认识到最常见的强迫性赌博症状

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正如毒品、酒精和其他物质随着时间的推移会导致上瘾和强迫性虐待一样，某些行为也会导致这些问题。赌博是这样一种活动，虽然它可能开始作为一个有趣的消遣或爱好，可以成为强迫和上瘾，造成许多问题，赌徒以及他们的朋友和家人。

重要的是要能够认识到最常见的强迫性赌博症状。即使你的赌博似乎在你的控制之下，你可能需要检查它，问问自己你是否没有表现出这些症状，或者你是否有可能在将来经历这些症状。

财务问题

When your gambling interferes with your emotions and psychological health you know you have a problem.

Nearly every individual who is experiencing issues with compulsive gambling has some kind of financial problem because of it. According to the USDA, “One of the clearest indicators of a serious gambling problem is borrowing money to gamble or to pay off gambling debts. This is the heart of the security issue, which is the gambler’s need for money.” Compulsive gamblers constantly need more money in order to pay off debts and to continue gambling.

Some other financial issues experienced by gamblers are:

• Chasing one’s losses
  • This occurs when a compulsive gambler loses money and then returns to the same casino or other gambling establishment the next day in order to win back the money they lost. This can start to snowball for almost everyone who does it and, eventually, they wind up losing quite a lot of money.
• 美国ing money meant for other things on gambling
  • Money meant for rent payments, groceries, bills, things needed by their children or other family members, etc. should be understood to be off-limits by the gambler. But if the individual begins to use these funds to gamble with, it is likely that they are already feeling a compulsive need to gamble
• Tolerance for Monetary Amounts
  • 根据梅奥诊所，一个有强迫性赌博问题的人可能会觉得需要“用越来越多的钱赌博，以达到预期的兴奋。”这表明，个人对每次用同样数额的钱赌博的容忍度上升，他们需要更多的钱才能感受到同样的效果。同样的问题也出现在药物使用障碍中。

财务问题是强迫性赌徒最常见的症状之一，几乎任何人都会受到财务问题的影响gambling addictions. 即使个人似乎还没有陷入财务危机，他们的行为表明这个问题可能很快就会出现。

Detrimental Behavior

A compulsive gambler will do anything in order to continue gambling. Even if they know that this activity is not good for them, they will not be able to stop. They will very likely even behave in ways that are extremely detrimental, even harmful, to them and to others. Compulsive gamblers are likely to be involved in many problematic and even illegal behaviors such as:

• “向家庭成员、治疗师或其他人撒谎，以隐瞒参与赌博的程度”
• Stealing from friends, loved ones, or others in order to have more money with which to gamble
• Committing acts such as “forgery, fraud, theft or embezzlement, in order to finance gambling”
• 当不能赌博到暴力和敌对的程度时表现出来的
• “Losing a job, relationship, education, or career opportunity due to gambling” (NLM)
  • This occurs because, in the case of compulsive gambling, the individual will not care about anything as much as they do about being able to gamble, causing other, more important matters to fall by the wayside.

A compulsive gambler will break promises, commit illegal acts, lie, steal, and do many detrimental things all in the name of gambling. They will not be able to stop themselves because their activity of gambling is just that, a compulsion. These issues also stem from the way gambling makes them feel, which are also common compulsive gambling symptoms of note.

Emotions of Compulsive Gamblers

一个强迫性的赌徒，当他们能够赌博时，很可能会有某种感觉；当他们不在的时候，他们通常会有不同的感觉。大多数强迫性赌徒也开始这样做的共同原因。根据NLM，“赌博以逃避问题或悲伤或焦虑的感觉”是强迫性赌博的常见症状。

Individuals who feel this way will start to believe the only way they can find happiness is through their gambling. But it takes an incredibly large toll on their life. There are other emotions you may feel about gambling that point to an addiction to the activity. These are:

• Feeling restless, irritable, or depressed when trying to quit gambling
  • This is akin to a withdrawal syndrome, often experienced by drug abusers. Most compulsive gamblers try to quit or cut back but they are usually unable to, partly because of these feelings coupled with those of regret, loss, and failure. “Making many unsuccessful attempts to cut back or quit gambling” is another common symptom of compulsive gambling.
• 赢钱时极度兴奋或高兴，输钱时极度悲伤
  • These feeling will be much more intense in a compulsive gambler than someone who gambles socially.
• 只有在赌博时才会感到快乐
  • If someone is only able to experience feelings of happiness, of completeness when they are gambling, it is a common symptom of compulsive gambling
• “Feeling bad after [they] gamble, but not quitting” (NLM)
  • 这在吸毒者中很常见

Other Common Symptoms

真正有赌博问题的人会一直想着赌博。他们总是想办法得到更多的钱或“回忆过去的经验”的赌博（NLM 1）。如果人们是“病态赌徒的孩子”（CRB），他们也有更高的机会成为强迫性赌徒。

重要的是要认识到，赌博可以导致许多相同的症状和行为，成瘾物质可以导致。能够识别共同点symptoms of compulsive gambling是必要的，可能有助于您在病情恶化前寻求治疗。