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Quote from: mv1986 on June 23, 2021, 07:48:09 PM

Gambling can also be a viable option for those who are depressed already. It can function like alcohol. It is not always the other way around, it is not that you first gamble and then get depressed. You can be depressed but see an exit in gambling because it makes you forget your problems for a second. Sadly though it is mostly causing more problems afterwards as you are most likely not fully in control of your mind if you are depressed and therefore feel like gambling.

Depressed gamblers are often seen to be alone and are happy with what they do. They might keep going and whether they're losing as long as it's giving happiness to them, they don't mind about the cost and the casino profits from that person.
There are times that it's not just all about the money but also we'll never know what a gambler is going through. But most of us, we know that it's all about the money, whether you're for fun or for the profit.

But this is quite the stretch for the term of happiness. Sure everyone defines happiness differently, but with all due respect if you are sad and depressed, what you feel while you are gambling isn't really happiness. I just don't buy that.

It may not be the happiness that we know but that's what they're feeling, they're feeling good if they do it whatever the situation and what they're feeling by that time.

Quote from: mv1986 on June 25, 2021, 05:15:42 AM

Happiness is when you have a basic good and satisfactory mood, when you like life and are able to cope with difficulties optimistically and bravely. Happiness isn't when you forget your problems because you focus on hitting numbers in roulette. Happiness is when you have strong and lovely relationships to other people. If you have all other things around you in order, then I believe gambling can make you happy. Maybe on a vacation with a great family around you, when you decide to visit a casino for a night, that can make you happy. But gambling around the clock while having a bunch of problems to solve in real life isn't about happiness.

It came from you that we have our own definition of happiness. If someone forgets his problem and focuses on playing roulette then that's the definition of his happiness and we cannot question that. At the end of it, both feelings are invested including the money, and that still results to the costs needed by the casino that sums up the economic need from where it is operating.

But would you agree that there is such a think as fake happiness? For example, you get extremely wasted, have good talks with a friend after a bottle of whiskey, but they day the problems are still there and you are even less motivated to solve those problems. There can definitely be people who are truly happy when they gamble, I agree. But there is also that other group.

I agree with you. It might seem like a way to fill someone’s happy meter, but some people do things because it is their escape and distraction of some underlying emotions and problems. Maybe some people do gambling for this reason, or with a hope also to win that could perhaps aid in solving problems they carry in life.