Hypnotherapy for Gambling Addiction

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Hypnosis for Gaming addiction

Hypnosis for Gaming addiction is popular and effective. Do you love games? Almost everyone does. Games are a nice way to relax, interact with others, and sometimes a fun way to learn. For most kids growing up in developed countries, games are an integral part of their lives. Games provide a fun way of learning and bonding with other kids. Technology has made it easier for children and adults to access various games from the comfort of our homes. While this can boost learning with educative games and enjoyment as video games look very realistic and are very interactive; it comes at a price. Sometimes the games you play can play games on your mind. Many people have become addicted to video games and some others play games excessively. Why is addiction a problem? What is the difference between an addiction and excessive game playing?

Difference between gaming addiction and excessive game playing.

Video game addiction has similar characteristics to other types of addiction. We are going to give you some questions to ask yourself. If your answer is yes to these questions, then it is possible that you may be addicted to games. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Is video game(s) the most important things in your life?
2. Do you make gaming the first most important activity of your day?
3. Do your spouse, children or friends complain that you play too many games and neglect them?
4. Do you have this feeling of happiness or “high” that you don’t get from anywhere else when you play games?
5. Do you feel moody, empty, and irritable if you are not able to play games for a long period of time?
6. Do you find out that over time you need to play more and more games to get that feeling of happiness you normally get when you play games?
7. Do you have conflicts with your family members because they think you play games too much and neglect more important matters?
8. Have you ever tried to stop playing games only to find out that it is almost impossible?

If the real answer to at least 6 of these 8 questions, then you may be addicted to games. People who play games excessively and are more like game enthusiasts do not really find it difficult to perform their responsibilities. They can keep off games if they want and though they feel happy playing games, they do not really let their passion for gaming interfere with their lives. Hypnosis can help people with gaming addiction overcome their addiction in many ways.

Hypnotherapy for Gambling Addiction is proven to be the most effective method of treatment. In this paragraph, we will discuss the nature of this addiction and the way of recovery. For every win there will be many losses, that’s one fact about gambling that pretty much everyone knows about, and yes, even those who have a problem with gambling addiction know very well about this fact. But sadly, knowing that there is way more chance of losing than winning is just not enough to stop those gambling addicts from putting their money on the table.

Usually, people who have gambling addiction just remember their winning moments. That feeling of excitement is just like a drug, it’s so intoxicating that an addict would do anything to experience that feeling again, no matter what it takes.

The more they lose, usually the more they feel “motivated” and desperate to taste that joy of winning, so they keep on gambling without any common sense. As the amount they lose gets bigger, they will bet more money to recoup their losses up to the point where either they will win big or lose everything. At that point, gambling dependence becomes a real problem that can ruin your life.

How hypnosis for gaming addiction can help people:

Hypnosis for gaming addiction is a state of altered consciousness. During hypnosis for gaming addiction, your mind is more open to suggestions. Conventional therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy work based on good communication and psychology techniques of which suggestions play an important role. Some techniques in hypnosis for gaming addiction can help you cope with and eventually overcome gaming addiction. Relaxation makes people calmer and more open to suggestions. For example, it is easier to give a bit of advice to your wife when she is more relaxed than when she is upset about a lot of things. A hypnotist may create images of a safe and serene environment in the minds of patients to make them feel more relaxed and comfortable. Ego-strengthening techniques can be used to improve the patient’s self-confidence. One reason why game addicts and other addicts choose not to do anything about their addiction is that they lack self-confidence. They are not sure they will succeed as they may have tried before and failed. Ego-strengthening techniques can help boost self-confidence and self-esteem and help them overcome that inertia when it comes to dealing with addictions. Autogenic training is especially good for game addicts having withdrawal symptoms. Just like any addiction, people addicted to games will experience mood swings and physical symptoms like trembling and palpitations when they try to stop playing games (no pun intended). Autogenic training in hypnosis makes them aware of these symptoms and helps them control these uncomfortable symptoms more scientifically known as withdrawal symptoms. This helps them cope with any difficulty in keeping off games. Hypnosis for gaming addiction can also help you restructure your thoughts and behaviors just like cognitive behavioral therapy does. By using techniques like direct suggestions, Ericksonian hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, and so on, a hypnotist can change the way you think and behave when aroused. For example, instead of playing games when the craving comes, a hypnotist can redirect that craving so you end up having a chat with your spouse or taking the dog out, or even loathing the thought of playing games. It is even better when you combine hypnosis for a gaming addiction with other forms of psychotherapy like cognitive behavioral therapy because hypnosis can reduce resistance to treatment if you are highly hypnotized. Some of the techniques we have mentioned are also in line with other psychotherapeutic methods which makes hypnosis synergistic with other methods.

