Compulsive Gambling
What traps keep gamblers chasing wins?
4.1 (10)
55 mins
Explore how gambling becomes a coping tool for stress and emotional pain. Discover the different paths that lead people to problem gambling and its impact on life. Learn about the brain’s role and how addiction develops through faulty thinking and behavior.
Ep 1:
The Brain Behind the Bet
Host Vionna Flynn opens 'The Dark Psyche' by exposing compulsive gambling as a hijacked brain state, defining its clinical signs and the psychological biases that make it so addictive.
Ep 2:
Emotional Traps and Three Roads to Ruin
Explore the tangled link between emotion and addiction, then uncover the three distinct psychological pathways—healthy, vulnerable, and impulsive—that lead people into problem gambling.
Discussions (2)
Xander
Level 3 · 4 mo agoYup I agree about the prefrontal cortex. It really takes until age 25 to fully develop impulse control.
Marvin
Level 2 · 4 mo agoShe just outlined my entire daily options trading strategy and called it an impulse control disorder 😆
