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Quote from: iTradeChips on May 29, 2021, 03:28:49 AM

If you are going to check on it further there are a lot of shrinks that can be consulted for gambling addiction, addiction in general. I would be careful as to what these doctors will give you as treatment. For me, the advise and the plans of action would be sufficient. If they will give me a medicine or a supplement, then that is a whole different story. Some of these medicines that they prescribe might not be good for me. So I need to be sure that I will not drink any medicine nor buy the medicine that they recommend.

First of all it is not "shrinks" it is psychologists that helps people, if you call them shrinks then there is really not much that we can argue with you and there is no way you could ever convince any person EVEN IF you tell the truth, pick your words carefully or you could say 2+2 equals 4 and you would still not be listened to.

Secondly medicine is only good for a while, it is to get rid of the early days, and if you can handle it yourself then you do not have to take it but just like any other addiction medicine helps you get rid of that first month type of level where you want it the most, you do not get it after 5 years because you are doing better. So, medicine for the first few months and then just keep the therapy for years to make sure you have it under control (first a bit more frequently like once a week, then once a month and then once 3 months then once 6 months) would be the ideal way to handle it.

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Quote from: iTradeChips on May 29, 2021, 03:28:49 AM

If you are going to check on it further there are a lot of shrinks that can be consulted for gambling addiction, addiction in general. I would be careful as to what these doctors will give you as treatment. For me, the advise and the plans of action would be sufficient. If they will give me a medicine or a supplement, then that is a whole different story. Some of these medicines that they prescribe might not be good for me. So I need to be sure that I will not drink any medicine nor buy the medicine that they recommend.

Why would someone be careful with the treatment that's going to be given by those consulting doctors? That treatment includes those plans of action.

It's not all about medicine but also with help and therapy.

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If you are going to check on it further there are a lot of shrinks that can be consulted for gambling addiction, addiction in general. I would be careful as to what these doctors will give you as treatment. For me, the advise and the plans of action would be sufficient. If they will give me a medicine or a supplement, then that is a whole different story. Some of these medicines that they prescribe might not be good for me. So I need to be sure that I will not drink any medicine nor buy the medicine that they recommend.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on May 27, 2021, 08:25:24 AM

Quote from: qwertyup23 on May 24, 2021, 04:53:14 PM

Personally, one of the best (if not the best) support system that a gambler could seek for would be his/her immediate family and peers. No one understands more than the gambler than his family or friends. No matter what happens, family will always be the one who would support and seek guidance in order to get through this rough road.

In the event that the family is unavailable, I would advice to seek some local government or NGOs that support addiction in general. They provide workshops and other relevant activities that would transform your addiction and re-focus such into other recreational activities.

That's the sad part about it, most of the time, your family is the one who will say bad things about you because of your addiction, instead of helping they will discourage you on everything you'll do to change yourself. So the normal response of our body is to listen to them, and make ourselves even more helpless and hopeless, therefore you'll never think of asking help to other people because your mind would say "they are not going to help you too".

Yeah, it happens a lot with gamblers: people turn their backs on them when something terrible happens. And I think that says more about the society we live in and the whole perception of gambling. Many family members fail to understand that addiction is a disease, and they should neither encourage nor condemn for that, but rather truly try and help.
Also, I think it says a lot about one's family, and the person with such "support" during difficult times maybe should reconsider whom to include in the closest circle and avoid this toxicity, which families can bring upon their members, it only makes things worse.

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Quote from: Renampun on May 28, 2021, 03:07:50 PM

Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 02:04:39 PM

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sad to hear that a girl was addicted to gambling at a young age and lost a lot of money...

I'm not sure this girl will have a good future but if her addiction goes away then she has the potential to become a better person. Psychiatry is usually the best place to treat any kind of addiction and today in almost all cities there are psychiatric services.

When it comes to addiction then theres no certain age would really be exempted when addiction hits you but its bad nor not right to make out conclusions on presuming someone would have a bad future.

Maybe later on that girl would able to recover on such addiction and would make her life even way more better.No one knows but it cant be avoided on not to make out some comments in regards to that.

Only yourself could really help when getting out of addiction but it wouldnt be easy as it sounds.

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Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 02:04:39 PM

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sad to hear that a girl was addicted to gambling at a young age and lost a lot of money...

I'm not sure this girl will have a good future but if her addiction goes away then she has the potential to become a better person. Psychiatry is usually the best place to treat any kind of addiction and today in almost all cities there are psychiatric services.

