Let's start with the simple choice: Do you consider yourself to have a gambling problem affecting your happiness, security, relationships, finances, etc? (Yes or No)
My gambling life is not affecting any part of my life. Be it happiness, security or my relationship. What I always do is to make sure what ever I do in gambling is no attached to emotion. Because Puting your mind fully on gambling might make you find yourself in one of the listed problems above but gambling is a thing of calculation and endurance. and also applying smartness to it, will make it not to deprive you of your responsibilities, care and affection to your relationship. Gambling should be a good investment when you study and play smart.
It should be and it shouldnt really be changed over the course of time because most likely people dont be able to experience messing up their lives on early phase but as the time goes by
on which they have been able to make themselves getting that gradually be having those change of thoughts and impressions towards gambling then this is where shit things do start to mold up.
Dont let yourself having those emotions that you do already becoming that impulsive on the way that you do make out bets. Gambling or betting should be fun and not something that would really be stressful for you because if you do find yourself on such state or condition then it isnt really that ideal or worth anymore on making yourself that dealing up with gambling.