Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction

[redsun114]

The best therapy is your admitting of what and how you gamble , because no matter what people wanted to do helping you but first you need to help yourself .
this is what gambling addiction hard to beat because we don't know what is the source and that is admittance .
if only the said gambler are willing to be helped ? surely his family are enough to make it through the gambling addiction .

Acknowledgment is important, indeed. A person who is addicted to gambling but doesn't admit it or accept the fact that they are addicted and are spending all their time and money on it will hardly be able to get any help because they are not ready to accept any help even if someone wants to help them. So the first step for an addicted gambler should be to accept that they are addicted and they are facing problems because of it so that they can get help for it.

The family or even a close friend can help them get away from their addiction once they admit it and become ready to accept the challenge. If you are addicted to gambling but aren't allowing anyone to get you out of it, you will barely be able to do it yourself because the urge won't let you.

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[masulum]

The family or even a close friend can help them get away from their addiction once they admit it and become ready to accept the challenge. If you are addicted to gambling but aren't allowing anyone to get you out of it, you will barely be able to do it yourself because the urge won't let you.

most families can't do anything. Advising is useless if he still handles the finances himself. If someone want to find a solution when any advice and threaphy doesn't works, the only thing is not to save his own money. It may be difficult, but entrusting money to someone who can trust can help overcome gambling addiction problems. For example, if the gambler trusts his wife, then he can entrust all his money to her. As long as there is clear accounting of expenses, everything should be controlled. Or by the parents, because the role of parents in saving their children's money is also very good, especially mothers. assuming, his wife and parents are not gambling addicts either.

[nullama]

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most families can't do anything. Advising is useless if he still handles the finances himself. If someone want to find a solution when any advice and threaphy doesn't works, the only thing is not to save his own money. It may be difficult, but entrusting money to someone who can trust can help overcome gambling addiction problems. For example, if the gambler trusts his wife, then he can entrust all his money to her. As long as there is clear accounting of expenses, everything should be controlled. Or by the parents, because the role of parents in saving their children's money is also very good, especially mothers. assuming, his wife and parents are not gambling addicts either.

This is mostly true, but in the sense of making the decision. The gambler needs to make the decision themselves.

But having a supporting social network around the addictive person helps a lot. Not saying that their family/friends has to make them quit, but instead their family/friends are there with them doing different activities, just going for a walk, etc.

Social bonds are incredibly powerful, and being by yourself is very dangerous.

[ethereumhunter]

Wining jackpots is a very rare cases. How many of you know won a jackpot?

Not just gambling addiction but all the addiction that are in the world is the worst. There are low cost solution, in my opinion. You just have to look for it. Keeping oneself busy can be low cost solution, spending time with your loved one can be low cost solution, hanging out with friends can be low cost solution, following religious belief can be low cost solution.

My point is anything that can help us distract our mind from gambling and focus on life can be considered low cost solution.

Maybe few of us have ever won the jackpot because it really requires a lot of luck, especially in gambling, where losses can occur more often than wins. We can experience a serious gambling addiction if we are not careful when gambling, especially since we have seen several people who are addicted to gambling.

Keeping ourselves busy would be a low-cost solution because if we could do many things all day and every day, we could forget about gambling and would not think about gambling as much as before. We will only focus on the things we do so that we can reduce gambling activities from doing these things. So it is a kind of distraction that we have to do so that we will be free from thinking about gambling and just do what we have to do.

[goxcraft]

Maybe few of us have ever won the jackpot because it really requires a lot of luck, especially in gambling, where losses can occur more often than wins. We can experience a serious gambling addiction if we are not careful when gambling, especially since we have seen several people who are addicted to gambling.

Keeping ourselves busy would be a low-cost solution because if we could do many things all day and every day, we could forget about gambling and would not think about gambling as much as before. We will only focus on the things we do so that we can reduce gambling activities from doing these things. So it is a kind of distraction that we have to do so that we will be free from thinking about gambling and just do what we have to do.

There are a few catches though. You must not cannot be lonely when trying to get out of gambling addiction. No matter what you must make sure that you are not alone. Everything I, you and the others said would be in vain, if we were left alone. Even when we are trying to keep ourselves busy, we will think of gambling throughout the whole day. We are a social being. To be able to truly keep ourselves busy, we need a person to help us. Only then we might be able to get out this.

Things like these happened with me. I know it's bad for me and my health. But despite knowing that I couldn't stop my gambling addiction. Only when my family and my friends supported me I was able to.

