Most of the time people get into gambling when they face financial problems. When they need more money to handle their lives, they just take gambling as the way. This is wrong. Whenever we are in need of more money, we should look for long-term beneficial plans or try to live with what is available. Should not consider gambling as a way of making money. People easily get addicted, unlike their winning and losing streaks, because winning keeps us active and tempts us to gamble more and more. And the loss makes us recover the loss and end gambling, which is a never-ending process. Op has done a great job and shared his experience, which can be tried when we find ourselves addicted.
The assumption about those who make gambling a solution to their financial problems is a case that occurs quite a lot, actually it is not justified to make gambling a way to overcome financial problems. It is better when we experience financial problems we have to look for other things such as part-time jobs that clearly have wages that will be obtained later.
I agree with you, we should not consider gambling as a way to make money because there is no certainty that it can get profit, only luck will make us succeed in getting profit besides losses will occur more often.