Escaping from reality and only use gambling to forget what we face will not solve our problem because that can gives more problems than we thinks. When we want to playing gambling, we must make sure that we are in a normal condition and not thinks much about gambling so we can release our stress in busy day and enjoy the games. But we must know that playing gambling needs to have responsibility so we can use gambling to have fun while we have a spare time.
It may be like that, but it works for me personally, sometimes I have so many things on my mind that playing is like therapeutic, it has a positive effect, of course this is how I free myself from the current situation, for me it's similar to when I go to the football stadium to sit with my team, it's a different environment, one de-stresses, my worries are different and that can turn into fun for me, the problem that could be caused by making this into a game is not controlling oneself, but since before playing I have money available that I can lose, there's no problem.