You can never get your money back when you have huge losses, that's why you have to stop and think a bit.
This is very true , losses are very difficult to recover , I personally have Always said that when there is a lack of Knowledge many mistakes can be made, when I was a novice I fell many times into wanting to recover my balance by betting and what I achieved was losing more money, but I learned , the bad thing is that I lost Money, so you have to be clear about that , to not play it anymore until another time , another game session to see if you are lucky.
I totally agree with you on this, chasing your lost in gambling is more of chasing shadows, the more hard you try to recover all what you have lost in the past, the more money and time you still waste, perhaps you can never get it back no matter hard you try , to the best of my knowledge have never heard or come across a senero where a gambler was able to recover all his lost over the years, instead they get addicted at the process of recovering which later turn their life into a nightmare.