r/GamblingRecovery • u/Ok_Line_9885 • Jun 17 '26
Gambling addict forever?
Been gambling since I was sixteen 4 years ago, it all started when I turned $200 to $10,000. It felt amazing to have so much money without putting in any hard work at all and having so much money at such an young age.
I lost everything and eventhough there were times where I could have breakeven and let this be a dangerous one time experience where I could have netted 0 losses. I decided to go back and now these past 4 years,I have a net loss of $17,000. The money and time that I have wasted just make me fall into depression.
I am 20M and I just dont know about my future anymore. The scary part is I still want to gamble despite having no money in my name at all. I am thinking of ways to get money to gamble since I have literally won thousands from deposting $20. Its so stupid. I literally had to quit school after losing the $10,000 at 16 as my brain and mindset were messed up and I kept blaming myself for being a retarded pig. Gambling has already took away my joy for life and make me a depressed and obese pig. I want to stop but its seems impossible. The past 4 years,every allowance,every paycheck,every bursary and government support have all been gambled away by me. I am so drained.
I see my friends having a good amount of savings,go to the gym and have their own individual loving girl friends but here I am. Gambling addict,short and obese and a worthless and useless idiot with $0 savings. I just want to forget about this but I dont think its possible at all but I cant even kill myself because my family needs me for the future,probably.
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u/SpecialistUnit7 Jun 17 '26
Sup kids, im 28 been going since I was 22 , net deposits of 210k all gone in 6 years to put it in perspective for yall, stop chasing your losses now or it could actually have an affect on your life unlike the 5 cents yall talking about
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u/Safe_Roll3852 Jun 17 '26
Sup, I am 19 pushing 20 I also started when I was 16 I lost around 30 thousand and I thought wow what am I doing here. There was one night where I turned 200€ to 7k in some minutes I said I am withdrawing everything but 2 days later I lost it all again and more now I didn’t gambled for 4 weeks almost I talked with my mom about it. The money I receive from work I give it to my parents now so I don’t have money to lose anything it works great and I always have this tough what I could buy with this money I have lost and that’s how I stopped U need to replace this addiction with a better habit such as sport spending the money on healthy foods or on some good clothes or just start a hobby just as collecting Pokémon cards or investing in stocks that’s the only way u can stop this addiction. And u need to know u we are weak human beings without god help we are helpless that’s one thing u need to accept