Pathological gambling disorder is a behavioural disorder that affects many areas of personal functioning and causes clinically significant distress in the individual and those close to him or her. The comorbidity between pathological gambling and other disorders such as mental depression and anxiety have been associated with personality disorders, particularly with borderline personality disorder. Recent evidence shows the modulating factor of impulsivity between depression and pathological gambling disorder. Evidence is however lacking on the temporal organization of these symptoms with episodes of pathological gambling. We report a case of pathological gambling with borderline personality disorder and its association over time with life events that trigger feelings of fear of abandonment preceding the gambling episodes.... [Leer más...]