There are so many gamblers in this virtual world. Some can still control themselves, and there are also who can not control themselves when they are already in the form of the long table with a full of card any bet of different gamblers, and those are considered as Compulsive gambling.
First things first, compulsive gambling is the uncontrollable eagerness on gambling, even though you keep on losing the game, you forgot to do some valuable things than gambling and forgetting to spend your spare time with your family and in a way that you don't mind how much money you spend and how much money you already to the game.
In my opinion, Compulsive gambling will fall under addiction, Sure gambling could be a trigger to that compulsiveness in the first place and by keeping on doing it, It surely falls to addiction.
There are times that whenever your family and your friend advise to you about stopping on gamble, you keep on ignoring them, you do not listen to them anymore even though they care so much to you and when you deny them then you may consider yourself having a compulsive gambling disorder, you don't care anymore to anyone, the only thing you want is gambling.
I suggest that if you feel that you are like that, you may visit some professionals to help you.
An addicted gambler doesn't really know what he is already addicted simply by that he will always deny that he is truly addicted only the people surrounds him can sure see that he is under influence of addiction and because he is denying that he is already addicted he would not seek any medical or psychological help by himself it will always fall under to his relatives and friends to call for that but he must willingly want to take action for that change for the medication to work.
Well said, if a person is a compulsive gambler then it only means that he is addicted on gambling, those who cannot control himself from betting, they cannot be considered as a compulsive gambler when he can still control himself from playing a gamble, or even he cannot limit himself from that. The thing is they really need a psychiatrist to be cured, having some advise from family and friend wasnt enough to be cured, it will really requires some professionals like a psychiatrist to stop him from being a compulsive gambler, well, they are expert and they really know the best solution for those persons.
I have read some articles about a gambler that has been cured because of visiting a professionals, so I believed that the best way for them to stop being addicted are those professionals and not their family and friends. Well, family and friends can stop them too, but if they already did their best, but nothing happens, then they may ask help for professionals.