Don't engage in gambling when you are depressed, if you are looking for a distraction try to do something productive instead.
If I am not mistakenly had seen people talks about gambling to whine away their sorrow like if they gambles they feels more happy and forget about what they have faced for days or the stressful moment they had their offices. The major thing Is that people with the way they positioned their minds towards gambling as some people may see gamble as something to forget about their angers and bitterness.
The worse the depression that can control your emotions while gambling is when you are losing, this control your overall thinking and reasoning towards every action you takes while gambling.
It sounds very strange to me that people will prefer to gamble just to ease depression or forget about a troubling situation they might have found themselves because it's almost similar to someone who drinks alcohol to stupor just because they want to ease their stress or forget about an ugly condition because it will instead worsten the situation than proffer solutions. How can someone even think of using gambling as an escape from anger or depression when they know that in the quest of staking bets, they can be unlucky and lose a lot of money such that when they realize who much they have lost already, it can even send them to more depressed state. No matter how you tend to position your mindset on what will ease tension in you while depressed, gambling at that material time should not be used as an escape route.