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Quote from: goinmerry on May 25, 2021, 05:59:27 PM

Quote from: Ryker1 on May 25, 2021, 05:57:11 PM

Well, there is a lot of suggestions but I think you can seek help adolescent psychologist near your place, it is good if it is actual treatment not just talking online or else calling them because addiction is not easy to cure, it will take a long process before it will heal.

Since you have mentioned addiction, the problem here is, a gambler that already out of the mind will not seek any help. They need someone to assist them on the way and if possible, by force. They won't surely like the idea of undergoing gambling rehabilitation so as much as possible they need everyone's help just to convince them to do so.

There will be no healing but educating them on what to do. Gambling is not a disease that needs to be cured but instead a thing that needs to be responsibly done. There are lots of gamblers that regularly gamble but still on their proper mind to act like a normal person.

And it can't be otherwise. According to stats, 26% of the world population are gamblers to varying degrees. Our world can't afford having so many problem people, it simply wouldn't survive. Even if only half of gamblers were likely to become gambling addicts, gambling would be banned everywhere. But in reality the vast majority of gamblers are healthy people(mentally).

Gambling addiction is a huge problem that must be addressed, no doubt about that. I'm just writing the above to show that it's not a rule(actually very far from that) that if you gamble you will necessarily become an addict.

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Quote from: geegaw on May 25, 2021, 11:50:38 AM

Quote from: qwertyup23 on May 24, 2021, 04:53:14 PM

Personally, one of the best (if not the best) support system that a gambler could seek for would be his/her immediate family and peers. No one understands more than the gambler than his family or friends. No matter what happens, family will always be the one who would support and seek guidance in order to get through this rough road.

In the event that the family is unavailable, I would advice to seek some local government or NGOs that support addiction in general. They provide workshops and other relevant activities that would transform your addiction and re-focus such into other recreational activities.

Unfortunately, perhaps gamblers hate a serious discussion of their gambling problems and they often respond very superficially to questions from family and friends, and until people realize the symptoms of a gambling addiction, a state of debt piled up and can't get out, it's really hard to help someone in such a situation. And if the family can't help, community organizations only make the addicts alienated from society, the gambler just likes to hide in the dark corners of society and doesn't like to contact others.

One of the reasons why gambling addiction can proceed to such stages is that unlike other addictions in which you can clearly see the effects of someone that is addicted, for example in the case of alcohol if every time that you see your friend or family member he has obvious signs that he has been drinking then you can easily tell that he has a problem with alcohol, but in the case of gambling addiction this is not possible as the only way to tell if a person is addicted is to see him at the casino over and over again or see how indebted he is and neither of those two things can be easily observed unless you make an effort to do so.

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Quote from: qwertyup23 on May 24, 2021, 04:53:14 PM

Personally, one of the best (if not the best) support system that a gambler could seek for would be his/her immediate family and peers. No one understands more than the gambler than his family or friends. No matter what happens, family will always be the one who would support and seek guidance in order to get through this rough road.

In the event that the family is unavailable, I would advice to seek some local government or NGOs that support addiction in general. They provide workshops and other relevant activities that would transform your addiction and re-focus such into other recreational activities.

That's the sad part about it, most of the time, your family is the one who will say bad things about you because of your addiction, instead of helping they will discourage you on everything you'll do to change yourself. So the normal response of our body is to listen to them, and make ourselves even more helpless and hopeless, therefore you'll never think of asking help to other people because your mind would say "they are not going to help you too".

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Quote from: goinmerry on May 25, 2021, 05:59:27 PM

Quote from: Ryker1 on May 25, 2021, 05:57:11 PM

Well, there is a lot of suggestions but I think you can seek help adolescent psychologist near your place, it is good if it is actual treatment not just talking online or else calling them because addiction is not easy to cure, it will take a long process before it will heal.

Since you have mentioned addiction, the problem here is, a gambler that already out of the mind will not seek any help. They need someone to assist them on the way and if possible, by force. They won't surely like the idea of undergoing gambling rehabilitation so as much as possible they need everyone's help just to convince them to do so.

There will be no healing but educating them on what to do. Gambling is not a disease that needs to be cured but instead a thing that needs to be responsibly done. There are lots of gamblers that regularly gamble but still on their proper mind to act like a normal person.

All matters on how you do treat gambling and this is where good control differs on each person because not all would really be good at that. Some would able to handle but there are some who cant which do
really ending up on getting addicted.

