How bad did it get for you?

The last few days its got really bad for me, blown £700 last night alone and I was just at a point of chasing losses.

Jrv1988 wrote:

The last few days its got really bad for me, blown £700 last night alone and I was just at a point of chasing losses.

Woah thats a lot of money to me, is it a lot to you? What do you bet on?

Its such a dangerous addiction I want to get out of, I hated the thought of being just down £20 and now its turned into me being £120 down.

How Bad? A very large part of my income I needed to live on and a family that will never trust me with money again. Suicidal thoughts and some of the worst lows Ive ever experienced when I just went to bed for three days.

The conversations where I told people and told them I had relapsed

Thats what gambling does to people.

I see its within you jds. For years I thought I was in control. I wasnt though. I simply didnt add up all the losses I was having and kept deluding myself it was ok. In one year i had a £500 binge session in a Scottish City arcade which I conveniently put to the back of my mind. All that was adding up on a credit card and eventually contributed to a balance I had to default on and bankrupt myself over

All those years where I would gamble at every pub and arcade. £10, £20, £50, £70+ all adds up on a regular basis. It was money I could never afford to lose

When things got mentally tough I binged around £2000 last year and after joining the gamcare forums it took me 10 months to do something really positive to stop it.

The gamble free days are passing smoothly now because I seem to have finally got a grip of how much pain gambling caused me. Any twinges are immediately countered with the feeling that I would lose. I am learning to associate gambling with that sinking feeling of a wasted life.

Last year was my worst year by far. I had the month towards the end of the year where i lost the £1000 in 4 weeks but i went over my total losses in the 2015 year and it came to £2800. Thats is a lot of money to me and i just didnt realise how much i was wasting. So far this year i am down £150 after the blip i had few weeks ago, have now blocked every site, i would just love to be able to block them all forever but cant seem to find a way to do that.

7K in a week 4k being my own money im 19.

Yes it got to the point for me that the value of money wasn't even registering in my head. Would take loans out max credit cards even got to the point of remortgaging without telling anyone. I hope to stay strong and over time regain the importance of the value of money and what it should mean to me.
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in last 4 years its been, 1 marriage , 1 engagement , 1 house , 10s and 10s of 1000s pounds , lost count of the stressfull nights i couldnt sleep. Breaking point now . Still didnt stop me blowing 1800 quid last saturday . thats what this evil does too you , will lead you to ruin ....

£20k to virtually nowt between November 2015 and February 2016 in various UK high streets pubs / arcades / bookies / casinos.

An average of around £150 - £175 PER DAY for some 'entertainment'. Think about that!

Tens of thousands

Hi,

My On-Line addiction got really bad. I never stepped in the high street bookies, all online with credit card money, so money that wasn't mine. Have a read on "my intro" post in the newbies, my story is there.

In my first GA meeting on Friday the "main man" there referred to betting as being in a lift. You can continue to go down but it's possible the lift will stop and you can always press up. I thought this was a good statement. I told the meeting in 2015 my "lift" became in free-fall, falling faster and faster as my bets became more frequent, higher stakes and d**n right desperate. Eventually I hit rock bottom, the lift was in the basement. No I'm trying to climb to the top. It's early days, I don't know if the lift is broken, if so I'll climb the ropes, I know one way will take longer than the other but at least both ways are going up.

Anyway, hope you've managed to remain bet free. Keep posting and good luck with your recovery.

Thanks.

So probably blown £12-£15K in 3 years. I guess just over half of that was in 2015. (Lift in free-fall).

Shocking really when I have to guess a £3K window of loses! It's a lot of money.....

ive blown somewhere inthe region of 30 grand over the last 6 years

2014 was a very bad year for me lost 3K in the space of 4 months

iv been better this year but my god i am paying for it dearly

Just checking in as its been around a month. Been good month, totally blocked all my on line sites i use individually now and have just stuck to £5 every weekend on the footie in my local bookies. Have worked out im £150 down since the new year, i can live with that as i know how easy it is to get carried away. The main problem for me was and still is as times is keeping busy, especially as i have been unemployed since December i have a lot of free time to occupy myself. Blocking the sites online i don't have that urge anymore.

5k in 6 hours. My very last gambling session.