hello then I will answer to
some questions about addiction to
game but I will start with you
ask a question that among you is
consider to be someone from
rational to raise the hand very
good thanks
so I’m sorry I’m going to have to
to announce that in fact we are all
irrational we are all and
rational already we are humans on
is not computers and so we
are all and relational in
certain situations and in particular
the situations on which we
have no control therefore in
situations do not have control on
will wait so to think so
irrational that is to say to establish
links where there is none
projected a control where we have
not
who among you never said when
he saw the fire turn green on his
move to super game pass a good
day
who among you did not pay attention to
walk down the street on some type
cobblestones for a reason that you
escapes
but you still do it anyway so as
I said it in any situation where we
does not have control we’re going to have
tendency to try to project the
control that we usually have
where there is none you can imagine
gambling and money is
an ideal setting for that so in these
situations by nature we only have one
partial control or even a
total absence of control over
situation in which we are
engaged so the game situation and
so we are going to project the control
trying to influence the outcome of the game
even though we can not
so that’s what’s called it’s a bit
a month a little barbaric but it is this
what we call cognitive distortions
or false beliefs and so these
false beliefs they are inherent
to any chance situation so in
particular games of chance and
of money at everyone’s players
excessive like the casual player
lambda who participate in
gambling and money activities
so what differentiates a
excessive player of a casual player
in terms of false beliefs not big
thing the difference was not going
lé quantitative not qualitative forgiveness
it and quantitative what I’m trying to
tell you is that the players
excessive it stands out especially by the
having a high number of
false beliefs and we know that these
false beliefs she participates in
maintaining development and
maintaining excessive gambling practices
since I explain to you some
some it gives players the illusion
to control and maybe to be able to
subsequently won so the beliefs
the most common misconception
in players this is called
the illusion of control ie
think we have higher control
that we actually have it in a
situation without people e5 we meet
often in the players is to have
a fetish accessory a t-shirt makes
fail a grigri something we
take with care to play and which one
think he will bring us luck
and of course we will not have a chance
if we do not have it with us that we
explain why we win
why do we lose relatively
irrational so I have not yet
defined my subject I came to you
talk about addiction to games
so I know you all know what
it is that the addiction
in general we talk about addiction
rather with regard to
substances alcohol tobacco etc
so when we talk about substances the
notion of addiction it poses no
problem when we talk about behavior
it may be more complicated
intellectually to understand from
to say that the human being can be addicted
to a behavior not being able to
to pass from a behavior and yet
that’s the case and that’s what I’m
come to explain to you today that
some people will develop
difficulties with certain behaviors
and therefore no longer have big
difficulties to do without
so this is the case of the game that it is the
case also other others
behaviors so-called
behavioral addictions so in the
part of the game so the game is a real
addiction
what is this
addiction by the loss of control
it is essential that is to say that the
person who has an addiction i can
not stop playing despite his
will not play she will be
received in the incapacity of not
dictate whoever has lost the
freedom to abstain
so there is the loss of control there is
the consequences then when we talk
of play we get the first consequence
which comes to us very spontaneously
the spirit is the loss of money
the loss of money the consequences
financial debts etc
except that the game is not just the loss
money is also a whole set of
negative consequences that may
to be a family professional marital
they are very very multiple and
sometimes even the game and not at all
the money is not necessarily at the first
plan it can be something else so
first question why one becomes
Addict to the games
simply because the game makes it go
in the player perform a function
that is to say that for some it’s going
be a regulatory function of
the mood some are going to play will go
play went back to play because they
feel depressed because they are
feel anxious because their daily lives
troubles or anxieties and so the
game is a disconnect space and
Besides, it’s not necessarily a
problem in itself the game is a space of
disconnection that is necessary which
offers a fun function and sometimes
often even social so a function
which we all need then at
some it’ll take a look
excessive and so the game will become the
only way finally to regulate
the mood the problem is that the game
in turn will cause trouble
of mood since when the subject father
he will feel sad and so
potentially return play for
come close this counterbalance this
sadness so first function a
mood regulation function but
also for many and more and more
the game will help to feel
thrills what makes us
sometimes a little bit
wrong in our daily life that is
sometimes a little boring subway job
dodo and so it is sometimes for
some lacking sensations of
stimulation and so the game will allow
to feel the sensations that are
both strong news exciting
it’s the player who tells you I
a kind of big adrenaline when
I watch when I play poker and that
I’m waiting for my card or when when
I make a sports bet and that I
watch the race and let my horse
cross the finish line
so all this allows a high level
stimulation that will be sought
by the player another important question
and I know you’re asking it
how do we go from I like to play to
I have a problem with the game so for
answer this question i’ll get you
tell a little story is
the brand story I modified
