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How I personally deal with gambling
19th Jan. 2023, at 12:34 pm CET#21
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t****o wrote on 17.01.2022 at 13:02:
So I have to agree with tonka bean on this one.
You can't compare gambling in front of the PC with other hobbies, which are related to fun, sociability, friendship,
Health or personal
Successes score.
If my hobby is playing football, for example, I pay my small membership fee, do something for my health, get to know a lot of people
Health, get to know a lot of people. Possibly also good friendships, assistance with personal projects
and and and.
And even boozing with fun and friends brings me more, like looking at a screen. And even if it would cost me
would cost me 400€, I have experiences, deepening of friendships, fun. What do you have when you gamble?
How can you talk up gaming, or even compare it to "normal" hobbies?
I think that if it has come so far that you argue so, it is already far to late.
Wutmännchen has already said it correctly.
Every person is different.
There are Zockernerds who love to play Playsi all day, there are real gamblers who love the adrenaline rush of gambling, there are fitness freaks who love to lift weights and there are people who save all year to make expensive long-distance trips.
As long as you don't harm anyone else with your hobby, any division into good hobbies/bad hobbies is arrogant and pointless.
Quite an intriguing topic and at the same time a bit off topic. After all, the original question was a feedback about "gamer types".
But the whole thing has evolved to criticize the approach of ExSpielsuchti. As often written, everyone spends money on their hobbies. That can be books, games, gambling, sports and many more. One can be more harmful to health than something else and there it is necessary to weigh. By far, gambling has a higher potential for harm than, for example, writing poetry or playing board games, and one's own gambling behavior should always be examined somewhat critically. Keyword: Sensitization
Whether 400,- is too much or not can be answered by everyone only for himself, because that depends also on incomes, expenditures, social obligations. The key question is whether bills are paid, loss of housing is in the room or the work, family, health, etc. suffers. For someone who earns millions, 400,- would be an affordable controlled hobby. So category 1. With citizen's income it would be existence-threatening, probably category 3 or 4. In addition, of course, other factors such as isolation, neglect of hygiene and food and much more.
On the positive side, I would like to emphasize the clear rules that ExSpielsuchti mentions. There are limits, boundaries, a framework to which he, and on the statement we rely, bends. Thus, some of the aspects that would underlie an addiction (e.g. loss of control and dose increase) are contained. If these limits are exceeded, or the limits are actually set too high to meet his everyday life, then it would make sense to jump over his own shadow, to take courage and seek help / counseling. Because what is sought in gambling, can certainly be found elsewhere.
How I personally deal with gambling
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Wutmännchen has already said it correctly.
Every person is different.
There are Zockernerds who love to play Playsi all day, there are real gamblers who love the adrenaline rush of gambling, there are fitness freaks who love to lift weights and there are people who save all year to make expensive long-distance trips.
As long as you don't harm anyone else with your hobby, any division into good hobbies/bad hobbies is arrogant and pointless.
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Quite an intriguing topic and at the same time a bit off topic. After all, the original question was a feedback about "gamer types".
But the whole thing has evolved to criticize the approach of ExSpielsuchti. As often written, everyone spends money on their hobbies. That can be books, games, gambling, sports and many more. One can be more harmful to health than something else and there it is necessary to weigh. By far, gambling has a higher potential for harm than, for example, writing poetry or playing board games, and one's own gambling behavior should always be examined somewhat critically. Keyword: Sensitization
Whether 400,- is too much or not can be answered by everyone only for himself, because that depends also on incomes, expenditures, social obligations. The key question is whether bills are paid, loss of housing is in the room or the work, family, health, etc. suffers. For someone who earns millions, 400,- would be an affordable controlled hobby. So category 1. With citizen's income it would be existence-threatening, probably category 3 or 4. In addition, of course, other factors such as isolation, neglect of hygiene and food and much more.
On the positive side, I would like to emphasize the clear rules that ExSpielsuchti mentions. There are limits, boundaries, a framework to which he, and on the statement we rely, bends. Thus, some of the aspects that would underlie an addiction (e.g. loss of control and dose increase) are contained. If these limits are exceeded, or the limits are actually set too high to meet his everyday life, then it would make sense to jump over his own shadow, to take courage and seek help / counseling. Because what is sought in gambling, can certainly be found elsewhere.
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