Gambling Issues

In the UK, gambling has become one of the country’s highest turnover businesses, with lottery tickets and scratch cards on sale everywhere, betting shops on every High Street and casinos in every city, not to mention race-tracks and greyhound stadia in every major urban centre.

As if this weren’t enough, the popularity of internet access at home as well as in offices means that gambling ‘opportunities’ are available 24/7 on everything else from playing cards to playing shares.

For many, this availability poses no threat whatsoever. These are people who enjoy a flutter on the lottery or the football pools, a bet once or twice a year on the Derby or the Grand National or on a trip to the races.

For others, gambling becomes a dangerous compulsion for which those in its grip are prepared, literally, to beg, borrow or steal.

If you – or someone you love – has a problem with gambling, crossing the invisible line into unacceptable and damaging behaviour, I may well be able to help.

If a person is willing to be open-minded, the brain that over-estimates the odds on success can be refocused to recognise the more predictable downside.

A potential gambling ‘problem’ can be cut down to size. The mountain can be reduced to a molehill. The molehill need never grow into a mountain.

The boundaries can be drawn. The boundaries can be recognised.

Gambling can become fun again – just a flutter not a ticket to the gutter.