People get addicted for a myriad of reasons so it is reductionist to try to assign a single reason to this behavior, however regardless of the reasons a person may have to become addicted the end result is always the same, with the quality of their life taking a nose dive from which it can be very difficult to ever recover, so people need to always be aware of the possibility of becoming addicted to anything, and they need to monitor themselves and make an assessment of their lives once in a while just to see if they are not falling into an addiction.
People who are addicted to gambling will experience a decline in their quality of life, which cannot be improved in a short time because their minds are already disturbed by thoughts about gambling. Hence, they only want to gamble without doing other things. But a person already knows and is starting to be aware of the changes that occur in him, as shown by the initial symptoms, namely the desire to return to gambling even though they have just finished gambling. Those who recognize these signs and can prevent these signs from escalating will take precautions in the form of tightening restrictions on their gambling activities and perhaps reducing their gambling time. But this is not easy to do because it requires discipline and self-control as well as responsibility so that they can truly obey the rules they make. If they can, they will not become addicted to gambling because an alarm will sound that will tell them to stop gambling immediately.
when people have many problems in the real world, problems such as: lack of employment, many debts, many bills to pay while earning a very low salary, when people lose a relative who was very dear to them, when the person has been bullied at school, at work and as a consequence this person doesn't leave the house much and after months this person doesn't leave the house anymore, so these people who are in these conditions when they encounter gambling, they easily become addicted, because the game becomes the only thing that allows them to forget the problems, the pain they have in the real world.
but the problem with this starts when the time and money that these people spend starts to get out of control and as they don't talk to anyone, and as they don't tell anyone that they play, then it becomes very difficult for people to find out that they play and how As a result, it takes a long time for relatives and friends to discover that person Z or relative Y has become addicted. In most cases, people around the addict find out about the addiction very late. I already had relatives who were addicted and the end and the suffering that it caused us was very great. It is not easy to deal with an addicted person, if the relatives are not very strong, then they will lose the long battle to save the addict