How easy it is to be addicted to gambling?

[Julien_Olynpic]

Becoming a compulsive gambler is easy if you have a predisposition. These factors can include stress, personal setbacks, and general dissatisfaction with life, coupled with the joy you derive from gambling. While gambling helps you adapt to real life, it becomes a kind of drug. And the greater your overall dissatisfaction with life, the more powerful the drug gambling can be. But what are the manifestations of addiction? First and foremost, it's financial maladjustment. Losing money, accumulating debt, being unable to pay bills, conflicts over it, and a decline in quality of life. But one way or another, it all comes down to losing money.

[Olatundespo]

Becoming a compulsive gambler is easy if you have a predisposition. These factors can include stress, personal setbacks, and general dissatisfaction with life, coupled with the joy you derive from gambling. While gambling helps you adapt to real life, it becomes a kind of drug. And the greater your overall dissatisfaction with life, the more powerful the drug gambling can be. But what are the manifestations of addiction? First and foremost, it's financial maladjustment. Losing money, accumulating debt, being unable to pay bills, conflicts over it, and a decline in quality of life. But one way or another, it all comes down to losing money.

Many gamblers gamble more due to high levels of dissatisfaction with life but for that they need to have sufficient funds. If those gamblers do not have that amount of funds then they will not be able to give the expected amount of time. Gambling is like a drug if you do not have control over it. It is easy to become a compulsive gambler but only if those gamblers have sufficient funds. Maybe in the context of my country I am talking more about the supply of money. Gamblers who have sufficient funds use gambling like a drug. Instead of expressing dissatisfaction with life through the loss of their wealth, they should have been self-controlled because gambling causes more mental distress and gradually leads to physical illness.

[fredericktaylor]

Becoming a compulsive gambler is easy if you have a predisposition. These factors can include stress, personal setbacks, and general dissatisfaction with life, coupled with the joy you derive from gambling. While gambling helps you adapt to real life, it becomes a kind of drug. And the greater your overall dissatisfaction with life, the more powerful the drug gambling can be. But what are the manifestations of addiction? First and foremost, it's financial maladjustment. Losing money, accumulating debt, being unable to pay bills, conflicts over it, and a decline in quality of life. But one way or another, it all comes down to losing money.

Right, the big problem is when the gambler loses self-control over himself and cannot manage the gambling game consistently, thereby increasing the risk of losing money. When a person is addicted to gambling, in addition to losing valuable time and money in his life, his loved ones move away, and the gambler does not find the real meaning of life and at some point becomes frustrated. Therefore, we should always manage gambling in a proper manner, so that it does not turn into an addiction. It is just a game for entertainment purposes.

[Graph001]

Gambling can become addictive when you cant stop despite losses, constantly think about it, or gamble to escape stress, and while some people can regain control on their own, professional help usually makes recovery more likely, though it’s still considered an addiction even if self-managed. However for the cases of small gamblers thats when the problem start when they become one. Borrowing money and got deep debts waiting for doing so.

The main reason for not being able to quit gambling addiction is greed. Even if you start playing out of curiosity, the more you win, the more greed will increase in you. You will keep thinking that the more you play, the more you will win. On the other hand, if you lose, you will become more restless. You will then think that you can recoup your losses by playing with more money, and this will continue.

[ZeroVinsonN]

Gambling addiction doesn't hide, it's usually obvious if you look for it, you will see people who keep gambling even when the losing streak becomes unbreakable they can't just bring themselves to stop, they somehow feel like stopping would be the actual loss since they can't make up for what they have already lost, this mentality keeps in the game to the point where they even start taking loans to fund their gambling habits, people like this end up losing themselves to gambling and can't easily escape their addiction on their own without help

[iBaba]

Becoming a compulsive gambler is easy if you have a predisposition. These factors can include stress, personal setbacks, and general dissatisfaction with life, coupled with the joy you derive from gambling. While gambling helps you adapt to real life, it becomes a kind of drug. And the greater your overall dissatisfaction with life, the more powerful the drug gambling can be. But what are the manifestations of addiction? First and foremost, it's financial maladjustment. Losing money, accumulating debt, being unable to pay bills, conflicts over it, and a decline in quality of life. But one way or another, it all comes down to losing money.

You're very correct with your opinion. To a large extent once gambling begins to cross that fine line then it can be related to the behavior of an addict. It becomes more about chasing a highness more like the addiction in drugs and less of the entertainment itself. The fun in gambling gradually fades bricks by brick and the real tragedy begins to come into place which usually revolves around the quest to make quick money, run into debts, unpaid bills, borrowing, broken relationships and in some cases even psychological trauma such as depression.

