What Is Self-exclusion Like For Pathological Gamblers?
Gambling addiction, also called “gambling addiction,” is characterized by the need and uncontrollable urge to gamble, bet or participate in any type of game of chance that involves betting both physically and online.
The popularization of online gambling, as well as digital casinos and online sports betting platforms, has led to an unprecedented rise in cases of gambling addiction in our country, which constitutes a true public health problem for Spanish society.
The massive advertising campaigns for these new forms of online gambling, starring celebrities who are highly valued and loved by the vast majority of society, have only worsened the problem of gambling addiction and made people with addiction increasingly younger. .
In order to overcome a problem of gambling or gambling addiction, there are many options and strategies that we can follow; Among the most common is a psychological consultation with a professional expert in gambling, and also self-exclusion applied in cases of pathological gambling.
Self-exclusion for pathological gamblers is a legal mechanism that any person addicted to gambling can avail of with the aim of restricting physical and online access to all types of establishments where gambling is practiced.
This means having entry banned both in casinos, bingos or physical betting houses and in all types of online platforms and websites intended for the practice of games of chance and betting of all kinds.
Self-exclusion has proven to be very useful in overcoming a gambling addiction and is one of the essential requirements that most psychology professionals demand from their patients before starting therapy.
In short, self-exclusion is a tool based on the psychological strategy of stimulus control consisting of ensuring that it will be impossible for the person to gamble or carry out their addictive behavior in any possible scenario.
Self-exclusion is also useful to get the person to stop compulsively gambling and get out of the self-destructive spiral of gambling addiction, through which those affected end up generating enormous debts with both their own money and that of their family.
To achieve this self-exclusion it is necessary to carry out a series of specific steps; below we detail how the process works.
How does self-exclusion registration work?
Anyone who wants to present their total self-exclusion from gambling at any State establishment can do so both online and in person at a large number of registries and offices.
Face-to-face modality
To sign up for a nationwide self-exclusion it is necessary to present the RGIAJ form in the records provided for in article 16.4 Law 39/2015.
By Internet
We can do this by registering at the electronic headquarters of the General Directorate of Gambling Regulation.
In addition to that, you can also send the application once we have filled it out using the “self-prohibited DNIe” mobile app, only available for Android, at the moment.
Finally, it should be noted that there is also the possibility of self-exclusion from specific online betting houses asking for information about the process or consulting their web pages.
Self-exclusion from betting establishments officially lasts indefinitely; nevertheless, The person may unsubscribe from said registry after 6 months.
This measure affects both the national registries and the specific registries of each location and implies the possibility that the person can gamble again after 6 months, something that can lead to a relapse in addiction and the loss of all progress. achieved in therapy previously.
That is why, to avoid the high risk of relapse that exists during the first months of recovery from a case of gambling, self-exclusion is maintained indefinitely both in physical places and in online portals.
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