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    Gambling disorder is characterized by four or more of nine criteria related to difficulties controlling gambling behaviors and consequences like financial issues. Only about 10% of people with the disorder seek treatment, which can include psychotherapy, medication, and support groups. Treatment aims to change thinking and behaviors while friends and family provide support and set boundaries. Managing cravings requires distracting activities, postponing urges, and avoiding isolation.

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    Gambling disorder is characterized by four or more of nine criteria related to difficulties controlling gambling behaviors and consequences like financial issues. Only about 10% of people with the disorder seek treatment, which can include psychotherapy, medication, and support groups. Treatment aims to change thinking and behaviors while friends and family provide support and set boundaries. Managing cravings requires distracting activities, postponing urges, and avoiding isolation.

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    Gambling disorder is characterized by four or more of nine criteria related to difficulties controlling gambling behaviors and consequences like financial issues. Only about 10% of people with the disorder seek treatment, which can include psychotherapy, medication, and support groups. Treatment aims to change thinking and behaviors while friends and family provide support and set boundaries. Managing cravings requires distracting activities, postponing urges, and avoiding isolation.

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    Diagnoses of gambling disorder

    People who, over a 12-month period meet four of these nine criteria devised by the
    American Psychiatric Association, are considered to have a gambling disorder:

    • Need to gamble with increasing amounts of money in order to achieve the desired
    excitement.

    • Are restless or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop gambling.

    • Have made repeated unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop gambling.

    • Are often preoccupied with gambling.

    • Often gamble when feeling distressed (e.g. helpless, guilty, anxious, depressed).
    • After losing money gambling, often return another day to get even

    • Lie to conceal the extent of involvement with gambling.

    • Have jeopardized or lost a significant relationship, job, or educational or career


    opportunity because of gambling.

    • Rely on others to provide money to relieve desperate financial situations caused by


    gambling.
    Treatment of gambling disorder
    Some people can stop gambling on their own. But many people need help to
    address their gambling problems. Only one in ten people with gambling
    disorder seek treatment:

    • Psychotherapy: Individual and group approaches such as cognitive


    behavioral therapy, which helps to identify and modify damaging thinking
    and behavior, can help people overcome the problem.

    • Medication: There are no FDA-approved medications to treat gambling


    disorders. Some medications may help treat co-occurring conditions like
    depression or anxiety.
    • Support groups: Some people with gambling disorder find help with such groups as
    Gamblers Anonymous, Participants meet and share experiences, supporting each
    other in their efforts to abstain from gambling.

    • Support from family and friends can be critical to a person's recovery from
    gambling. However, only the individual can decide to stop the behaviors.
    Strategies to deal with cravings

    • Reach out for support. Call a trusted friend or family member. Go to a Gamblers
    Anonymous meeting.
    • Distract with other activities.
    • Postpone gambling. Giving yourself time may allow the urge to pass or weaken.
    • Stop for a moment and consider what will happen when you gamble.
    • Avoid isolation.
    "Dos" and "Don'ts" for Partners, Friends, or
    Family Members
    Do
    • Seek the support of others with similar problems
    • Remain calm when speaking to the person with a gambling disorder.
    • Understand the need for treatment of problem gambling and that it may take time.
    • Set boundaries in managing money
    Don't

    • Preach, lecture, or allow yourself to lose control of your anger


    • Exclude the gambler from family life and activities
    • Expect immediate recovery
    • Bailout the gambler

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