. If they know that playing gambling have a big risk, they will not do that very often and just use gambling for occasionally with the money they can afford to lose. They will not use gambling as an escape but use other things that will gives fun to them.
You just need to be able to expand your horizons and be able to find new activities and hobbies. If someone has only a job and gambling and this is all his leisure time, then such a person is doomed to the abyss. You need to meet with friends, it's free, but their words heal better than any therapy, you need to be able to ask your loved ones for support, and then the gambler is unlikely to get bogged down in uncontrolled play, and as a result, lose all his savings. In general, you need to be able to find and understand something new for yourself.
In essence, making gambling an escape from life problems experienced, it is the wrong way and very inappropriate. I do not care what the background of the person when having problems then choose gambling as an escape, because the result will make his life worse. Instead of gambling for escape,it would be more appropriate to avoid gambling when having problems and choose to go on vacation and or other things that can increase happiness to overcome the problems experienced. Because if anyone gambles whenhaving problems, the main concern is that you experience defeat in gambling and that will make the problems experienced worse and if that situation happens, it will be more difficult to overcome it.