Treatment of gambling addiction - gambling addiction

People are increasingly becoming addicted to something - alcohol, drugs, nicotine, etc. One of these addictions is gambling addiction. This is a mental disorder in which there is an obsession with gambling. Slot machines, casinos, computer games, sweepstakes - all this initially arouses interest, curiosity, and a desire to try your luck. Some are able to try once and never return to it, others become hostages of their passion.

The possibility of winning money is also of interest. Wanting to return the money they spent by winning, people do not notice how they give away all their savings, cars, and housing. And the more money they lose, the greater the desire to return it. But, as a rule, even if you win, the excitement intensifies. The money won is again spent on the game, and the person dives headlong into this abyss. If, at the same time, alcohol or drugs are consumed, then control over the situation is completely lost.

The tendency to gamble occurs not only among those who love “easy” money. Most players have their own business, successful careers, and play sports. However, constant stress, problems, vanity, worries push them to search for ways to relax and escape from everyday life. The desire to experience unusual emotions brings people into the entertainment industry. And they find them, because during the game, pleasure hormones are produced. Having experienced euphoria once, there is a desire to experience it again and again.

The consequences of such obsession with gambling include loss of business, job, family, property, quarrel with friends, suicide. In addition, constant worries affect health - even at a young age there is a risk of heart attacks, strokes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and many others.

How to help a gambling addict get out of a critical situation?

To avoid forced treatment of gambling addiction, relatives of the addict should adhere to the following recommendations:

• be honest about the fact that you are concerned about his passion for the game;
• provide support in finding a doctor and clinic;
• firmly adhere to the position that you need to see a doctor;
• give up all kinds of gambling yourself (cards, machines, online casinos, lotteries);
• give him the opportunity to be responsible for his actions and decisions (not to be a nanny);
• keep the promises made to him;
• take a strong negative position regarding games;
• objectively assess his condition;
• help make an appointment and provide support before, during and after treatment.

But what you definitely shouldn’t do is constantly reproach him, give money for bets and games, limit the choice of therapy, hide your dissatisfaction with his lifestyle and justify bad actions.

Gambling conspiracy on a woman

Representatives of the fairer sex are less likely than men to get involved in gambling. But sometimes they get caught in the net, chasing illusory luck. The following ritual will help rid a woman of such addiction.

You will need:

• a deck of playing cards purchased for exact calculation on Wednesday;
• needle and red thread;
• red fabric;
• photograph of a woman;
• wax candle;
• candies.

The period of the old month is best suited for work; in terms of time of day, noon and three hours after it are optimal. You must select a queen of hearts from the deck and place it under the photo (the card should “look” at the back of the photo). You need to place a lit candle on top, and then say twenty-one times:

“Let the sick craving go to the queen of hearts, let the love of winning pass to cards, let any game be sweet to the queen, and let (name) be disgusted. I close my words with a cross!”

It is recommended to immediately hide the photo. The map should be tightly sewn up in red cloth, after which it should be taken to the churchyard and buried in an unmarked grave on which there is a metal cross. Before leaving for the burial, you need to burn out the candle and leave the sweets for the farmer. The remains of the deck are destroyed in any way. The conspiracy comes into force within forty days. Every day a woman will want to gamble less and less until she realizes that she is not at all drawn to any gambling activity.

Why is it so difficult to convince a loved one to get treatment for gambling addiction?

When figuring out whether it is possible to forcibly treat a gambling addict, family members need to be prepared for his resistance and the failure of the first (and sometimes all subsequent) attempts to obtain his consent to therapy. Key reasons for failure:

• the desire to believe the promises of the addict;
• regular excuses from going to the doctor;
• unwillingness to accept the fact of illness of the closest person;
• inability to find the right words;
• conversations escalate into quarrels and scandals;
• the patient’s threats to leave home, complete refusal to communicate with relatives;
• inability to appreciate the scale of the problem and lack of medical knowledge.

Conspiracy against gambling addiction for son

The ritual should be carried out by parents who want to rid their child of an unhealthy desire for excitement, no matter how it manifests itself. It is permissible to cast spells at any time, although the best days are those that fall on the fifth, seventh, thirteenth or twenty-first day of the month.

You will need:

• a deck of playing cards purchased without change from a man;
• sharp knife;
• pen.

