In my experience, I -did- it and I hope this doesn’t sound negative, more than two things happen when I have ” a small slip”. The two you mentioned may happen but most likely a third kicks in i.e. I more often than not kept my “slip” a secret, decided to “deal with it my way” and before I knew it I would be back in action.
That , unfortunately is the nature of compulsive gambling. Once we start gambling, no matter how small the wager, how well we manage to conceal it or how seldom we gamble , the risk of “exploding” will always be there, but that’s only my experience. Yours might be very different.
