Quote from: Shinpako09 on August 04, 2025, 09:43:31 PM

Quote from: Mrbluntzy on August 04, 2025, 05:18:25 PM

@OP, what is the difference between gambling fever and gambling addiction? From your post, I don't see any difference or any unique difference of things that have been discussed here before as a causes of addiction and how to prevent it. Both are too similar, if not the same.

Indeed. When I read the title, I was like, Gambling fever? Then I read the post and thought, Huh? That’s gambling addiction, it’s the same thing. I thought it was something new or different. Everything OP mentioned is what gambling addiction really is. If you have a gambling addiction, you're already dealing with all the things OP listed. So, for me, it's just a different term used by OP. In the end, it all comes down to a lack of discipline in gambling. Everything mentioned leads to or caused gambling addiction.

Same here, I thought that I might have misread the title, with gambling "fever", and the first thing that came to me mind is that maybe it describe when gamblers have a high body temperature due to gambling. But in any case, he cleared that up and as what most of us says, it's just the semantics. And what he lay down here is the sign that someone is really addicted to gambling already.

And that is why as much as we give a lot of advice, most of the time we will fall for it. Just chasing losses, and as humans we really don't want to lose and so we come back and try to get back the money that we lost. However, it's not that easy as casinos have the house edge.