Gambling: What Does It Mean To Be Addicted?

What does it mean to be Addicted?
“I live for gambling, I work for gambling, travel for gambling, manipulate people for it. I did everything I could just to gamble.” “I thought I’d just play $20 but the minuet I put down a buck I knew I was off and running.” “If I’m winning at some point I think good, I already won some, so I think great it’s my night, I think this is my big night.” “I thought nothing of throwing kitchen chairs around, and slamming doors, when I got the urge to gamble nothing could stop me.” “I lost 5 grand in half an hour I came out of there and blew it off.” These are quotes from gambling addicts. When you are addicted to something you lose control of yourself control. When you realize you have come addicted to a particular
I asked Elizabeth about her addiction to shopping. She explains how she feels when shops. “It feels like a rush when you are buying new clothes and jewelry at the store.” When she is able to go find and buy something she like she feels good, it is a moment where she can relax and release all her stress. When she is unable to find something to buy she explains her feeling like this, “When I go into a store and cannot find anything that I like I feel sick, because I feel like a failure. I cannot go home until I find something that I want and buy it.” Her addiction is an outlet that allows her to relax when she can find something, but if she can’t find anything it makes her stressed and cannot stop looking until she can find something so she can have that feeling of relaxation and fulfillment unless she continues her addiction. I had never thought of shopping as an addiction before, but after she had explained to me how she couldn’t relax or be happy unless she went shopping, I realized that this could also be considered an addiction. I guess you really could be addicted to human