In this forum and other forums where gambling is one of the topics of discussion, one of the recurrent topics is people who write about how their gambling addiction has ruined their lives. We usually encounter topics like "Gambling ruined my life," "I lost all my life savings to gambling," "I gambled away my entire salary," etc. Then they go on to tell a sad tale. It makes me wonder: why do gamblers tend to wait until they have suffered a catastrophic loss or a string of losses before quitting or seeking help?
It's simply because they are too addicted at that time to notice the disaster that they are walking into, and when their face hits the floor, they suddenly become conscious and start realizing what they've lost one by one, and all they've left is regret.
It isn't so simple if you put yourself in their shoes. An addiction such as gambling can be very dangerous for a human being if it crosses its limit which is what happens when people even lend out their homes to borrow money for gambling and they are not basically conscious when they are doing so, but they are blind due to the addiction.