You need to focus on the goal. You can’t be angry with your son: his addiction is just a disease that needs to be cured. It is necessary to pull out the ace of diamonds from the deck and write the name of the object of influence on the card. Then you need to read the plot thirteen times:

“The Ace of Diamonds will no longer lead you, (name), neither to changeable luck, nor to true loss, nor to false money, nor to empty pockets. You, (name), do not know the craving for a bad game, forget forever about the command of the ace, free yourself from the evil will, renounce the share of the game.”

Then the card is cut into four parts with a knife, each of which is sewn into the lining of the son’s clothes (you can choose one item of clothing or several). The remaining deck is buried or burned, and the knife is hidden: as long as it is kept at home, the spell will work.

Possible options for a gambler to protect his addiction

Among themselves, all gamers are divided into two groups: those who are not aware of the addiction to games, and people who understand the fact of addiction, but come up with various excuses. The need for compulsory treatment from games arises when no persuasion works: the patient simply does not hear you or does not want to hear you, using any methods to postpone or even cancel a visit to the clinic. Typical examples of how gambling addicts justify their illness include:

• I have a hard job, I’m very tired, I need to relax;
• There’s so much going on today, I want to relieve stress;
• there are so many problems in life (my wife left me, my child doesn’t understand, I lost my job, I crashed my car, etc.);
• What’s wrong with one rate after work, I’m not an addict;
• others play much more;
• Lately I have started playing much less/reduced my bet;
• I'm so lonely;
• the game helps to cope with physical pain - a common trick for those who have chronic illnesses and injuries;
• the game promotes inspiration and reveals creative potential;
• what's wrong with making a couple of bets in good company;
• everyone around is playing, why can’t I.

This is just a small list of arguments. In fact, addicted people are extremely creative, and some of them are ashamed of their addiction, while some, on the contrary, flaunt it. Compulsory treatment of gambling addicts makes it possible to stop the endless coming up of “excuses” and force a person to take a decisive action, namely, undergo a full course of therapy and psychological rehabilitation.

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Signs of gambling addiction

Many people do not want to admit that they are addicted and believe that they can stop at any time. However, there are signs by which you can recognize a gambling addict in yourself or in your loved ones:

1. Frequent visits to gaming business places.
2. To achieve euphoria, the stakes in the game become higher.
3. Completion of the game is accompanied by a feeling of anxiety, restlessness, and emotional decline.
4. The desire to win back after a loss.
5. Such games have a negative impact on work or study.
6. To continue the game, the person begins to deceive his loved ones and relatives.
7. During the game, all problems are forgotten.
8. All the money is spent, the property is sold.
9. They take out loans from banks and microfinance organizations and immediately lose them.
10. Illegal receipt of money begins: theft, robbery.

With the appearance of each such sign, the situation worsens more and more, and it becomes more difficult for a person to cope with it on his own. To avoid losing everything, you need the help of professionals.

Effective ways to motivate

There is no universal method for persuading a person to go to a clinic and undergo a rehabilitation course. Faced with the fact that a husband/wife/child/brother/sister, etc. compulsory treatment of gambling addiction is required, relatives will have to try different methods. Some people will be influenced by the description of the problems that come with regular addiction to betting; for others, recording inappropriate behavior in a state of loss will be an excellent incentive, while others will be influenced by communication with those who have become completely drunk and have intellectually degraded due to the inability to stop in time.

At the initial stage, as a rule, a simple conversation and a reminder about the unfulfilled promise not to play is enough, but if the problem is long-standing, then you cannot do without communicating with a psychologist. The doctor will be able to determine the motivator that will give the desired result for a particular patient, taking into account his age, character, temperament, medical history and past experience in dealing with addiction to games.

Gambling conspiracy for husband

The ritual is performed only by the wife for her husband. The ritual is useful if a man is completely divorced from reality: he does not pay attention to children, loses all his money, whiles away his free time solely in the captivity of excitement. The spell gets rid of the attraction to poker, the habit of uncontrollably buying lottery tickets and the desire to regularly “check on” the one-armed bandit.

It is preferable to wait for the waning moon phase. You will need:

• two yellow coins;
• wax candle (not church);
• new wallet.

It is necessary to start work after sunset. You need to light a candle and heat the coins from its flame. In this case, you should pronounce the spell:

“Money for money - in the native yard, and not in the pocket of the game, so that (name) does not go to bad places, so that he turns up his nose at the game - with friends or with enemies. The first money should lie in the wallet, the second one would become a small bet, and (name) should no longer play - neither on the street, nor under the roof, not alone, not with a crowd of people, neither sober nor drunk. My word is true, sealed by the power of fire, let the evil cravings go away from (name), let him live - in a sound mind and healthy reflection.”

