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Gambling Disorder, recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, is a behavioral addiction characterized by loss of control over gambling despite serious personal, financial, and social consequences.
Individuals struggling with this disorder are unable to control the urge to gamble in activities such as sports betting, casinos, lotteries, or online platforms. Often driven by the desire to win, recover losses, or experience excitement.
It affects brain systems related to reward and impulse control, reinforcing compulsive behavior over time.
At Oceanica, we provide an evidence-based, multidisciplinary program to help individuals regain control, develop healthier coping strategies, and rebuild their lives. Family involvement and ongoing support are key to long-term recovery.
Recovery is possible with the right care and support.
Gambling addiction, or compulsion for gambling and betting, is a disease of the impulse control mechanisms.
Those who suffer from it cannot control their need to try their luck or skills in activities such as horse racing, sports, lottery, casino games, etc. Most of the time, they are motivated to win, recover what was lost, or simply experience the emotion of risk, seriously compromising their health, work, assets of their family, and even their freedom due to economic losses and debt
Pathological gambling has a solution. Oceánica has developed a multidisciplinary treatment with short-term multimodal and cognitive-behavioral therapeutic techniques. Thus, the player can learn to improve their capacity for self-control and design a lifestyle. It includes abstinence from gambling stimuli and reorganizing the aspects of his life affected by his addiction.
Significant people to the patient are also incorporated into the treatment through the Family Program, extending the benefit of recovery to them. Upon completion of residential treatment, the patient is offered a series of continuing care activities through the Post-Treatment Program.
The gambler, like the addict, suffers from symptoms that prevent him from realizing and fully assuming his inability to control his compulsion to gamble.
For the gambler to accept his problem, in most cases, the participation of his family or significant others is necessary. Oceánica offers an effective method called “Intervention.”
