Are you addicted to gambling? Do you have a gambling addiction?
Answer:
This questionnaire with 20 questions is adapted from a questionnaire developed by Anonymous Gamblers. Answer each question with yes or no.
- Has gambling impaired your work? Like leaving the workplace early in order to gamble.
- Has gambling impaired your private life?
- Has gambling impaired your reputation?
- Has gambling caused you to feel remorse?
- Have you ever gambled in order to get money to pay debts?
- Has gambling negatively influenced your ambitions or efficiency?
- Have you, after losing money, felt a need to gamble again as soon as possible to cover your losses?
- When you have won, do you feel a craving to gamble more to win more money?
- Do you often gamble until you have lost all your money?
- Have you ever borrowed money in order to gamble?
- Have you ever sold any of your belongings in order to afford gambling?
- Have you felt unwillingness to use money you have won for non-gambling usage?
- Did your gambling ever endanger the support of yourself and your family?
- Have you continued to gamble longer than planned?
- Have you gambled in order to escape from other problems?
- Have you ever participated in illegal gambling?
- Has gambling caused you sleeping problems?
- Do you get a craving for gambling when you encounter frustrations or disappointments?
- Have ever wanted to gamble in order to celebrate a success?
- Have you ever felt that gambling may be your ruin?
If you have answered yes on seven or more of these questions, you are probably a compulsive gambler.