Seeking the advice or help of concerned family members and friends could be of great help but sometimes they are limited because most of them lack the needed counselling skills.
Help from family members will be the best since family members are closest and also understands that estent of damage such attitude has brought upon such person. The only challenge is that, most people don't bring family to the cause of the damages they effect, they tend to hide it away from them knowing that family needs no approval to activate a corresponding correcting measure on them.
At least with help from family members, you can provide a little solution to solve the problem of gambling addiction. Family members can support gambling addicts to get out of their gambling zone and do other things. By doing this, gambling addicts can have substitute activities for gambling.
His family members can also accompany him while doing this new activity. It can relieve the boredom of gambling addicts because doing several new activities may not be able to divert their attention. But with the presence of his family members, he can be enthusiastic about carrying out this new activity.
And by doing it regularly, he can have a new habit. It can be a distraction so he doesn't think about gambling. If he is serious and stays focused on other things, it is only a matter of time before he can recover from his gambling addiction.
When a family has a relative addicted to something, be it addicted to drugs, sex, alcohol or gambling, it is always recommended that these relatives be very strong and admit the addicted relative to a hospital, they cannot think that the addict will cure by staying about the care of relatives because it will not cure, and will only cause a lot of pain for the whole family. I say this because unfortunately I have seen many cases of addicted people, and no matter how much I tried to help them get out of the addiction, it was useless. That's because I was being very naive, what they needed most was treatment in the hospital. but they refused to go and stay in the hospital for a few months until they were cured
and as other relatives of mine thought that putting the addicted relative in the hospital for a few months until he was cured would be treating the addicted relative badly, so we let the addict stay at my aunt's house, unfortunately this addicted relative of mine lied that he is healing. He was able to lie and act like he was a healthy person, which didn't raise any suspicions that he was lying, the months went by and he always assured that he was in good health and that he no longer had an addiction.
Until one day he could no longer walk, talk or move his arms, all of his relatives started to get worried about his state of health and they took him to the hospital and when he arrived at the hospital the doctors had to place him in critical care. ee stayed in the hospital for 1 month and then died in the hospital. If we had put him in a drug hospital sooner, then he wouldn't have died. that was my lesson. an addicted person must be admitted to the appropriate hospital immediately and must spend many months in the hospital and only be cured