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Major depressive illness with secondary pathological gambling – case report and literature review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Anne-Marie O'Dwyer  and
Noel P Sheppard
Anne-Marie O'Dwyer*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Waterford Regional Hospital, Waterford, Ireland
Noel P Sheppard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Waterford Regional Hospital, Waterford, Ireland
*
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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Abstract

The case of a lady who developed a major depressive illness with secondary pathological gambling is described. The gambling was manifest by uncontrolled purchasing of lottery tickets. The inter-relationship between affective disorder and pathological gambling and the effect, if any, of lotteries on pathological gambling is discussed.

Keywords

Depressionpathological gamblinglotteries
Type
Clinical & Brief Reports
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 36 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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