Understanding Compulsive Gambling
Press Release 2010-07
What is Compulsive Gambling?
Cove Center for Recovery regards gambling to be an addiction
when a person continues to bet or gamble despite the mounting
negative consequences of these behaviors. These consequences
might include relationship or family breakdown, bankruptcy,
criminal activity, potential imprisonment and serious
mood and or anxiety difficulties.
Compulsive
gambling is characterized as a disorder of impulse
control. The essential features of which are a progressive
failure to stop gambling behaviors, leading to mounting
compromise and disruption in the gambler’s life.
Understandably, many problem gamblers list stress, anxiety
and depression as major symptoms; often associating these
symptoms with feelings of despair, dread and hopelessness.
Common Forms of Gambling
Common forms of gambling include: betting on the horses,
dogs or events, poker machines, sports betting, repetitive
high-risk business ventures and reckless stock market
transactions. Despite the known risk of these activities,
the gambler who loses large amounts of money often regards
their losses to be the results of bad luck or poor advice/tipping.
The result of this denial often forms the basis of larger
risk taking behaviors and further losses.
Causes of Gambling Addiction
Cove Center for Recovery
– Addiction Treatment Centers of South Florida
believe that Gambling Addiction (like many other "Process
Addictions") is the combination of many factors
including one’s family history of coping, genetic
factors, personality and underlying emotions can interact
in specific ways to produce a compulsion-prone individual.
Individuals may ‘use’ gambling as a means
of coping with, or managing difficult emotions. Cove
Center for Recovery also looks at the brain’s
reward system in understanding compulsive gambling.
If you or a loved one is struggling from compulsive
gambling, the first step can often be the hardest. Cove
Center for Recovery - Addiction Treatment Center of
South Florida provides a FREE CONSULTATION with a qualified
health professional to review your situation and provide
you with all information necessary to make a decision
in seeking addiction treatment for your gambling addiction
at our treatment center.
Reach out and contact us. Together, we
can discuss how you may benefit from seeking gambling
addiction treatment at Cove Center for Recovery. You
may also visit our website at: http://www.covecenterforrecovery.com
Recovery from addiction is just a click or a phone
call away - 1-888-387-6237
Reach out to us. Recovery from addiction is just a click or a phone call away.
If the information you are looking for is not found here and you need immediate
attention you may contact us:
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