Assessment
Before a plan is agreed
We assess compulsion, mood, substance use, financial stress as a clinical context, and family impact. We do not ask a website visitor to send financial records.
Gambling
Private gambling addiction treatment
Gambling addiction is a behavioural dependence with real medical and family consequences. Secrecy and financial harm often travel together.
Understanding
What this often looks like in real life
The person may still be employed. Bills, lies, and the next bet can occupy more mental space than anyone outside can see.
Gambling addiction is a behavioural dependence with real medical and family consequences. Secrecy and financial harm often travel together.
Signs families notice
- Chasing losses
- Hiding accounts, devices or time spent gambling
- Borrowing, selling or risking work to continue
- Anxiety, depression or substance use alongside gambling
Treatment
How the work is held
Individual therapy, optional family sessions, and work on urges, secrecy and the feelings gambling was regulating.
Journey
From first call to aftercare
A residential pause can interrupt access and automaticity, then build a plan for devices, money and relationships at home.
Why residential
A contained setting, when outpatient care is not enough
Why residential
Distance from usual triggers, 24-hour clinical cover where needed, and a daily rhythm that does not ask a depleted person to recover in the same environment that exhausted them.
Why Les Mariannes
Care is physician-led, one-to-one by default, and small enough that a stay is not a corridor of group timetables. Complementary therapies sit inside a medical plan.
Why Mauritius
Mauritius is not read as a public rehab destination. Distance from usual triggers, a stable island setting, and a hilltop centre in Congomah give international families privacy without theatre.
Dr Siddick
A clinical perspective
Gambling is not a character flaw to lecture away. It is a compulsion that needs a serious, private plan.
This is not a slogan. It is how assessment is done here: listen first, then decide whether a residential stay is even the right next step.
Families
The first call can come from someone who loves them
The first conversation may be with a spouse, parent, adult child, sibling, friend or doctor. You do not need the person to complete a form before you ask for guidance.
7-14 days
Assessment and reset
A short residential period to assess, stabilise and interrupt a pattern. Useful when outpatient care is not enough and a longer stay is not yet clear.
21-28 days
Core recovery
Enough time for medical review, a body of individual therapy, sleep restoration and a first aftercare plan. This is a typical core period, not a product.
4+ weeks
Deeper work
When trauma, dual diagnosis or long-standing dependence need more than a month. Length is a clinical recommendation after assessment.
These ranges are guidance for families, not packages. Nothing is priced or promised before a confidential clinical conversation.
Questions
Frequently asked
Do you treat Gambling at Les Mariannes?
Gambling addiction is a behavioural dependence with real medical and family consequences. Secrecy and financial harm often travel together. Suitability for residential care is decided after a confidential clinical conversation, not from a website list.
Is detoxification always required?
No. Some people need medically supervised withdrawal. Others begin psychological work without it. That decision is clinical.
How long would a stay be?
Length of stay is decided after assessment. Typical guidance is a short reset of one to two weeks, a core period of three to four weeks, or longer work. Nothing is sold as a fixed package.
Can a family member make the first call?
The first conversation may be with a spouse, parent, adult child, sibling, friend or doctor. You do not need the person to complete a form before you ask for guidance.
Do you guarantee an outcome or publish a success rate?
No. We do not promise a cure, and we do not publish unverified success rates. Recovery is individual work, held in a licensed setting.
Why Mauritius, rather than a well-known rehab destination?
Mauritius is not read as a public rehab destination. Distance from usual triggers, a stable island setting, and a hilltop centre in Congomah give international families privacy without theatre.
Related
Other pages in this pathway
Alcohol
Alcohol dependence is rarely only about drinking. It is often about sleep, mood, stress, family, and what alcohol has come to do in a life.
Read moreDrugs
Drug dependence can involve street drugs, prescribed medicines used unsafely, or a pattern that has outgrown the original reason it began.
Read morePrescription medication
Dependence can begin in a consulting room. Sleeping tablets, benzodiazepines and pain medicines may have been prescribed for a real problem, then become difficult to stop.
Read moreCannabis
Cannabis is often described as harmless. For some people it has become the way they sleep, socialise, or keep anxiety at bay, and stopping feels larger than expected.
Read moreBegin here
Speak confidentially
Whether you are exploring care for yourself or for someone you love, the first step is a private discussion. There is no obligation, and nothing is priced before that conversation.