Understanding Compulsive Gambling

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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

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