When people are addicted, they have a lot in common with other addicted people, the main thing they have in common is that they are doing that thing that causes them addiction because they want to have fun to forget their problems. So the point doctors focus on is asking addicts how they feel in real life, what causes them problems, what causes them pain and what they actually did to solve these problems that cause them pain. Then the doctor begins little by little by making the addicts do many things that make them happy, but which do not involve gambling or money.
This is so that addicted people over time begin to realize that there are many other things in the real world for them to do and have fun and doctors keep asking addicts about the problems they have and help addicts solve those problems while they are having fun. with other things, for example, suppose that an employee of a company is humiliated every day at work by his colleagues because he is very thin, because of these humiliations this thin employee spends a lot of time at home playing at the casino and becomes addicted to gambling. unlucky and quickly
So the doctor goes out with him every day to some place so he can have fun in that place but without any gambling, the doctor stays talking to him in that place. makes him laugh a lot, asks him what he would like to do in this place, with time spent doing this every day, the skinny addict will stop being afraid of people, he will stop feeling inferior and he will accept himself and not bother more when they call him skinny and he will make friends and stop his gambling addiction.
It is not a treatment that takes a few days. It takes a long time to completely cure an addict, it has high financial costs and you have to have a lot of patience. but it's worth it because it saves people's lives, unfortunately most relatives give up on the addicted person early, this is what makes it most difficult for addicts to heal, because relatives keep pressuring and condemning the addict
It's about escaping something deeper than drug or behavior. Self-medication is often used to manage discomfort. Good addiction treatment works by identifying the root cause of the addiction rather than just advising someone to stop. Escape from such trap is brutal. Replace that short fix with something real and joyful. Consider a self-conscious individual who gambles to forget his emotions. Take him out, eliminate the gambling, make it fun, and he steadily rebuilds his confidence. It's slow and difficult, but feasible.
Recovery isn't only quitting your addiction. Understanding what led you there and developing healthy life habits... It's about finding life's meaning again, not just therapy.