Liz Karter: Understanding the Hidden Grip of Gambling Addiction
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Matt welcomes gambling addiction expert, Liz Karter, to the studio.
Liz's area of specialisation is gambling addiction. This includes all of its causes and consequences which she has found to be stress, depression, anxiety, relationship problems and sometimes trauma.
Liz has built an excellent reputation for helping women successfully overcome gambling addiction. She also works very successfully with men, too, and helps people overcome addictions to alcohol, drugs, digital devices and love relationships, including the complexities of online dating. She established her private practice, Level Ground, in 2010 and over the years has helped hundreds of people to live happier, healthier lives.
In this episode, Matt and Liz discuss the all-consuming power of gambling, how technology has made it easier than ever to gamble (and hide it) and the steps someone should take if they're wanting to quit.
Here are some links discussed in our episode - and others you may find useful:
Liz's Website
Liz's Book - Four Weeks To Freedom
NHS - gambling addiction help page
National Gambling Treatment Service
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? |
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| 0:16.2 | Hello everybody and welcome to On the Mend. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Matt Willis and in this series. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm going to be taking a look into the world of mental health, addiction and recovery and how people get through hard times. |
| 0:25.9 | My guest today is Liz Carter. Liz is a leading UK expert in gambling addiction and women. |
| 0:31.9 | She's the author of three books on this subject as well as being the founder of level ground therapy. |
| 0:37.2 | Liz regularly writes for |
| 0:38.0 | newspapers and magazines and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE for services to gambling |
| 0:43.4 | addiction in women. In this episode Liz helps us understand more about gambling and why it |
| 0:48.2 | causes such pain and destruction to people. We look at the psychology behind it and how we can |
| 0:52.9 | help those who are addicted. I hope |
| 0:54.9 | you find this as interesting to listen to as I did recording you. Liz Carter, thank you so much |
| 1:04.9 | for coming in today. I really, really appreciate it. Thank you very much. I'm very excited to |
| 1:08.8 | speak to you. It's my pleasure. Thank you for inviting me and I'm really delighted to be here. |
| 1:14.6 | I can, I don't even know where to really start. I think from what I've seen from reading about you |
| 1:20.6 | and kind of seeing what you've put out there, it seems like more and more, I mean, you specialise |
| 1:25.6 | in gambling addiction and especially with women. Yes. And it seems like there's more and more, I mean, you specialise in gambling addiction and especially with women. |
| 1:29.5 | Yes. |
| 1:29.9 | And it seems like there's more and more women having problems with addiction with gambling. |
| 1:35.1 | Why do you think that is right now? |
| 1:37.7 | I believe that we can't look at any addiction without looking at the social and mental health context. |
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