Are you usually an anxious person? I wonder if being anxious makes you more susceptible to being addicted to gambling or no?
Even if you suffer from anxiety or other mental health problems, it will affect you if you know about gambling. Without knowing or having ever gambled, it is impossible for someone who suffers from mental health problems to become a gambler. I mean, it is not mental health that makes them gamblers, but because they know about gambling, they end up gambling. And if they are used to gambling and have mental health problems, they may suffer from gambling addiction.
Some might have psychological issues but they might not really know they have these problems and it gets worse when they start gambling because it makes them addicted to gambling. Let's take people dealing with depression for example, they are already in situations that are affecting them emotionally but they add gambling to it, this makes them chronically addicted and eventually they get more depressed