the first name therefore marks at 25 years old and it
surrenders so he works he surrenders
after work with colleagues
who offers him a day to go to drink a
glass after work and so in the
bar where they go there reads to offer a
offer of games or races it can not
it is proposed to bet on the races
So tell her colleagues want and
hairdryer to see it’s fun
so actually he tries and then there
hop with his little bet so luminism
very small are therefore 2 euros and
with his little bet and wins a sum
average fifty euros he holds
it’s nice it’s kind of fun game
it’s true that not only is it
fun but in addition it brings a
little bit and so little by little will
put to go from time to time with
colleagues
after a job make a bar a little
a little coffee after work and then
and then play and then will surrender
account that Bayer wins quite often and
then some time later he will do
a fat guy he’s going to win several
thousands of euros
so there you realize of
several thousand euros in our
daily life it changes a little the
daily it opens up a lot of
possibilities it also opens full
of hope and finally that motivates to
go back play we say I won
once why I
why I will not win this but a
little bit of spice in the everyday
also beyond the financial aspect
finally so gradually mark
will start east more often
played in the hope of finding this
feeling because there is not just
the financial attraction there is also what we
feel when we win who is
relatively indescribable says he so
gradually he will go to play
more and more often so at this moment
the mark being a kind of moon of
honey with the game and this phase is
the one that kuster called the phase of
gains you can imagine
unfortunately this phase of gains does not
can not last
and she feels after that
would have called the loss phase
so for marc he’ll always have the
remember this gain is so go
replay
more and more frequently and he gets
realizes that they father and when he
wins and he had developed what
beliefs like I told you everything to
the time of irrational beliefs that
led him to think that eventually he
was good that he had a good feeling
with the horse racing that he was
able to win and and then that the
horse racing it was also a
easy and fun way to win a
little bit of money rounding up the ends
of months or even to become rich
so in a second time I tell you
said he will start to lose a
accumulated losses and to play more
by dismounting more and more important
with the idea of remaking himself evasively
and yesterday I lost maybe 50 euros
lafarge bet a little bit more if I
want to get them back it’s 50 euros so
he will begin to accumulate losses
and at that moment his beliefs it’s
the idea of being good the idea of having a
some control over the game are going to be
a little check is replaced by
this idea that he has to redo
he has to redo himself and so he goes
continue to bet more and more and
in parallel to that the game will take
a place really more and more
important in his life
so he’ll start to get in more
later on arguing with his
companion who will eventually leave him because
that she will have enough not only 2
duty who spends all his time at games
but also that they are spending more and
more money and poking a bit into
household money
the friends he used to
see go also eventually moves away a
little bit since mark completely
obsessed with the game by more than two
races speak only of predictions
of loss-making bets
so it ends up boring a little
little and then it will go too badly
at work since he will be absent enough
regularly sound of his work
to go place bets see
races and so that’s where we go
account that the game is encroaching more and
more about his life and it takes a certain
number of years we know these steps that
I described you until you reached
roughly at the age of 34 35 where he
enters into what’s called the phase of
despair who as his name indicates
not a very funny phase and so there
losses have become very important
there are often a number of
debts that have accumulated or
even an over-indebtedness and the brand gets
found completely isolated since
his girlfriend left him if he could
really close friends since they are
are all those progressively distant
more work so more ways
to have money is yet
always this very strong desire to
play to recover money for
pay off debts at that time there
think full of issue all the issues
to the remark that is not someone
of violent who is absolutely not a
delinquent usually starts to
ask if he can not sting
money in the boss’s cash or
stole flaps from the handbags in
the street to have money to play
that’s where it happened
and at that moment so the mood is
very depressed
there are gold islands very badly he eats
very badly really his whole life
revolves around the game and around this
concern of the losses and the
possibility of finding money
to play and at that moment he can
consider that four solutions the leak
would go elsewhere elsewhere on
suicide
pushed to the end the incarceration
to crimes or the call for help
and that’s when that pushes the
door of a health center and who
request
when he is helped to get out of
this game driving is so before
to get to that point what can we
make
what do we do if we think ourselves
same or one of his relatives can
meet or is at risk of
encounter difficulties with the game
already first thing it seems
obvious do not hesitate to talk about it in
talk if it concerns you in
to talk with a loved one someone who
you trust if it concerns one
your loved ones tell him about it without taboo
without either being in judgment or
in aggression but simply
approach the subject calmly and
possibly propose to meet
a health professional to make a
point to see a little bit where one in
is here so do not forget we
is all irrational what we
separates a player’s casual players
excessive
again it’s not something
of qualitative it is something of
quantitative so we all have the same
operating bases
so we’re all a little bit potentially
vulnerable to that and that’s our role
to all to be vigilant and to do
pay attention to ourselves and to those who
surround us
Thank you for your attention
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