[Dewi Aries]

The family or even a close friend can help them get away from their addiction once they admit it and become ready to accept the challenge. If you are addicted to gambling but aren't allowing anyone to get you out of it, you will barely be able to do it yourself because the urge won't let you.

most families can't do anything. Advising is useless if he still handles the finances himself. If someone want to find a solution when any advice and threaphy doesn't works, the only thing is not to save his own money. It may be difficult, but entrusting money to someone who can trust can help overcome gambling addiction problems. For example, if the gambler trusts his wife, then he can entrust all his money to her. As long as there is clear accounting of expenses, everything should be controlled. Or by the parents, because the role of parents in saving their children's money is also very good, especially mothers. assuming, his wife and parents are not gambling addicts either.

Honestly I would not say that the role of the family would be useless in the matter of helping the person to solve his addiction problem, but usually the gambler will be more respectful of some advice from a person who is quite important in his life such as one of his family or his partner, but on the other hand if indeed the role of some of the closest people has no effect on them honestly I make sure it seems that they are already at a very severe level of addiction that will not be cured if only by throwing a few suggestions. Gambling is never done if there is no money allocated and your suggestion is quite reasonable in this case, it is true that if the family cannot help them with some suggestions then I think one of the parents or family members should take over their finances, do not let them have money in their pocket because obviously gambling is the main thing they will choose with that money.

This should be quite effective, and I think the person in control of the finances should be able to limit if they want to give money to people with addiction problems, give only a little and only for purposes that are reasonable enough to believe.

[RockBell]

The best therapy is to keep yourself busy with work throughout the day. That would fix most of the gambling addiction. I used to gamble a lot, a lot. But now that I'm so drowned in work, I can't even get time to login to my gambling platform. Working all day can be very tiring. Another thing one could do to control their gambling addiction Spend more time with friends and family, go out, hang out with friends, go to movies, parks, or beaches. There are so many things to do. Don't you think? Who needs to go to therapy and spend money? I dont.

It is a very brilliant idea because when you busy you will even hardly even have time for your self then talk more of even having time to gamble, you will be so tired and the only time you have you will want to rest. And whole point is for helping addiction and the person should be more responsible. You should be a therapist you have one of the best ways to solve the issue of addiction.  All the recommendations you given it will help in taking your mind away from gambling especially work and spending time. With this you don't need a therapy you just need to keep your self engaged and without knowing your mind will no longer want to gamble because you always busy. I will even recommend this to people in my own region.

[BitcoinPanther]

The best therapy is to keep yourself busy with work throughout the day. That would fix most of the gambling addiction. I used to gamble a lot, a lot. But now that I'm so drowned in work, I can't even get time to login to my gambling platform. Working all day can be very tiring. Another thing one could do to control their gambling addiction Spend more time with friends and family, go out, hang out with friends, go to movies, parks, or beaches.

Diversion is indeed one way to tone down  gambling addiction but I think work addiction is the same as bad as gambling addiction.  It can even deteriorate our body more faster since we work ourselves to exhaustion.  I believe it is wise to make our diversion still under our control and if we make work as substitute to gambling activities, we should make sure that have enough relaxation for our body to recuperate else we will find ourselves in trouble.

There are so many things to do. Don't you think? Who needs to go to therapy and spend money? I dont.

People who are unable to control themselves and is in need of guidance to fix their activities.  It is quite easy for a non-addicted player to say since they are not really get deeply addicted into something.  Being slightly addicted is way different than deeply addicted to gambling since the first one still have some sanity, while the latter one is fully hooked on gambling and is in need of outside help to fix his problem.

[masulum]

Honestly I would not say that the role of the family would be useless in the matter of helping the person to solve his addiction problem, but usually the gambler will be more respectful of some advice from a person who is quite important in his life such as one of his family or his partner, but on the other hand if indeed the role of some of the closest people has no effect on them honestly I make sure it seems that they are already at a very severe level of addiction that will not be cured if only by throwing a few suggestions. Gambling is never done if there is no money allocated and your suggestion is quite reasonable in this case, it is true that if the family cannot help them with some suggestions then I think one of the parents or family members should take over their finances, do not let them have money in their pocket because obviously gambling is the main thing they will choose with that money.

This should be quite effective, and I think the person in control of the finances should be able to limit if they want to give money to people with addiction problems, give only a little and only for purposes that are reasonable enough to believe.

