Quote from: Fiatless on September 01, 2025, 10:46:04 AM

Quote from: serjent05 on August 31, 2025, 10:39:22 PM

I am really intrigued by how a normal gambling session can lead to gambling addiction. I read people saying winning in a gambling session can lead to gambling addiction, while I read in articles that losing also leads to gambling addiction. Does this mean that whether a person gambles for fun or for profit will be a gambling addict, since both winning and losing are experienced by the same group.

Neither wins nor losses lead to gambling addiction. Disorder in betting is caused by behavioural problems. If you have the mentality that a winning streak shows your mastery over the system, you might start gambling excessively. You can also have problems if you assume that you can chase losses and recover all you have lost. If you gamble for fun, I don't think you will chase losses or gamble more than you can afford to lose.

You are right mate, if a gambling gets addicted to gambling either because of winning or losing, in one way or the gambler caused the problem for them self and this can be prevented when the person already fixed their habits or knows how to control their emotions by not allowing either of those outcome to cause gambling addiction for them. Like myself, the earlier time that I almost became addicted to gambling was because I was targeting a huge win, though I was losing but I was not chasing losses, rather I was just expecting the win to come. I didn't become addicted because I controlled the habit.