Its true that addicted ones wouldnt really like much of help specially if it would be done on forcibly and its true that this isnt a sickness that needing to be cured but rather on that thing you do said about
educating and make yourself getting aware on thats the truth.

You can solve out problems like these on your own but its wont be easy as it sounds.

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Quote from: Ryker1 on May 25, 2021, 05:57:11 PM

Well, there is a lot of suggestions but I think you can seek help adolescent psychologist near your place, it is good if it is actual treatment not just talking online or else calling them because addiction is not easy to cure, it will take a long process before it will heal.

Since you have mentioned addiction, the problem here is, a gambler that already out of the mind will not seek any help. They need someone to assist them on the way and if possible, by force. They won't surely like the idea of undergoing gambling rehabilitation so as much as possible they need everyone's help just to convince them to do so.

There will be no healing but educating them on what to do. Gambling is not a disease that needs to be cured but instead a thing that needs to be responsibly done. There are lots of gamblers that regularly gamble but still on their proper mind to act like a normal person.

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Well, there is a lot of suggestions but I think you can seek help adolescent psychologist near your place, it is good if it is actual treatment not just talking online or else calling them because addiction is not easy to cure, it will take a long process before it will heal. Usually, committing to rehabilitation is one of the most effective ways as a step of treatment and should undergo different therapies such as Behavior, Trauma, and Holistic therapy. We have also our local government who had a treatment like this if you can not afford to hire a psychologist alone.

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Quote from: michellee on May 25, 2021, 10:33:47 AM

Quote from: qwertyup23 on May 24, 2021, 04:53:14 PM

Personally, one of the best (if not the best) support system that a gambler could seek for would be his/her immediate family and peers. No one understands more than the gambler than his family or friends. No matter what happens, family will always be the one who would support and seek guidance in order to get through this rough road.

In the event that the family is unavailable, I would advice to seek some local government or NGOs that support addiction in general. They provide workshops and other relevant activities that would transform your addiction and re-focus such into other recreational activities.

I think he will feel not right if he shares his problem with someone who does not close to him because that will make him feel uncomfortable. Instead of searching for that local government help or institutions related to the addiction, he will keep that secret for himself. It needs more attention for people who close to him to watch what changes from him because if other people see something wrong with that addicted gambler, they will try to communicate or ask that person. With a little conversation, I think other people will know that person has a problem that needs to be solved right away.

If a person addicted to gambling must be hidden for himself, a person who is addicted to gambling does not want to know that he is addicted
to gambling. There are even some gamblers who are addicted, he doesn't want to admit that he is addicted. So from the family duty is to pay
attention to each member of the family, usually people who are addicted to gambling experience financial problems, and this sooner or later
the closest people will surely realize that one of their members is addicted to gambling. If it is like that it is indeed the best step to try to deal
with the problem of gambling addiction by the family first, if it still cannot be cured, Therefore, people who are addicted to gambling are very
forced to be handled by local government help or institutions that are used to dealing with the problem of gambling addiction.

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Quote from: bitzizzix on May 25, 2021, 02:51:59 PM

Quote from: Dadan on May 25, 2021, 01:00:51 PM

Quote from: bitzizzix on May 25, 2021, 12:20:09 PM

I personally use the most effective way, in my opinion the way to overcome gambling addiction is to be closer to the creator (God). because the closer you are to him, the further away from bad things such as gambling and so on.
and this has been proven by some people, of course, will immediately get the benefits, don't delay it and do it seriously and with sincere intentions.

It is better if we ask for help from the one who created us, namely God and continue to do it in a real way, and pray that God will help you.

I'm catholic, but I don't think this is an effective way to overcome the gambling addiction unless the person is very faithful to god. Attending church every Sunday and doing church activities can help you stop thinking about gambling. Doing church activities have a significant impact. For me, the best solution is to get a consult from a professional or even your parents and do some outside activities or even hang out with your friends/family. In this way, it can distract you from thinking about gambling.

Don't be offended and have to read it well my friends, I mean getting closer to God related to religious activities and so on or positive things.
I am a Muslim and I mean it is effective because my religion requires prayer five times a day and it is obligatory, and if it is really practiced it is useful to treat any addiction due to busy prayer and other religious activities and must also be accompanied by sincere prayers.
and I also claim to do other ways in real terms including those you mentioned consulting with experts and others.

