18, might sound dramatic but genuinely i feel at lost. overall lost around $4000 to the casino, worst feeling ever. i think i’m at my lowest. genuinely how do i recover from this? call it quits and fill out a self exclusion sheet or is that doing too much. i know in the future i’ll make the money back but right now its like, wow, i really just lost that much of my hard earned money that i could’ve spent elsewhere.
please, advice, tips, wisdom advice, anything. i’m young and want to learn and i don’t want to end up being addicted when i’m older.
i say this now, but i feel like in a few months or years, i’ll just brush it off since i’ve made the money back through working.
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Brother I’m going to be real, raw, and honest with you and I hope it scares you enough to never gamble again.
I started gambling at your age, as soon as I was legal to step foot in a casino in Quebec Canada. I remember losing $50 and was devastated. I remember winning $500 and it felt like I was a millionaire. At the time I didn’t know that the feeling was the fake dopamine rushing through my brain.
If only I could have self excluded when I was your age. The best thing you can do right now is fill out a self exclusion sheet. It’s the BARE minimum to beat this monster.
What I’ll tell you next is the sad part about the choice that I didn’t make. I didn’t self exclude. I continued gambling on and off for 17 years. That once $50 loss turned into $50,000 dollar losses, which turned into 20x that over the course of my addiction. But worse than all the money I lost, was the time that was supposed to be some of my best years on earth. The countless hours glued on a casino seat at a blackjack or roulette table, having mindless conversations with the same degenerates who were also ruining the best years of their lives, waiting for our “next big win”. The gf’s I lost because they couldn’t be with a deceitful, lying , manipulating gambling addict. The jobs I lost because I would rather be gambling. The jobs I worked thousands of hours at just to donate it all to gambling, working for free to give it to the casinos and sports books.
The rock bottoms, missing rent , bills, not having food in my fridge or gas in my car, begging my family to save me, borrowing off friends , telling more lies to feed my gambling addiction. The hell on earth and the time that I can never get back because I didn’t make the choice you’re wondering if you should make right now.
I’m 36 now. I should have financial success, generational
wealth, but instead of smart investments (crypto, stocks, real estate) , I gave hundreds of thousands to casinos, and sports books)
PLEASE BAN YOURSELF. YOU WILL MAKE THE $4000 back. You will make hundreds of thousands, if not millions during the rest of the 70 years you have left on this earth.
You will have a great future if you never gamble again.
And should you continue, I hope I gave you a look into your future with what I lived in mine.
Self excluding will help!
Read this article and follow the steps, it will help break your gambling addiction [https://www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/1pxt0at/what_happens_to_you_when_youre_addicted_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/1pxt0at/what_happens_to_you_when_youre_addicted_to/)[https://www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/1pxt0at/what_happens_to_you_when_youre_addicted_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/1pxt0at/what_happens_to_you_when_youre_addicted_to/)
I’ve lost 150,000 to the casino in 2 years
Time is money and you have a lot of time. It sucks now but if you don’t gamble it’ll be a distant memory. I’ve had so many different losses in my life that hurt real bad but I’ve recovered from. My first car was a mustang that I bought in cash and just as I drove it off the lot I was hit and the car was totaled. 15k loss right there. I had a Kia that was stolen, had insurance on that but it was still a big L. I took an ex on a vacation that was severely regrettable paid for all the hotels and drinks and flights, 7k loss. That was all when I was younger. When I was a bit older I lost 175k worth of crypto on stake in 2022 and shortly after spiraling I was back at 0. Now I’m 30 and have 22k, it’s still rough thinking about what I could have if things went differently but I’m no longer at 0. A 4k loss seems life destroying when you’re young but I promise if you stop gambling you’ll be great. I managed to gamble away six figures in my late 20s and when I was 18 I probably had 20$ to my name. I worked a sales job where I was paid 1k a week + 250$ for every solar appointment I set. With a job like that you’d recover your loss in a few weeks. In 10 years you will still be younger than I am now, you have time to recover. Breath deep, think of this as a 4,000$ university course you paid for to learn about the dangers of gambling. The tuition isn’t cheap but if you stop now you passed.