from what i understand , trauma means you are shock . for example you witness a killing for the first time and that results you to become traumatize . while addiction or being addicted to someone else like for example in gambling you will tend to feel happy and thats the reason why you play more . so that's it , both syndrome are different based on my own deffinition .
I don't think so because for me gambling addiction is mainly because of greediness. A person that always think of easy money. They always use or think of "what if". Trauma is kinda different for me, you're in shock or maybe speechless or have a less confident in yourself, always scared.
Trauma and addiction are different, of course, and I never said they weren't. The point was that addiction might be a result of trying to cope with a trauma.
Trauma can cause a whole lot of psychological illness but I don't believe addiction is one of them. What cause I subscribe to is that it's the reward center in brain going on overdrive.
Humans can get addicted to a lot of things that in our original environment wouldn't have caused us much trouble (sweet or oily food for example).
Yeah, I've seen some stuff on brain activity related to rewards and also read that people are more likely to develop addiction if they are winning when they are first trying to gamble. But addiction is caused by trauma, maybe just not gambling addiction.
No, gambling addiction is different
Even though I am not a big gambler by definition, I never drink or use drugs.
So I do not see a correlation between them like you have suggested.
Well, it's not about being addicted to all of them at once. A person might be only addicted to alcohol or only to drugs. Apart from that, gambling and being a gambling addict are two different things.