Imagine that there is such a rehabilitation clinic for people who are addicted to gambling. Now imagine what they treat there without the use of pharmacology.
The main doctors there are gambling specialists, whose task is to convince you that you do not need to gamble. Your task, for example, is to prove that the patient most likely has a disordered game. In order to have long-term income, you need to have a gaming system. And not just a system, but a fairly innovative system of forecasting and risk management. Most likely the patient does not have it and never had it; otherwise he would have been successful and would not have ended up in rehab.
It is also necessary to find something for the patient to do instead of playing, so that he can occupy himself.
Now imagine that this gambling expert is you. What arguments will you give? What will you tell the patient about?
Please note that the patient will resist to the last. He will give counterarguments. For example, that he will get rich in the future, he’s just not lucky yet.
What other arguments do you think the patient will give? How do you respond to these arguments of his?
Aren't gambling rehabs already present ? I'm sure it must be there but are not very famous.
Besides that, there are general rehabs which are present which helps us stay away from any addictions that we have.
If I were a doctor then I would rather make the patient focus on sports related activities to keep them away from gambling.
This way they would stay away from gambling while staying fit.
It could be part of the program itself, teaching recovering gambling addicts and focus on sports activities. I also read that some doctors took holistic approach of it as we all know that there are inner demons from their patients. So they can teach yoga, meditation to improve control of one self so that they can promote overall well being.
So it's very difficult to really recover, your family as well could be involved and they are the biggest factors that can really help someone. Or even a support group will help as everyone is one the same dilemma. And so they can share their experiences and for sure it will really help each one of them recover faster. Follow up as well is needed, so that they will not go and fall on mental lapses and be addicted again.
Yeah I mean, as far as there are other things to do then the patient won't be getting time to gamble at all.
We should keep him so busy that there's no time left for gambling or even think about it.
Sport activities is just part of that and there can be various other activities.