Gambling Addiction – Defined

Gambling addiction is defined as a type of impulse control disorder where you have little or no control over an urge to gamble, even when you are aware that your actions can hurt yourself and others and even when the odds are against you. The need to gamble escalates, developing into riskier bets; gambling with more money and gambling more frequently. The thrill is linked to a natural high similar to stimulant drugs. Similar to the way a drug addict becomes preoccupied with their habit, so does a gambling addict.

Symptoms of gambling addiction include:

• An obsession with gambling – feeling unable to stop
• Hiding or lying about gambling
• Gambling despite the consequences
• Experiencing irritability, depression, anxiety, restlessness, decreased sleep/appetite, change in sex drive
• Dysfunction in daily life
• Having trouble with money
• Getting defensive about gambling
• Stealing or unlawful behavior
• Expressing guilt or remorse after gambling
• Using gambling to solve boredom
• Overcoming social isolation by gambling
• Concealing losses

Gambling Concerns Can Be Changed, Improved and Eliminated

Gambling habits can be broken with the approach that goes straight to the source: the part of your mind that regulates automated behaviors, actions and reactions. Imagine changing the part of you that does things without thinking.  This part of your mind is changed with: hypnosis.

Hypnosis Helps In A Different Way

Hypnosis gives what does not serve you a ‘way out’ and creates a new program in the part of your mind that regulates automated behaviors and actions. Many clients who come to Meridian Peak Hypnosis with concerns about gambling have first gone to talk therapy and said it achieved very little. They reported feeling much better after just the first hypnosis session and see the way forward. Our method is night-and-day different than talk therapy.

Hypnosis Helps You Make Changes in a Powerful Way

Many times we become wrapped up in “how” to switch-on the tools to feel empowered. Hypnosis bypasses the “how” and helps you develop a new way forward in an automated way. What many counseling and coaching methods turn into an uphill climb, hypnosis simply bypasses. You can feel more empowered in a more automated way without debating ‘how’ to accomplish it.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool to empower yourself and move forward with a new, energized feeling.