Re: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling

There is no connection between loneliness and gambling except that person is already a gambler then he can utilized the opportunity of being lone to start gambling more or making some random deposit to his account to constantly keep gambling. Sometimes is from mindset what you think of is what mostly come into mind, and I don't see any reason why someone wife will leave him and he turns himself into gambling addiction instead of becoming a drunker or smoker because these two things are easily being triggered by loneliness and not becoming an addicted gambler.

Quite reasonable and your idea is almost the same as what I have in mind, people say that loneliness can trigger someone to get involved in gambling, I agree for that matter but on the other hand this idea only leads to those who have previously known or have been involved in gambling or even still quite active, because for ordinary people who have never gambled at all I think it is still unlikely for them to suddenly enter gambling to get involved in it, the scenario will not be that simple.

In general there are a lot of people who experience loneliness at certain times but not all of them are gamblers and that can kind of invalidate the idea that loneliness can trigger gambling, like I said that idea would only apply to someone who is already familiar with gambling so like you said that at the same time they are trying to take advantage of the time and opportunity to gamble and try their luck. Basically and overall there are still a lot of things that they can choose to do as an alternative to loneliness, playing online games (without risk), watching a movie or chatting something with one of their friends via mobile phone has the nature and potential that they are very likely to choose in general in such situations.

You are correct..
Such person must have been a gambling addicts or was trying to reduce and stop gambling before having that incident, most times whatever you want to stop and it happens that something triggered you to start going back to that which you have stopped. Especially becoming drunker whenever they faces emotional attacks they easily goes back to their previous attitude and same thing happens to smoker whenever they aren't emotionally balance or something upsets them they would angrily go back to what they have stopped before but for gambling sake I don't think loneliness can trigger it so easily except such person was already a gambling addicts.

Yeah so with that then I don't think we can just predict things in a bad direction, or I mean conclude that everyone who is lonely will choose to engage in gambling, most likely it will only potentially happen to those who have already been gambling. As I said above, there is no such thing as a simple scenario, and you have said here that if there are people who turn to gambling as an alternative when they are lonely then they are someone who has already gambled or gambles frequently.

I understand what you're saying here, it may be true that they could be one of those gamblers who is trying to quit gambling or is struggling to reduce their gambling activities, but there will always be times when the temptation comes, this is unexpected, one cannot plan when they will be lonely, And maybe for someone who is struggling to quit gambling the situation of "loneliness" is something that has great potential to thwart their intentions and efforts, in my opinion for that it depends on their own assertiveness on their intention to quit and if indeed they are less serious in their struggle then obviously the situation of loneliness is very likely to make them think of trying again to gamble which ultimately all plans fail.