Quote from: danadc on August 23, 2025, 04:46:40 AM

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Quote from: Kavelj22 on August 21, 2025, 11:54:00 PM

This is a commun practice in every treatment for behavioral addicts. This kind of addiction pathology can't be treated with medicines only but it requires a full process behavioral treatment which all the environment should part of. The most important is that the patient himself should be aware of all of this.

What you say is very important, the person who is in that stage of addiction must have the support of everyone, of course first they have to think that if they are going to get better, they must have every intention of doing their part so that they can be cured, it is not easy because emotional states always tend to attack the person from within, but seeing so much support, from family, friends, doctors it is possible that everything will turn out well and the objective will be achieved.

The reason behind this technic based on community support is to not let the patient thinking that he can practice the compulsive activity he suffers from even if he is taking treatment medicines. There must have someone near to him to forbid him from doing any mistake that can even destroy a long period process of treatment, especially psychological treatments. The method consists that the patient should be in only two cases for enough time, either with someone having time to spend near to him, or sleeping.

I think that taking such measures is to prevent a person from attempting suicide, but that's a very advanced stage of addiction. You do need to be alert at all times, and it would be good, as you say, to have someone close to you—a family member, a very close friend—to help you get through it. Constant medication is something I don't fully agree with, but if the person is very anxious, they do need it.

We agree that someone presents besides the addicted person to gambling is important. That helps the addicted person to realize that he doesn't fight alone to solve his gambling addiction. He will see that together, he can cure the addiction and become a new person who can overcome the gambling addiction. Maybe it is not easy but with someone or more people besides him, he will realize that his people still care about him and support him to cure his matter. It really means something to him, seeing that some people closest to him want to fight beside him and still stay with him. He will feel that he has the strength to fight his gambling addiction and does not want to be addicted to gambling anymore.