Hi Joshua
If your family doesn’t understand that isn’t unusual. There are a lot of peole who do though and a lot of places you can get support.
You have been feeling emotionless since Afghanistan? Then talk to someone on your base, tell tehm the problems that you have been having. You can get support form more than just the gambling problem.
Plan your return to the US, again more support, the Army can arrange counselling, there will be other support for your gambling, places like Gamblers Anonymous. Things you can do like gettign excluded from local casinos etc etc.
The most important advice I can ever give anyone is to use support. Let’s face it if we could do it on our own then we wouldn’t be in the **** in the first place.
Keep posting.