It's true what you say, not all families give advice that is not accepted by gamblers. But, this is looking at real cases around me, some of the gamblers refuse to accept any advice. his son, wives, brother and other family already give a good advice to stop gambling, but in the end, prison is the place to stop gambling for some of them. because some are known to be criminals. That's why I say, if gambler don't have own money, he won't be able to gamble. However, this must be done by the gambler himself. If the family asks, I'm sure there will be problems between the gambler and his family, considering that gamblers who have lost a lot will tend to get emotional easily. Or limited money for him to gamble may can be an alternative just to controlled him.

[ethereumhunter]

There are a few catches though. You must not cannot be lonely when trying to get out of gambling addiction. No matter what you must make sure that you are not alone. Everything I, you and the others said would be in vain, if we were left alone. Even when we are trying to keep ourselves busy, we will think of gambling throughout the whole day. We are a social being. To be able to truly keep ourselves busy, we need a person to help us. Only then we might be able to get out this.

Things like these happened with me. I know it's bad for me and my health. But despite knowing that I couldn't stop my gambling addiction. Only when my family and my friends supported me I was able to.

We have to be able to find other things that can prevent us from feeling lonely by looking for something busy doing activities other than gambling and doing it all day and every day so that we don't think about gambling. By having other activities, we will focus on doing those activities and will not think about gambling. Yes, we are social creatures so we need to meet other people so we can interact and do something that can divert our attention from gambling. If we start to get used to this activity, slowly we will be able to divert our attention to gambling completely and will not depend on gambling to get pleasure.

Gathering with new friends who can give us ideas for things to do can help us find activities that we can do. And they will also support us if we really want to stay away from gambling.

[len01]

We have to be able to find other things that can prevent us from feeling lonely by looking for something busy doing activities other than gambling and doing it all day and every day so that we don't think about gambling. By having other activities, we will focus on doing those activities and will not think about gambling. Yes, we are social creatures so we need to meet other people so we can interact and do something that can divert our attention from gambling. If we start to get used to this activity, slowly we will be able to divert our attention to gambling completely and will not depend on gambling to get pleasure.

Gathering with new friends who can give us ideas for things to do can help us find activities that we can do. And they will also support us if we really want to stay away from gambling.

there are lots of ways to overcome addiction at a lower cost and the method you said could be the first alternative to forget for a moment thoughts about gambling, gather with friends, but you also have to choose to gather with friends who have a positive outlook without involving discussions of gambling or just other discussions because if not we can choose the wrong friends and when we get together we will only discuss gambling again and its the same thing.

another way, as you said, is to look for something else to do, which is also a very good alternative, looking for a side job, maybe it will be a little difficult to force yourself to do that side job, but if you really intend to avoid addiction, no matter how bad and how uncomfortable it is, get used to positive things provide a good impact in the long term.

[EarnOnVictor]

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.

Well said! First, if it were to be in my country, a private session in a private establishment would be the best choice. The money will not be a waste that much in the private establishment when it comes to the respect, treatment and genuineness they will accord to you and your case. This is unlike the government establishments which is mostly a hospital, in this case, they act as if they don't just care and they could be so annoying, for real.

That aside, addiction is so powerful that it's not as simple as thinking it could be defeated through the diversion of your attention to something else, it's beyond that. Fine, this is one of the general sayings that are most popular among therapists, psychiatrists and the rest, but in practice, it's not working if the mind is still very polluted. Other alternatives would be so boring at that time, so it takes a mind change to arrest that. I know this because I was addicted myself to something, there was no advice that was precious at that time. The only thing that helped me was when I was actually determined to let go all by myself, and this is where willpower comes in.

The determination to say No should come first if anyone wants to be healed of any addiction, it is only then that any prescription and advice can work. You first need to set your mind free of it for you to be able to fight. And guess what, it will be easy by then.

[wxa7115]

Honestly I would not say that the role of the family would be useless in the matter of helping the person to solve his addiction problem, but usually the gambler will be more respectful of some advice from a person who is quite important in his life such as one of his family or his partner, but on the other hand if indeed the role of some of the closest people has no effect on them honestly I make sure it seems that they are already at a very severe level of addiction that will not be cured if only by throwing a few suggestions. Gambling is never done if there is no money allocated and your suggestion is quite reasonable in this case, it is true that if the family cannot help them with some suggestions then I think one of the parents or family members should take over their finances, do not let them have money in their pocket because obviously gambling is the main thing they will choose with that money.

