Game addiction

All gambling like sports paris, casino games, bingo games or the PMU must remain entertaining games and entertainment. They are there to make the dream of pleasure and sometimes for the lucky opportunity to earn big profits with such progressive jackpots.

However some people, carried away by greed, can become addicted to games. The feeling increasingly strong, the excitement and stress always want to win more or to recover its accumulated losses are pitfalls to avoid.

The game can be just as drug addiction, it becomes a craving and obsessive, this is called addiction to games when it is the main focus, even the one at the expense of other activities ( relationships, work, school, sports, etc..). Pathological gamblers have a behavior similar to that induced by drugs. They occur in all social and mental suffering with mood disorders.

The game may lead some players to financial situations, social and family difficult and complicated.

In our country, we must know that the turnover of authorized games (Lotto, scratch games, casino …) has been multiplied by 400 between 1960 and 2006 from 98 million euros to 37 billion euros . This exponential growth of online games partly explains the increase in gambling addictions.

How to detect a game addiction

Some signs may allow us to realize that dependence on ourselves or a loved one. It is important to respond quickly!
If gambling are part of your daily life then ask yourself these questions and analyze your performance in playing games:

• The game brings you he insomnia?
• The game does make your home life unhappy?
• Take your time working to play?
• The game he causes a decrease in your ambition?
• The game night is your reputation?
• Feel you need to play again immediately after a loss or gain?
• Do you gamble until your last penny?
• Do you borrow money?
• Do you gamble to recover your debt?
• Sell your items or to get more money to play?
• Do you experience mood swings after the game?
• Do you need to play to celebrate an event or a bad password?
• Have you committed an illegal act to the game?
• If all those questions you answered yes to several of them is that you have a certain addiction to games and that we will discover the consequences of addiction and how to fix it.

The consequences of gambling addictions

First addiction to games, raises financial concerns. Caught in a trap to try to recover such lost earnings, the player loses more and more money. This causes debt increasingly important, because once exhausted his patrimony, he sees himself into debt and borrow up to see it can be induced to commit fraud (theft, unpaid …) to obtain the money necessary to continue to expect prices to recover any lost earnings or win the jackpot.

Then dependence results in withdrawal or even that can cause problems with his family and entourage. This results in irritability, nervousness, and becomes subject to insomnia. The player finds himself increasingly alone in force lies that contradict his family and friends.

At the professional level, the consequences can be equally disastrous. This is evident by the level of motivation of the person’s stress, irritability, and it is obviously more productive. The first step therefore for a player is aware of the problem, because this awareness once established, the player will power, will lead to recommendations and solutions to eliminate this addiction to games.

The recommendations and assistance for problem gamblers

If you become aware of your addiction and gambling addiction, we must from this moment to take things in hand starting to not stay alone, because the problems of gambling addiction are not taken lightly.

It is preferable initially to talk to your doctor and consult with specialized agencies and trained in this area.

Avoid any temptation to play. It may now be banned from the casino, and if we got into the habit of playing online casinos, then they should remove all software on them and their links. Avoid going into places like the PMU or merchant scratchcard or Lotto. Nothing should make you think of the game and cause you to play.

You can also limit your resources of money, for example by deleting your credit card, check, etc..

These few rules do not suffice to eliminate all your addiction, then an extended follow-up is necessary for any withdrawal.

Here are some organizations and associations to support addictions. Do not hesitate to seek help.

SOS PLAYERS is an association created in 1990 to non-profit, where players are professionals and specialists addiction gambling addictions. It is a center for treatment and prevention of pathological gambling and are subject to professional secrecy.
RIENNEVAPLUS.ORG: Association is a nonprofit composed of a team of professionals specializing in the field of addiction. It is a single center in Europe based in Geneva on the prevention of excessive gambling and whose mission is to prevent the harmful consequences to the use of excessive gambling.
ADDICTEL: the device is efficient, nationwide available to players in need and responds to 100% of your needs with nearly 10 000 cases treated per year. There is a psychological attention 24/24 and 7 / 7 by professionals, and psychological counseling.