Scottish hospital creates treatment program for cryptocurrency addicts

Since the creation of cryptocurrencies there is little that we have not seen. Current investment trends and project launches or ICOs have been increasing since the last few months, especially in 2018.

Many companies have turned to digital commerce, as well as individuals to invest fortunes in the most popular digital currencies of the current market, even under the constant threat of high volatility.

In view of this, the nerves of some employers may be susceptible, or at least so think the creators of the rehabilitation center "Castle Craig Hospital", the first "crypto clinic" in Scotland, which recently announced on its treatment plan for addicted to cryptocurrencies.

Experts believe that, like any other addiction to gambling or betting, investments with cryptocurrencies can become more than an ideal of savings or capitalization.

The clinic already has a program to treat addictions to alcohol and drugs, and now added to the list a treatment plan for decentralized digital financial obsessions.

Despite the lack of official statistics on the rate of cases of conditions, Castle Craig executives claim that there are more than 13 million people in the world who currently invest in some type of cryptocurrency.

In this sense, Chris Burn, a therapist at the hospital stated the following:

The cryptocurrency market is fluctuating and high risk to attract the problematic player. It provides excitement and an escape from reality. Bitcoin, for example, has been subject to large amounts of transactions and has planned huge profits and losses. In short, it is a classic financial bubble.

For his part, Tony Marini, a former participant in the addiction program, will be directing some talks and treatments at the hospital.

"I see the cryptocurrency trade as a way for people to escape their own problems. The first stage of treatment is to join group therapies and share their life stories. This helps them to identify themselves with others and to realize that they are not alone, "Marino said in a recent interview.

Perhaps the problem of cryptocurrencies does not focus only on its volatility, but the effect it generates on the millions of investors around the world. But, in short, we can agree that in the modern financial world there are plenty of reasons to obsess, often creating something more than empathy and a little more addiction.