What Is Pathological Gambling?
Participate in gambling with enthusiasm. If you ca nt participate in gambling, the six gods have no control; high frequency and long-term participation in gambling will make you happy; increasing gambling time, frequency, and gambling will make you feel satisfied and intoxicated;
Pathological gambling
- Pathological gambling Frequent recurrent gambling has dominated personal life and caused damage to its society, profession, property, and family values and obligations. Pathological gambling (also known as gambling): refers to the frequent and frequent gambling behavior that dominates personal life, and the behavior causes damage to social, professional, property and family values and obligations
Pathological gambling symptoms
Pathological gambling mood
- Participate in gambling with enthusiasm. If you ca nt participate in gambling, the six gods have no control; high frequency and long-term participation in gambling will make you happy; increasing gambling time, frequency, and gambling will make you feel satisfied and intoxicated;
- Among the gamblers, 13.3% were attempted suicides, 26.7% were criminals, 23.3% were spouse abusers, 16.7% were child abusers, and many were unemployed. They often suffered setbacks at home and at work.
- Pathological gambling belongs to impulse control disorders, also known as pathological gambling and gambling. Impulsive control disorder is a type of psychological disorder that requires certain behaviors without control. Patients have increasingly strong desire and sense of compulsion. The purpose is psychological satisfaction. They often feel happy and relaxed during and after the behavior. Feel regret, blame, or guilt. The American College of Psychiatry's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)" and "Chinese Standards for the Classification and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (CCMD-3)" both classify pathological gambling under the impulse control disorder entry. [1]
- Pathological gamblers are usually full of longing and impulse for gambling. They give up legitimate recreational activities and even ignore the influence of family and society. The important interpersonal relationships and daily life are damaged, and social functions are damaged. Pathological gamblers may experience similar "withdrawal reactions" to psychoactive substances such as smoking cessation and alcohol cessation. If you stop gambling for a period of time, you will experience upset, nervousness, restlessness, drowsiness, insomnia, appetite Waiting. If you try to quit gambling, your emotions will become sad and depressed. Similar to the situation in which drug addicts use more and more drugs, pathological gamblers will bet more and more. Pathological gamblers often have mental disorders, such as emotional disorders, substance abuse or addiction, borderline personality disorders or antisocial personality disorders.
Pathological gambling illusion
- 1. I always think about gambling, remembering the situation at the gambling table, or planning where to fight next time with whom.
- 2. The stakes are getting bigger and bigger to feel enjoyable.
- Appears when gamblers see gambling and talk about gambling
- 4. When trying to control gambling addiction, you will feel uncomfortable, upset, or easily lose your temper.
- 5. When you are down or anxious, you want to use gambling to avoid problems.
- 6. If you lose, you will think about when you will win back.
- 7. To hide your gambling addiction, lie to your family or others.
- 8. For the purpose of gambling, it has involved deception, fraud, theft or dishonesty.
- 9. In order to gamble, I have hurt relationships with friends and relatives, and even lost school or lost my job.
- 10. In order to gamble, the debts were so high that the family was ruined.
- As long as you have 5 of the above, you can diagnose pathological gambling.
Pathological gambling diagnosis
Pathological gambling pathology
- Gambling is a kind of bad behavior, and the moral, family and social problems caused by gambling are becoming more and more serious. Seeking excitement or adventure is often a major motivation for people to participate in gambling activities. There was a psychological specialist hospital that divided gambling into pathological gambling and non-pathological gambling after investigation:
- Non-pathological gamblers often have a clear motive for gambling and can control themselves. Some of them earn money for nothing or win more money for others. Some people regard gambling as a pastime, while others regard it as a pure entertainment and life hobby.
- Pathological gambling is one of impulse control obstacles. It is equivalent to theft and arsonism in a diagnosis group of mental illness. Pathological gamblers are usually full of yearning and impulse for gambling, give up legitimate recreational activities, let alone take into account the family, and sometimes pathological gamblers can have a "withdrawal response" similar to quitting alcohol and smoking, that is, once they stop Discomfort such as nervousness, sleepiness, fatigue, insomnia, loss of appetite may occur. After the pathological gambler is compulsorily abstained from gambling, in order to achieve the same psychological impulse as before, that is, to make the psychological state of the impulse last, the bet will be getting larger and larger, and some may be stealing to find gambling funds.
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain [2]
Causes of pathological gambling
- There are many reasons for pathological gambling, which are often related to personal life experience, living environment, and personality characteristics, and there are different levels of psychological defects or obstacles, such as the stimulation of adverse life events leading to their psychological distortion. Western scholars believe that most of the motivations of female gamblers are to escape the pressure caused by family, society and their past experiences, and try to reduce depression and improve bad mood through gambling.
