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 DEFINITION
The pathological game is a disorder of the control of the impulses which essential characteristic is a game behavior, desadaptativo and persistently, that alters the continuity of the personal, familiar or professional life.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
The individual can worry about the game (re-living through experiences gone on from game, planning next game adventure or thinking about the way of obtaining money to keep on playing). Many of these individuals say that they look for "action" (the state of euphoria) more than money. On having increased his bets or having praised the risks, they manage to produce and support the wished excitement levels. The individuals with the disorder of pathological game continue with the game in spite of repeated efforts to control, to stop or to diminish his behavior. The individual can lie to the members of his family, therapists or others to conceal his implication grade in the game.
If the individual remains without money there can appear antisocial conducts (p.ej., falsification, fraud, theft or breach of confidence).
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
They are individual often superstitious with excessive sense of the power and of the control. They usually use the mechanism of the denial (to see defense mechanisms). Some of them believe that the money is the cause and the solution of his problems. They are often highly competitive, energetic, anxious and they get bored easily. They usually excessively about the approval of the others and be worry generous up to the extravagance.
Women are the majority, although it depends on the cultural change, they play to escape of his reality and they are much predisposed to the depression. Nevertheless, the pathological game begins soon in the adolescents, men, and more late in women.
These individuals are very inclined to suffer illnesses related to the stress like hypertension, ulcer, migraine... Between those who ask for professional help a high valuation of suicidal conception happens.
WHICH ARE THE CAUSES?
The studies realized in men suffering from pathological game suggest that the absence of attention and hyperactivity in the infancy there can constitute a risk factor for the later appearance of the disorder. Also a clear relation of this problem has been observed with disorders of the frame of mind, hyperactivity, abuse or dependency on substances and antisocial, extreme and narcissistic disorder of the personality.
PREDOMINANCE
The realized studies estimate a general valuation of 0,4 to 3,4 % in adults, although in some areas as Puerto Rico or Australia they can become of 7 %. Higher valuations have been detected between adolescents and university students, who range between 2,8 and 8 %. All this according to the DSM-IV-tr.
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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