This should be quite effective, and I think the person in control of the finances should be able to limit if they want to give money to people with addiction problems, give only a little and only for purposes that are reasonable enough to believe.

It's true what you say, not all families give advice that is not accepted by gamblers. But, this is looking at real cases around me, some of the gamblers refuse to accept any advice. his son, wives, brother and other family already give a good advice to stop gambling, but in the end, prison is the place to stop gambling for some of them. because some are known to be criminals. That's why I say, if gambler don't have own money, he won't be able to gamble. However, this must be done by the gambler himself. If the family asks, I'm sure there will be problems between the gambler and his family, considering that gamblers who have lost a lot will tend to get emotional easily. Or limited money for him to gamble may can be an alternative just to controlled him.

There are some people out there that cannot understand their lives without their addiction, and the only way they will stop is if they are unable to get physical access to the source of their addiction, however even those that end up setting foot on jail may still find a way to keep their addiction going.

After all even if the inside of a jail is supposed to be an environment that is highly restricted, prisoners still find a way to gamble or even to introduce illegal drugs inside the prison.

[nullama]

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There are some people out there that cannot understand their lives without their addiction, and the only way they will stop is if they are unable to get physical access to the source of their addiction, however even those that end up setting foot on jail may still find a way to keep their addiction going.

After all even if the inside of a jail is supposed to be an environment that is highly restricted, prisoners still find a way to get gamble or even to introduce illegal drugs inside the prison.

Well, the quote "you are what you do" is actually quite true.

Whatever behaviors and actions you perform frequently, is basically what your life is.

So, if you keep gambling continually, then you are a gambler, literally.

You can always change your life, day by day, by changing what you do today. And tomorrow. And the next day.

[ethereumhunter]

there are lots of ways to overcome addiction at a lower cost and the method you said could be the first alternative to forget for a moment thoughts about gambling, gather with friends, but you also have to choose to gather with friends who have a positive outlook without involving discussions of gambling or just other discussions because if not we can choose the wrong friends and when we get together we will only discuss gambling again and its the same thing.

another way, as you said, is to look for something else to do, which is also a very good alternative, looking for a side job, maybe it will be a little difficult to force yourself to do that side job, but if you really intend to avoid addiction, no matter how bad and how uncomfortable it is, get used to positive things provide a good impact in the long term.

Yes, there are indeed many ways to overcome gambling addiction at a low cost. It depends on a person's willingness to want to overcome his gambling addiction and realize that he is already addicted to gambling. Many gamblers who are addicted to gambling cannot realize this so they have difficulty finding ways to overcome their gambling addiction. Instead of finding a way, they end up getting deeper into gambling and can't get out of gambling even if someone asks them to do something else. In fact, doing other things that seem simple can help distract him from thinking about gambling, even for a while.

But when he has finished doing other activities, he will probably think that what he just did was really interesting and still makes him curious to try it again. And if from there he has the desire to find other things, he will definitely look for them the next day and his attention from gambling will slowly be diverted. But if he is not affected by anything after doing other activities, he will return to gambling again as if nothing happened.

[EluguHcman]

@ OP how can you have this thread titled "Low cost" but effective solutions to gambling addiction" and expantiated on the contexts that it is expensive and unaffordable to lower incomers or unemployed?

I would say that therapy maybe helpful to manage addiction but the truth is that the best advice ones would have is the one given to oneself. Sometimes people may not have really make up their minds to give up theirs disorderliness such as an addiction.
Some may need help but wouldn't appreciate the opportunity when it comes so I am trying to say that it is basically not about having a therapist but self minded made up is a better key word to begin fighting against an addiction.

A self expression to trusted families and friends and your flexibilities to listening to them could be also be a domestic remedy also finding a Worth-ful role model that you can feel to imitate.

[junder]

We have to be able to find other things that can prevent us from feeling lonely by looking for something busy doing activities other than gambling and doing it all day and every day so that we don't think about gambling. By having other activities, we will focus on doing those activities and will not think about gambling. Yes, we are social creatures so we need to meet other people so we can interact and do something that can divert our attention from gambling. If we start to get used to this activity, slowly we will be able to divert our attention to gambling completely and will not depend on gambling to get pleasure.

