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Gambling Addiction Treatment
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Capo By The Sea is in Dana Point, CA. You can walk to the beautiful and famous Doheny Beach and Dana Point Harbor in only a few minutes time. There is surfing and other fun water sports on a daily basis at Doheny Beach. Capo By the Sea has several highly qualified and experienced medical doctors affiliated with our staff. Gambling addiction, also known as compulsive gambling, is a type of impulse-control disorder. Compulsive gamblers can’t control the impulse to gamble, even when they know their gambling is hurting themselves, their friends, and their families.
Gambling addiction is sometimes referred to as the hidden illness because there are no obvious physical signs or symptoms like there are in drug or alcohol addiction. To overcome a gambling addiction, you must first admit that you have a problem. For many gambling addicts this is the hardest part. If you aren’t able to resist the gambling craving, don’t be too hard on yourself or use it as an excuse to give up. Overcoming a gambling addiction is a tough process. Compulsive gamblers are really very sick people who can recover if they will follow to the best of their ability a simple program. When you are ready to own up to your gambling problem, the work of recovery can begin.
Compulsive gambling is an illness, progressive in its nature. Pathological gamblers are addicted to action, not money. At Capo By the Sea we believe strongly in the principles behind the 12-step programs. The 12 Step Program is fundamentally based on ancient spiritual principles and rooted in sound medical therapy. The best recommendation for the program is the fact that "it works." When gambling addiction is treated as a disease rather than a type of weakness of character or other disorder, it allows both the client and the friends and family of the client to be more accepting and easily achieve a positive outlook on the treatment. To prevent a relapse it is necessary to bring about certain character changes within the individual. In order to accomplish this, a guide is used for certain spiritual principles which have been utilized by thousands of people who are recovering from other compulsive addictions
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