Are All Gamblers Narcissists? (+Sports Betting) (Gambling Disorder with Brian Pempus)

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Gambling is a process (behavior) addiction, not a problem with impulse control (though it does involve impulsivity). It is also not an obsession-compulsion: the inability to limit, stop, or control the behavior is motivated by reward, not by anxiety or fear.

Gambling disorder involves persistent, recurrent, non-manic expenditures of time and money that lead to dysfunctions (impairment), distress both before and after the act, and escalatory “telescoping”.

Gamblers share clinical features with narcissists, borderlines, and psychopaths: grandiosity, defiance, entitlement, lying, risk-taking, thrill (sensation)-seeking, magical thinking, and cognitive biases and distortions.

Brian Pempus https://gamblingharm.org

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