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teenage gamling a problem

  • 19-03-2010 10:03pm
    #1
    cleverlady
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    how do you deal with a teenager becoming addicted to gambling. has anybody had this experience. i would be grateful for advice.


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  • #2
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    Bring him to the bookies and the pubs, and no I'm not joking.


  • #3
    Nulty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Gamblers Anonymous

    Carmichael House
    North Brunswick St.
    Dublin 7
    Republic of Ireland

    Tel: 01 - 872 11 33

    They'll be far more qualified to give advice than anyone here. My advice is to ring them and ask.


  • #4
    cullen5998
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    Cut his money. Stern but fair.


  • #5
    PCPhoto
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    does the teenager know he/she has a problem ?

    if so, he/she will only get help if he/she wants.


  • #6
    x PyRo
    Moderators Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    cleverlady wrote: »
    how do you deal with a teenager becoming addicted to gambling. has anybody had this experience. i would be grateful for advice.

    I hope you're not my mother. :D Only joking.

    How much of a problem ?. Is he (I'll assume it's a lad) working and using all his wages to gamble or are you giving him money to do it ?.

    Or getting various credit cards etc and using them to gamble ?. (Although i doubt as a teenager he'd be able to get one, as i know i can't)

    There's not much you can do unless you're the one controlling his funds.


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  • #7
    essexman
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    Theres a well known anecdote about a psychologist who specialized in helping problem gamblers. The problem he concluded wasn't the gambling as such but the fact that they were losing. So he taught them how to win.


  • #8
    PhatPiggins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭PhatPiggins


    x PyRo wrote: »
    I hope you're not my mother. :D Only joking.

    How much of a problem ?. Is he (I'll assume it's a lad) working and using all his wages to gamble or are you giving him money to do it ?.

    Or getting various credit cards etc and using them to gamble ?. (Although i doubt as a teenager he'd be able to get one, as i know i can't)

    There's not much you can do unless you're the one controlling his funds.

    Er a debit card and the dole are freely available.

    How can you not get a credit card? Too many bookies debits on your bank statements?


  • #9
    PhatPiggins
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    cleverlady wrote: »
    how do you deal with a teenager becoming addicted to gambling. has anybody had this experience. i would be grateful for advice.

    To be honest you're probably in the wrong place to ask your question, as a lot of posters here will also have a gambling problem(myself included) and we're probably not best equiped on how to tell you to kick the/our habit.

    Maybe try the mans health or pyschology forums.


  • #10
    x PyRo
    Moderators Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    PhatPiggins wrote: »
    Er a debit card and the dole are freely available.

    How can you not get a credit card? Too many bookies debits on your bank statements?

    In relation to the debit card thing, i was saying that if he's getting credit cards for it then it's a problem obviously as he'd be using credit to gamble, at least if he's on the dole/working and using a debit card then he can't gamble more than he has, unless he gets an overdraft.

    Well i haven't applied for one in a while but they don't seem to want to give me one, nothing to do with bookie debits on my account as i don't put it directly into my accounts via the card, plus i don't take it out in dribs and drabs i'd usually stick €500 or €1k into an account whenever i can and work off that bank. They obviously don't want to hand out cards to people with no steady job (I'm in College) by the looks of it, in my case anyhow.


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