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I think it has to do with more than gambling. Something is not right. Back in high school, I was sober and didn't gamble, my hobbies diminished when schoolwork got hard. Yeah, I made myself addicted to schoolwork of my own will, I had a lot of pressure from my family and strong peer pressure made me to someone I didn't want to be. I lived in a wealthy and educated neighborhood with high competition. Culturally, this is normal from my family's origin. Basically, I pushed myself to be someone I didn't want to be, then failed with addiction. Now I am trying to fix the derailing.
I went to a school that's super competitive on my own will, without really thinking it was a good fit for me. It was not and lost more interest in schoolwork (and Engineering). I tried so hard that I only studied and got 3.5/4.0 but nothing else. Until I'm 23, I didn't know how to listen to myself on genuine interests. I did what I'd be good at, not what I liked. That's the biggest mistake I found, family and friends never told me so glad I asked for help here.
That's when I started to get depressed and lost interest in lots of things, then there comes gambling.
That's why I quit harvesting. I had a very bad sign, so I stopped on my own on Convention Day 1.
Since I was very little, I always felt job and major are obligations (to pay bills/support family etc), which should be treated seriously. I treated seriously and always on-time, but the rest were not so pretty. Someone here told me I have an undiscovered mental health problem I developed over the years of not listening to myself, so it's going in the right direction. It has to do with addiction (as well as only being focusing on 1 thing) it wasn't discovered.