From this perspective, the financial losses they sustain while gambling are not merely collateral consequences of their bid for control, but instead, its more profound aim.”14 If you have money left, you are obliged to exercise choice. You may have decided hours ago to abandon yourself to the video poker terminal, but as long as you still have funds available, you are faced with the possibility of acting otherwise: of stopping. Your will is still in play. Similarly, sex addicts report that they often seek out a prostitute not out of sexual desire, but in order to put to rest the question of
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