Topic: Is Gambling addiction a disease? - page 16. (Read 29953 times)

Yes, gambling addiction same like drugs addiction. People who are addicted into drugs are only think about drugs, how to get the drugs easily, how to get money to buy drugs, nothing else same like gambling addiction. It's not disease but like mental illness and stress, like you said.

Like drug addicts who have become insensitive to the drugs they use, people who are susceptible to gambling addiction often find it difficult to feel the exact "drunk" sensation obtained when they first gamble win money.

Gambling addiction is not a disease but rather leads to mental stress and ambition, ambition to get money quickly in large numbers, ambition to get back the money that has been lost. And will you continue to gamble until when? only each person knows.

I agree, withdrawal syndrome (aka a discontinuation syndrome) is what you get after getting addicted to something, whether that be sex, alcohol, drugs, overeating or gambling. That's why, if you don't want to get addicted to something, you have to take regular breaks from the activities you love so much. Only this way you can be safe. But don't worry, this will not make your life less joyful. On the contrary, you will be enjoying the activities much more after the breaks. So, it's really a win-win situation.

I am not a doctor nor anything of sort but I do know there is a difference to disease, a disorder and you can also illness there in the group. As far as I can remember, diseases are always related to bacterias like cold and other sort. Disorder on the other hand has a connection to our mental state and it might started on the time we are conceived and illness, I don't know the exact words my teacher said but it is like a combination of disease and illness. So Gambling addiction is not a disease nor an illness but it is a disorder, a mental disorder.

What gambling does is that it promises you the jackpot as long as you keep on playing. It makes us think that eventually we're going to be millionaires, we just have to keep doing what we're doing and so far we're doing. It's the same reason why there are people who never forget to put a bet in the lottery. They're thinking, "What if today is the day?" and so they push themselves to bet even at the point that they have become aware that they are never going to win.

Sex, drugs, alcohol, and gambling, they all have one thing in common. They give you dopamine rush whenever you do them. Our mind wants to experience that dopamine rush again and again. One day we're good but after a couple of days our brain misses it. And the thing is, our brain slowly needs more and more dosage of it. It needs to have it more often. At some point, your brain becomes reliant on that just so that you're going to feel normal. This is why going cold turkey when you're addicted to something is really the hard way to do. Your brain is going to have withdrawals. It's missing the "drug" whatever form it may come (e.g. sex, drug, gambling).

Addicts didn't know that they are going to be addicts. They kind of just do their vices. They kind of just let it take control. They weren't aware that they are needing it more and more. So in their point-of-point view, it "kind of just happened".

It could be said that it was a disease, because if someone had fallen into gambling it would be difficult to take it off, and it had a bad effect of losing all the money,
At least it is not much different from drug addicts, too, and if you want to quit, it can only be done with its own and strong intentions

Yes l believe that gambling additions is a disease,because its like a sickness that if you dont cure it will going to a worst situation.You always look everyday to go to a gambling worrying for each day to gamble.Disease will not cure if you dont look for a medecine,gambling cant stop also if you dont look for a solution to stop.

I agree with you.
Gambling addiction is a disease because we talk about addiction, it is a psychological disease and people should get help to recover.

I would not consider it as a disease but just some form of psychological defect as the case may be. What happens is that gambling has a way of trying to gain control and once it is able to go through with that and take over your emotions and you let it do that easily, it would be hard to get out from.

It is not just gambling, as this is applicable to other things such as sex, drugs, alcohol, name them. It triggers something’s in you to just always want it more and if you realize that and still let it gain the best of you, then it becomes a problem.

Not accurate. Drug addiction doesn't have a medical treatment. There's no drug that you can take and then all of a sudden your body is not looking for drugs anymore. Fentanyl, an opioid, is 100x stronger than morphine is now a trendy drug. There really is no meds that can take you off the drug but the medical treatments are rather for your withdrawals. Withdrawals are very painful and for fentanyl, you might experience it 3x per day. And that's what makes people addicted to it. Their body is literally looking for the drug and they need the drug in order to survive the day. Suboxone is the drug used for most opiate addiction.

Both doesn't really have a "cure" to it. Quitting drugs requires another drug (the suboxone for opiate addicts) as well as the willpower to not take another of that drug that you were once addicted to. While in gambling, it only requires willpower and no drugs at all. Which is harder then?

This is why whenever you watch real life documentaries of recovering addicts, they always tell their new members that "We're going to help you but you're gonna have to help yourself." The real help comes from within. The outside help is just there for support, so you have something to hold accountable for.

Drug addict can be cured by taking medical treatment but for gambling addiction their is no medicine to cure it, it is only cured by the will of the gambler who got addicted or until he is totally not lost all his investment he wont realize what he has lost in his life.

Addiction is one of the diseases that must be treated, not only in gambling, all kinds of things that are addictive, such as addiction to drugs, sex etc. are diseases. So addiction is not good and you have to treat it and leave your habit that has become addicted so that you are free from the bond if it really makes you tormented.

It's not necessarily a disease but more like a drug. And just like most other drug, you can get addicted to it. And that would mean you would be spending all your time and effort to gamble which is bad for you.
A disease on the other hand is more like a disorder or a malfunction of a human part.

Yes gambling addiction is considered a brain disease because the losses in gambling have become so troubling and disturbance to the mind of the gambler.  It causes depression which lead to mental problem. Gambling addiction has been recognized as an actual brain disease, by the mental health and medical community.

No how can it be termed as a disease, do you even understand yourself when you say that. Disease is like cancer, aids gambling is a notion, it's a feeling. Diseases are not in our control but gambling is. Diseases destroys a persons life, his carrier and in many societies they're looked as untouchables. Gambling on the other hand can make you rich, super rich while of course you can loose it all to. It's a sad thing you're comparing both.

Addiction of everything can be consider as a disease, In fact excess of everything is not good both for our health as well as for our financial status, If we are playing gambling in a limit and we only play gambling up to the limit where we can afford to lose the money, but if we are exceeding from the limit then  it is really not good for us and then we can consider it as a diseases and we should visit a consultant for the treatment.

If you get addicted that would be the worst experience in gambling, because you will not think wisely and you will always seek gambling.
Remember that in gambling we have less chance to win so it's necessary that we set a limit everytime we play, if we get dictated by our emotion, that would lead us to a big trouble.

But most of what happens is a bad influence dude? just imagine gambling makes you an addict, that means every day you're in a gambling circle and the longer you're in the gamble you make is defeat because that's the house system, I think the addict is a disease. unless you can control yourself in gambling the effects may be positive and negative.

gambling habit is disease, all kinds of addiction is disease. Addiction will always take you to a bad road. As you say, gambling is a bad habit, so if it's addictive, it's really a terrible disease. Gambling involves money and people are always tempted by money, that's the gambling appeal that keeps us gambling even though we know the gambling is bad.