Overcoming Gambling Addiction
Overcoming Gambling Addiction – This straight-talking, empowering video offers essential information on how problem gambling develops, its damaging impact on individuals and families, and how it can successfully be treated. Through candid first-hand accounts from four recovering gamblers, along with illuminating commentary from mental health experts, the program shows gamblers, their families, and therapists: how an alluring diversion becomes a shameful secret as problem gambling takes hold; common myths and misperceptions about gambling–and why ‘winning big’ is so unlikely; the benefits of individual and group therapy and self-help approaches; and ways to overcome setbacks in recovery and make meaningful, lasting changes.
My gambling addiction epiphany
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One of the much-touted benefits of the addiction-as-disease model is that it helps mitigate these feelings, which are thought to stoke a fundamental psychological aspect of addictive behavior: The belief that you are damaged goods, that you don't …
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Understanding Gambling Addiction
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Experts in gambling said that addiction comes in all forms and affects all social classes. Calls to the state's problem-gambling hotline rose nearly 47 percent last month from September. Over 3,000 people have called seeking help for gambling addiction.
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Oklahoma Man Who Struggled With Gambling Addiction Speaks
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"The only way to quiet that urge, until you find recovery and help, is by putting money on some type of bet." Bob took several loans out to feed his addiction. Gambling became the only thing he could do with money. "It was the only thing that meant …
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More Ohioans seek #gambling addiction help – State help line fielded more than 2,000 calls in the past fiscal year http://t.co/Y1DtM2Hy – by RecoveryInst (Recovery SI)
From Twitter:
More Ohioans seek #gambling addiction help – State help line fielded more than 2,000 calls in the past fiscal year http://t.co/E9kkyiZU – by RecoveryInst (Recovery SI)