People have the addiction of different things according to their interest new addiction case coming in hospitals is of trading in cryptocurrency tokens yes you heard it right Castle Craig Hospital of Scotland begun treating patients reported of addiction of cryptocurrency trading.
Healthcare experts said that crypto trading becoming a behavioral addiction as person monitoring the fluctuations of the market or the tokens in which one invested continuously on the real-time basis.
Many healthcare centers refused the stand of Hospital but Castle Craig hospital has shown various signs to prove it. mostly person having an addiction of crypto trading show signs of addiction of gambling featured by American Psychiatric Association (APA).
This crypto addiction is another form of gambling addiction with technology touch as nowadays trading on crypto become so easy because of user-friendly exchanges and high returns on investment.
And this technology dose by crypto is an addition to the class of technology-addicted people “Internet Gaming Disorder” so the hospital is looking a way to diagnose this issue with the help of technology itself.
Hospital is trying to use the technique which is a combination of both addiction one is of gambling and other is of technology and focusing more on techniques used to cure gambling addiction, so putting an effort to teach them how to live without trading tokens.
According to gambling therapist, Chris Burn
“The high risk, fluctuating cryptocurrency market appeals to the problem gambler. It provides excitement and an escape from reality. Bitcoin, for example, has been heavily traded and huge gains and losses were made. It’s a classic bubble situation.”
Trading or investing is a healthy exercise if one does it in a controlled manner being greedy and thinking of becoming rich overnight may cause you in trouble mentally and economically both ways.