Religious aspects does count or anything that would really give space for you to avoid gambling and making out yourself busy and of course its not bad to seek for some help through prayer.
Dont know if others do really see this to be relevant but for religious people then this thing does help and if you do really mean it on quitting gambling then its up into ones self on how they do
deal with it. Lots of ways for you to avoid gambling but once addiction sticks on you then its undeniable that this wont really be an easy one but doesnt mean
that it cant be cured.Therefore, if you dont like to experience such things then better be in your control when you do gamble.

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Quote from: Dadan on May 25, 2021, 01:00:51 PM

Quote from: bitzizzix on May 25, 2021, 12:20:09 PM

I personally use the most effective way, in my opinion the way to overcome gambling addiction is to be closer to the creator (God). because the closer you are to him, the further away from bad things such as gambling and so on.
and this has been proven by some people, of course, will immediately get the benefits, don't delay it and do it seriously and with sincere intentions.

It is better if we ask for help from the one who created us, namely God and continue to do it in a real way, and pray that God will help you.

I'm catholic, but I don't think this is an effective way to overcome the gambling addiction unless the person is very faithful to god. Attending church every Sunday and doing church activities can help you stop thinking about gambling. Doing church activities have a significant impact. For me, the best solution is to get a consult from a professional or even your parents and do some outside activities or even hang out with your friends/family. In this way, it can distract you from thinking about gambling.

Don't be offended and have to read it well my friends, I mean getting closer to God related to religious activities and so on or positive things.
I am a Muslim and I mean it is effective because my religion requires prayer five times a day and it is obligatory, and if it is really practiced it is useful to treat any addiction due to busy prayer and other religious activities and must also be accompanied by sincere prayers.
and I also claim to do other ways in real terms including those you mentioned consulting with experts and others.

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Quote from: bitzizzix on May 23, 2021, 12:07:29 PM

There is no need to open up or tell others about your gambling addiction, just tell your family honestly because no matter how difficult your problem is, only your family will really help you, not anyone else.
I am sure your family will do their best to find ways or information and advice that can touch your heart so that you are aware and free from gambling addiction.

Family can help but young age people are more close to their friends than they are to their parents which is why I would suggest informing some of your selective friends about it. Not every friend because you don't want to become a joke or the talk of the town for a problem you are facing.

When I was young, I had a problem talking with my parents about personal problems. You can think of it like how one hesitates to talk about sex or porn to their family but would be laughing it off with your friends. Letting your best friends know about your problems relaxes you and you get the best suggestions from them. What's important is to make sure the friends or people you discuss your personal problems with aren't going to take advantage of it.

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I am not aware of much schemes that prevents gambling addicts but recently it was discussed in the forum so I came to know about Gamstop self exculsion programme for great Britain.

https://www.gamstop.co.uk/

They help you to enroll with them and you enter into a legal aggreement with them according to which they restricts you to gamble on any site until a particular time or for the time of your contract.Many people are becoming addicted to gambling these days and lossing their hard earned money as well as their social life due to it.So these schemes are gaining huge popularity to stop them.

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Quote from: bitzizzix on May 25, 2021, 12:20:09 PM

I personally use the most effective way, in my opinion the way to overcome gambling addiction is to be closer to the creator (God). because the closer you are to him, the further away from bad things such as gambling and so on.
and this has been proven by some people, of course, will immediately get the benefits, don't delay it and do it seriously and with sincere intentions.

It is better if we ask for help from the one who created us, namely God and continue to do it in a real way, and pray that God will help you.

I'm catholic, but I don't think this is an effective way to overcome the gambling addiction unless the person is very faithful to god. Attending church every Sunday and doing church activities can help you stop thinking about gambling. Doing church activities have a significant impact. For me, the best solution is to get a consult from a professional or even your parents and do some outside activities or even hang out with your friends/family. In this way, it can distract you from thinking about gambling.

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At a severe addiction level I think they really need an expert, but I think a tolerable gambling addict should not see an expert for consultation. In my opinion, a gambling addict should have a positive mindset about the gambling they are doing. A severe addiction has caused them to think about money over and over and try to recoup their losses. Gambling shouldn't be like that, because gambling is a place for fun.

Set the limit on the time and use of money for gambling is part of addiction control. I have done it and in the last 2 month I have only gambled no more than 3 times.

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I personally use the most effective way, in my opinion the way to overcome gambling addiction is to be closer to the creator (God). because the closer you are to him, the further away from bad things such as gambling and so on.
and this has been proven by some people, of course, will immediately get the benefits, don't delay it and do it seriously and with sincere intentions.

It is better if we ask for help from the one who created us, namely God and continue to do it in a real way, and pray that God will help you.

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