Topic: Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction - page 19. (Read 3600 times)

Acceptance is the first step to address your situation, know that there is real problem that you need to take care of.
If you will still be denial of what you are having, hard to pinpoint where you are coming from why you are getting addicted.
It is no shame to ask help from your closed friends or family regarding your situation. It means, you are ready to alter your path for the betterment of yourself.

What you say, we agree with it. out there, there are many addicts who have difficulty solving the problems they face. It's not uncommon for addicts like this to end up homeless. what I said applies to several types of addiction, not just gambling. related to options or solutions in recovery, as asked by OP in this thread. The answer will be very varied and relative, depending on each sufferer. In fact, maybe some of us are one of those addicts. it could be, I am one of the addicts.

Well, referring to what you said, regarding therapy issues. So far, this idea is the best part in dealing with alternative ways for someone to recover from habits that harm him and even the people around him. Therapy or rehabilitation, are other options for someone who wants to recover from what they have experienced. Methods like this are not the same in every case. some recover quickly, some require special treatment. but the point is, as you say. In fact, someone who experiences a problem like this needs self-awareness if they want to recover quickly. without strong intention and determination, it will be difficult to recover by itself. Except, there are no more sources that can be used as betting media.

Well, a persuasive approach is also part of what the family can do so that the sufferer is willing to realize or share what he is experiencing with the problem. So, therapy or rehabilitation is not always the solution. Therefore, family support plays an important role for the sufferer. Regarding the last point you said, it also matches the title of this thread. Actually, if we want and try to find a solution, I think there will always be foundations or institutions that volunteer to accommodate sufferers who experience addiction disorders, including gambling. In fact, they don't ask for fees for the services and services they provide.
The point is that there are various ways if we want to do it, it doesn't always mean sacrificing a lot of money so that someone can get a solution to overcome it. but once again I emphasize, as you also said. The point is that we ourselves have a role to play if we want to recover, accompanied by strong determination and intention.

Here there is no guarantee that a gambler will win the game by applying a good strategy. Similarly, he will not be able to win consistently just by gaining experience. So it is natural that a gambler finds it difficult to maintain his family with the money of gambling. However, there are some gamblers who gamble professionally. Those who have both money and experience with which they gamble and earn their living from it. But we can never call them addicted gamblers. For non-professionals, let's just say that instead of turning it into an addiction, the priority should be enjoyment from gambling.

The moral reason for the gambler to not get addicted to the gambling,they have the family for their income and their entire family was depend on the gambler income.The family depend on the salary of the gamblers for the all basic needs like the food,medicine and education for the gambler children.If the gambler wife support the gambler for the gambling,So the gambler will win some good win in the gambling one day.So it’s essential for the gambler to learn the gambling at the time of playing.Once the gambler learn their own strategy for the gambling,then it will help the gambler to win the big win for their family.

Gambling addiction can affect people from all walks of life regardless of their intelligence character or moral standing. Family support along with the individual's own awareness to control gambling can help prevent addiction understanding the nature of gambling addiction its prevalence and the various risk factors involved is crucial for developing effective prevention and intervention strategies and the role of the family. By always looking at the positive side of one's family and recognizing the factors that contribute to gambling addiction individuals and communities can take steps to reduce its impact and reduce responsible gambling practices.

Yes, that's the hardest part for a gambling addict. But those who want to cure their gambling addiction will keep trying even though they find it difficult to do so because they believe they deserve a second chance. They may start to open up to someone trying to get closer to them so that they can find a solution and do it too. This requires more effort from the gambling addict because he has to create a new habit, which will not be easy. Only the belief and belief that he is capable of doing it can continue to help him to try.

I also believe that getting help from other people can help us be better than before. With this help, we can know what we have to do and if it is creating a new activity, we will do it to recover from gambling addiction. Although many temptations will tell us to return to gambling, we can prevent ourselves from returning because our desire to recover from gambling addiction is too strong for the temptation to be meaningless.

