experts recognize four types of compulsive players
Barcelona / Berlin (pte/16.10.2010/06: 15) - Gambling addicts can hardly be lumped together. Some overlap with the addictive emotional problems, some suffer from alcohol addiction, however, some are well-adjusted successful people. Researchers at the University of Barcelona http://www.uab.es/english/ beat in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry for a subdivision. Based on the survey of 1,200 gambling addicts, they describe four main types. "We need different treatments for each subgroup of pathological players. First we meet their therapeutic needs," says the study's leader Susana Jiménez Murcia.
escape or thrill
"In the treatment of gambling addicts is dominated by two particular types. For some, the game is a drug, for others a suggestion," Chantal Morton reported by the Department of gambling addiction the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charite Berlin http://ag-spielsucht.charite.de , press text opposite. The first type covers the game anxiety or depression and thus serves to escape and prevent problems. often affects people who are are difficult to reach out to others. "This often includes women, even though gambling addicts are otherwise mostly men," says the psychologist.
The search for the thrill is in contrast to the second main group in the foreground. "These people are get their kicks by playing for money. For them it is always lost hope and pray. This is the roulette or betting on sports is the case, but less so at vending machines," said Morton. The preference for high-risk limited at them hard on the game, so in this group are also alcohol and drug abuse the rule. Noticeable here are also narcissistic and emotionally-expressive personality disorders.
Similarly Help Search only after the collapse
as English researchers also reported by other groups, the Berlin expert addicted gamblers, not noticeable by the disturbed personality. "Some are solely focused on recognition and success in life. If you want to show weak and not go with the problem better by itself, instead of looking for help." To treat compulsive gamblers are generally at most only to great suffering. This means in practice, such as divorce, separation, housing termination, dismissal or large debts. "At some point, usually breaks down everyday," said Morton.
new look at gambling addiction
Behind the Tape determining the question of how the medicine deals with the future gamblers. In May 2013, the fifth version of the Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will appear http://www.dsm5.org . This standard of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the assessment of mental disorders called pathological gambling so far as "constant and increasing failure, the to resist urge to play "-.. and thus as a disorder of impulse control, the experts criticized this approach greatly since with those affected large differences are is therefore now a new category." are behavioral and substance addictions created
From DSM- 5, Morton also expects a lot, especially from a recognition of gambling addiction as a behavioral addiction. "The effectiveness of the therapies could better understood, drugs tested for relapse prevention and the cost of acquisition can be improved. School prevention work would be possible and gamblers were given greater access to addiction. "Further, society must, however, sensitized to do to be that gambling addiction is a disease and not "buck up and play less" with weakness of will or has. "Also, can the stigma of addiction is not thereby eliminated from the world," said the expert.
original study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20723277
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