It is difficult to ask for a helping hand when you hide from the closest people that you play gambling. It is not that hard to become a gambling addict. If you ask any gambling addict how he got into such a situation, it is very likely that he will either not admit that he has any problems, or will say that he does not understand how it happened.
The closest people will know that you gamble no matter how it will be hidden they must know it, now imagine gambling is almost everyone knows even though they never play for example.
There will be more people covering up their shame than saying that they are addicted, which is clear that they know how to do it, they just don't explain that they also have the same problem.
People who don't want to admit that there's already something wrong with how they are treating gambling, instead of asking for guidance or assistance they will deny and will not accept the truth behind their addictions, they will choose to hide and try to discreetly continue thier gambling participation and without the correct balance between finances and time they will suffer a lot.
We live in a society where people have different views about something and these views could be drawn based on different constituent like personal sentiment, religion, ideology and experience. And speaking of gamble there are those that view it as an irresponsible activity to embark on and whoever is into it is tag as irresponsible guy, for some it beyond being irresponsible but a sin something that is evil, while some others out of an ugly experience of a loved one that got ruined by it due to extreme addiction.
The availability of online gambling platforms allows anyone to maintain privacy in gambling so that other people do not need to know the activities we do, especially in gambling.
Now the issue of gambling is not a taboo activity because there are many people involved in it even long before online gambling platforms started appearing on the internet. The issue of how they are involved in gambling depends on each individual, whether they are responsible or not, only they themselves can control it.
Depending from how a person learn and how he handles his gambling activities, there's always reason behind and it's a different perspectives and conceptualize in terms of a gamblers opinions., and in terms of keeping it as secret or discreet, there are reason behind
and a self-explanatory opinions that weight the reason they involve themselves into gambling.