It does not mean that if you are gambling you must fall into the trap of addiction as it all boils down to the issue of discipline and and self awareness. The simple rule is that you should gamble with what you can afford to lose and to always know when is the right time to stop.

[Grace333]

it is very easy to get addicted to gambling, especially when you start winning a few times in the beginning, that feeling of quick profit can really mess with your mind. You start thinking you can repeat the same luck over and over, and before you know it, you are chasing losses trying to recover what you’ve lost.
What makes it tricky is that gambling plays with emotions, greed, excitement all at once. So without strong discipline or limits, it’s super easy to fall into addiction without even realizing it..

[nara1892]

1. One way to identify whether I'm addicted is to examine myself, how often I gamble, and whether I constantly want to gamble, especially when I have free time and money to spare. If I find it difficult to spend even a moment without gambling, then I'm addicted.

2. Honestly, I don't know how to measure how quickly someone can become addicted, but perhaps an inability to accept defeat and excessive enthusiasm for winning can be signs.

3. Yes, I can. For example, I recovered from my addiction on my own, and I believe that addiction can only be cured by ourselves. This is why addicted gamblers are often difficult to counsel.

[Pandorak]

it is very easy to get addicted to gambling, especially when you start winning a few times in the beginning, that feeling of quick profit can really mess with your mind. You start thinking you can repeat the same luck over and over, and before you know it, you are chasing losses trying to recover what you’ve lost.
What makes it tricky is that gambling plays with emotions, greed, excitement all at once. So without strong discipline or limits, it’s super easy to fall into addiction without even realizing it..

Exactly, as i experienced myself, i first got into gambling when i saw a friend gambling. I felt curious, and that curiosity grew even stronger when i saw him win the game and earn so much money in such a short time. i'm sure anyone who saw that would want to try it, hoping to get the same opportunity. The amazing thing is that when i tried it, i did indeed make a profit, though not as much as he did because the deposit amount was different. This was the beginning of the addiction. Now, gambling is no longer just entertainment, it has become an emotional necessity.

[|MINER|]

Personally, if someone wants to know if he is addicted to gambling, it is very easy to know. In this case, all that the gambler has to do is track his gambling history and find out whether he has used the amount of funds that he cannot afford to lose. And if it is proven that he has used an excess amount of funds while gambling that he cannot afford to lose, then we have to understand that he is addicted to gambling. In this way, I think one can diagnose whether he is addicted to gambling or not.

And recovering from gambling addiction is a very difficult task but not impossible and in many cases it is possible to do it alone because the main thing is to end it with the addicted gambler, to control your emotions. So I think it is possible to recover from gambling addiction alone.

[liasbaa]

I have been gambling for years, maybe I have been addicted to it at some point even though I never noticed, however I'm a little in control of my gambling activities. Something still get me confused regarding gambling addiction that is a hot topic here and I want to get opinion of others on these areas:

• How do you know you are addicted to gambling
• How easy it is to be addicted to gambling?
• Can an addicted gambler work himself out of that addiction without help from anyone, if yes, is it still addiction?

You should find out what the addiction stage is. Gambling for a long time is not an addiction. If you have money, you can gamble all night on the weekend. It may be for one day a week, but you should call it an addiction. Family members may think you are addicted. But gambling for entertainment after receiving a weekly salary is not an addiction.

I think a gambler is addicted when he tends to spend more on gambling than he earns and it affects his personal life. It is easier to get addicted when you have more money. The poor may be less likely to get addicted because they have less money.

To prevent addiction, you need to learn to control your emotions and have control over yourself. Try to keep your gambling budget to a certain amount to reduce your gambling expenses.

[rbynxx]

• How do you know you are addicted to gambling
• How easy it is to be addicted to gambling?
• Can an addicted gambler work himself out of that addiction without help from anyone, if yes, is it still addiction?

* I probably have deposit every week, though probably just twice a week I think that seems kind of addiction since it doesn't stop.
* Tbh it's easy, if by chance you keep on winning at first then those wins turn to loss, you'll have that perception you need to get back those losses, that's the first sign you'll be addicted. If you're also losing, you will have that same kind of perception.
* I think this question is confusing, but I think if you're into something (gambling addiction or anything else) and you want to get out of that situation, you'll need to be consistent and work pays off over time.

[LUCKMCFLY]

The only way to avoid this is to notice it on time.

And I am sure that the person who is falling into addiction detects it but does not give it importance and continues in that cycle that they do not want to end, that is very bad. Personally, the problem starts in the same person and if they do not correct it in time, they are miserable, because they must use other people and other treatments that are not at all desirable.