It is recommended to drip a little candle wax onto each coin. One money must be thrown into the husband’s pocket, the second must be put in a new wallet, which must then be buried in the forest. As soon as the spouse spends or loses the first coin, the plot will take effect. It is best to hide the remaining cinder at home: if the power of the spell suddenly begins to weaken, you just need to light the wick and read the above spell three times.

How to send a gambling addict for compulsory treatment

Current Russian legislation gives a negative answer to the question of whether it is possible to be subject to forced treatment for gambling addiction. The exception is when such a decision is made by a judicial body, but in order to achieve it, you need to spend a lot of time and effort, and outsiders may find out about the tragedy in your family. Agree, there is little pleasure in listening to unpleasant comments from neighbors and talking about the situation at home in the courtroom. Fortunately, there is an alternative option - forced hospitalization of a gambling addict with prior obtaining situational consent as part of a motivational conversation with experienced psychologists (intervention). The procedure takes place in several stages:

1. A relative calls us and reports the need for compulsory treatment for a gambling addict.
2. After all the details are clarified, a team of professional psychologists arrives at the specified address.
3. Specialists communicate with the patient, determine his psychotype and find arguments that will help him realize the need for therapy. Also, as part of communication, doctors relieve the addict from fears associated with staying in a hospital and provide answers to questions regarding recovery methods.
4. Having achieved consent, the gambling addict is immediately transported to one of our rehabilitation centers, where he is guaranteed to stay under round-the-clock medical supervision, communicate with like-minded people and comfortable living conditions.

In conclusion, we note that compulsory treatment for gambling addiction in some situations is the only correct solution, but we are not talking about physical, but about psychological effects. If you cannot motivate a person to sign up for a consultation with a psychologist on your own, you should think about conducting an intervention. Regardless of the current situation, you can consult with us on how best to proceed if a family member often plays and this is a problem for you - just call 8 (800) 551-51-88. Remember that without complex therapy you cannot count on a long-term effect, and the life and health of a loved one is in your hands.

How to overcome addiction to computer games?

Computer gaming addiction has become a real disaster for many families, not only non-believers, but also churchgoers: someone’s son drowned in the virtual world, someone’s husband spends his days fighting monsters... And it’s good if a person somehow understands that there’s something wrong with him, but, as a rule, gambling addicts are happy with their gambling life and certainly don’t consider themselves sick people. Meanwhile, it has long been recognized: gambling addiction is not only a disease, but also a severe obsession with passion that damages the human soul.

How to be? How to cope with this disease for those who suffer from it? What medicines does the Church offer? And how can his relatives help a gambling addict? Pastors share their advice.

It is important to recognize your addiction

Hegumen Luka (Stepanov):

– If a person is aware of his addiction and is ready to fight it, then it’s a win-win situation. If he often confesses, reproaches himself from the heart and exerts the will to expel this harmful addiction from his life, God’s help will not be delayed and the addiction will be rejected. If the damaged person considers himself happy with the opportunity to achieve the next stage of degradation for successfully completing virtual tasks, then things are bad. All that remains is to pray for him, and if you have power over him, simply prohibit the use of these soul-crushing devices.

Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev:

– The Scripture says: “Everything is lawful for me, but not everything is profitable; “Everything is permissible for me, but nothing should possess me” (1 Cor. 6:12). And any painful passion or addiction is dangerous for a person. For, as is well known: “Whoever is overcome by someone is his slave” (2 Pet. 2:19). In other words, when a person himself becomes a console for a computer game, then this is already an illness and a problem.

There is no place for a computer in a gamer's house

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov:

– Addiction to computer games is a problem that has already been recognized by doctors as a disease, similar to addiction to alcohol or drugs. Alas, popular games, according to official statistics that take into account those who use licensed versions of these games, have several million “fans”, add to them millions and millions of those who have pirated versions installed...

Online games especially develop addiction, because they create the illusion of communication with “partners” in the game. Plus excitement and adrenaline. And if this is, for example, a game of poker, then there is also a dependence on the passion of love of money, because a person naturally wants to win. So the passion for the game is greatly enhanced by other passions associated with it. For these reasons, addiction to computer games turns out to be more severe than addiction to the Internet, which is still easier to cope with.

If I am not in control of the situation, then only the Lord can help me. Understanding this is the first step to healing.