- The formation of pathological gambling is also related to the abnormal changes in the nervous system of the gambler. A study by American psychologist Peter Carlton found that a decrease in the amount of serotonin, a chemical that changes the function of mental cells, may be one of the individual causes of gambling. Studies by American psychiatrists have also found that the behavior of pathological gamblers can affect many neurotransmitters in the brain. The increase or decrease of these substances can calm the anxious person, excite the depressed person, or enrich the mentally empty person.
- At a time when gambling is becoming more and more common, especially for those with pathological gambling, many people of insight have called for: experts in sociology, psychology, medicine, etc. should pay full attention to this, and give pathological gamblers more attention. More understanding and help. In order to eradicate gambling in our country, comprehensive management must be adopted. One of the most important aspects is to carry out popular and popular cultural and artistic activities and education on mental health. For patients with pathological gambling, administrative punishment and other measures are generally not effective, but should help them overcome psychological and spiritual obstacles.
Pathological gambling cases
- "Long-term addiction to" landlord "psychological disorders are difficult to quit"
- "Landlord" is a way of playing cards. Nowadays, it is as popular on the streets as playing mahjong.
- Playing cards and entertainment is a pastime for modern people. There is nothing wrong with it, because it not only spends free time, but also promotes interpersonal communication and connects feelings. It relaxes the mind and body during busy work, and is fun. The "landlord" narrowed the distance between people.
- However, as a social phenomenon, the hidden gambling psychology should attract our attention. If you risk losing money by playing cards and consciously playing a game with certain ingredients or all chances, you can conclude that entertainment is a guise and gambling is a pretext. Suicide, jumping off the building, homicide, family disintegration, and business failures caused by "landlords" have been repeatedly reported. It has become a serious social problem.
- Prolonged incontinence "landlords" can lead to pathological gambling. They usually start gambling in early adolescence, have not been interested in learning since childhood, have low education level, and have a bad relationship with their parents. Its psychological characteristics are good intelligence, arrogance, overconfidence, optimism, lack of patience, competitiveness, and like chasing money.
- In reality, gambling behaviors and entertainment behaviors are integrated into one another. Lottery tickets, lotteries, and even television and telephones can participate in lottery draws, which implicitly play a demonstration role, which will inevitably increase the difficulty of controlling gambling. Therefore, it is advisable to use the "landlord" to gamblers. When you join the "landlord", you must first ask yourself what you are doing, is it entertainment or gambling? When it comes to gambling, be sure to adjust your mindset and overcome desire. Adults need to set a good example for their children. For pathological gamblers, they should actively adopt aversion therapy and systematic desensitization technology to get rid of pathological behavior.
Classification of pathological gambling
Pathological gambling
- Most pathological gamblers have to go through such a trilogy: first of all, the stage of winning money. Most people take part in gambling with an entertaining mentality. After winning, they often gamble. They often want to win big money, and they are too optimistic and confident. This was followed by the stage of losing money. At this time, they always wanted to turn the books around and tried every means to raise gambling funds to earn back their losses. Their personality also changed, they didn't care about their families, lied and even violated the law. The last stage is depression. At this time, negative psychological states such as despair, alcoholism, home destruction and self-blame, nervousness, and anxiety can occur.
Pathological gambling
- Gambling is a kind of bad behavior, and the moral, family and social problems caused by gambling are becoming more and more serious. Seeking excitement or adventure is often a major motivation for people to participate in gambling activities. There was a psychological specialist hospital that divided gambling into pathological gambling and non-pathological gambling after investigation:
- Non-pathological gamblers often have a clear motive for gambling and can control themselves. Some of them earn money for nothing or win more money for others. Some people regard gambling as a pastime, while others regard it as a pure entertainment and life hobby.
Pathological gambling physiology
- The formation of pathological gambling is also related to the abnormal changes in the nervous system of the gambler. A study by American psychologist Peter Carlton found that a decrease in the amount of serotonin, a chemical that changes the function of mental cells, may be one of the individual causes of gambling. Studies by American psychiatrists have also found that the behavior of pathological gamblers can affect many neurotransmitters in the brain. The increase or decrease of these substances can calm the anxious person, excite the depressed person, or enrich the mentally empty person.
Pathological gambling treatment
- For ordinary pathological gamblers, ordinary administrative punishment alone cannot always make them give up gambling. They must cooperate with medical methods to help them quit gambling. A combination of behavioral therapy, psychological counseling, and medication can be used for treatment and intervention.
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