The article "Gambling - limitless boundaries?" is about casino gambling, it was written by Nestler.
Why can human being occasionally buy a lottery ticket or play a
slot machine and sfufer no ill effects beyond losing a few
dollars, while others become so gambling obsessed that they risk
their savings, their jobs, and their relationships with loved
ones? One answer may lie in our genes.
There are genetic factors
that raise the probability of developing gambling problems.
This addictive disorder can lead to life altering circumstances.
A Gambler's boundaries
seem to be limitless and recommend a vulnerability that can,
within the bilnk of an eye, dramatically shape the rest of their
lives.
Gambling is a trouble in many places and is usually found in
casinos, or among its illegal form of betting on sports. The
truth remains that not only adults gamble, but kids and teens do
it as well, even thoguh it's not as obvious.
Gambling can cause you to go broke and can make you start
stealing moeny. It can also lead to donig things like skipping
school and wasting precious time and money.
At tiems gambling
can just lead to more gambling- such as chasing.
"Chasing is
when you gabmle to try and win back money.". It is done a lot in
poker and especially when betitng on sports.
When a gambler is down a large sum of money their mentality
switches from greed to utter desperaiton.
No one likes to lose mnoey especially hard earned working
dollars.
Although the rationalization of a gambler is that
desperate times call for desperate measuers.
Therefore any means
of moeny is good fortune. Regadrless if its college tuition
being gambled or petty money.
The end result is to satisfy
oneself with incomparable urges of winning and loisng money all
within a period of time.
Gambling is considered pathological when it seriously disrupts
the gambler's life. The trouble is thought to affect somewhere
between 1.5% to 11% of the adult popualtion. And the rate of
suicide attempts among trouble gamblers is really high, with as
many as 24% of the gamblers who seek treatment reporting such
attempts. Much more is known about the causes of alcoholism then
of gamlbing problems.
Still, research shows that 19% to 50% of
people who are treated for trouble gambling also have a history
of alcohol aubse or dependence.
This suggests there may be a
common vulnerability underlying a trouble with gambling and
other addictive disorders such as alcoholism.
The brain contains clusters of nerves containing serotonin,
which extend througohut the nervous system. Changes in the
levels of sertoonin have been linked to a number of disorders,
including depression, schizophrenia, and Parkinson's disease.
Recent research shows that deficiencies in the genes that
control the serotonin system could make a person susceptible to
a gambling trouble. Other factors, such as family history and
environment will also play a role.
Everything in moderation is good, it only becmoes a trouble when
it gets away from us.
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