A person gets addicted because they lack self-control and someone who doesn't have enough self-control to stand tall against the urge to gamble, can't self-diagnose themselves because they will basically give up against the urge every single time. This is the basic reason why an addicted person can't get out of the addiction even if they want to, but those who have a will to leave their addiction can take help from someone close that can help them stay away from gambling and recover from the addiction.

When we talk about trying to prevent this from the beginning, it can only be done if the person who is about to start gambling is already responsible and disciplined and they know how far they can and can't go while they are gambling which is how they can actually stay far away from getting addicted to it. Not everyone can do that, that is the reason why most people get addicted to gambling after some time.

I'm kinda confuse what you are trying to point out here. I mean how can an unemployed, a college student, and a person receiving minimum wage got addicted to gambling when it's obviously they can't because of the lack of access to money.
The first question should be, how are these people got addicted? where did they get the money they use to gamble excessively?  and how are they able to sustain it for them to be considered as a gambling addict eventually?
Expensive vices requires expensive remedies and therapies most of the time. So, there are no "low cost" way to get rid of compulsive gambling other than voluntarily quitting and not going back to any kind of casinos ever. Nevertheless, only people who have enough money who'll get addicted to gambling, because money and time wasn't a problem for them - so therapy expenses for gambling addicts isn't something of a concern though. 

True. At the end of the day, what you do most of the time is what defines you. So, if you end up spending a lot of time at casinos, you are a gambler.

If you instead use that time to do other activities, your brain will slowly change and you will not have that urge to gamble any more at some point.

It does require some time to have your brain re-trained like that though.

It is a working strategy I see and cost-free but of course, it needs dedication from the gambler who wants to stop their addiction to gambling, or else, it is useless. Cross-addiction, getting addicted to other stuff like sports could really forget gambling totally and interest. But as I've said, it all depends on the person who wants to change because many have tried but many have failed as well. Generally, it is all about controlling ourselves but with the help and strong support of the family members and friends, that is somewhat possible.

But also keep in mind that there are gamblers out there who're beyond help by themselves. Although therapy is a good solution to aid the addiction of a gambler, it's still up to that person if he's going to change. The therapy is useless if the person doesn't have the conviction to change. It's two-way therapy. That's why I believe the most lost cost to aiding addiction is yourself and your drive to change; without that, the gambler will never stop until the end of the line. A possible solution also is to socialise with friends and family; they could help you divert your attention; they could help you realise how bad it may be for you if you keep ondiving yourself in your addiction. I think therapy or rehabilitation is the last option if the person is in need of help; it is costly and doesn't guarantee that the person will change.

Maybe we need to do physical activities that get our bodies moving so that it will reduce thoughts about gambling. Apart from that, our bodies can also become healthy, and of course, we can change our mindset about gambling if we can regularly do this activity. But here, the temptation to do this activity is feeling too lazy to start. But if we can fight that feeling of laziness, we can do it regularly and change our gambling habits to have a new activity that can prevent us from returning to gambling more often. But no one knows how long we can reduce our gambling activities because it depends on our efforts to carry out new activities.

That is the hardest part, that's why psychologists and the likes always say that "the first step to recovery is to realize you have a problem". If someone realizes that they have a problem and seek for help then it is x100 times easier to help that person, and it would not be hard to make them get better and stop gambling, but when we are talking about someone who doesn't realize that they have a problem and rejects any help, then there is absolutely no way that we could ever be helpful to them at all, it would be near impossible and we can't make it work at all.

I believe that with my full heart because I am 100% certain that nobody who rejects help could ever get better, you need help to get better. This is why I was open about my addiction back in the day, not for gambling but something else, and I got help and it didn2t work for a long long time, psychologist was good if you ask me but it didn't work for a long time, then years later one day suddenly it all combined for a big moment and I stopped.

