Compulsive gambling is a common disorder that affects people around the world. Compulsive gambling is the undeterred drive to continue gambling even if it can destroy your life. Unfortunately, compulsive gambling is a disorder that makes you willing to risk everything just for the sake of winning a gamble. This may take a major toll on your brain, relationships, or life.
In the U.S. about 85% of adults have admitted to have gambled at least once in their life. Unfortunately people can be easily addicted to this common pastime activity. This is because some people are very competitive or they are introduced to gambling at an early age. Furthermore, people may get addicted to gambling if they lose a large sum of money and they may try to win back the money by gambling. Gambling addictions can lead people down a rabbit hole of crime For example, when someone loses money after gambling, they may turn to drugs to ease their gambling addiction. Also, gambling addictions can lead to people stealing or lying to friends ad family about gambling. When people develop compulsive gambling, they will do whatever it takes to gamble or earn their money back.
Additionally, gambling compulsions lead to poor personal values which may ruin one’s relationships. This is because many addicted gamblers will focus more on money rather than creating healthy and strong bonds with their family and friends. Also, as technology grows so does the chance to develop a gambling addiction. This is because there are now online gambling rings which allow people to be exposed to more gambling. The online gambling rigs will only support the destruction of the gamblers relationships because they will gamble from the leisure of their home. Additionally, this can lead to early influence of gambling on children because all the children can quickly look up a gambling rig and start gambling. This may cause the child to quickly develop a gambling addiction which may damage their life in the long-run.
To prevent anyone from creating a gambling compulsion, people should limit their gambling exposure to ensure that they won’t get addicted to gambling. Without any exposure to gambling people, will have a harder time ruining their life and relationships.
Related Stories:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/compulsive-gambling/symptoms-causes/syc-20355178
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/gambling-and-mental-health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004711/
https://skywoodrecovery.com/gambling-addiction/negative-effects-of-gambling-addiction/
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