Emotion connected with gambling

What really attracts people in gambling? One say that it is the opportunity to win “easy money”, others that they can change their lifestyles through big win. There are more reasons and probably many of them are true.

It is important to note excitement of the game. Generally, they are connected with each gamble and each positive element of gambling. Everyone likes this pleasant tension when he waits for the result or watches match that he set money to. However, only few of us knows that those pleasant feelings are the impellents that lead us to addiction. The need of felling strong tension is one of gambling addiction definition. It leads us to vicious circle, where wins cause the feel of power, increase self-esteem and make us to play more aggressively. Defeat, on the other hand, causes the feel of waste, which have to be restore through game. Additionally defeats leads to decrease of self-esteem, what can be rebuilt only through game.

Pathological is situation when addicted is more glad when he losses than when he wins. Unfortunately it seems to be quite frequent. The need of win back is connected with this and more over the need to feel strong emotions. Wins, even high, can nervous one because they encourage to stop playing. Unfortunately, addicted cannot stop playing, regardless of luck and finance state. Persuasion of others does not help. In case when important aspect of life go down to the second place we can call it addiction.

Pathological gambling- forced gambling-has been upheld by the Tenth Examination of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) in the fifth chapter -"Mental and behavioural disturbances" in the subsection - "Disorders habits and instincts. "

ICD-10 raise pathological gambling to the rank of separate mental disorder, giving it separate statistic number F 63.0, stating as a “ disorder that involves often, repeated gambling, which predominates in human life to the detriment of the values and social,occupational, physical and family obligation.”