Overcome Gambling Addiction With Hypnosis
Overcome Gambling Addiction With Hypnosis
Gambling – whether it be the lottery, scratch cards, casino games, bingo, slot machines, Internet poker, or sports betting – is more acceptable and accessible than ever before. For most people, gambling is a recreational activity. However, for a significant minority, it has progressed to become a serious problem, which can lead to a gambling addiction.
How can Gambling Disorder (Gambling Addiction) begin?
A few wins, in the beginning, can seem like an easy way to accumulate money, or a day at the races with the excitement experienced or a social outing where the slot machines or a few games of poker provide entertainment may be the experiences that form the foundation for the habit. Sometimes, accompanying someone while they place a bet can promote intrigue.
What is a Gambling Disorder (Gambling Addiction)?
Gambling Disorder (Gambling Addiction) is a behavioural addiction characterised by recurrent, maladaptive gambling behaviour that causes clinical stress. It causes major problems with relationships, work or school, and/or finances.
Gambling refers to an activity in which a person risks something valuable to themselves to win something in return. There are many types of gambling, but common forms include betting in casinos or on sporting events. Not everyone who gambles develops a gambling disorder.
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) considers Gambling Disorder as a behavioural addiction. In fact, it’s currently the only behavioural addiction the DSM-5 recognises. In certain ways, Gambling Disorder resembles substance use disorder. They both change your brain chemistry and can have features of withdrawal and tolerance. Gambling Disorder is sometimes called compulsive gambling or problem gambling.
What are the signs of Gambling Addiction?
A significant sign of gambling addiction is when gambling references to major areas of your life, like your relationships, work and financial stability.
More specific signs of gambling addiction include:
- Frequently thinking about gambling.
- Needing to gamble with more significant amounts of money or valuables to receive the same level of pleasure and excitement (tolerance).
- Repeated unsuccessful efforts to control or stop gambling.
- Restlessness or irritability when you try to stop gambling (withdrawal).
- Gambling when you feel distressed (as an “escape” from negative feelings).
- Gambling to regain recent gambling-related losses (called “chasing losses”).
- Downplaying or lying to loved ones about your gambling behaviours.
- Relying on other people to fund your gambling or replace the money you lost from gambling.
- Continuing to gamble even when it negatively affects your finances, work, education or personal relationships.
Brain Chemistry
Gambling affects the reward centre of your brain. Humans are biologically motivated to seek rewards. Often, these rewards come from healthy behaviours. When you spend time with a loved one or eat a delicious meal, your body releases a chemical called dopamine, which makes you feel pleasure. It becomes a cycle: You seek out these experiences because they reward you with good feelings. Gambling can send massive surges of dopamine through your brain, too. Instead of motivating you to do the things you need to do to survive (like eat and work), however, such massive dopamine levels can have damaging effects on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
This can create an unhealthy drive to seek more pleasure from gambling and less from healthier activities. Over time, gambling changes your brain chemistry, and you become desensitised to its effects. You then need to gamble more to produce the same effect; this is how people develop a Gambling Addiction.
Our Process
Helping clients overcome a gambling addiction is a two-step process.
Step One
Resolving the why and how it came about. This is about the emotions and feelings, the motivational forces in play and any experiences that caused or affected that addictive behaviour.
Step Two
Nullifying any pleasure or reward derived from gambling by working through all the areas of the brain affected by gambling, including all the dopamine, so the client will never identify with being a gambler in the future.
Outcome
The client can begin again by living their life as if they had never gambled in the first place. They will always know and be aware of their past, but moving forward, they are completely free of any association with that gambling behaviour.
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