Indeed. We don't have to spend a long hours playing. Gambling and you're in the mood can prevent causing stress. But of course it is necessary that you're going to play with a main reason of entertaining yourself, and not to profit. Because as we know gaining in gambling is not guaranteed hence it would better to have less expectation. If ever you're fortunate to win then consider it as incentive for entertaining yourself.
It is hard to stop a stressed gambler because they have a goal that they're trying to reach.
And that's through making themselves win again and recover those losses.
But are they going to get that easy? no, but they are only adding more stress to themselves by doing and thinking like that.
Makes me sometimes ask myself how some people are able to gamble even when they are not enjoying it, what exactly is the essence of gambling when its not fun for you, and on top of that, you are still losing money, that's like making a double loss, you are losing in the side of having fun, and you are also losing on the side of money, if I ever gamble to this stage, I am better off quiting gambling for ever if I am not addicted, and even if I am addicted, I did find ways to get myself out of it because staying like this will definitely destroy me at the end of the day.
Only one time have I experienced what it feels like or how it feels like to gamble under stress, pressure, and since I experienced that, I hated myself for allowing myself to even enter that stage, and since then, I promised myself never to again allow myself get carried away to that extent, gambling under stress is not just risky in terms of possible losses of money, it's also like one's emotion fighting itself, not a pleasing experience at all