What is pathological gambling?
pathological gambling, sometimes called compulsive gambling, is the inability to resist desires in betting. The pathological player will often miss work and families and will be without sleep to gamble. The scope of gambling often leaves a pathological player with career, relationship and legal problems. Pathological gambling, considered to be a dependence on behavior or impulse control, has some similarities to an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What causes pathological gambling is not known. Those who are diagnosed with pathological gambling are more likely to have other other mental health problems such as borderline personality disorder and attention disorder-hyperactivity. Pathological players are more likely to abuse drugs, suffer from heart attack and try suicide.
The pathological player is obsessed with a gambling and thinks almost constantly. Over time, one will have to bet more and more money to get the desired rush from gambling. As well as uOther addictions often try to stop, but fail. If not gambling, the person may be irritated and restless.
The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders reports 10 symptoms of a person who is a pathological player. These symptoms include a person who spends more and more money when gambling and gambling try to make money that has been lost by betting. The pathological player will often lie about how much time and money he devotes himself to gambling and can steal or commit other crimes to make money on gambling.
Pathological gambling usually begins with recreational betting and gradually puts to the extent that a person with addiction is betting on all kinds of results and plays many different gambling games. The pathological player can bet online, play lottery and visit the casino. Pathological players rarely limit themselves to one game. In men addiction usually begins with earlyTeens, while many women who become pathological players may not show signs of addiction until they are 40 years old.
Men are about twice as likely to become compulsive players. Pathological players tend to have lower income. People who have parents who were a pathological player, and people who are alcoholics are more likely pathological players.
pathological players probably do not admit that they have a problem or are looking for help themselves. In most cases, a pathological player is looking for assistance in a problem under pressure from family, friends or employers. Treatment often includes a 12 -speed program such as Anonymous players.