Friday, March 17, 2006

A gambler is anyone whose gambling is causing psychological, financial, emotional, marital, legal, or other difficulties for themselves and the people around them especially to the family members. It may be an isolated case of overspending, or a pattern of excessive gambling when upset, or it may be an ongoing problem with continual losses and mounting debts also at the extreme end of this range is pathological gambling, where people are unable to control their gambling much as those addicted to alcohol are unable to control their drinking. Sometimes this gambling problem is transient and goes away, sometimes it plateaus and maintains for years, and sometimes it progresses to catastrophic levels and regardless of the course, these gamblers usually experience intense shame, financial strife, and family problems which effects their family members. Read further...