Gambling Addiction
7 Tools to Beat Addiction
Stanton Peele (Paperback) Three Rivers Press 2004-07-27
Release date: 2004-07-27
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I checked Wikipedia for information on the efficacy of hypnotherapy for addictions, and it doesn't say too much, mainly that most that studies show mixed results. So, it might be worth a try.
And while I know that you didn't ask about this, I hope you don't mind if I give you an opinion.
Addicts usually have a lot more going on with them than just the additive behavior. There's a long list of possible causes of compulsive gambling, and they are usually related to an underlying emotional problem. I'm not sure that there is a quick fix for it, including hypnotherapy.
While hypnotherapy might curb the urge to gamble for while, it doesn't address those underlying causes, teach coping skills, or offer a support system the way Gamblers Anonymous or psychotherapy does. I don't know if this family member is close to you, but if so, you might want to check out gam-anon, or talk to an addiction specialist to find out the best way to help him.
Best of luck!
quot;People that are addicted to gambling are much like people addicted to drugs. You dont know what they are willing to do to get their hands on ...
A Gambling Addiction is a sickness, and it needs treated immediatley or lives will be ruined. It can affect the wellbeing of the family by spending all of the family money to buy lottery tickets if your addiction gets bad enough, and then when you have no family, that's when it starts affecting YOU. You have no money and you're doing anything you can for a dollar or two to spend on a scratch-off. You have no house, no family, no life, no money. You will be sad, lonely, and very sick if you let a gambling addiction untreated
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A family member has a serious addiction to gambling, as well as alcohol and drugs. Within the family we have tried everything without success. We need to find an expert who could come in and provide some intense confrontation/intervention assistance. We are in Canberra, Australia. THANK YOU!
There is a TV show on A & E channel called "Intervention" at the end they always put up contact info about getting help. Try that and good luck. Just google, even if your in Australia, I'm sure they can help you if not direct you to someone near you.
My boyfriend has a history of a bad gambling addiction. It started as a teenager and has continued into adulthood. He's gone broke b/c of it, but is working very hard to get his life back together.
Other than his past addiction, he's the perfect guy. He's so nice, caring, really wants a family and all that.
However, I'm worried once he gets some money again, he'll start gambling. I really want to break his addiction. We want to get engaged within the next 2 years.
I just don't want a relationship with him if he starts gambling again. I want him to seek counseling or something.
What are some ways I can go about getting him some GOOD quality help?
I can't imagine not being with him.
Sorry to read about your problem, you have my sympathies.
However, having been there all my life, gambling and wasting money in the hope of something.
IF you BOTH really want a result in life then its down to YOU...........mainly to be strong for the both of you.
He WILL weaken at times, but you need to know and understand this AND support him.
Counselling works for a few people maybe.
Good quality help will come from the strength you can share together.
Gambling usually hides an underlying unhappiness from somewhere, maybe back in his past.
TALK lots together, find out the root cause of his addiction, work on it, and try not to let him have access to money to gamble with.
Only time will tell the outcome, GOOD LUCK.
in may this year i had his son and 2 weeks after he was born i discovered my partner had been lying about everything - pretending to go 2 work & spending all day in the bookies & he lost all our savings & rent which lead to us loosing our house & after being found out then got defensive & tried blaming me so i left with the children & set up a new home of my own with the kids. For the last 5 months he has begged for us back & tried to show me he had mended his ways & i softened & took him back but i didnt let him move back in, i realised he was still playing poker (casinos/pubs/online) & lying to me about it & when i told him to give it up or loose us he told me he couldnt stop playing because it is his life!!! This has gutted me that he could choose poker over us after everything but i know it is an addiction & i want to try & help him only i dont know where 2 start, i have 2 try 4 my family, has anyone been through this or know where i should start?
He has to want to get over his addiction first.
There are support groups. Try Gamblers Anonymous. People that are going through the same thing you are and him.
You dear have to decide which is more important here, the family thing or tearing up your life to help someone that may not want it.
gamblersanonymous.com Go from there.
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(SkyNewswire.com)--- Escaping from the damp streets of Glasgow to the tropical climate of the Caribbean seemed like a wonderful opportunity to Caroline Sarin and her family, but when her husband was killed in a tragic road accident, this dream turned into a nightmare. Forced to return to the UK, Caroline found her husband had been secretly hiding his gambling addiction from her, and she was liable for his debt. Caroline met Wayne Sarin in London in 1997 where they both worked in a call centre for a major telecoms company, and they quickly got engaged. Wayne was originally from Trincity in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, and in the three years before they got married they travelled to the island twice, staying with Wayne’s welcoming family. Wayne was always keen to move back to Trinidad, and after being married for a 3 years and the birth of their daughter Nicole, Caroline agreed to emigrate. “It was a totally crazy really, there was just too much to organise at once!” says Caroline. “We had a new child, had to work out travel and passports and visas and everything, say goodbye to our old friends and organise our new life in Trinidad. I spent most of my time looking after our daughter Nicole, and Wayne was in charge of the finances. We had a joint account but I rarely enquired about it. I trusted Wayne, why would I need to? I was busy working out the new mess of houses, schools, jobs and a million other things. Looking back I think I was completely unprepared, but we got there.” “I got the call quite early, 11pm, I wasn’t really expecting Wayne to be back until much later in the evening because he was working at the club, and I’ve never been sure why he was even driving at the time.” says Caroline. “It was my sister-in-law, at first she wouldn’t tell me what was wrong, she just kept saying to ‘stay there’. But it was obvious from her tone that something was very wrong, and ultimately I got it out of her. She told me that Wayne had been in a road accident on the Churchill-Roosevelt bypass. I don’t think she told me then that he had been killed instantly, but I somehow knew. It was such a shock I just put down the phone, I don’t think I even hung up, and I went through to Nicole’s room and just sat there with her until my sister-in-law Donna and her husband arrived. “My advice to others thinking about emigrating - I didn’t know that Wayne was going to die, but we should have at least had a life insurance policy, we were moving abroad into the unknown, it was stupid. And if you must get a joint account make sure you keep an eye on what is going in and out of it, don’t just leave it up to trust.”.
Do You Have an Online bGambling Addiction/b?
Sadly, the answer to this question is almost always ‘no’ because gamblers rarely admit to being able to stop gambling. So many gamblers are deeply addicted to online gambling and completely powerless to stop yet insist they are not addicted, claiming to have a healthy hobby which they enjoy and which they are able to control.
This is not the case and many online gamblers are deep in debt and unable to concentrate on work, family commitments or anything of importance outside the online casinos they frequent on a daily basis.
Online gambling addictions are characterized by certain traits: A gambling addict will be unable to stay away from the online casino. Losing is not as important as playing. A gambling addict will often lose money that was reserved for other things.
Taking the first step toward recovering from an online gambling addiction is obviously to admit there is a problem in the first place and this is quite difficult for any addict.
The second step is to install an effective web filter to block online gambling sites from your home computer. You might argue that an addict will get access to a gambling casino from another computer and that is certainly true, but at least you will be able to limit the amount of time an addict spends on online gambling sites and thus limit the amount of money lost.
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