They lose friends, job ...

They lose friends, jobs, housing, family breaks, wives leave, taking the children, the sword of Damocles hanging dolg.Za great pleasure and excitement of a player brutally expensive and paying a price. But they continue at the first opportunity to play, not stopping at nothing. This game slaves. The fact that the constant bombardment of mind game and its attendant internal processes leads to the appearance of brain lesions such persons of strong excitation, which is fueled by new sessions, games and new portions of the internal dope (hormones, endorphins, etc.). Therefore, the first phase of treatment - to suppress these foci gaming excitement, braked him. At subsequent stages of treatment by a doctor at the player changes the internal state, a new system of values, there are other goals, is formed by a different attitude to yourself, others, life: changing lifestyles, produced an entire system replacement at other ways of obtaining pleasure. It is also necessary to remember that the treatment of gambling addiction can not be fleeting. It must be complex and lengthy, but with patience and perseverance will help get rid of this painful disease. In many ways, the release of gambling addiction is associated not only with the restoration of mental health, pathological gamblers, but also to the revaluation of values ??in life and change his lifestyle. In the treatment process should involve not only specialists (psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists), but also relatives of the patient, his close friends, ie people whom he loves and trust. However, in practice, unfortunately, not all gamers are willing to endure a frenzy, and then its decline is particularly rapid. Medical Center Bekhterev "

Miserly Knight: the cure for greed

Vladimir Kukk psychiatrist, psychologist, social activist http://www.DrKukk.com dr.kukk @ inbox.ru hoarding, pathological greed - the opposite dependence rampant waste of money. "Money will be Caesar" (Thomas Mann) Notable examples: lived in a wretched shack on the outskirts of Kansas City Franklin Lawson has always behaved like a simple American beggar. The old man fed handouts that begged to gas stations and stores. Clothing and footwear Franklin supplied a variety of charities. At the age of 73, Mr. Lawson has left this world. Arrived to collect the body in the morgue attendants and the police saw a piece of paper greenbacks sticking out of the wretched mattress under the dead. Out of curiosity, dragged her - it turned out that this 100-dollar bill. Ripped mattress and gasped: it was sewn 350 000 dollars. As screwy Dzyadok left no heirs, the money received by the fund of the municipality, and from there - to help the poor. Not excluded that the same as Mr. Franklin ... A similar case was described by psychiatrists in the early 70-ies in Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan, only the mattress was stuffed with paper money signs since the Stalinist era, reflecting Khrushchev's monetary reform and ending the stagnant Brezhnev period. "The desire of man to possess is an expression of animal instinct" (Ardrey) Another striking example: in 1977, when I first started to learn psychiatry, operating a medical intern in Shymkent psychiatric gordispansere, I encountered such a case: a woman 63 years, rest without friends and relatives, for the past 20 years, observed in the clinic at the organic brain damage and pathological hoarding, and for social executed in the care of a boarding school, we had to drive from her apartment to a new residence.