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Problem or Compulsive Gambling
By vrao | June 5, 2008
It is a common human tendency to remember positive consequences of events rather than the bad ones they faced, unless and until really bad things happen. A similar thing happens in the case of lotteries. Hearing of a neighbor winning lots of money through a lottery ticket imparts a larger impact on our minds than hearing someone lost a lot of money in buying these tickets.
It is unusual to hear that someone winning a lottery and hence helping us to remember more of this unusual experience and reacting towards it by indulging yourself in buying the tickets. Most of these jackpots barely cover the costs incurred on playing or betting for them. A problem gambling arises from here, in dream of winning some day people get into habit of investing in lottery tickets; many of them are addicted of playing gambles at casinos and still others are into sports or other kinds of betting habitually. Knowing of these habits of people indulging into a luck game of making money, the gambling providers manipulate people’s beliefs about gambling in their own way to make money.
Casinos do not just offer different games; they make extensive research on the games they offer, measuring the chances of losing and winning of the gamblers coming at their casinos, balancing them according to the profit they desire to make and more importantly inducing a habit of gambling to let their business go on. The gambling providers make the gamblers feel that they aren’t losing money and if they are then it isn’t much. This induces a desire to win more through the event by playing more.
Even if you are failing progressively then what keeps you going for gambling is the next one could be a win and you’ll get all your money back, but this happens rarely. This pathological gambling finally results in economic and emotional loss for the player and his family.
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