Gathering with new friends who can give us ideas for things to do can help us find activities that we can do. And they will also support us if we really want to stay away from gambling.

there are lots of ways to overcome addiction at a lower cost and the method you said could be the first alternative to forget for a moment thoughts about gambling, gather with friends, but you also have to choose to gather with friends who have a positive outlook without involving discussions of gambling or just other discussions because if not we can choose the wrong friends and when we get together we will only discuss gambling again and its the same thing.

another way, as you said, is to look for something else to do, which is also a very good alternative, looking for a side job, maybe it will be a little difficult to force yourself to do that side job, but if you really intend to avoid addiction, no matter how bad and how uncomfortable it is, get used to positive things provide a good impact in the long term.

Yes and it is true, I also think that there are actually quite a lot of ways that they can do to solve their addiction problems, actually this is a simple problem and you don't need to spend quite a lot of money to solve this problem, the question is "willing or not" that's all, if you already have the intention to quit gambling then I'm sure you have your own way in yourself to overcome this problem as long as you are willing and have a very strong intention to quit gambling activities. Honestly I was one of the victims of addiction two years ago, such conditions are very painful and also full of pressure especially in terms of finances that became destroyed, but now I have managed to get through all that, the way I do is to keep myself busy with other activities, whether it's like what you said by increasing the time to hang out with friends or family, but I used to choose to increase my day job to make money for sure as you suggested and I have proven that it works.

The first week was tough because I had to give up my gambling habit because I had a busy schedule from work which increased, but believe me you will feel a state where you don't remember gambling anymore, and when you see other people gambling then you will not be too interested in seeing it, like a boredom for that activity.

[dezoel]

The family or even a close friend can help them get away from their addiction once they admit it and become ready to accept the challenge. If you are addicted to gambling but aren't allowing anyone to get you out of it, you will barely be able to do it yourself because the urge won't let you.

most families can't do anything. Advising is useless if he still handles the finances himself. If someone want to find a solution when any advice and threaphy doesn't works, the only thing is not to save his own money. It may be difficult, but entrusting money to someone who can trust can help overcome gambling addiction problems. For example, if the gambler trusts his wife, then he can entrust all his money to her. As long as there is clear accounting of expenses, everything should be controlled. Or by the parents, because the role of parents in saving their children's money is also very good, especially mothers. assuming, his wife and parents are not gambling addicts either.

What you are talking about is also a sort of help being provided by the family, so we can't say that families can't do anything because the first group of people that would want someone to get out a problem would be the family of that person because there are blood relations in a family and no mother, father, brother, sister, or even wife and children would want their beloved to be stuck in a problem but if he does, the family will always be there for him.

So, if a person admits in front of their family that they are addicted to gambling and that they are spending a lot of time and money on it but they are tired of it and they want to get rid of the addiction. I'm pretty sure that any family would become ready to do anything they can to get the guy out of the problem.

[nullama]

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What you are talking about is also a sort of help being provided by the family, so we can't say that families can't do anything because the first group of people that would want someone to get out a problem would be the family of that person because there are blood relations in a family and no mother, father, brother, sister, or even wife and children would want their beloved to be stuck in a problem but if he does, the family will always be there for him.

So, if a person admits in front of their family that they are addicted to gambling and that they are spending a lot of time and money on it but they are tired of it and they want to get rid of the addiction. I'm pretty sure that any family would become ready to do anything they can to get the guy out of the problem.

Yes, and in that example the gambler decided they want to stop. That's the key first step to make.

Then there is the supporting network, which is also key in keeping addictions away.

That gambler in the example you posted would have good chances to stay away from gambling in the future.

[arimamib]

There are some people out there that cannot understand their lives without their addiction, and the only way they will stop is if they are unable to get physical access to the source of their addiction, however even those that end up setting foot on jail may still find a way to keep their addiction going.

After all even if the inside of a jail is supposed to be an environment that is highly restricted, prisoners still find a way to get gamble or even to introduce illegal drugs inside the prison.

Addiction can be a powerful force that can drive people to engage in destructive behaviors, even in highly restricted environments like prisons. The reasons why people continue to pursue their addictions despite the negative consequences are complex and often multifaceted. Some people use addictive activities as a way to cope with difficult emotions, stress, or trauma.

Addiction often co-occurs with mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety. These conditions can make it even more difficult to overcome addiction without proper treatment. Even within prison walls, individuals can form social networks that support their addiction. This could involve sharing contraband, providing access to gambling, or even using drugs together.