What should someone who wants to overcome their addiction to games do? Getting rid of any passion begins with the awareness of my weakness, with the understanding that it is no longer I who control my life, but it is controlled by my passion, this demon that makes me sit and play for days, forgetting about loved ones and close people, about work, about important matters, like forcing a drug addict to take his last money to a drug dealer in order to buy a dose from him. And if I no longer have control over myself, then I cannot stop playing at any moment. And if I don’t control the situation, then only the Lord can help me. Understanding this is the first step to healing. The second step is, naturally, turning to God. Because in general, any passion is driven out by prayer and fasting. We must pray: “Lord, give me strength, help me! I can't do anything! It’s not I who control life, but this passion...”

The next step is to abstain from this passion. If you have a computer at home with a paid Internet connection that is always on, it will be a very serious temptation, it’s the same as if you keep a bar or fill the refrigerator with beer in the house of a person prone to alcoholism. The most important factor in alcoholism and drug addiction, by the way, is precisely the availability of alcohol and drugs. And when alcohol or drugs are within walking distance, it is impossible for a person to get rid of them. So it is with gambling addiction. Therefore, I advise you to abandon your home computer altogether. Make a strong-willed decision and cut off the Internet, give someone a computer. This is very difficult, but when a person realizes that his life is going downhill, I think he will make this sacrifice - and immediately it will become much easier for him.

Let me note, by the way, that addiction develops, as a rule, in those who are not professionally involved with computers. Because if you work on the computer all day, then at home you have no time for it and no time for computer games. And all my computer geek friends can’t look at a computer at home. At most, they will check your mail.

But what about the situation if you can’t give up your home computer because someone close to you works on it at home or uses it for study? Set very clear time frames for your “computer sessions”, and only access the computer for business purposes, and refrain from games. But it’s better to try to get rid of the computer completely.

So, I repeat: turning to God with a prayer for support in the fight against passion, fasting and abstinence from the object of passion. But this is not enough. A holy place, as we know, is never empty. And therefore, when some passion is expelled, its place must necessarily be filled with something. This is the law. The Gospel says about him: “When the unclean spirit leaves a person, it walks through waterless places, looking for rest, and, not finding it, says: I will return to my house from where I came; and, having arrived, finds it swept and put away; then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and live there, and the last thing for that person is worse than the first” (Luke 11: 24-26). What to fill the empty space with? Naturally, some normal human dominants, a way of leisure that will be both pleasant and useful: communicating with friends, doing some things together with them, sports, fishing, other hobbies... Reading, this forgotten useful activity. After some time, a person will develop a habit of these activities and will enjoy them.

And a very important point: you need to find out why you are playing. A person often hides in virtuality from some problems of reality. From problems in the family, for example. Or from communication problems - due to their lack of communication or harmful nature. So he looks for virtual friends and plays with them. Yes, he’s just running away from life’s difficulties. A person turns to alcohol as an instant way of obtaining joy, and here too. It takes effort to build relationships with real people and do good things. And in order to go to an Internet cafe or start playing at home, you don’t need any effort, you also need very little money...

Getting rid of addiction - any addiction - is a huge job. This must be clearly understood. The addiction itself is acquired easier and faster; good skills must be developed over a certain period of time.

Where medicine or psychology cannot help, God's grace will help

Priest Valery Dukhanin:

– Computer game addiction is one of the most dangerous and insidious. Outwardly, the person does not seem to be doing anything bad, does not get drunk, does not inject himself with drugs, does not go fornication, but just sits in front of the monitor and presses buttons. In fact, terrible changes are happening to his soul. Actually, computer addiction is a drug, fornication, and intoxication. Because the soul loses integrity, loses contact with loved ones, exchanging them for a virtual intoxication, becomes intoxicated by games and cannot live without them, just as a drug addict cannot live without drugs.

The consciousness of such a player lives more in the colorful world of the game, completing levels and achieving new victories, rather than in real life. Everything around him seems gray and ordinary, but there, inside computer entertainment, is “real life.” For her sake, he will sacrifice everything: free time and health, money and career growth, communication with loved ones and basic self-care. This is also a kind of mental illness, a split personality: a person seems to be here, but in fact he is completely lost in pseudo-reality. Computer games themselves are idols to which everything is sacrificed, but which in themselves are soulless, and through them demons deceive us.

What to do?

Don't be fooled: getting out of addiction to computer games is extremely difficult. The difficulty is precisely that such dependence deforms the personality, for her life has become a virtual game, taking away the game is perceived as taking away life. And this means that parting is possible only when the gambler feels some new, higher and richer in inner colors of life.

