This denial even cause them more harm than good as they become adamant and not willing to receive help and before they ever come to the realization of needing help, they may have gone to far to be redeemed and helping them becomes more difficult at this point because they will still feel they still have control and do not necessarily need help.
Such kind of impression mostly common with those people who thinks that they are just fine and their gambling participation seems to be controllable, things that really difficult to address since the person itself can't admit that they are already attached and thinks that they don't need any advice or help to solve this ongoing issue with their gambling participation.
It's important to never allow ourselves get to the point we begin to think we are just good enough and need no help, whenever it's becoming ams issues than an entertainment as it should be, it's most ideal to stop or take a break so we can give ourselves time enough to recover and bounce back even stronger this way you can curb any form of addiction that would have gradually crept in.
Having such control and keep doing that right practices will help to prevent getting deeply involve with gambling, if you feel that you are exceeding and you feel that you already losing a decent amount of money and the time that you are spending is no longer in the same amount from how you set things up, better to pause and take a break, think again and refresh yourself, better to rewind everything it helps to prevent getting deeply involve and unable to control your gambling addiction.
Gambling addiction shouldn't be taken for granted as the effects could be so terrible that one could loose things that are so dare to them as a result. As always advised, gamble responsibly as it's the only escape from getting too addicted and loosing so much to gambling.
Well said, taking that big responsibility before and not after getting to that situation, prevention is always better than a cure.