Trading addiction is treatable and the goal of recovery is not to avoid the market completely but to develop a balanced and healthy relationship with risk and emotions. It is just like gambling because people trade or gamble to get rich overnight. When someone is addicted they do not care about the market situation but their goal is to take trades. This type of addiction is more common during times like the coronavirus pandemic when people try to do things online while staying at home. This addiction causes a loss of control and a complete loss of mental health.
Whether it's trading addiction or gambling addiction, it is not easy to treat it or handle it because addiction is caused due to a lack of emotional control and greed, and someone who doesn't have any control over their emotions, they won't be able to get away from the addiction very easily.
Even though we could say that trading addiction is not as common as gambling addiction, because trading basically isn't as easy as gambling, because in gambling, all you have to do is decide the amount you want to bet, and press a button, and you get the results within a second. However, in trading, you have to understand everything properly to even begin with it.
One major reason for people getting addicted is when they make some profit initially. This happens in gambling mostly, when someone starts gambling, if they win something good in the initial sessions, they will feel like they can have the same results every time, so they keep doing it and even continue when they are not getting the desired results. The same thing can't be easily achieved in trading though, because in trading, to make profits, you will need to at least time your trades properly, and without knowledge, you can't do that. This is why trading addiction is not that common.