Saturday, March 11, 2006

Pathological gambling is an illness characterized by persistent and recurrent maladaptive patterns of gambling behavior however it appears to be relatively common but uncontrollable gambling behavior may lead to personal, family and occupational difficulties. While impulse control disorders are characterized by an inability to resist the impulse to perform an action that is harmful to ones self or others and this is a relatively new class of personality disorders, and the most common of these are intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pyromania, compulsive gambling disorder, and trichotillomania. Read further...