It's been my experience that some of my clients who have had horribly negative experiences with gambling, if I should use the term gaming, they will stop me and say, "That is not what it is." (laughs) And we're gonna talk more in a few minutes about how gamers, if you are talking about gamers now in this year, 2019, you need to differentiate between what kind of game they're playing, are they playing an interactive video game, a multiplayer game, are they just two little boys playing on their XBox and they've got their headset on and they're talking to their three other friends down the block, you know, those are gamers, or are they actually people playing some kind of a game of chance where the risk is involved and money is involved or something of value is involved. So the reason I'm giving you my favorite definition of gambling from Gamblers Anonymous, it's because I trust that since 1957 when Gamblers Anonymous was founded, piggybacking off the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, gamblers know what problem gambling is, so you can have a definition of gambling at this website, or you can have this definition of a gambling problem from the viewpoint of an addictive gambler and you'll see that the key components are any betting or wagering, for yourself or for others, because I know plenty of codependent or non-codependent concerned family who think they're doing a fun thing going across state lines to buy lottery tickets and that is gambling, that is going out and doing the act of gambling, whether for money or not, as Denise mentioned earlier, it can be for something of value, no matter what, no matter how slight or insignificant where the outcome is uncertain or depends on chance or skill and lovingly, I think, GA put quotation marks around the word skill, because there are some games I would have no idea how to play, you could not convince me that there is a way to learn how to play craps in five minutes. I've seen people talk about it endlessly and the science behind it and I think, uh, it's just throwing dice, I don't get where the skill is, but some people say that there's skill involved and also the outcome being uncertain, that risky part, Denise E. is gonna be talking about adolescents in a little while, and boy, high-risk behavior with adolescents is all over who they are and what they do, so it doesn't become an addiction until all of these elements combine and loss of control, as you well know from the diagnostic criteria, has to be going on.
I put the little Yellow Combo Book picture at the bottom of this slide. If any of you are working with gamblers, whether it's children, adults, relatives, friends and somebody has a gambling disorder, or gambling problem or used to have a gambling problem, I heartily recommend you spend 50 cents and order this online through the Gamblers Anonymous website or get one at the nearest GA meeting because this little Yellow Combo Book, which is literally only about three or four inches tall, 17 pages long, has everything that you need to know for a basic GA meeting and for any gambler who wants to not gamble today. The essential information is on page 17 and they will tell you in a meeting, if you don't wanna gamble today, do everything that's on page 17. That is treasure for somebody who's brand new in recovery and is mortified that they have to live in this town where they're surrounded by gambling things and for the family who need to understand what the essence of Gamblers Anonymous is about. So if you don't have one, please get one. The Lie-Bet Screen is a two question screen that anybody can do, if you would like to use this silence determining, with science to back it up, because you've got a 90% reliability that there's a gambling problem if they answer yes to either or both of these.
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