Ivan Vdovin
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Gambling addiction, disease, how to treat? Gambling addiction is a drug that attacks the pleasure center of the brain. Gambling addiction does not bring any good and usually kills a large number of people, worse than alcohol and other hard drugs. The only difference between gambling addiction and drugs is that you do not inject the substance into the blood, but simply stimulate the pleasure center in the brain.
Next, endorphins are released into the blood, and you get pleasure until the internal drug stops working. And then, all in a circle, a new dose is needed. You start playing again, have fun, and so on and so forth. about how to cope with this problem and remove the shackles of slavery , as well as be happy .
Is it possible to quit gambling?
Yes, you can, but if you are very addicted, it will not be so easy to do. The whole problem is in us, and here there will be a struggle with ourselves. But it is necessary not to fight the problem, but to accept it, or rather to find the cause and eliminate it.
If you have a severe case, I recommend that you still work through this problem with a psychologist, identify the destructive program that you laid down for yourself in childhood and change it to a positive one. To do this, write to me in the My Services section.
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It’s easier to say, if you don’t have the willpower to give up a negative problem and deal with it yourself, then it’s better to work through the problem with a psychologist, it will be faster and less expensive. In short, anyone can change their life.
Officially sick
The 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has added a new disease - for the first time, addiction to “digital and video games” has been included in this list, which is compiled by the World Health Organization. Experts listed symptoms characteristic of this type of mental disorder: permanent or temporary inability to control the frequency, duration and conditions of gaming sessions; the game becomes more important than other life interests and everyday affairs; continuation or even intensification of gaming activity, despite the onset of negative consequences.
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The painful state of a dependent person leads “to a significant deterioration in personal, family, social, educational, professional or any other significant area of life.” To make a diagnosis of gambling addiction, these symptoms and signs must be observed for a year or longer, but the period may be shorter if all criteria are observed simultaneously and the symptoms are severe.
ICD-11 now still has to be approved during the WHO assembly, which is scheduled for May next year. If the list is approved, it will come into force in 2022.
Causes of gambling addiction
By the way, I have a philosophical attitude towards the problems of addiction. I noticed that all people have some kind of addiction that they struggle with throughout their lives. Alcohol, sweets, masturbation, smoking, coffee and so on. The list goes on. And this is how our whole life goes, we feed the monster that we raised ourselves. But how to cope with this monster and live happily?
Fear of giving up pleasure
Just imagine, we’ve been living our whole lives, having fun, and then bam!!! we understand that our pleasure leads to the abyss. We understand this with our heads, but our subconscious makes it simpler: “I want pleasure right now” - “I get pleasure right now” and it doesn’t care that this is the last money and that life is completely ruined.
Somewhere a long time ago, we adopted such a feature of behavior that if we play for money, it means we have fun. And as a psychologist, I need to find this button and reprogram it into something else, more positive.
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And we get the picture that there is pleasure and we want to forbid ourselves from it. Hence all these breakdowns and the inability to give up gambling addiction. Well, this is how our psyche works, nothing can be done about it. More precisely, you can’t do it yourself.
Desire to win
I don’t know what this is connected with, but a man has convinced himself that he wants to win and plays until the last minute until he loses. So, what to do here? How can you explain to yourself that long-term gambling always leads to loss?
How many times I talked with people who had a gambling addiction and how much we counted wins and losses based on money, the person always remained a loser, and then without a family, without money, friends and most importantly, without self-respect.
Desire for easy money
I remember when I was 18-19 years old, we had slot machines everywhere. And one day I met a friend of mine who had just left an establishment where he won 8,000-10,000 rubles (2004). And I immediately went and bought myself a brand new Nokia phone, some kind of cool smartphone. I thought, wow, I went ahead and bought a phone. I want that too. And I don’t remember what stopped me, but I didn’t go to play.
Why this story, that a bad example can be contagious and it was at that moment that I am sure that I was on the verge of gambling addiction or giving up on everything. I scored and refused to play. I thank my guardian angel.
By the way, this friend himself was not addicted; I never saw him in slot machines again. And now he makes good money, as far as I can tell.
Virtual billions
Moskalkova proposed treating children for gambling addiction in special centers
Representatives of the computer games industry were hostile to the WHO decision. According to the executive director of the International Game Developers Association, Jen McLean, they "advocate for responsible gaming and believe that the WHO has done a huge disservice to gamers, game creators and the media by classifying 'gaming addiction' as a disease."
The aversion to problems with game addiction on the part of their creators can be explained by simple economic considerations that guide any legal or illegal business: the stakes in the fight for gamers’ wallets are high.
Electronic entertainment marketing company Newzoo estimates that 2.3 billion gamers worldwide will spend $137.9 billion on games in 2021, up 13.3% from the previous year. In the near future, spending will only continue to grow, experts predict, and by 2021 the size of the “pie” in the electronic games market will exceed $180 billion.
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Researchers agree that not every gamer becomes addicted to their hobby. At the same time, as Douglas Gentile from Iowa State University points out, addiction occurs in approximately 1-10% of children who are addicted to computer games. “Until this problem is recognized by the medical community, it will be extremely difficult for them to get any help,” he is convinced.
It was unacceptable to delay any further in solving the problem of gamer addiction, said Hilary Cash, co-founder of reSTART, one of the first programs in the United States to help those addicted to computer games. "I'm surprised it took so long for this to sink in," Cash told CNN. “At the same time, it is clear that strong, research-based evidence was needed to include a new diagnosis on the list.”
Do you know that one of the deepest problems of gambling addiction is greed?
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