Let me give you an earthly example. If a young man falls in love with a girl, then everything changes inside him, even his interests may change, and what previously attracted him loses meaning, because all his thoughts are about something else. It is unlikely that any pitiful toys will be relevant for him, because the wealth of personal living experiences is incomparably higher than anything artificial. The one who has fallen in love is completely overwhelmed by thoughts about his beloved, these thoughts crowd out everything, previous attractions lose their attractiveness. The palette of inner feelings in live communication and in living love is always higher and more attractive than the flat excitement of chases and shooters on the screen.

People break up with addictions not because of someone’s lectures, but when a person’s inner world changes

I gave this example to explain: people break up with addictions not because of someone’s notations, but when the inner world changes, when what was previously valuable now loses its meaning. That is, it is important to switch attention from the artificial to the real world, and the very consciousness of a gambler needs to be reformatted. And if falling in love is still an earthly and short-lived feeling, exciting and inspiring for a while, then true transformation can occur during a personal, intimate meeting with God in the depths of the heart. Obsessive ideas of the game move away from a genuine super-valuable idea that embraces the soul, and only God can be such a super-value.

This is, in general, a well-known fact: people radically change their lives when they turn to God, when old sinful addictions are cut off and a completely new experience appears - the experience of overcoming sin. Another thing is that turning to God is in a sense a secret, you cannot convert someone by force, we can only pray and ask the Lord to find ways and means to save a person suffering from gambling addiction. He himself has to do the hard work of working on himself, fighting his attachment.

The fight against computer addiction is the same experience of struggle as with any sinful passion. Everything inside is aching, passion demands to satisfy itself, the soul is torn, loses activity. Passion says: “Well, try at least one more time, it’s okay.” Therefore, you should take it as a principle: “I’d rather die, but not sit down to play games.” It’s better to break all your computers, go to a monastery somewhere and get a job as a laborer, cram all your time with work, affairs and prayer rules, so that in the evening you fall on your bed exhausted, rather than spend your life in such a pitiful, destructive state.

Freedom from passion has never been achieved the easy way. It is easy to lose freedom, but it is very difficult to regain it. But where medicine or psychology cannot help, God’s grace will help. In the end, there is only one way out: go where the grace of the Holy Spirit is - to the temple, communicate directly with confessors, try to acquire grace, and it itself will make changes in you that you are not even aware of.

You need to start “correcting your loved one” with yourself

Priest Dimitry Shishkin:

– Any addiction is a very serious and difficult problem, a disease that has its own history of development and a long “tail” of causes, so most often there is no need to talk about “instant” healing. Of course, we know that instant healing is possible, but this requires such faith, such a confluence of circumstances (including those unconscious to us, which we call the Providence of God) that these cases happen probably one in a hundred, if not less often. We know that the Lord, when He was here on earth, constantly healed the sick and those possessed by demons. But what was the “percentage” of those instantly healed from the total mass of sick people who turned to the Lord? I think it's also small. And the point here, as we know, is primarily in the faith of those who turned to the Savior, but also in those very “paths” unknown to us, according to which some were healed, while others were not and continued to get sick. Maybe for humility, maybe to atone for some previous sins, maybe to avoid possible sins that a person would undoubtedly commit if he were completely healthy...

The effectiveness of our prayer for a loved one directly depends on how much we ourselves try to improve our lives

But in any case, the first thing that is required of those who are heartbroken for their loved ones, obsessed with the destructive passion of gambling addiction, is to seriously reconsider their lives and work to correct themselves. In the image of the “friends of the paralytic,” seeing whose faith the Lord healed the unfortunate man. This is our main contribution to the healing of a loved one - the fulfillment of faith by our very way of life, because the Lord Himself says: “Why do you call Me: Lord! God! “And you do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46). The strength and effectiveness of our prayer for a loved one directly depends on how much we ourselves try to improve our lives. And if we try, then “the fervent prayer of the righteous can do much” (James 5:16), and we can say that here we are talking not only about some people of exceptionally high spiritual life, about saints, but about every Christian who truly tries to live according to God's truth.

Well, this is what concerns prayer, and if we talk about the rest, it’s up to the Lord to tell you, because both people and circumstances vary and the variety is endless. For some, it may be enough to simply remove the computer from the house and that’s it. Close this topic once and for all. And the child will obey, and then wean himself from his dependence. And someone, even when fulfilling this requirement, still needs to be patient, because a child can become angry and rude in a cloud and go somewhere “out of spite”, look for an opportunity to realize his passion in another place, and here you need to show great patience and firmness with prayer. We must survive this time, surrendering everything into the hands of God. And somewhere you need to resort to the help of specialists - psychologists. But in any case, it is necessary, I think, to treat the child himself with love, with heart disease, and try to help him switch his attention to something else - useful and good. Attention not only in the momentary meaning, but in the meaning of the interests and priorities of life...

