Re: Where to seek help if you need; concerned with gambling addiction.

Quote from: fiulpro on May 08, 2021, 06:04:39 PM

Hello
So I was going through a story of a girl who literally stole 70,000 Euros to Gamble apparently it all started when she invested 20 Euro and won a thousand and since then she became addicted to easy money.
It made me realize that every now and then there is someone here sharing their addiction stories and it might help to have a particular thread for them to keep all the sources which could help them get their life straight again..
Here is a quote from BBC :-
url of the story :- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-56997362.amp

This is a url with further sources : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1kS7QTDB16PWkywhsXJLzxz/information-and-support-addiction-alcohol-drugs-and-gambling

The problem is not all countries have a hotline or institutions to help with someone's gambling addiction. Even if there are, gamblers are afraid to go there because his neighbor and relatives will discriminate him if they found out that he goes to some group because of his extreme addiction. If someone got to the extent like what the girl did in the OP, his family could bring him to a psychiatrist since they specialize in helping people with mental health problems which I can think gambling addiction also belongs.