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Pathological Gambling

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Pathological gambling
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Pathological gambling is being unable to resist impulses to gamble, which can lead to severe personal or social consequences.

 


Pathological gambling
Alternate Names : Gambling - compulsive, Compulsive gambling, Addictive gambling
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Pathological Gambling - Compulsive Gambling Disorder
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What is Pathological gambling?
Pathological gambling is a inpulse-control disorder. This means that a person acts on certain impulse that is potentially harmful but they cannot resist the action. This is not the same as problem gambling.

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Extreme cases of problem gambling may cross over into the realm of mental disorders.

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Pathological gambling often involves repetitive behaviors. People with this problem have a hard time resisting or controlling the impulse to gamble.

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Although more men than women are thought to suffer from pathological gambling, women are developing this disorder at higher rates, now making up as much as 25% of individuals with pathological gambling.

There is evidence that Citrocoline can increase dopamine and other hormones in the brain which can help relieve addictive behavior disorders like cocaine addiction and those addicted to destructive behaviors like pathological gambling.

Dannon PN, Lowengrub K, Gonopolski Y, Musin E, Kotler M. Pathological gambling: a review of phenomenological models and treatment modalities for an underrecognized psychiatric disorder. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry . 2006;8:334-339.

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See also: Compulsive gambling, Stress, Symptom, Addiction, Depression

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