Newby. Advice and help needed

Hi all first time posting here and it won’t be the last nice to see I am not the only one struggling .

so here is my story so far…

I started gambling from a young age 17 and quickly found a problem with FOBT. This would go on untill I had my first job and I blew my weeks wage in one and I learnt me lesson the hard way!! so I decided there and then I would stop gambling which I did . ( had the odd gamble but was never a problem ).

now I became interested in investing / trading and had huge success I managed to take £.. to ...k at the age of 18 which was great (so I thought). Instead of withdrawing the money I went bigger in hopes turning ...k to ...k. And we know what followed I blew the rest and the gambling mind set kicked in!! So I done the same and curbed it.

now I managed to keep everything under control untill now . Fast forward 7 years I found myself financially in a good place very good savings for someone my age no debt no big bills so I deceived to have another go at trading . This time my friend set me up with broker who offered x1000 leverage . 

before I knew it I was hooked it was the same as playing online roulette the exact same feeling when your up or down . I deposited 2k which I lost and then I deposited 5k. I managed to turn this to ...k and successfully blew the lot being greedy. This then kicked of fight or flight which then drove me to over the course of a year blow all of my hard earned savings . I didn’t tell a soul until I eventually had a mental breakdown.

I have opened up to my loved ones which has helped tremendously and also signed up with Gamcare/Gamstop and spoken to a doctor .
the dark place I have been in for the last year.

after sitting down and talking to people I feel so much better and to come to terms with not getting that money back is also very helpful .

fortunately enough for me I put a gambling stop in place via my bank and also told them to stop taking any payments to the broker a year previous as I had outlined it as a problem which they did not flag at all and proceeded to carry on taking numerous payments from them. I fully understand it is me but also feel let down that they never flagged this especially being aware of the gambling problem so that is something I have been told to chase up and that I may have a good case. But hey Ho I’m coming to terms with the fact I’m not getting the money back and if i do it’s a bonus and will go to my family members for the stress I have out them through .