How did you react at people around you when you lose in gambling?

[Orpichukwu]

If I feel that my lose in gambling would affect the people around me, then I would distance myself from them, let myself chill or calm down so that I wouldn't affect them with negativity.
Most of the time when I lose in gambling I would be easily irritated, but there are also times that I wouldn't feel naything like it is something expected.

If that's the only way you can calm yourself down until you face others without them being affected, then you do it. We all have different ways of controlling our anger; the more you understand your own self, the easier it will be to associate with people without problems. Taking responsibility also helps in self-improvement next time you learn how to gamble responsibly so that it doesn't get to the extent where you have to exclude yourself from people.

[purple_sparkles]

I don’t really stress about losses, especially since I play with very small amounts. But when someone starts telling me how I should live, especially at moments when I lose, it really gets on my nerves and I can respond very sharply. That’s why I usually avoid communicating with people from whom I might receive such advice.

[hedgeh0g]

I don’t really stress about losses, especially since I play with very small amounts. But when someone starts telling me how I should live, especially at moments when I lose, it really gets on my nerves and I can respond very sharply. That’s why I usually avoid communicating with people from whom I might receive such advice.

Of course, something similar has happened to me too. I don't like it when people interrupt or distract me from playing, but when I lose, I dislike it even more. I won't tolerate it and usually react harshly. Sometimes, or almost always, I later regret the words I say to those around me and those close to me. Although I understand that they can't know what's going on in my game or what I might be thinking when I'm losing. So, the best solution for me has been to play when no one else is around.

[Donk1]

Well if I may say losses in gambling are actually painful at times. Even if you already have a calculated risk at times you might just call it a game but then it's more than that. That said the human emotions are very unstable at times and it's determined by the individual. Most folks/ gambler just play and have fun just to avoid being emotional, while others just have an automatic change in their mood and definitely that day becomes a bad day for them.

​Overall as a gambler you should learn to always control your emotions because the emotions of a gambler are what determine a gambler's lifestyle. If you can't control it indeed you will end up in a lot of losses most especially when you are trying to win back what you lost. So yeah emotions play a big role in gambling and you should never allow it to take control of your mind and end up insulting or hurting others because you lost. Basically that's wrong Well that's all for me.....

[Humblevirus]

Seriously, nobody will be happy when losing or when they have lost in gambling. Almost everyone always reacts whenever they lose money, but our reactions are just different. Some people react by becoming depressed and harsh on the people around them. Like me now, I hardly react at all toward my close people if I lose in gambling, and the reason why is that I don’t gamble with what I can’t afford to lose. So, I hardly react toward my close people, but you will definitely see it on my face, despite the fact that I don’t lose more than what I can afford to lose. Another reason why I hardly react toward my close people, especially my family members, is because I don’t want them to know that I am a gambler, as my anger can lead them to know that may be because I lost in gambling.

[Proty]

I don’t really stress about losses, especially since I play with very small amounts. But when someone starts telling me how I should live, especially at moments when I lose, it really gets on my nerves and I can respond very sharply. That’s why I usually avoid communicating with people from whom I might receive such advice.

Of course, something similar has happened to me too. I don't like it when people interrupt or distract me from playing, but when I lose, I dislike it even more. I won't tolerate it and usually react harshly. Sometimes, or almost always, I later regret the words I say to those around me and those close to me. Although I understand that they can't know what's going on in my game or what I might be thinking when I'm losing. So, the best solution for me has been to play when no one else is around.

I only feel this way when I don't know much about gambling. I have learnt never gamble with an amount I can't afford to lose. I think the reason why people will react when they lose is because they have used money they are not supposed to gamble with. Any money used for gambling, is either it brings more money or we lost it. A good mindset about the nature of gambling will help us on how we react whenever we loses or wins money.

[Emeraldo]

It's really hard to control yourself when a big loss is perceived as an injustice of fate. This is one of the downsides of gambling - you can ruin family relationships, especially if intemperance is regular. There is a chance to win money in a casino one day, but it is impossible to restore a damaged relationship. And even if you don't win, no amount of losses is worth destroying a family. After all, how does it turn out in the end? And the money is lost and the family is destroyed. That's the insidiousness of weak self-control. It seems to me that it is better for such a person either not to gamble at all or to do it extremely rarely.

It's really difficult honestly trying to control yourself in the mist of people after severe loss is something that needs a high level of self control to be able to handle for  me I feel like after a severe loss just take out sometime to ool your head alone and don't allow yourself be in the mist of people especially people who are not gamblers because they can say terrible things that may provoke you and may want to be violent so it's better to stay alone untill you cool your head before you start coming out among people to avoid issues.

[ColdLava40]

Yesterday I was having some time with one of my very good child hood friends so we both had fun together at one joint close to his area after much conversation he was able to disclose some of his betting slips that he lost so much money up to like $800, though he wasn't that happy but as my guy I was just trying to cool him off and to make he see reasons why he should let it slide and shouldn't be disturbed by it.

However, after we are both done I decided to walk him to his house reaching there one of his son ran to was him to welcome him as usual but I was shock the way he reacted to his son, he just shouted at him and order him to go inside. That was very rude of him so to speak but am pretty sure his actions was as a result of his lost.

I can understand how significant lost in gambling can making one to start reacting rude to people around them, what about you how did you react to people around you when you lost money in gamble?

That's strange.. if he does that because he lost to gambling then he should simply try to avoid gambling any futher to avoid even worse scenarios. I guess addiction..

He's a father, and what he does now is what his kids would probably grow with. Kids tends to copy their parents at early ages. A responsible gambler , knowing he has a family should make sure to separate his attitude while at home.

You don't have to make it obvious.. if you can't take the kind of risk involved in gambling, then why do it in the first place? He's family remains his major priority no matter his situation, win or loss he should tend to them with care.