Gambling addict will not listen easily, they are drowning on their greed and they need proper assistance and medication, I'm talking about the worst case scenario of being addict in gambling. As much as possible, you have to help yourself if you are still in the early stage of addiction, it's not too late for you. These reminders are being posted here repeatedly and I'd hope that many are already aware about the possible risk of gambling and the threat of its addiction. If you can help someone who are into gambling, please do so because you can save his/her life by guiding them slowly but surely.
I very much agree with this.
The help these gambling addicts must come from themselves first. They have to help themself in order to be treated and to overcome their addiction. Acceptance is the first key in healing. If these gamblers won't be brave enough to admit that they are indeed suffering from addiction and needs help from the professionals and to the people around them, then they will not receive the necessary treatment for their case. But if they do otherwise, they will surpass this challenge from their life.
Gambling addiction is a serious matter that needs proper intervention. One must be willing to be treated and one must be cooperative. Being in denial won't get them anywhere. It will just make the situation much worse. So if you have the chance, give them the pros and cons of gambling, not just the benefits of it for them to be aware of what they might encounter in the long run.
Unfortunately, addiction is something that when you fall is very difficult to do and difficult to overcome, but there is nothing impossible, if a person has enough willpower, it is possible that they can achieve everything they want, already with something like an addiction, if psychologists are needed and when the problem is very advanced, a psychiatrist is necessary so that he can be helped by means of medicines, as far as I am concerned, everything lies in the personality of each person and the desire they have to overcome the addiction, help is there, the only thing left is to have the will.