Good steps to help one heal from a big loss. Personally, taking a break is the best of it all and at the same time, you should let go of your losses, because if you cannot let go of your losses, you might find it difficult to take a break. What I do after experiencing a big loss, I quit and don't gamble anymore or go close to where they're gambling so that I will not be tempted to gamble at that moment.
The importance of taken a regular break in gambling can not be overly emphasis and it worth reminding, it is another avenue of given yourself that opportunity of making a personal reassess of whether you upholding a good and responsible gambling behaviors, indeed we have to stay in control and always having it in mind that gambling is only but game such that we have to be responsible enough not to chase losses for he who fights and run away lives to fight another day, it is also good we mix up with other activities as away ensuring we are not spending more time and resources in to gambling, it is a good thing for a gambler to have that sober reflection of whether he is having gambling problems or not and take the necessary steps towards being a responsible gambler.
Taking a break from gambling is a must whether you win or lose because that can prevents you from keeping playing gambling. If you don't take a break at all, you may face more losses which can makes your money gone without control.
If you losing a big money in gambling, you need to take a break for some time and doing many activities to distract your minds from recovering your losses. You can search for the activities and doing that for some time so you will not thinks about your losses before.
But before the losses becomes big, we can prevent that by responsible with our gambling activities and always reminds that we playing gambling to fills our free time. That is for prevention from spending too much money in gambling.