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When you're deep in gambling, it can feel like the only thing that exists. The next bet. The next deposit. The next way to win it back. Everything else fades: your friends, your family, your plans, even the person you used to be.Matt Burgiss knows that feeling. Ten...

It's late. You're driving home, or lying awake, after a loss you can't take back. You've done the math on what you owe, and it doesn't work. You can't tell anyone, because then they'd know. And a voice in your head starts telling you everyone would be better off...

It’s Sunday. You told yourself last week would be the last week. You’re down more than you can admit to anyone, so you place one more bet, because winning it back feels like the only way to make this go away. Part of you knows it won’t work. You do it anyway.

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This week’s Sunday Project started with the people who are in it right now: gambling, trying to stop, and wondering how. Host Deborah Buhaj, a gambling addiction therapist, asked the panel one question. When you were gambling, did you ever believe there was no way to stop?

Every one of them said yes.

It's Sunday afternoon. A young man is on the couch with the game on, but his eyes are mostly on his phone. He's got a bet on the next drive, a prop on the quarterback, and a parlay running on games he isn't even watching. Ten years ago, none of this would have been...