Stop Compulsive Gambling: Treatments That Work
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You can learn to stop compulsive gambling and you can do so however chronic or extreme the problem has been. Excessive gambling can ruin lives, but you probably dont need us to tell you that but there is a cure. The powerful and direct treatments we give people using the best from the fields of NLP and hypnosis, have proven to be effective in helping people to overcome problem gambling.
This is not counselling or therapy, these are pragmatic techniques that are built from studying how the gambler thinks, and how to train their mind to think differently. It is more like reconditioning and training than therapy. We dont want you to talk for hours about how difficult things have been for you, we just want to get on with getting you over the addiction, fast.
All addictions have some factors in common. The person thinks about what they are addicted to, they get a good feeling, then they carry out the behaviour. Do this enough times and it becomes automatic, a learned way of being, a habit. However big the habit, or pattern of thinking, it can be changed. In our experience all habits can be changed and often much faster than people expect.
So get in touch with one of us. JustBeWell has clinics worldwide and may well be able to help you to stop compulsive gambling for good.
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South Korea dealing with online addiction
SOUTH KOREA – In South Korea, a shocking case of high-tech neglect was recently tried in court: a young couple racked up incessant hours raising a virtual child at an internet gaming cafe, even as their own flesh and blood 3-month-old infant gradually starved to death. The incident has exposed a darker side of South Korea’s highly developed broadband infrastructure: internet addiction.
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Gambling Addiction
Researchers warn that very few online gambling addicts realize they have a problem.
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Internet Gambling, Online Poker Addiction
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The American Psychiatric Association issued a health advisory (January 16, 2001) about Internet gambling. The advisory, from the committee on Treatment Services for Addicted Patients, notes that there has been tremendous growth of gambling opportunities in the last several years. This includes Internet gambling aimed at children and teenagers. Children can link to gambling sites from other game sites, and are lured by free gifts and discounts.
Internet gambling can be more dangerous than other forms of gambling since there are few – if any – regulations as to fairness, and most of the operators are outside the US. These operations are not regulated by state or federal statutes, so there is no control over the types of games available or the ages of the participants. Hackers can manipulate the games, and can gain access to credit card numbers and funds.
As of 2000, there were more than 1,300 online gambling sites with revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Research has shown a correlation between the availability of legal gambling in a state, and the proportion of the state’s population who report gambling addiction or lesser problems. In all states, the rates of gambling problems are highest in high school and college-aged young adults. According to the advisory, about 10% to 15% of young people surveyed in the US and Canada report having experienced one or more problems related to gambling. This includes an estimated 1% to 6% who may satisfy the diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling.
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Compulsive Gambling, Problem Gambling, Gambling Addiction
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“Whether it’s in a casino or online, poker and other games of chance are becoming increasingly popular. It’s not just men who are addicted, a growing number of women are becoming compulsive gamblers, too. Early Show correspondent Hattie Kauffman takes a closer look at the troubling trend,” news anchor.
“The reality is the longer you gamble compulsively, which is what I was doing, the more you become a compulsive liar,” Melanie Morgan, former gambling addict.
“In the 1980s Melanie Morgan was a successful television anchor until her gambling addiction cost her, her job and nearly destroyed her marriage,” Hattie Kauffman, CBS national correspondent.
“I would lie about where I was going, what I was doing, who I was with, how much money I was spending,” Melanie Morgan.
“Even her pregnancy did not stop Melanie from gambling,” Hattie Kauffman.
“Of course I was in a terrible environment, smoke-filled rooms, hardly taking care of myself. I was gambling until an hour before I gave birth,” Melanie Morgan.
“After her son was born, she often left the infant with an assortment of babysitters,” Kauffman.
“I remember packing up the baby one day and driving around to each of the card rooms where I thought she might be and finally locating her and taking the baby in its carrier and putting the baby in the middle of the poker table and saying, ‘You got a choice. You want to play cards or you want to be a Mom?’” Jack Morgan, Melanie’s husband.
“I knew at that point I was in desperate trouble and I knew I was sick, sick, and needed help. And I still didn’t want to stop,” Melanie Morgan.
“You might think the opportunity to gamble non-stop would be limited to a trip to Las Vegas or Atlantic City, but the temptation is everywhere. Visit here in Phoenix and you’ll be greeted with the Arizona Casino guide, listing 22 casinos, dog racing, horse racing, bingo and more,” Kauffman.
“I won $10,000 playing bingo. It just hooks you right in,” former compulsive gambler.
“Slot machines,” another compulsive gambler.
“Mine wasn’t slots, it was draw poker,” another compulsive gambler.
“I sat down with three women in recovery from compulsive gambling: Shannon, Freda, and Vicki,”
“Do you have any idea how much you’ve lost to gambling?” Kauffman.
“I’ve lost $300,000. It was all of my retirement money,” Vicki.
“I have thought it was around $35,000 but my husband has stated that it’s around $50,000,” Shannon.
“It was around $115,000 to $200,000,” Freda.
“But Freda lost a lot more than that. She lost a year of her life when she went to prison after stealing cash to gamble,” Kauffman.
“The sick compulsive gambler will do whatever they have to do to gamble,” Freda.
“It makes me think about a drug addict who steals to get the drugs,” Kauffman.
“It’s an addiction. It is an addiction,” Freda.
“Psychologist Paul Good says that it used to be women used to gamble to escape their every day life, but now more are being lured simply by the action,” Kauffman.
“A sense of excitement, of being on the edge. You are literally holding your fate in your own hands at a poker table. For a women, that could be a powerful riveting experience,” Paul Good, psychologist.
“Is it a high? Is it a euphoria?” Kauffman.
“Oh yes. Oh yes it is. It’s like a drug,” Freda.
“Especially when you hear the bells ringing,” background voice.
“According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, in the 1980s just a handful of women sought treatment for gambling addiction. Today, almost half of those seeking help for gambling addiction are female,” Kauffman.
“You are going to see gambling take its place alongside alcoholism and drug abuse as being one of the most significant addictions of our time,” Paul Good, Psychologist.
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Gambling addiction
A movie I recently made for an English Class giving some statistics about gambling addictions
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