You're right, most people don't always accept the fact that they are addicted into gambling. You know sometimes I keep wondering why they always find it very difficult to accept that they are addicted, or is it because they don't want people to know about it. Or maybe they don't see themselves as someone who is addicted into gambling, is obvious that majority of gamblers don't even know if they are addicted or not.
I think that people who are addicts do not accept the fact of being addicts because it represents something bad for them and for society, they want to show that what they are doing is totally under control and is within normal levels, that is why they do not accept it , they do not want to know or realize that it is a very silent problem and that they need to accept that if there is a Problem they must attack it quickly, I do not know if it is pride, shame, embarrassment, but I think it goes in that Direction.
Yeah sometimes it may be due to pride or Shame, actually I see no reason why we should be ashamed of telling people about our gambling habit. Moreover, letting people know about our gambling habit is still going to help us to get relief from those stress caused by gambling. Because is obvious that we don't always feel comfortable whenever time we are gambling the wrong way at same time doing it secretly, of course we always get bothered.