Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
everyone will definitely refuse if they are said to have an addiction to something especially when it comes to gambling addiction
(which still has bad stereotypes in society in several states), but you don't reject the term "gambling addict" said by other people to you when you are indeed identified as having that history
(such as gambling for hours and having debt because of the gambling you are experiencing)(if i am a gambling addict) when i admit that i am slowly but surely becoming a gambling addict then the possibility that i will recover in the future will be great, the people closest to me will help me recover from it, so there is nothing wrong with admitting it.