But then, this tiny voice in my head whispered, What if you spin again? I mean, if you won this much with just two spin, imagine how much more you could win. And like a true over optimistic person that I am, I listened.
Spin after spin, I watched my winnings going down. Before I knew it, not only was my prize money gone, but the money I deposited also disappearing. And just when I was about to hit rock bottom, my very last spin miraculously won me a tiny token again. At that point, it felt like the universe was patting me on the shoulder, saying, Here, take this and stop fooling yourself 🤣
That's a classic gambling urge that everyone experiences, and you can only avoid it if you act quickly, which means that as soon as you start hearing those voices, you should ignore them and go ahead with your withdrawal. If you give it a second thought, you are not going out, and you will definitely play to win more and eventually lose everything, including your deposited amount. In your case, you were lucky that you didn't lose everything, but mostly, when you win something big initially and then become greedy, you tend to lose everything back.
It requires a lot of patience for a person to get through this stage, and this is the stage that makes a person lose more than what they had intended to spend on their gambling activities. If you listen to that urge and act according to it, nothing can stop you from making more deposits because as you said, it's like getting hypnotized because you can't think of going away anymore once you lose some because you keep saying to yourself that you will only stop now if you win whatever you had won back again, which barely happens.