The habit of gambling addiction can stem from an unhappy childhood

This finding will help significantly in helping addicts gamble back to normal life.

My grandparents often said, "Gambling is a poor man." That statement is not wrong, because there have been many cases of sticking to this road that were dispersed, and the separated family , "a homeless life."

Knowing it is harmful, but it is not necessary to end it. Recently, a study in the United Kingdom dug deep into why many people are addicted to gambling, and thus help us to have radical solutions to this problem.

My grandparents often said, "Gambling is a poor man."

The group processed data from a nationwide survey of 3,025 British men between the ages of 18 and 64. Of which, 5% are currently having gambling problems and 7% are . addicted " chronic ".

The results show that the likelihood of these people having a too heavy childhood is about two times greater than that of ordinary people. Specifically, they have witnessed domestic violence, childhood trauma or being bullied in growing age. They are also three times more likely to suffer from life-threatening injuries when they are young.

Ghosts of childhood violence still "haunt" them until adulthood.

" Gambling has long been considered a tool to help people deal with stress , especially women," - study author Jason Landon of Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand - "Usually people will For men to play cards for fun, or to win, women choose it as a way to escape reality. "

Psychologists analyzed the answers of the survey participants, about the reason for the possibility of making them so bloody.

The results showed that 1 in 4 "compulsive gamblers" (meaning they are addicted and will play whether the mood is good or bad and win or lose) have witnessed domestic violence as a child. The total number of such people in the survey accounted for 23%.

10% of serious gambling addicts have been subjected to physical and mental violence when they were young.

Gambling has long been considered a tool to help people deal with stress.

However, the amount of data in the study is still quite limited, but it also contributes to the relationship between stress in life and gambling addictions.

According to Julia Poole, a researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada, "We cannot conclude that those with an unhappy childhood will grow into a compulsive gambler. , a person's behavioral awareness and behavior change is also very influential . "

"This means that adjusting emotions can help them strategically cope with their situation, and gradually" detox "," Poole said.