Just as the name. I was hoping I could get the feedback of the community about if there was ever a time when they borrowed money for gambling? Another question; if a gambler consistently borrow money to fund their gambling finance is it enough to consider them an addicted gambler?
Dumb question. Just the act of "borrowing money" can already lead to multiple problems, what more if it was borrowing money to gamble. Borrowing money for bills, and medicine, may be a possible investment. Sure, why not. Borrowing money to entertain yourself? Sounds like a dumb way to put your reputation down to whoever hears about it. If you're gonna argue that gambling is an investment, let's stop there, we both know it's not.
I'd 100% consider someone who borrows money to gamble as an addict. You just don't borrow money to do so if you're sane in your mind. Stop treating gambling as a way to make money to the point where you're willing to risk other people's money. Again, I might be repeating myself here, but it's just dumb.
I don't think OP's borrowing money for gambling to "entertain" himself but to actually earn money from the gambling ordeal, and then pay it off with the profits he raked in (not that it makes the reason for borrowing any better), but yeah you're right, that's one good way to lose friends and be disowned from your family.
Let me put it into something that makes a lot more sense, cause for some people they might not see anything wrong about it on the account of the excuse that "I'm gonna pay it back anyway".
A responsible gambler owes himself control. You can't gamble without making sure that things are going according to your plan, at least in the bankroll and mental state department. Borrowing money to gamble is not only a preposterous premise but is also a stupid act of defiance against the logic that a responsible gambler should possess, which is gamble only what you can afford to lose. Borrowing money basically means you don't have enough money to gamble with right from the get-go, so why are you pushing through?
Plus if it came to a point that you're already taking up loans to gamble you're definitely addicted to it or something. No human being in their right minds think of gambling as an expenditure, especially when you're already barely scraping by.
As I said in this prior post I made regarding OP's query, control is something that you're supposed to have as a responsible gambler, if it already came to the point that you're borrowing money to sustain your gambling that most definitely means you belligerently spend your money/bankroll or that you really don't have any money to begin with, which is all the more reasons why you shouldn't gamble in the first place.
It's not a case of "am I addict" cause you really are at this point OP, you might wanna get yourself checked so you don't do stupid stuff, like borrowing from shady people or putting yourself in danger's reach just to get your fix.