You can only benefit from the awareness if you are open to correction and dialogue. If you are a person that feels threatened by corrections, then you would not accept such awareness just like my colleague bounced it off.

Most gamblers are aware that they are heading the wrong lane to addiction and financial mess, but they lack the discipline and will-power to put themselves in check. If you talk with an addicted gambler, you would always hear him mention how he is wasting a lot of money and how badly he is behaving as a gambler. They always go back and this signifies how much addiction has taken over them