Keeping yourself healthy while gambling!
We often joke about our lifestyles as a community – let’s face it, crypto dice attracts a certain demographic of people – from the beginning cryptocurrencies were for the mavericks, the outsiders, the super geeks, the nefarious and OK, I’m sure one or two smart folk who just saw an investment opportunity.
Some of us never gambled before discovering cryptocurrency, some of us came to it as gamblers, either way, you here on DuckDice reading my post on the forum now!
I want to go over a few key psychological traps we end up in, hopefully it will help you, I know it might not.
Dopamine!
Now there are many many things going on when you choose to keep rolling that dice, play that card game, spin that wheel. This article explains it much better, and I suggest if this is a new concept to you getting your head around it, Gambling is a drug!
https://www.algamus.org/blog/role-of-dopamine-in-gambling-withdrawal
Like all drugs, moderation is obviously the key but how is it so?
Dopamine is a chemical that gets released in the body when you find reward, could be food, could be petting a dog, could be many things :)
What gambling does is very much tap into this reward center every roll and all casinos deploy little techniques to give that rewarding feeling a boost; be it color choices, flashy graphics, satisfying sounds. This just doesn’t apply to any one casino but basically every industry there is --- online in particular it can be a lot more subtle than you think, like facebook originally only allowing ‘like’ on a comment, and no dislikes – sheer dopamine feed!
So What?
So it’s obvious; we gamble because it’s rewarding? Well, we all know from a bad session or a thousand it can’t always be.
Once you open up that reward train though it can feel hard to stop, why stop feeling good? You lose a lot, you stew for a bit, you might have an extra beer, that beer then taps a little bit of dopamine into your brain but it’s not as exciting as that big hit before the bust, so you seek a little more dopamine, you deposit a little more, lose, have another beer, and it continues.
Recognizing that it’s not just a greed, a desire to win money and that something else is bubbling under the surface Is incredibly important in being a well rounded gambler!
So what do I do!?
Well this becomes a bit like grandma telling you to eat right and brush your teeth, but all these little things are actually incredibly important when planning out a session.
Let’s say you know you can afford to deposit a sizable sum, going to play with it, you know your limit and what you want, and how much you can lose. Give yourself the best chance! Plan.
Give yourself a time of the day, no distractions, no stresses – bit of a drinker? Just set your limits. Maybe have your session in a quiet corner of the house, away of the drinks cabinet or 20 pack.
People pissing you off? Close chat.
Hour into your session? Stop. Let your hormones settle – go for a walk, take a bath, drink a cup of tea, force yourself into regular breaks, the constant bombardment of one source of enjoyment leads to bad mistakes.
It’s all very cliché but it is incredibly important.
TAKE A BREAK ONCE IN A WHILE
Giving yourself a few days off from rolling at all will likely do yourself and your bank balance a lot of favors – here at DuckDice at-least if you stop wagering your faucet for a while, it means no negative wagering and you retain your level possibly a bit longer for it, you know your outcomes on your seed wont change, everything can just stop.
We love giving our users a fair deal, but we also obviously want you to keep coming back and tapping into that reward center, a faucet, might lead to a deposit, might lead to a late night session, 50 beers, and a bank balance hangover. Next day, you continue, feeling like rubbish, trying to feel good again, a roll here a roll there, and you end up in the cycle.
Give your real life the time it deserves.
