Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction

[mvdheuvel1983]

One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

[cabron]

How did this unemployed person got addicted to gambling in the first place?

Cross Addiction can be one therapy. This thread came up yesterday which seems a good alternative to battle addiction which is to divert the addiction to another addictive game. Somehow it could be a solution for a while in order for the addict to divert its attention to somewhere else. He could be battling this addiction soon but at least this will be another topic. PS4 is not so bad though. Somehow addicted to PS4 games is acceptable.

[Bitcoin Smith]

"Support groups" are the alternative to therapy where you can meet the person and get experience from them who get rid of addictions.

Also, every government has free toll-free support line to deal such cases so you can seek help from them as well if you can't afford to pay for expensive therapies but the first stage of overcoming the addiction is trying to find the solution so whoever is working on it probably will overcome their addiction with no help from experts unless they are severely addicted to gambling.

And in my opinion, who can finance their long gambling actions surely can afford the treatment as well.

[len01]

there are many ways to overcome addiction at a lower cost and more effectively and it all depends on the level of addiction.

as I would say, like when someone is addicted to online gambling and when they want to recover from their addiction, they do the initial stages of closing access to the internet, which means not accessing the internet through anything and staying away from news or anything related to gambling and then venting into other activities that are more useful to divert. mind not to think about gambling and if you have the courage to hide yourself not to leave the house, that is also an effective way.

but remember everyone has stages in how addiction occurs. I mean offline or online addiction occurs and it depends on which country he lives in because some countries do not allow gambling businesses so healing yourself from addiction is a little easier if you are in a country that prohibits gambling.

[macson]

i have never tried it, but from several people's recommendations, there are 2 organizations that provide support for the recovery of gambling addicts but at a low cost, especially for gambling addicts, i suggest you try joining this community.

Therapy for gambling addiction – a global service offered by Gordon Moody, providing free practical advice and emotional support to anyone affected by gambling

[1] https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/

Welcome to the official website of the Gam-Anon® International Service Office, Inc., serving the community of international meetings of the Gam-Anon Family Groups. Gam-Anon has created this website to provide information for the general public and professional community about problem (compulsive) gambling and its financial and emotional effects on the gamblers' families and loved ones.

[1] https://gam-anon.org/

Gambling addiction is a very serious problem, if you or your relatives have an addictive tendency towards gambling then immediately cure it, don't let it be too late, there will be many problems that will come your way if your gambling addiction gets worse.

[Beparanf]

What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

Being open to your family, friends or someone close to you is the cheapest way to resolve gambling addiction. You are only gambling because you don’t have other things to do on your free time that why you get the entertainment you are missing on social to gambling.

Having someone to look for you and remind you is better alternative on therapy since the therapist usually just want you to share and talk to your problem as way of solution. Most of gambling addicted friends stop gambling after being socialized frequently in a form of bonding especially with beer. Also being busy on job and having a good salary is other alternative to solve your gambling addiction cheaply and profitable at the same time.

[bitbollo]

probably it's true this an effective (low cost) solution. but I think that anyone MUST avoid to reach a situation like this.
there is enough time to avoid this point of a gambler career. I would recommend (always) to have a "limit" on betting (play an amount of money that you can literally trash). and for people that use crypto for their gambling activity... we have a great advance with cold wallet, multi signature and so on...

[SmartGold01]

From some content I have been going through the other therapy for gamblers with no income that are being addicted is first distant yourselves from gambling, setting a limitation to yourself helps to reduce gambling addiction especially when it comes of those who doesn't have money to gamble all time setting a limitation to your funds helps to reduce gambling addiction whenever you exhausted the allocation funds for the day weeks or month as the case may be then you are free for the main time and it would help you to think of something much better than gambling maybe, as worker create out channels to always distributes your income whenever you are being paid at work you send and distribute your funds by then you won't have enough funds to gamble and it will reduce your gambling addictions.

[virasog]

Being open to your family, friends or someone close to you is the cheapest way to resolve gambling addiction. You are only gambling because you don’t have other things to do on your free time that why you get the entertainment you are missing on social to gambling.

Even though talking about your gambling addiction to your family may be the cheapest way to discuss and overcome the gambling addiction but it is the most difficult thing to do at the same time. You may tell any doctor, or any unknown person that you are having problems due to gambling addictions, but it will be so difficult to tell to your family, especially in cases when the parents and family members dislike gambling and they have already prohibited you from gambling.

You need to have a lot of courage to speak and tell about this habit of yours to your families. We never know what could be their reactions when they come to know about this fact. 

[Oilacris]

One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

Dont know if its actually cheap but this one involves with those numbers.
Dont know if this one is accurate because services cost and PF's would be entirely be depending on a certain country.

Individual Cost of Gambling Rehab
Sessions: $165

Family Cost of Gambling Rehab
Sessions: $345

Even More Affordable Option | Group Therapy
Sessions: $50

Source: https://kindbridge.com/gambling/cost-of-gambling-rehab/

With those numbers above then i dont see that it would really be that cheap or low cost. This is why some gambling addicts would really be just that
simply be keeping that addiction for themselves and wont really be tending to tell someone. Self will should be enough and then if it doesnt work then family help would be
next in line but if not then therapy would be your option.

