Online Support Service and App - Gambling Therapy
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Gambling Therapy is a UK-based, free online service that provides advice and support to people affected by problem gambling, who love outside of the UK. It is part of the Gordon Moody Association, which is one of the UK's leading gambling addiction treatment providers.
The site provides emails supports, a web-forum and online support groups. A Gambling Therapy app is also available on iOS and Android. Key features of the app are: self assessment questionnaire • text based live support • mindfulness and self help exercises • crisis support information • daily motivational quotes • links to blocking software • directory of organisations that can help • access to the GT online forums |
The Gamban App
The Gamban App is a software application for PCs and Laptops (Windows and Mac), as well as Android and iOS devices. Gamban is designed to block access to all gambling sites.
More information is available on their website: gamban.com/
The folks at Gamban have very kindly provided us with a 20% discount code for their service. Just click on the link, to avail of the discount.
More information is available on their website: gamban.com/
The folks at Gamban have very kindly provided us with a 20% discount code for their service. Just click on the link, to avail of the discount.
RecoverMe
RecoverMe is a mobile application to help those who suffer with a gambling addiction. This app was designed with the help of psychologists, psychiatrists and those others suffering from gambling addiction. Available for Android and iOS. We have been provided with a voucher code, for the first month free: RECOVERMELAUNCH1
Online Gambling Addiction App
This app is designed to help users permanently exclude themselves from 202 gambling sites and gaming networks in Ireland, the UK and across the EU. It also provides links to additional supports for problem gamblers. Click here to download. (Android only)
Mobile Monitor Your Gambling & Urges (MYGU)
The Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario (PGIO) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) created Mobile Monitor Your Gambling & Urges (MYGU), an App that promotes self-awareness of gambling behaviours. This educational tool can gather important information about gambling behaviours and report back to the gambler:
- The date and time they experienced an urge to gamble
- What triggers their urges to gamble (e.g., having money, feeling bored or lonely)
- What activities they do instead of gambling
- Wins and losses when they gambled
- Their feelings—if they gambled or didn’t gamble
- Consequences—if they gambled or didn’t gamble
Cost2Play
For people who gamble, it’s difficult to know just how much it costs to play—small individual losses can add up. So RGC built the Cost2Play Calculator, which has also launched as an App, downloadable free through iTunes, Android and Blackberry App Stores. Cost2Play is a tool that helps people to understand the long-term costs involved in popular casino games: slots, blackjack and roulette. The online version of the Cost2Play calculator can also be viewed at NoRegrets.ca
iPromises
Created by Elements Behavioural Health, iPromises is an iPhone recovery App with trigger alerts, a visual journal, and a directory of phone numbers for support anywhere in the US, Canada, and some international offices. Users can add friends and share meetings, track progress and challenges, and get a daily positive message. It also enables them to track any setbacks, issues or achievements. To date, approximately 5,000 people have downloaded this App.
The Cassava App
Keep track of your daily moods and activities in the Journal, and take our Daily Survey to see how various areas of your life – from nutrition and sleep to relationships and stress management – are changing over time. Week by week, you’ll be able to identify areas where you’re improving as well as areas that you need to focus on. When you actively participate in the features of the app that promote ongoing recovery, you boost your Sobriety Score – a barometer for your recovery that increases your awareness of how you’re doing. Available for Apple and Android devices. Download here (scroll to the bottom of the page).
Gamblers Anonymous Red Book App
Some excerpts form Gamblers Anonymous literature including the little Red Book, The first 90 days, climbing the twelve steps and the Unity Programme. Once downloaded, it does not need any more access to the internet and therefore no data charges. Download here (Android only).
Addiction Avert App
This app uses Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), which is similar to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. REBT is also used by the SMART Recovery movement. The app helps you to identify your triggers to gamble ('activating events'), examine irrational beliefs associated with those triggers and dispute those irrational beliefs - leading to a change in your philosophy. Download here (Android & Apple).
My Gamblers Anonymous Toolkit App
This app features: Recovery Journal, Gratitude List, Spot-Check Inventories, GA Abstinence Birthday Calculator, Anonymous Icon (To protect anonymity, the actual app icon does not show references to Gamblers Anonymous). Download here (Apple only)
Sobertool App
This app has been developed to help prevent relapse in all forms of addiction (including gambling). Users can track money saved as well as days in recovery. The app also includes a community forum. Download here (Apple). Download here (Android).
recoveryBox App
"Designed for accountability, recoveryBox is an iOS app toolset that facilitates tracking of daily life activities by easily breaking them down into your "lights". Breaking habits requires knowing why we do what we do, when do we do it and coming up with goals to break unhealthy behaviors.recoveryBox has the tools needed to help with addiction recovery. recoveryBox is designed to work with any addiction: drugs, gambling, pornography, alcohol or customize your own specific to your needs." Download here (Apple only)