. 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.
In fact, gambling is not a solution to any problem, but gambling is the main ingredient that creates the problem. When someone thinks of gambling as a solution to a problem, instead of getting a solution to the problem, he gets involved in bigger problems. A person's problems will not be there forever, they are temporary. But if you make the wrong decision because of that temporary problem, that problem will remain permanent.
For example, you have chosen gambling as a solution to your problem, you think that you will only play today and solve the problem by making your money 2X/3X, and never play again, but from then on, gambling addiction will be born in you. Because you will not be able to gain money then, but you will face more losses then, and start gambling more emotionally, thus you will sink into gambling addiction, and only move towards disaster.
Above all, when gambling is seen as a solution to a problem, the problems become deeper, and it becomes impossible to overcome it later.