolling is also addicting, users get happy for likes, views and comments on their contents. The more they wish to be seen by a larger amount of audience the more time they spend on social media. Since the information on there are always brief and poorly organized, it's not always useful to the brain, compared to reading well documented books and files.

Similar to gambling, players also sit back to watch reels roll down on slot machines, which is close to what the memory process on Instagram and Facebook in a different form. The importance of social media is there and it's nice for circulating information, but it's disadvantages can't go unnoticed if we weren't looking for them.

[danherbias07]

Neither gambling or doomscrolling is good for long term or has any well being purposes.Gambling deals to financial losses and careless addiction, doomscrolling engages psychological declination.On a health perspective,it's just better you don't engage in either of them, they're both damaging and draining activities.

Everything that is abused can become a mental or physical health problem. I also abused scrolling on Facebook back when it was on the hype, and I can even do it for many hours until my eyes get sore and I cannot take it anymore.

That's the same with gambling. We cannot be in front of the computer monitor or our smartphones the whole day, or it will bring a lot of sickness to us. Worse in gambling, we are not just losing time, but we are also losing money while we are doing it. It will start with stress, then frustration, then probably regret. After all that, we should think of what will do us good next, or it will be hell.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Neither gambling or doomscrolling is good for long term or has any well being purposes.Gambling deals to financial losses and careless addiction, doomscrolling engages psychological declination.On a health perspective,it's just better you don't engage in either of them, they're both damaging and draining activities.

I will still go for gambling instead of doomscrolling in this regard, because gambling has its benefits of relieving us from stress and getting us entertained, because we are of purpose in choosing to be a gambler and to be playing bets in it, but doomscrolling could be interpreted on many basis after a long time influence on someone, especially when you cant phantom on a single achievement that has come our way as a result of doomscrolling.

[o48o]

Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of user-generated content or news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media

basically doomscrolling is aimlessly scrollig through social media without any real intentions. being on social media also generates dopamine which is the same happy hormone that gambling can give you. we both doomscroll or gamble when we are bored. what do you think is worse, gambling or doomscrolling?

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

If you do those for same reasons (to cover your boredom), then gambling might be worse as you are paying for doing that and using a lot of time for that (like with doom scrolling). But then again, if you stick on your budget and gamble responsible way, it might be better for your mind, as there are less things to worry.

With gambling you can also directly control if you lose your pocket money or not, but by doom scrolling you often can read about horrible news, that are supposed to be local in other side of the planet, but because some horrible way that person died is click worthy, you are reading it now. It affects your day and you would be perfectly fine not knowing about it.

World events can be horrible too, but in real news reports usually filter in things that are more important culturally or socioeconomically.

[Hatchy]

Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of user-generated content or news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media

basically doomscrolling is aimlessly scrollig through social media without any real intentions. being on social media also generates dopamine which is the same happy hormone that gambling can give you. we both doomscroll or gamble when we are bored. what do you think is worse, gambling or doomscrolling?

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?

I guess in our world today, the youths spend more time scrolling through social medias, watching or creating contents just for the fun of it. Some people do make money from same social media but it takes time and dedication to archive this. One thing is for sure, our sole aim is to have fun, so an individual is either gambling or spending time on the internet. Gambling on the other hand has it's disadvantages.

It's very risky, so if you are going to have fun through gambling, one has to be ready to take losses. Unlike social media, the only thing you have to do is just scroll through and watch important content or create something that shows your talents and if the public likes and appreciate it, you get paid by the social services themselves...

[passwordnow]

I will still go for gambling instead of doomscrolling in this regard, because gambling has its benefits of relieving us from stress and getting us entertained, because we are of purpose in choosing to be a gambler and to be playing bets in it, but doomscrolling could be interpreted on many basis after a long time influence on someone, especially when you cant phantom on a single achievement that has come our way as a result of doomscrolling.

But gambling can also give you a hard time. Instead of being entertained and relieving your stress, it could make you feel more stressful and that's because of you possibly going into a losing streak. That's hard to control and we don't know if that's going to make sense if we want to get entertained and yet, we're on a continuous losing and no matter how hard we want to recover, we just can't. It happens and we are out of control with that. Doomscrolling is just nothing compared to it but you don't stake anything by doing it unlike gambling.

[Crypto Library]

But gambling can also give you a hard time. Instead of being entertained and relieving your stress, it could make you feel more stressful and that's because of you possibly going into a losing streak. That's hard to control and we don't know if that's going to make sense if we want to get entertained and yet, we're on a continuous losing and no matter how hard we want to recover, we just can't. It happens and we are out of control with that. Doomscrolling is just nothing compared to it but you don't stake anything by doing it unlike gambling.

Well said, we have to definitely be agree with this opinion that if one gambler gambling with irresponsibility then it will be also possible instead of being entertained and relieving his stress you will get extra stressful environment.
And irresponsible gambling means the gambler has no plan before starting gambling like He didn't limiting a certain amount of bankroll. And also spent that amount what he can't afford to lose and these types of gamblers always have stress modern entertainment.

[passwordnow]

But gambling can also give you a hard time. Instead of being entertained and relieving your stress, it could make you feel more stressful and that's because of you possibly going into a losing streak. That's hard to control and we don't know if that's going to make sense if we want to get entertained and yet, we're on a continuous losing and no matter how hard we want to recover, we just can't. It happens and we are out of control with that. Doomscrolling is just nothing compared to it but you don't stake anything by doing it unlike gambling.

Well said, we have to definitely be agree with this opinion that if one gambler gambling with irresponsibility then it will be also possible instead of being entertained and relieving his stress you will get extra stressful environment.
And irresponsible gambling means the gambler has no plan before starting gambling like He didn't limiting a certain amount of bankroll. And also spent that amount what he can't afford to lose and these types of gamblers always have stress modern entertainment.

At the end of it, if we didn't plan to gamble and the entire gameplay that we do including the bankroll, we're only putting more stress to ourselves. It's hard to accept defeat when someone is currently experiencing that. While the others might say that accepting defeat is easier than ever. But they can only tell that because they're not yet in the situation. Frustration comes after losing and we all know about that because we've been there. So, become responsible and always go after with the plan that we have come up or else, worse things will come after that if your plans are not followed.