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Factor Gambling Addiction
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Aug 8, 2006
Can
be harmful
No one knows exactly how many neurotic gamblers end up
taking his or her own lives. It is more then two hundred
a year. For every suicide more then five gamblers with
self-inflicted injuries could end up in hospital.
Gambling addiction is also linked to a range of other
serious personal and social harms. The reasons can be
insolvency, family breakup, domestic abuse, assault,
fraud, theft and even homelessness.
How can it effect
For the majority people gambling is a relaxing activity
with no negative consequences. But, others develop
excessive behavior as well. Gambling becomes disarray or
an addiction that manifests itself as an irrepressible
impulse to gamble money. The activity has negative
penalty and dominates the lives of those suffering from
pathological gambling. Amongst other things, excessive
gambling leads to the spending of ever-increasing sums
of money and creates important personal, familial,
occupational and social problems too.
Clinical factors
Few intensive researches suggest that the core cognitive
error lies in the gambler’s notions itself. Although
individuals who suffer from pathological gambling hold a
large proportion of erroneous beliefs that occasional
players also have such perceptions. Plenty people
beliefs the idea that the game’s results are determined
by chance. While many wrong beliefs involve the idea
that the game’s outcome can be predicted and controlled.
The basic problem may be rooted in the fact that
individuals have great difficulty in either recognizing
or generating random sequences of double events.
Participants could only see the last chosen event.
Results indicate that participants were unable to apply
the principle of self-rule among events. All
participants removed the screen to examine previous
events at least once during the task. The fundamental
error is to rely on past events to predict the next
outcome.
What is addiction?
Addiction is often characterized by an ongoing effort to
use more drug or behavior. It can be the result of
tolerance and withdrawal symtoms in the absence of
stimulus. Many drugs and behaviors that provide either
pleasure or relief from pain pose a risk of
addiction or
dependency on it.
Factors that are affecting gamblers
are the huge need of money, or the intention to get more
and more.
The end result is the physical hazards caused due to
this, which can lead to death. So do not get addicted to
it and play safe.
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