Help for loved ones
This page is intended for relatives of gambling addicts. Do you want to know how you can help a gambling addict, or where you can go for support yourself? Then read on here.
Maybe you just found out that your partner, best friend, or maybe even your mom or dad gambles. You are probably very shocked and looking for ways to deal with this properly.
You may need to talk to someone. Often it is intense and difficult for the environment to live with an addict and it can be very good to talk about this with a neutral person.
Why could help for loved ones be something for you?
You worry a lot and you need reassurance.
You are ashamed of your neighbor's gambling behavior towards those around you.
You want to know about the financial worries.
you want to know how best to deal with a gambling addict.
Help for loved ones
The counter is also accessible for you. If you want to chat, text or just call, you can go to Loket Kansspel. We help you free of charge and anonymously and are available day and night.
Other aids
Apart from our help, there are also other forms of help.
Read below to find out what more help is available for relatives.
Debt relief
Do the money problems also affect you and your family? Then you can contact institutions for debt assistance. Read more about debt relief at Loket Kansspel here.
Help per province
On the website of Help! My loved one is addicted you can find the possibilities for getting help per province. For example, telephone advice, information afternoons, self-help groups and workshops. Or a conversation with experts by experience: other people who experience or have experienced the same as you. They can often help you think about your relationship with the addicted person and your own wishes and needs. It can be supportive and instructive to hear how others deal with the addiction of someone close to them.
Stichting Anonymous Gamblers Environment Gamblers (AGOG) is a national self-help organization with many local chapters in more than 20 regions. The AGOG organizes anonymous self-help meetings for people who have gambling problems themselves, but also for the environment (partner, parent, brother or sister, family or friend) of gamblers.
Intact's self-help groups are open to people affected by addiction and their loved ones. Intact is open to everyone, regardless of origin, skin colour, religion, gender or cultural background. Respect for the other in word and behavior is the central starting point for all work within Intact.
The National Family Trustees Foundation supports family and relatives of people with psychiatric or addiction problems within mental health care.
Mantelzorg.nl is the national association of and for carers. They offer them support, advice, information and a voice for politics.
