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Luvulongtime99
Rock Star
Silver Level
Whats funny is if you where lets say a stock trader and answered yes to many of those questions they would call you dedicated. Since the topic is poker your a degenerate Most folks have a winning problem more than anything. Just my 2 cents.
nera75
Rock Star
Silver Level
we are all in your life something or something dependent! If you love poker and earn money on it, you are a Professional and such a term as addiction, I think it's not relevant, but there is still a dependency to constantly play and lose money, then it's not dependence, but ludomania, which has nothing to do with poker , revise your relationship to the concept of dependence, if it interisuet you, and not just as another post for a tick!
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titiduru
Visionary
Silver Level
Poker, alcohol, nicotine, heroin, eating, running, posting comments on cardschat, anything can become an addiction. Below I have pasted the DMS-IV criteria for substance dependence, all you have to do is replace "substance" with "poker":
DSM-IV Substance Dependence Criteria Addiction (termed substance dependence by the American Psychiatric Association) is defined as a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring any time in the same 12-month period:
1.Tolerance, as defined by either of the following: (a) A need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication or the desired effect or (b) Markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance.
2. Withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following: (a) The characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance or (b) The same (or closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
3. The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
4. There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use.
5. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (such as visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (for example, chain-smoking), or recover from its effects.
6. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use.
7. The substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (for example, current cocaine use despite recognition of cocaine-induced depression or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption).
DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence include several specifiers, one of which outlines whether substance dependence is with physiologic dependence (evidence of tolerance or withdrawal) or without physiologic dependence (no evidence of tolerance or withdrawal). In addition, remission categories are classified into four subtypes: (1) full, (2) early partial, (3) sustained, and (4) sustained partial; on the basis of whether any of the criteria for abuse or dependence have been met and over what time frame. The remission category can also be used for patients receiving agonist therapy (such as methadone maintenance) or for those living in a controlled, drug-free environment. Source: American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fourth Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
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Inequitas
Legend
Silver Level
I'm High on life.... its hard to stop!!! I still wake up every day and it doesn't leave me alone lol
I'm addicted to it... and it's some thing i cant kick the habit for.
Poker is a very small aspect of the addiction to life infact i'd say my addiction to drinking fluids and eating food is more over powering than my addiction to Poker.
I also have an addiction to bringing up my children. when they're old enough to leave home i think i'll kick that habit too...
I think the only time some thing should be considered a addiction is when its messing up your life, so if your life is poker, then wheres the addiction?
haha i'm addicted to every thing in my life or life it self lol...
I'm addicted to it... and it's some thing i cant kick the habit for.
Poker is a very small aspect of the addiction to life infact i'd say my addiction to drinking fluids and eating food is more over powering than my addiction to Poker.
I also have an addiction to bringing up my children. when they're old enough to leave home i think i'll kick that habit too...
I think the only time some thing should be considered a addiction is when its messing up your life, so if your life is poker, then wheres the addiction?
haha i'm addicted to every thing in my life or life it self lol...
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