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Watching a loved one struggle with gambling is heartbreaking and taking steps to protect yourself can feel overwhelming. Setting boundaries, like separating your finances, freezing joint accounts, or asking your bank to block gambling transactions, isn’t an act of punishment; it’s an essential step in keeping you both safe. Your emotional well-being matters as are […]
If someone you love has a gambling problem, start with an honest conversation, in private, without blame. Protect your own money early by separating joint accounts and cards where you can. Then guide them towards professional support: a GP, a national gambling helpline or, for entrenched harm, a residential treatment programme. None of this fixes […]
Psychodynamic therapy for gambling is a talking therapy that looks at the deeper reasons behind a gambling problem, the experiences, feelings and conflicts a person may not be fully aware of. Rather than working only on the behaviour, it helps the person to understand why they gamble and help them to resolve the pain driving […]
Gambling harm is the damage gambling causes to the person gambling and to the people around them. Gambling harm can impact money, mental health, relationships and work, and it can affect a whole family, not just the individual. Over the past few decades, the way this harm is understood has changed, from something treated as […]
Gambling self-exclusion is a free, voluntary way to ask gambling businesses to stop you from gambling for a set period. Once it is in place, your accounts are closed, you are blocked from opening new ones and you don’t receive any of their marketing. It covers online betting and physical venues through national schemes and […]
Cognitive behavioural therapy for gambling recovery is a talking therapy that helps people understand and change the thinking and behaviour behind a gambling problem. It works on the link between thoughts, feelings and actions, helping you spot the triggers that lead to gambling, challenge the beliefs that keep it going, like the idea that you […]
Gambling recovery is more than stopping gambling. Lasting change comes from a plan that deals with the whole person, the thoughts and feelings that drive the urge, the money and debt left behind, the relationships under strain and the gap that gambling leaves once it goes. A holistic gambling recovery plan, one that treats the […]
A gambling addiction, known clinically as gambling disorder, is a recognised health condition where a person loses control of their gambling and keeps going despite the harm it causes. The signs of a gambling addiction fall into three areas: behaviour and mood, relationships and secrecy, and money. The clearest warning signs include chasing losses to […]
If you are reading this, the chances are that the past few weeks or months have been very hard. You might have found a bank statement that didn’t make sense. You might have noticed your partner is distracted, or short with you, or up at strange hours. You might already know everything, and be trying […]