How to Cure Gambling Addiction

The first and most important (and also the hardest) step in cure gambling addiction is to make these gamblers realize they have a problem. This is often very difficult because just like in many other addiction cases, they are in denial.

Some people are lucky enough to recognize the problem they have and then seek the necessary help to get rid of the addiction, but for many others, they often don’t see the problem until they actually have lost everything, not only their money but also their home, job and even family. Unfortunately, even after losing everything, some people still don’t want to seek help.

Support from family and close friends is vital in this matter. Giving a wake-up call to someone who has a gambling addiction takes a lot of effort, that’s why it’s very important to have extra patience when doing so. Leaving them sometimes can help to bring some senses to them, but totally ignoring them also won’t help, in fact, it will just make the problem got bigger.

Using Hypnotherapy for gambling addiction

You cannot rely on pills or potions to cure gambling addiction; the most common approach is usually by talking therapies. However, in recent years, Hypnotherapy for gambling is starting to gain popularity as one of the most effective and quickest methods.

During the Hypnotherapy session, a therapist will take the client to a state of total relaxation and enters the subconscious mind to inject positive suggestions that will reinforce positive behaviors, so the client can make long-term changes to his gambling habit and finally leave it for good. Hypnotherapy for gambling addiction is a method that has been proven to be effective in enforcing behavioral changes through the client’s subconscious mind. This ‘subconscious penetration’ will eventually help the client understand that his/her gambling habit is bad and can only bring misery in his/her life.

Just like in any other case of addiction, getting rid of the craving is always a vital part of the recovery process. Hypnotherapy for gambling addiction can destroy this craving by stimulating positive and appropriate behavior. In addition to the subconscious suggestions, a therapist usually will also suggest a client get a new, positive hobby or healthy activity like working out or simply go for a walk every time there is an urge to do the addictive behavior. So it’s basically replacing a negative action with the positive one.

A hypnotherapist can even teach a client to perform a self-hypnosis that can be used anytime necessary. This self-hypnosis could help a patient to get a sense of calmness as well as to get rid of that constant agitation that happens in every addiction case, including in gambling addiction.

How Hypnotherapy for gambling addiction Works

There are many reasons why people gamble, but usually, it starts when they make a bet for fun and after they experience winning for the first time – especially if they win big on at first try – they will continue gambling while hoping to make easy money once again. In many other cases, a lot of gamblers are actually low-income earners that see gambling as their way to get out of debt or get enough money for retirement and buy things they need. Then there are also people who gamble as a way to cope with their negative emotions and bring excitement to their life.

Whatever the reason is, if these people are not careful with this “activity, they can develop a gambling dependence. Just like with any other behavior, when you repeat it for a long period of time, it can become a habit, and if this certain behavior has something that gives you some pleasure, then you will crave for it and won’t be able to stop easily.

The thing with repetitive behavior is that it affects your mind. Even though our brain is a very complicated instrument, actually it can be programmed quite easily, simply by repeating a certain behavior over and over for a long period of time and enjoy the pleasure out of it. By getting used to taking pleasure from gambling, you’re actually programming your mind to become dependent on gambling to feel content and happy.

So in order to break this addiction, you need to re-program your brain, and it can be done with the help of hypnotherapy. Hypnosis for gambling addiction is the way to communicate with the unconscious mind directly, thus re-programming your mind and behavior will be simpler using this method.

Giving suggestions to the subconscious mind is a lot more effective than to the conscious mind. Unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious will not argue with a suggestion, it will simply follow the suggestion and make some changes to your behavior.

This “reprogramming” process will eventually help gambling addicts to regain their lives. They will no longer crave experiencing pleasure from gambling and even will replace that habit with positive ones. Depends on the individual, it may take a lot of sessions before the client could be completely free from addiction, but most people usually just take a few sessions to get rid of this negative habit through Hypnotherapy for gambling addiction.

Conclusion

Patients come to Philadelphia Hypnotherapy Clinic with different forms of addictions, including smoking, alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, however with the development of technologies we see more and more patients addicted to gaming, and what is the biggest problem, that these patients represent the youth age (middle and high school students).

Dr. Tsan performs hypnosis for gaming addiction helping people to overcome this problem using his own techniques.

To schedule your appointment for hypnosis for gaming addiction contact Philadelphia Hypnotherapy Clinic or call (267) 403-3085 and ask if hypnosis is the right choice for you.

Philadelphia Hypnotherapy Clinic holds the title of the #1 addiction center in the city and vicinities for 5 years in a row. Led by internationally recognized hypnotherapist and medical doctor Victor Tsan this clinic became most demanded by gambling addicts