One way to tackle gambling addiction without spending a lot of money is by finding an activity that you enjoy, and that keeps you entertained and engaged enough to lose track of time. The key to finding such an activity is to understand yourself better. It's important to explore your interests and passions and find something that truly resonates with you. Once you've found that activity, make time for it regularly to help you stay focused and prevent the temptation of gambling.

You possess the power to transform your life, which doesn't always require therapy. You can make positive changes on your own.

To not access the internet is certainly very difficult in this day and age, especially all of them need the internet to communicate with anyone today, this is the most difficult way even though it might be done by some people.

But if that is me, it is certainly very difficult not to access the internet, if it is only limited to release from the gambling environment many people can certainly easily do that, but breaking away from the internet will be very difficult, especially for people who are looking for income in The world of the internet, surely they will be very difficult to let go because after all they need the income to survive even have an impulsive gambling addiction.

Now the last way you mentioned, might be done, and it will not cost more to release gambling addiction, but this is the biggest capital as I mentioned is a strong determination, if you do not have a strong determination It will be very difficult to manage time in gambling.

That's right buddy, it's actually quite simple to get out of the addiction zone, you don't have to spend a lot of money on treatment, because obviously this is not physically sick but their psychology has been disturbed, therefore it is true as you say that those who will be able to cure addiction diseases like this are none other than themselves, the way is that they must be able to change their mindset that has gone astray to get back on the right track. So that's why those who are already addicted will hardly get any impact when they get advice from some of the people closest to them, because even though a lot of advice comes to them, they will not consider it if they still really want to gamble and are not fully willing to get out of gambling.

Of course the problem is in their own mindset that is too excessive in seeing gambling, yes that's a pretty good way, do meditation in the park or in other quiet places that are important there is calmness there, because obviously if our situation is calm then we will be able to think calmly and clearly. You will be able to consider everything according to your consciousness, and also it is very possible to direct your mind to an assumption that this gambling really cannot give you anything good, and there is only continuing to experience a lot of financial problems. Of course they have their own way.

Actually it can be done for free as long as you have the will to do it because I believe the most effective way is starting from ourselves.
Maybe you can try meditation to change your mindset about gambling and try to forget about it slowly but sure.
How long? I'm sure no matter what solutions you are going to take such as teraphy, meditation, or something else, it will be depending on yourself.
Which solution is the effective one also may different depending on the gamblers.

         -  As for being able to afford to pay for therapy, I don't think I see a problem with that. Now, if you can't afford to pay the therapist you have to be practical. And besides, there are many options to solve this to be honest. No. 1 there is the support of one's own family or loved ones.

And we also need to help ourselves to speed up the recovery we are going through as an addiction to that matter. No one can help us but ourselves if we are determined to change

There just isn't time in the calendar of actively engaged individuals for distractions like gambling. True, true, true: productive work is a built-in counterbalance to pointless distractions. But what happens if that building vanishes? The void. The dangerous void. a hole that gambling all too frequently fills by preying on boredom and downtime.

Is it only a time management issue then? Perhaps, but it's more complex than that. The temptation of gambling intensifies and nearly becomes magnetic when boredom sets in. Furthermore, it's not just about the rush; it's also about the perilous illusion of easy money. People ask themselves "Why not?" before they realize they are in serious trouble. It's a pseudo-solution to the problem of unoccupied time. In actuality, though, it's a vortex that drains finances, time, and emotional health.

Unfortunately with therapy, usually it's not the person that needs it that requests for it which makes it a waste of time and money!!!

Fyi we have several success stories of people fighting gambling addiction without having to see a therapist, which tells me it starts with the user identifying it and then doing something about it... someone else doing it for you never yeilds positive results...besides the cause of the addiction needs to be identified if this is to be corrected... otherwise people still go back to these bad habits with time .

Get free help from people who have fought it and am certain they will be always be more than willing to help, also resources on most of our social media platforms is very much available  to teach a user how to go about addiction and just takes on to do the research...

As of timeframe to get it under control, it all depends on how willing the gambler is ready to put into the fight .