Question

"i feel great!" a friend says, "let's go to the casino and play the slots." your friend has been to the casino several times in the past two weeks and just can't seem to stay away. does your friend qualify for the diagnosis of gambling disorder?

Answer 1

Gambling disorder can be a difficult addiction to diagnose. In general, psychologists employ a list of questions that allow us to better understand whether a person suffers from this disorder. In order to be considered a disorder, the gambler needs to have suffered from four of these characteristics in the last year. The questions are:

• Does he need to gamble with increasing amounts of money to achieve excitement?
• Is he irritable or restless when not gambling?
• Has he unsuccessfully tried to quit or cut back?
• Is he often thinking about gambling?
• Does he gamble when feeling distressed?
• Does he return to gambling after losing to "get even"?
• Does he lie to conceal his gambling?
• Has he jeopardize significant elements of his life because of gambling?
• Does he rely on other people's money to gamble?

In this case, it appears the friend does not qualify for gambling disorder, as he does not fulfill enough categories.

Answer 2

It's a corroding to how old your friend is if she/he is below the age of 18 they are still a child