And in this sense, gambling can probably even be compared to some extent with a very strict and unforgiving teacher.
And by the way, many of us probably remember our teachers who were really strict, but also fair. I even think that any person, becoming an adult, often remembers just such teachers who really taught him something useful in life and taught him well becaase of rigor and fairness.
I think that gambling can be considered a strict and fair teacher in a broad philosophical sense.
To a great extend, I agree with you, we can as well also compare or liken gambling to life itself, and this because life is a brutal and unforgiving teacher, life is ready to teach a man as many times as he or she needs to learn, and she doesn't care how much you have lost, or how difficult the lesson is, she will continue to you brutally without mercy until you learn.
Same also is gambling, for a gambler who fail to properly learn how to participate in gambling without getting involved in problems, such a gambler will keep encountering problems in gambling until he or she learns to gamble responsibly.
Though it's true, it's unfortunate that a lot of people are so stubborn that they don't stop until they ruin their lives and lose everything because of gambling, or get themselves stuck in a circle of loan repayments because of borrowing a lot of money for their gambling activities. They only realize their mistakes after it's all over for them, and they don't have anywhere to go anymore and that's why they can't continue to gamble as there are no funds for that.
A human being is created with a mind, that gives it the ability to think and understand things, but it ignores everything that comes in front of it only to continue doing what is ruining them slowly. I feel very sad for people who don't learn when they make a mistake for the first time or the first few times.
I would call people who really became serious gamblers a separate group of gambling addicts, but of course people of different races and religions who live, as it were, in their own world, parallel to ours.
This is a world that combines their presence in games, in these fairy-tale worlds, and periodically they return to our real world, where they have only one major task - to find money somewhere in order to escape again into their world of games and dreams. These people should be treated with pity, but also with the understanding that they simply live in a different world, slightly different from ours, and that in their own way they can even be happy in this world of theirs. For example, when such an addicted gambling addict wins big. But of course, I think, if possible, we need to help them return to our world, where many of them are loved by other people and these people are looking forward to their return with impatience and hope.
This is all a bit of philosophical reasoning, but it seems to me that it is fair.
On the time that you do already find yourself to be delusional because of the things that you are already imagining and cant really be possibly to happen then its a solid indicative sign that you are alread addicted to it.
People would really be make those kind of realizations on the time that they would really be experiencing some difficult situations or scenarios. Each person does have their own reasons on why they are really that trying to think on things which cant really be that possible and trying out to fight on what they do believe or something that they do have in mind.
In speaking about quitting or getting rid of it, then we would really be having some couple of services and professional seek of help when it comes to this manner and of course
those things wont come cheap specially in speaking about treatment on addiction. Quitting is really the main problem for most people specially to those who are addicted into it.
HAving these kind of platforms or services which are basically for free just to help out to those addicted out there, then this is something that really appreciated.