One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.
See you may have mentioned therapy but it doesn't make much sense to me how you would solve a gambling addiction. Especially therapy you cannot give to all class of people especially poor and uneducated people will not want to take therapy no matter how much you value it. But most of the poor and uneducated gamblers get into gambling so intensely that their case requires a great deal of meditation and consultation. But whatever therapy or other psychological counseling you ask them to do, they cannot afford to pay for it. So for now, the only way for those gamblers who are addicted to gambling is self-control. But for this self control they definitely need good meditation which is definitely better if it is a government treatment center or a drug addiction treatment center. But I don't think it is reasonable to provide any expensive treatment or therapy for these poor and uneducated gamblers. In this, those gamblers will never be able to control themselves from gambling because they will never be able to manage the amount to be spent for this advanced treatment.
For reducing gambling addection tharapy is the high cost is it effective or not I don't know. But if a person want to left gambling then the best way is give time to family friends etc. Try to spend more time with friends. That will be effective. Because everyone can not efforts the tharapy cost for reduced gambling cost because everyone's financial condition is not good enough and everyone can't bear it.