Understanding Gambling Addiction

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Understanding Gambling Addiction

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There's nothing wrong with gambling, if you use it the right way

- as means of having fun, as a hobby or a way of de stressing.

The danger comes when the roles get reversed and gambling starts

using you.

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Understanding Gambling Addiction

Copyright © 2009 Skyler Ace

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http://onlinegambling23.blogspot.com/

There's nothing wrong with gambling, if you use it the right way

- as means of having fun, as a hobby or a way of de stressing.

The danger comes when the roles get reversed and gambling starts

using you. When you start to gamble not to relax, but because you

get tense when you are not gambling, you have a serious problem.

With online gambling being so prevalent and easy to access, this

is now becoming a serious problem.

Gambling addiction has a great deal of social stigma attached to

it. While things like alcohol and drug addiction are met with a

certain amount of sympathy, people tend to feel that a person

dependent on these things is one who could not face life's

pressures and took the easy way out. These people need sympathy

and help to recover. Gambling addicts, on the other hand, are

often treated a selfish, self centered people who do not care for

their families and are throwing away their and their families

futures by gambling away all their money.

Gambling addiction is understood by mental health professionals

to be an emotional problem and has the same roots as any other

form of addiction. Gambling addiction needs to be viewed in the

same way as other extreme emotional states like acute anxiety and

depression. To treat it merely as a case of a weak or immature

personality is to misunderstand the problem and treat it the

wrong way.

Like all addicts, the gambling addict will have moments of

clarity when he will appreciate what the addiction is doing to

his life and to his family. Again, like other addicts, he may

make some weak efforts to cure himself and will, in 95% of the

cases, fail. He then accepts his addiction as being incurable and

inevitable and feels that he has no choice but to gamble. The

descent into disaster only accelerates from here.

But gambling addiction is not just treatable, it is curable.

There are no magic bullets or pills that can remove the problem

overnight. It is a long haul and the cured gambling addict, like

the reformed drinker or drug addict, will have to spend the rest

of his life being careful about falling back into the trap. But

this is a very small price to pay for escaping from the hole.

Gambling addicts rarely see the problems they have, and if they

do, forget about it in their desire to gamble. There are fours

easy checks to know if you have a gambling addiction. Be

completely honest with yourself and ask yourself if you or

someone you care about has these symptoms:

* Do you feel the need to be secretive about your gambling? Do

you hide it or lie about it?

* Once you start, are you able to stop at a predetermined point

- either at a fixed time or when you have lost a fixed amount of

money? Or do you keep on gambling until you are exhausted and /

or have no money left?

* Do you gamble even when you can't afford it? Are you spending

money meant for other purposes on gambling - money for school

fees, utility bills and so on?

* Are those who care worried about you? Even if they haven't

said anything as yet, do you sense they are concerned about you?

Forget about having all of these symptoms, having even one of

them is enough of a cause for concern. Even one symptom is a sign

of if not full blown addiction, at least a sign of being well on

the way to becoming an addict.

Cure and treatment is only possible if the person is both honest

enough to see that he has a problem and also has a desire to be

cured of it. It is not possible to treat someone who does not

want to be treated.

Gambling addicts wanting to be cured must accept the fact that

this is an emotional disorder and that they will not be able to

deal with it themselves. It is normal to feel ashamed of having

the problem and therefore reluctant to ask for help. But this is

not something that can be self treated. This is a medical

condition that needs to be treated by qualified professionals.

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