[Slow death]

I don't know how it works in other countries, but in the case of my country, there are non-government organizations that aim to help all people who are addicted, whether to games, alcohol, sex and other mental illnesses. These organizations charge a monthly fee for the patient to live in that place isolated from family, friends and the cause of the addiction. Based on the data they have released, the number of addicts they manage to cure is a very large number, meaning it is really worth putting addicts there to be treated. There are also private clinics for people who have a lot of money to go for treatment

The fact is that an addict has no control over their financial assets, in most cases that I saw in my country it was like this. That's why it has all the responsibility of paying for the addict's hospitalization in the clinic or in the low-cost hospitalization centers that are created by non-governmental organizations, I'm talking about the case in my country. addiction is a disease like any other disease, so relatives must help in these cases, and in the case of bad luck, the patient in most cases has no conditions whatsoever to manage his money, and they even recommend that he not get it. money, which is why relatives pay all the bills related to treatment

[uneng]

It depends. Maybe your country offers therapy on the public health services available in your city. Of course the number of sessions must be more limited than when paying for a private session, but since you are looking for low costs alternatives, you have to take it into consideration. Probably a session once in a month is possible on this model of public treatment.

However, keep in mind the quality of the service has its price. After all, the professional took 5 years of his life, besides further years spent on higher specializations and updates on his career to offer the best as possible to his patients, so you really can't expect he is going to work for free or for cheap prices, unless you go to professionals who don't take their jobs seriously.

[Josefjix]

One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

Quitting gambling firstly comes with the mindset before its been physically implemented, though most people does not survived this race but only, categorically only the strong survived the space. Handling a gambling addicts is considered to be one of the difficult situations to find oneself in, I tell you for free, it's not an easy path down the road. You're right, the therapy recommendations comes with a fee, because nothing is settled free in the space, these addicts ought to pay major fee inother to have relevant responses that's pleasant to the ears.

[goinmerry]

And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?

There's no definite period or duration of the effectiveness of that therapy since it requires the cooperation of the gambler.

Even how serious the process applied, depends on the gambler on how long they can withstand the temptation of gambling.

You will find some general answers to that question via Google search or ask directly a gambling rehabilitation center near you.

[Stalker22]

I totally get that therapy can be helpful for dealing with gambling addiction.  But it can also be expensive for a lot of people. Although I guess gambling costs money too, so if you are willing to drop cash at the casino, you could probably swing some therapy sessions if you really wanted to.   
Another option might be looking into support groups.  There is a bunch online and in-person for gambling addiction and Im sure you could find something that works.   

Really though what matters most is sticking with it and being ready to change, whatever path you take.  You gotta keep at it if you really want your life back.  Thats the key.

[Spaceman1000$]

One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

Most private therapy sessions are very expensive but there are government-owned therapy doctors and personnel's  that you can get at affordable rates depending on the place you stay or your country.
But you will need to divert that addiction to something else because it cannot go almost immediately so you can either redirect it to someone else like reading books or watching a movie, pending when you will fully recover from your addition. But personally you can actually do it on your own, if you're determined to stop the addiction habit, you can do it by training yourself by giving yourself some good discipline, you where not born with it, so why can't you stop it on your own.

[Jemzx00]

How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

I'm not really sure why these people should even be gambling if they have no source of income especially for unemployed or students. They shouldn't be gambling in the first place.

Anyways, for those who are employed, usually there free therapy sessions that are provided by the company that you can use to assist you with your addiction. But for unemployed, it's best to start it with your own if you don't have any means to reach out for some help from a therapist by just trying to avoid gambling or even finding other hobby to take your time or be busy about. Also, you can try interacting or socialize with other people or even find a job or work to focus on. As for students, just focus on your study, I don't think that you'll be thinking gambling anytime soon if you're already stress with your academics.

[romero121]

There is effective solution for gambling addiction, but this can't be kept in control just on the therapy. Even in this situation if the person's mind isn't ready to accept and get rid of addiction it won't be effective. A friend of mine went to alcohol de-addiction centre and he was under treatment for about 1 month. This is not about sessions, but it was like giving complete change of life. Within the centre they'll be taught about life, counseling sessions, they'll undergo some personality improvement. When they're within the centre they never think of alcohol and they hate it. The next day he came out of it, he has started to be the same as the past. In my understanding we ourselves should have the acceptance, if not this can go ineffective.

[Docnaster]

First of all, for one to think of finding solution from gambling addiction, the person must first of all accept that he's addicted to gambling and that it's absolutely unhealthy for his life as an individual as well as his future. Then if finally admitted of gambling addiction, I think one of the easiest and low cost effective ways to stop gambling is by concluding in your heart that gambling is a destroyer of dreams and future and getting involved in it is a passport to wretchedness. That would help to give the person a totally different perspective about gambling thereby stopping gambling entirely

[alastantiger]

The very best and most effective low-cost solution to gambling addiction that I know of even before the advent of therapy is accountability to another person. This accountability comes in the form of emotional support so it is like a trade-off such that I offer you emotional support as a family member, as a friend as a significant other and then you remain accountable to me for quitting gambling.

We meet up or talking about how the journey to quitting gambling is going. I offer words of advice, books, and other resources to help you all for free. This is the best way I know that is low cost.