websurfpro
10-12-2007, 04:37 PM
Is there a part of the brarin that is affected when gambling addiction occurs? My psichiatrist told me that a certain part of the brain is affected in some , I did not understand her complex terms anyway. I don`t belive it at all, does anyone know anything about this?
surfville
11-08-2007, 12:15 PM
I really don;t know what gamblers are up to? but is that hoping to win mentality is a sickness? because they just hope and bet and hope until all of the cash is gone.
fever
11-08-2007, 04:33 PM
I have seen that addicted gamblers have a passion that even after losing a lot of money, they used to play again and again to get a chance to win and recover
surfville
11-09-2007, 05:10 PM
I have seen that addicted gamblers have a passion that even after losing a lot of money, they used to play again and again to get a chance to win and recover
but sometime that attitude of thinking they could regain what they lost ends up in losing all the money they had and even end up with debts.
lostitall
11-13-2007, 03:24 AM
I dont know what it is that causes me to gamble incessantly...I was the valedictorian of my class, I excelled in my college classes and I have a good job now that I'm a college graduate. Everyone tells me how bright my future is. Everyone thinks I'm going to be the most successful of my friends and family. Nobody knows that during college, instead of studying, I was gambling...nonstop. I racked up $125,000 in student loan debt to pay for gambling!!! Also I have over $10G in credit card debt, i'm barely making enough money now to pay for my past mistakes! And yet, even still to this day I lose money gambling. Every time I lose I say I'm going to stop, then I get paid and boom, I go online and make a deposit, then even when I make money, I can't wait to make more. In the back of my mind I play out this scenario where someone fronts me $1,000,000-5,000,000 whatever it takes. And has me play blackjack hands until I've won that $150,000 that I am down, then I am DONE and I never have to gamble again, I don't think that will ever happen, but if it did, my problems would be over! I think that's why I continue to gamble, I can't admit that I won't ever break even and keep going deeper and deeper every day. It makes me sick to my stomach, I lose sleep over it, I worry about it all day long, but yet I still do it. I've told my mom once, a while ago, but try to keep it from everyone else...I simply don't know what to do. What if I can never control myself? I think I've hit the point to where I am done forever, however that's what I said last time...it's an addiction plain and simple, I can't get enough.
VikingsBoni
12-09-2007, 06:09 AM
There is, apparently, a dopamine response to risk taking. Here's an article from Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/48724.php