Is Betting with Money You Can Afford to Lose an Antidote to Emotional Stress?

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Even with the money we can afford to spend if we lose we still feel bad because losing is not a good feeling and this near-success syndrome is one of the worst feelings where you feel like you are almost winning, but you lose. The only antidote for emotional stress is by winning because you feel excitement and happiness.

Disappointment always follow after every loses that is the natural reaction for every individuals that gamble. Even billionaires who gamble will be upset when they feel unlucky so how much more for the ordinary individuals right? And what is the effect of that? Yeah you knew it, emotional stress that is why we chase loses and winnings because we expect something good on it.

[Rruchi man]

In my opinion, a gambler cannot gamble without experiencing emotional distress at some point. This may not happen frequently, depending on his level of control, but it is impossible not to feel distressed. Therefore, in my thinking, gambling with what you can afford to lose is not a cure-all for emotional distress when it comes to gambling.

What is your thought on this?

You will feel emotional distress at some point if you keep gambling frequently, even with an amount of money that you can afford to lose; that is inevitable. The trick to it is to gamble less frequently with an amount of money that you can afford to lose, then you can be more assured that you would have a lesser chance of being emotionally distressed from gambling.  Even if you gamble with little amounts of money you still have to show a lot of discipline to not gamble often.