That is true, people who are addicted to the game do not share it because they feel sorry for it, or maybe they are ashamed and they do not want to feel the rejection of their family, friends and any person, the bad thing about this is that it becomes like in disease that is killing the person little by little, that person always has in his mind how bad he is going through, he knows that he will do anything to go play in the casino, it is something that must be very careful, a normal person who If you find out that this person has an addiction, you should help him immediately so that this does not happen to the elderly and the person does not tempt against his own life.
Most people have a very high image of themselves, and when their own actions betray that image they do not want to admit their mistakes as they think this will also affect the image others have of them, this explains why those people despite being in a desperate need of help and knowing it, still choose to not ask for that help, as they do not want to stain the image they have spent years or even decades to create among their loved ones.
I think being unable to speak out for possible help from gambling of other forms of addictions is more of a hold of the addictions on the victim rather than being shameful about speaking of the uncontrolled addictions tendency, because if it is about being a shame for the act the won't continue to go out of the way to gamble more, such as they involvement in disgraceful act such as stealing family member money to gamble with or borrowing money and using it to gamble away.
So if about being ashame, their won't endurge in such an act, so it the addiction control over them that control the attitude and character at that point, and if they have any outer of shame they won't indulge in all those unacceptable things as mentioned above just to gamble, so to save this kind of people, those around them must be sensitive enough to notice that character in them and try to rehabilitate them even if the addict can speak out due to the degree of addictions controlling his feeling and acts.