In a word, there may be many means of helping your neighbor, but only one thing is clear - you need to start “correcting your loved one” with yourself, and working on yourself, coupled with heartfelt and persistent prayer to God, will certainly bring its good fruits. Maybe not right away, but definitely. There is no doubt about this, because the Lord sees both the pain and sorrow of our heart for a loved one and our humility and labors and never leaves it unanswered. After all, He Himself said: “Ask, and it will be given to you” (Matthew 7:7).

We must pray for the gambler with all our might and means.

Priest Igor Silchenkov:

– Of course, one must pray for a gambling addict with all the forces and methods available in the Church.

The main prayer takes place at the Divine Liturgy. Submit notes more often for the commemoration of health - the Bloodless Sacrifice - and for custom Liturgies. You can order magpies - where the Liturgy is served every day: for example, in monasteries. Sorokoust is a commemoration for 40 days in a row.

You can also pray purely at home, reading a certain rule that the priest will bless. You need to come to the temple and take a blessing for additional prayers to your rule in order to pray for your neighbor who is sick with gambling addiction. The priest will tell you what prayers to read.

And, of course, in order for God to be pleased with our prayers, we ourselves must be active members of the Church, please and serve God. Do His holy will. Go to Liturgy every Sunday and the evening before to the evening service from beginning to end, confess and receive the Body and Blood of Christ at least once every three weeks, read morning and evening prayers in full every day.

When a person serves God, fulfills His holy will, he begins an interesting life, filled with various good events and a lot of joy, he knows what he lives for.

And gambling addiction arises from the fact that people do not fulfill the will of God, do not take communion, rarely go to church, or even do not go at all. And their life becomes uninteresting, meager, joyless. And then they run away from this life into virtual reality - bright, interesting, dynamic - but non-existent. And having become addicted to this imaginary world, they can no longer leave it for a long time; they are enslaved to the sin of gambling.

Therefore, a person, if he is aware of this spiritual illness of his and wants to recover from it, must take those spiritual medicines that I wrote about: confession, communion, prayer and special prayer for healing from this and other sins.

If a person does not realize his spiritual illness and does not want to get rid of it, then we must work hard and do it for him instead.

And the merciful Lord will help us and hear our prayers. For He sometimes allows sorrow to our loved ones for our admonition. So that we come to God. And they brought our neighbors to Him too. God help you! Work and save yourself from sinful destruction and help our neighbors to be saved.

Priest Maxim Gorozhankin:

– If a person is addicted to computer games, it is necessary to try to fight it. Limit computer use. It’s reasonable to judge how much time he devotes to computer games and how much, for example, to reading serious literature. Or how much time he devotes to prayer, if he is a believer - this also happens. People who are churchgoers, unfortunately, can also be addicted to computer games. So you need to look: how has my time been spent since I started playing games? And from this, draw the appropriate conclusions and, after praying to God, try to fix something.

The most important thing is prayer. Pray to God and ask the Lord to deliver you from addiction, to grant you freedom, to give you strength in the fight against addiction, and to manage your life so that it develops in the service of God and your neighbor.

Rehabilitation programs for patients with gambling addiction in our center in Moscow

Addiction treatment includes individual and group sessions with gambling addicts, where they learn to cope with their problems on their own and take responsibility.

To exclude relapses, each patient must undergo a course of psychological recovery; it is at this time that people develop new interests and a desire to start a new life.

The rehabilitation center for gambling addicts in Moscow “Phoenix” uses methods that have proven themselves well in Russia and around the world.

1. For each gambling addict, a mental recovery program is developed individually.
2. Attention is focused on eternal values ​​for all humanity.
3. Patients learn to enjoy walks in nature, communication with friends, team games, and sports.
4. Those suffering from gambling addiction have problems with self-control, and in the course of psychotherapy they learn not to give in to impulses and refrain from the desire to gamble.

Stages and timing of treatment

• Motivation from 1 day - 1 month.
• Detoxification from 2 – 10 days
• Rehabilitation from 3 - 6 months.
• Social adaptation from 3 to 6 months.
• Help for loved ones throughout the course of treatment