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.
We are talking about the self-awareness of those players whom their environment clearly and almost accurately considers addicted gamblers at the stage of the disease. And it is clear that such a person’s passion for gambling has become an addiction. This self-awareness of such a player seems to force him to constantly immerse himself in his world of dreams and fantasies, a little different from our world, the world of gambling. However, these will not necessarily be some fantastic games like GTA. This could even be a game of poker, for example. It’s just that life in such a world forces the player to act in accordance with the laws and rules of such a world. So he, returning to our world, simply steals money and heads back to his game world. It’s great if such a person strives to return to our world, this is the first step on the path to recovery. But many of the addicted players are happy in their game world and they do not want to return to our world. This is of course a disaster for all their relatives. But the gambler doesn’t think about this at all. In this case, only compulsory treatment can return him to our world.
This is roughly how I imagine this whole process with addicted gamblers.