Personal history tells you that gambling is not the way to overcome your losses. It is not good sense to try and overcome your gambling losses by the very method that created the loss in the first place - gambling. Abusive gambling desensitises the value of money in a person. To accept your losses is to accept the true value of them. They would rather win back their losses than have to work for it.
Problem gamblers are great resenters, they use resentment as an obstacle to change.
Older the resentment, harder to change - but not impossible for even the most stubborn gambler. Problem gambling becomes a part of a person's identity - a part that needs to be changed to be other than a problem gambler. But why waste more years by not taking the option to change. Previous attempts to control your gambling had not been to your satisfaction - adding to any feelings of being a loser. Future notions of attempting to control your gambling may become blocked with memories of past failures and criticisms - generated by your Inner Critic.