If you lose in 5 hours what you can afford to lose in one month, I would call that "suffering losses". But it's good that you have the strength to not continue and wait for a month before you start gambling again. I think @emmybd meant something similar to your approach, and I think that both of you are doing it the right way.
If we enjoy gambling, at least from time to time, we can't avoid losses completely, but what we can do is we can switch to another activity after losing a certain amount, and that's one of the best strategies of overcoming losses.
Suffering loses seems like the best adjective to use there. I don’t see any sense in leaving for a while only to come back for loses and leaving does not even give guarantee that there won’t be loses on arrival.
It would have even made more sense if the coming back is to play as usual, just to leave that period of been a way as a period to revive of the loss but having plans to come back and play for long is something else or is there a new strategy you intend to learn that will not allow you looses on your return. The best way I feel one can overcome loses is to stay back on the game and learn the causes of the loss, then make instant correction and have a replay.