Category: Mental Health & Gambling
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Gambling Addiction and Mental Health: The Anxiety-Depression Connection
If you’re struggling with gambling and also feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or depression, you’re far from alone. Research consistently shows that gambling addiction and mental health conditions go hand in hand — a meta-analysis by Lorains et al. (2011), published in the journal Addiction, found that 37.9% of problem gamblers have a mood disorder and…