I will never forgive myself, I can't eat or sleep, or do anything of value. I haven't been able to work let alone brush my teeth.
We were just bored kids during covid… god please ease the pain.
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Don’t put it on yourself man.. no good will come out of that. I’m sorry for your loss
It’s not your fault
Robinhood and Webull ruined us all
I am so very sorry for your loss.
Please know that someone prone to addiction will find their way onto these apps eventually. Advertising is everywhere, and all it takes is one trade/bet for someone who might be prone to gambling addiction to get hooked.
If you introduced your friend to their first sip of alcohol it would be the same thing. They would’ve had their first sip of alcohol eventually.
Gambling is a coping mechanism. The addiction helps the pain temporarily. Your friend likely struggled with many other life pains and burdens, gambling may be what removed his last bit of hope, but just know that he was likely suffering for a long time, well before he touched Robinhood.
My heart goes out to you. I have a friend who committed suicide a couple years ago. I’ll never know for sure if it was gambling related, but he talked a lot about nfts and crypto leading up to his death. I often wonder if that was a part of it.
Grieving a death is important, but understanding it’s not because of you is just as important. I recommend you get therapy, for both grief and the guilt you feel.
It will do wonders and be the best $50-$200 you’ve ever spent in your life. At least for the first session.
That said, you’re asking yourself if things could be different had you not introduced him to robinhood. The answer is that you’ll never know. Not that you’ve made a poor decision, but that instead you don’t know what else could be. But that’s okay. And it’s okay to feel the negative feelings, but there is no guilt to be had.
Your cousin still made his own choices, all of the way until the end. You’re in a subreddit where everyone here needs to have ultimate accountability; this means our choices are ours. We own them and we do our best. I’m so sorry again, but the choice that was made was not influenced directly or indirectly by you. He had his own demons he was facing. None of them were you. From how much you care, you sound like a nice cousin to have. Tell someone, anyone that you can, that you love them today. They deserve it and you deserve to express it.
I’m so sorry.
It’s not your fault. You weren’t to know that this would happen. Sadly people aren’t aware of the risks of online trading in the same way they might be with say, online slots.
There needs to be more awareness raised of how volatile and risky it is, how it affects people like problem gambling does.
Maybe that’s something you could do in your cousin’s memory sometime.
Please don’t hate yourself for this. You weren’t trying to hurt anyone. You didn’t know how it would affect him and I’m sure he wouldn’t want you to feel this way.
Please go to r/suicidebereavement. Everyone blames themselves. Everyone thinks “what could I have done, please let me go back in time and fix it”.
You’re not alone
Sorry about your cousin.
You didn’t introduce him to some obscure underground cock fighting ring where he lost $50k to Glenn ‘The Bookkeeper of the Barn,’ who threatened to kill his family if he didn’t pay.
Robinhood has commercials on everywhere at all times. Our phones are 24/7 casinos now.
The idea that if you didn’t show him Robinhood then his compulsive gambling wouldn’t have manifested itself in something else is simply not true.
Robinhood could use all sorts of tools to make it less risky for those who are susceptible to addiction, but they don’t give a shit. If they don’t feel bad, you as a family member who loved him certainly shouldn’t feel guilty. I’m sure he had other issues that compounded with the money as well. We addicts usually do.
Let go of the guilt.
Rather than trading stocks yourself, maybe focus that time and energy into helping people in his honor?
Sorry that it happened. You obviously did not know something like that could happen. Even a lot of people who recognize issues with betting don’t see that the stock market, day trading, etc… can be risky also. When feeling that bad, it sadly takes a lot of time going by, usually, and then somehow it gets better. I hope you do manage to have it eased as quickly as possible. Like I said, as far as you introducing it, though, you obviously didn’t know it could go that badly.
Hard Rock, Fan Duel etc etc. all toxic asf
I’m so terribly sorry for your loss. In zero way is this your fault.
Let this be a very painful lesson for anyone on these forums dealing with suicidal thoughts, as I seriously struggled with myself and was forced into an ambulance by cops against my will and brought to a psych unit for being suicidal.
Killing yourself just takes all the pain you’re currently feeling, and transfers it over to all the people you care most about… forever.
Rise up, admit you’re powerless over this addiction like the 100s of millions of people around the world, and start to fight back. If you had cancer you would not kill yourself; you would do whatever you could to beat it. Same should be the case for your gambling addiction disease. If I can do it, I truly promise you all can too.
I’m so sorry for your loss and what you are going through.
This is not your fault. Not one bit.
People make their own choices. He could/would have seen Robinhood or fan duel or whatever other advertisements that are splayed on the Internet and tv and movies and billboards and bus shelters and really anyplace you look at for more than a minute.
What happened on Robinhood that makes you think it’s related to his suicide ? I’m sorry to hear about his suicide but I would think it had something to do with way more than Robinhood. Mental illness is a real disease and many times is hidden from family and friends. May you find peace with understanding it is truly an illness and has nothing to do with you introducing him to Robinhood
You didnt make those decisions, he made those decisions.
It’s not your fault buddy.
There’s no way to predict that he would do that.
So sorry for your loss. Please don’t blame yourself, you couldn’t have known at the time
I blamed myself for my best friend’s suicide for years. It wore me down. Fucked up the good years of my life. Live for yourself now, have no regrets, they only make your life harder.
Robinhood’s fault not yours
How much money did he lose? How old was he? Was he doing options trading?
Demn sorry
It’s all fun and games until you lose your life savings, realizing the time you put into making that money. Gambling is no joke, one of the hardest addictions to beat since betting is at your fingertips…all around us now and days. I’m very sorry for your loss, don’t blame yourself.
I lost a lot of money too…a friend of mine made good money from eth crypto, that’s when I got into Robinhood & Webull. Testing my luck turned into crypto loses, then I figured out options…you could guess where the story goes. Just taking Ls, also going to casinos since I was 18. I have probably lost over 15k gambling throughout my life, that could of been used for something more important. We all want to escape the rat race, we get sold into these rare hopes and dream, get rich stories. Remember Low and steady savings is better than burning cash in a matter of seconds. As soon as you click that button your hard earned money is floating in the unknown, even if you win, you want to come back for more.
Depending on how Robinhood is used, investing versus gambling, you could have introduced him to a tool to build wealth. I understand you feel guilty but it’s not your fault.
Why did you do that? I hope you learn from this to never introduce anyone to gambling
Im sorry for ur loss! Dont blame urself. I would have been grateful,if someone close to me, had introduced me to investing,when i was young. I started very late,bad timing to invest.One of my relative just found out about investing this year and he made 2k profit with 500 € investment. Hope, he doesnt take the same pathbas ur cousin
That fool bought a silver cfd with x20 lverage and now he wants to invest his children money himself. If it wasnt for me,he would be paying 130€ on fees evry week.Just cause he got lucky .Bro, thinks hes warren buffet🤣🤣 now. Reminds me of myself. Im sure he was happy, when he saw the profit thx to you. He just overestimated his own knowledge and paid the price