We all know that we cannot play for a long time without being responsible players; we could go crazy, or we could lose all our money; at some point, you have to realize that you need to play responsibly, so I created this poll and this discussion to pick your reasons and explain it.
In my case, I have to lose a lot of money to realize I have to gamble responsibly if I don't want to break my finances and experience depression, so now I control myself and monitor my expenses, and I'm doing good with it.
I won't deny losing money in gambling same as you have experienced in life being a gambler, but once you see your family started suffering from financial struggles because of it I believed that as a responsible person who value money more than personal desires; gambling shouldn't be prioritized. Expenses was too hard to manage, always make sure everything is set according to your budgeting preferences. Not most of the time our earning job will accommodate those beyond our expenses, like gambling and other stuff like non sense shopping.
Always put things first before negative consequences might happen, that's how my mindset goes on this as a responsible gambler. Doing such thing isn't bad, we just need discipline and knowing our limitations.