Story of Gambling Addiction, Poker, WSOP – www.gamblinghelper.com Problem gambling (ludomania) is an urge to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. The term is preferred to compulsive gambling among many professionals, as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather than by the gambler’s behavior. Severe problem gambling may be diagnosed as clinical pathological gambling if the gambler meets certain criteria. Although the term gambling addiction is common in the recovery movement[1] pathological gambling is considered to be an impulse control disorder and is therefore not considered by the American Psychological Association to be an addiction. http

 

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Gamblers Anonymous: 9-10 a.m. Congregational Church of Chico, 1190 E. First Ave., Chico. Open format. 354-8195 or 800-287-8670. Weekly. Adult Children of Alcoholic and other Dysfunctional … Noon, 7 p.m. 2109 The Esplanade, Suite 120, Chico. Other …
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Twenty-Four Straight Hours of College Basketball Destroyed My Mind

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… to understand that there exists, on the outer fringes of the sport world, a bustling society of junkies and fiends that extends beyond the ordinary realm of gamblers and unexceptional fanatics. I am a college sports junkie. I am addicted to the …
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