by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker

Dec 15, 2006

Gambling is the most popular entertainment source these days. People gamble for fun, but sometimes they get addicted to this gaming due to certain reasons. The effects of excessive gambling are bad, leading to addiction. Like any other excess activity gambling too has a bad effect.  Many young people than the adults have a gambling problem. Gambling addiction amongst the youngsters is more. Gambling addiction has become a common problem as people do gambling on a large scale.

Addiction

Just like any other addictions, you can also come across the gambling addiction. Gambling addiction of an individual’s life can wreak havoc to himself as well as the loved ones. The major problems that an individual would have to face are the financial, emotional, and mental problems. The casino legality also the online gambling availability has become an addition to the problem. Gambling addiction is a devastating addiction just like other addictions like alcoholism and the drug addiction. Due to more gambling, continuous gambling causes the gambling addiction.  However, the good new is that like any other addiction, gambling addiction could be managed and brought under control. The gambling addiction is considered to be a chronic disease that most of the people consider the happen three phases like the winning phase, loosing phase, and the desperation phase. If the person is winning all the time then, he will get overwhelmed and an optimistic view would be created, so addiction would be very easy. If the people lose at the game, they have a feeling of returning to the game. They would look forward to get back to the game to win the losses at the game, thus an addiction for the game. If a person is mentally disturbed due to any things like arrest, divorce, substance abuse, or an emotional breakdown then he might turn to gambling and get addicted to it.

Treatment

There are hardly and treatments for gambling addiction. The first step for coming over the gambling problem, addiction, is to know and accept the fact that you are suffering from the problem. If you accept the fact that you are having gambling problem, then it would become easy solving the problem.  In order to overcome, you can take help of some health centers. The recent statistics says that four to six percent of the gamblers eventually have become problem gamblers or pathological gamblers. Millions of people gamble and face the gambling problem.  

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