Igromania - a disease of a weak personality

Igromania is a disease that has already destroyed many fates. However, until now there is an opinion that the addiction to gambling is just a hobby that unnecessarily causes such close attention from psychologists and psychiatrists. It is held by those who do not know that in the ICD-10 disease coding system gambling (it's ludomania) has the code F63.0, which implies a pathological attraction to gambling. Thus, official medicine recognizes that gambling is a disease.

In this article, we will understand the reasons for the development of this pathology, its treatment, as well as the prospects for recovery, because, as is known, mental disorders are often only subject to maintenance therapy and do not imply a 100% recovery.

Causes of the disease

The disease "gambling" develops due to various motivational programs that arise in the mind of a person, depending on his personality set of characteristics. So now we will look at the common reasons that most often turn into addiction to gambling.

1. Loneliness. A person who feels lonely is looking for ways to socialize himself. The game is most often a communicative process, so it is possible to compensate for the lack of interaction with other players.
2. Greed. If we talk exclusively about gambling, which in the case of winning money reward, then the thirst for relatively easy money will motivate people to play constantly, even if the win does not come.
3. Laziness. Again, this disease can be the result of unwillingness of hard labor. Such a person refuses to go to a real job, because it implies the responsibility and contribution of physical or intellectual forces. The individual is easier to put the probability of his income "for good luck" than to receive a stable salary, and at the same time regularly engage in work.
4. Infantiness. The infantile person is not ready for responsible tasks, has an illusory idea of reality, and therefore chooses the same "shaky" methods of earning, if it is a question of games with cash reward. Extreme naivete in this case brings large monetary losses, because systematic losses do not tell the infant about anything, and he believes that he will one day win.
5. Feeling of dissatisfaction. It forces a person to manifest himself in the game, if he can not do it in real life. This is especially manifested depending on online games, where a person makes friends, finds a circle of people with whom they can discuss something or demonstrate their playing abilities.
6. Addiction to dependencies. In most cases, this is an innate trait, which most likely manifests itself in drug addiction: smoking, alcoholism. This is not a decisive factor in the formation of gambling, but one of those that implies a probable propensity for gambling.
7. Mental pathology. Nonharmonic psyche is manifested in various rash acts of man, his falling into dependence on people, things, phenomena.

Symptoms of the disease

Igromania is a disease that has a number of symptoms:

1. At the initial stage a strong desire of the game is formed for a person. Strongly expressed dependence yet is not present, but frequency and duration of entertainments raises.
2. In the second stage, it is difficult for a person to resist the desire to spend time at the computer, but he is still conscious of it, because May be wondering: "To play or not to play?"
3. At the last stage, the personality does not have a struggle of motives, a person plays, if possible. It is asocialized, and if it participates in gambling with the requirement of cash deposits, then most often, it sharply becomes poorer. No threats from relatives and life problems (for example, loss of housing due to debts) can not stop it.

Therapy and recovery prospects

Igromania is a disease whose treatment is complicated by the fact that there are no medications from it. The decision to stop the game (and, accordingly, the possibility of getting rid of dependence) depends only on the patient and his attending physician-therapist, whose tasks help to understand the destructive impact of the game.

However, each person has his own characteristics, and, for example, the miserable position of a player with a tendency to psychological masochism, while believing about the destructive influence of this activity, will further spur him to it as a method of self-destruction.

Replacement of the area of obtaining the necessary sensations obtained during the game process, can also contribute to the disappearance of gambling. Despite this, such people rarely manage to get rid of their addiction, and medical consultations can only reduce the severity of the disease for a certain period, which means only periodic relief without 100% cure.

So, in this article, we realized that gambling is a disease that can not be cured without the patient's realized and realized desire to get rid of this kind of dependence.