What causes compulsive gambling? 12 Articles

by CPage

Compulsive behaviors of any kind may be caused by a similar drive; the need to discover the unknown. That desire is what any adventurer, inventor, scientist or leader possesses who creates new cures or wins great races. B...read more

by Barry Williams

Life's a gamble. Every thing you do has a risk factor. Most times you win. For instance when you eat your breakfast cereal you are gambling on not being poisoned . When you drive to and from any particular place you are ga...read more

by Barry Marcus

Compulsive gambling is generally seen as an addiction. There are a whole range of explanations of the causes. One possible explanation can be derived from Skinner's concept of operant conditioning. In his experiments Sk...read more

by David A. Goodwin

If gamblers, on average, did not lose more than they won, casinos would not be able to operate. In fact, The web site www.overcominggambling.com reports that profits in casinos are more than $30 billion a year. Although th...read more

by Darryl Mah

Gambling the greatest and possibly the oldest "get rich quick" scheme ever presented to human life. The possibility to make millions of dollars with the push of a button, the flip of a card, or turn of a wheel. Gambling co...read more

by Jeffrey Ong

Compulsive Gambling, it is term that was formally associated with me. How did that happen? How much have I lost? What have I learn? What are the causes and how to remedy? Whether to gamble or not depends on the individu...read more

by Angie Chvorun

Compulsive gambling...Well, that all starts in the mind. One day, as you're walking through Best Buy to look for a new CD, you see something you like. For example, you see this plasma screen T.V. that is on sale that c...read more

by R.L Hanlon

At times when I'm feeling a little tense and need a bit of "me" time, do you know where I go? I head to the nearest pokie venue. When I was younger and had a little more excess money, I'd head to the casino. I love to g...read more

by Scott Blackburn

Gambling: A Dangerous Game "If I could just get the money back that I lost, I can quit." That phrase is a common mantra in the head of compulsive gamblers. No matter the circumstances, it is extremely hard for a person ...read more

by Mascaretta Shamoo

Compulsive gambling starts when there is a pain inside, for a moment in time the "feel good" we get when we win, for a season it plugs up the hole in us that some terrible tragedy in our lives has caused and that pains us....read more

by Faustino Talamantes

The obsessive compulsive nature of a gambler can be compared to the uncontrollable urge a person feels when they need to reply to a text message. I'm sure you've seen it when you are with a friend at dinner, in a business ...read more

by Kelley Moss

Compulsive gambling, also known as pathological gambling, is any gambling that causes harm to the gambler or anyone else in there lives. Some effects from compulsive gambling are: 1. Losing household money This can ca...read more