Sometimes people who think they avoid it, fail to do so. What's important in a moment like that is not give up. No one should think, oh, I'm addicted gambler now, I can do nothing about it. You can, you always can. You can try to get rid of it by yourself, but if it's impossible, you can seek professional help. It works.
Yes, don't give up and keep doing it even though we know it's hard because that's the only thing we have to do to avoid excessive gambling and gambling addiction problems. However, many people have difficulty continuing to do it and cannot keep doing it. Hence, it makes them lose control of themselves and eventually become addicted to gambling. And if they are already addicted to gambling, they can still cure it by placing very strict restrictions on themselves so that they can avoid gambling and not even depend on gambling. And it is still recommended to ask for professional help to undergo the healing process.
Well, I can tell you guys that coming out from gambling addiction is even more easier than visiting or asking for a professional help, believe it or not, it's a fact.
As long as gambling addiction is involved, one thing required to stop or quit it is determination, if the addicted gambler visits a professional for help and he or she is not determined to stop, he or she will or may not end up being free from such addiction, but as long as the gambler is determined to stop, he him self or herself can stop and come out from that addiction by the power of that same determination, but I believe this is something many of us don't usually understand after all.
I've always stated it here in several occasions that the easiest way at stop gambling addiction is for the addicted person to accept that he's an addict and also make up his mind to break free from gambling addiction. It's only when a gambler has made up his mind to stop his gambling addiction that he can be easily talked out of it. No matter how good a professional therapist is, it's almost impossible to help a gambling addict stop his addiction by talking to him when he's not mentally ready to quit. There's a chance for every addict to stop the addiction but that's only when he wants it to happen.