How much have you lost gambling?

Lost about 102k in 4.5+ years and over 60k in debt.

Feel ashamed while typing this.

Have a well paying but stressful job.

Have had relapses after relapses after relapses to the point where I have now excluded myself from all my gambling avenues.

Feel sick as hell.

tony_hope wrote:

Hello All,

I am new to this Thread and now a days my life is becoming hell with the thoughts what i have done in last 2 months. In last 2 months I lost 150 k. All my credits cards and saving is gone. I ma totally f****d up, there were days when I was up in the begininig , and I think thats the only temtattion got me in and ruined my life today. My family dont know, my mom just do a cash job and earn little money. When she will come to know, she will break inside and out. I dont have courage to talk to her.

i was a simple guy and living a happy life untill I made my account on Betway. I wont **** in 2 days just playing on roullet. After the i got so indulge in it and it was hard for me to come out . Even I was winning my looses but at the end i was giving them back everthing. and in the end I have nothing left. I am so depressed that how can I pay those debts. why iImade this f*ing mistake. I was a happy guy. I ma trying to get rid of those guilty thoughts , but It keep coming back.

150 k was a huge money , i could have bought ahome and many other things with it. We all gamblers are so greedy, when we win something then we think we are the expert and will beat the casino. But we forget that if that was the case then they would have been bankrupt not us. Gamblers can not control themseleve if they loose few bets, that psycholigical effect we can not control over it. So in the end we loose everything and cry. When we play then we dont go to any blogs and forums to read about gambling. We come here when we reach at the rock bottom.

I know and i beleive everyone here know themselves how they are feeling about it. we ruin out happy living life for this gambling. I used to have a glow on my face , happiness and smile always. Now i am so depressed and unhappy guy, who does not want to talk anybody. Gambling f****d up my life. I was thinking of marriage , and i dont have money now in my account, My mom is happy that I will uy home and will get married and she will paly with my kids. But all those things have been ruined. Hey My Lord please help each and every gambler and give them strength finacially, emotinally to handle down the stuff.

Good luck everyone.

Hi Tony - sorry to hear your story and you are so very right. We f**k things up by giving in to this deadly disease. And only come here after s******g everything up. We are all in the same boat - pain, misery, suffering due to giving in to this horrible addiction.

I guess reading stories in here helps to know that you and me are not alone and perhaps there is hope. Wish you the strength too mate to cope and come out of this no matter how long it takes.

I have always resisted posting on this thread in case it turns into a bit of macabre sort of "competition". But I will share I've lost over £250k and that's a conservative estimate. I just did the maths That's over 33 years, and I've earned sufficient to spend it. At times, my debts exceeded £10k. Whilst, somehow, I'm currently solvent I could have obviously been very, very comfortable indeed. And, much more to the point, the life I could have lived!

So don't waste yours, there's my advice. I know, and sadly so many of us do, what I'm talking about.

Hand over financial control. As a result of that, during the last nine months I have gambled £0.

All the best

Mixer

£80000 over 15 years.

I've lost around 10,000 £ in 2 years and at the moment I have an outstanding debt of 2,000 £. Luckily I will re-pay my debt soon. I will never gamble again.

Between 100 and 150k , in 12 years. I am such a loser.

How come this thread has become about financial loss? Surely that misses the point.

Gambling does cause a net outflow of money. But the real losses, in no particular order, are time, relationships / emotional connections, dignity, self respect, self, etc. All priceless.

No one can change how the story began but everyone has it within to change the ending.

CW

It started as a financial thread & people with some recovery time tried to explain but people don’t get it...Numbers are irrelevant, gambling is a mind problem, not a money problem & you can’t put a price on sanity.

I believe since I have been legally gambling in excess of 50k+

considering I have went without work during these times the figure seems astronomical. 7 k a year over 8 years. quite often at £20 a time.

Cynical wife wrote:

How come this thread has become about financial loss? Surely that misses the point.

Gambling does cause a net outflow of money. But the real losses, in no particular order, are time, relationships / emotional connections, dignity, self respect, self, etc. All priceless.

No one can change how the story began but everyone has it within to change the ending.

CW

Most CG's will look at the lost money aspect foremost, as that was their initial reason for gambling - to try and win money.

Most victims of CG abuse will look at the emotional aspects first. The financial aspect can be extremely damaging to them, but the hurt from the reckless and selfish actions of CGs tend to cause far deeper wounds, particularly where the abuse is repeated.

Addiction is a very cruel curse.

ODAAT wrote:

Numbers are irrelevant, gambling is a mind problem, not a money problem & you can’t put a price on sanity.

Totally agree with you on that one, thanks for sharing those encouraging words.

I think the thread starters intention was to show how much we have lost money wise on gambling. For me it's too scary to even think about, I do have loans though adding up to 6.5K because of gambling which I am paying off for another year and half, but at least I'm paying them off and not making things worse I guess. It is a scary thought when you look at it as a figure like that.

I've lost a total of 300k over 15 years of gambling. I've lost my husband too as he died quite young with heart problems probably stress related. I blew all the insurance money that I was supposed to have secured for mine and my children's future and to have paid off a mortgage. all of this money went to a well know high street bookmaker. L......... I have regularly blown all my wages in one sitting at a FOBT. my poor mum gave me money for my birthday last week to clear a few debts and buy myself some thing. All that blown too. I decided after that enough was enough. I've tried to stop before but it really is becoming pathetic now. Punters watch me as I pile thousands in a machine in one sitting. I dress like an old tramp going there because that's how I feel about myself when I'm.doimg what im.doung. I've now racked up so many payday loans .I'm in a lot of debt. But I have to move forward not backward

The numbers don’t matter. Lost track years ago, but what I’ve lost is the time, those endless days and nights in front of the computer or face stuck in the mobile phone. I have a baby now, 11 months, I want to offer her a father and a future. If I loose that, then I wasted my life for nothing.

lost £24000

I started gambling on slots online a year ago I got hooked when I won £100 from a £20 bet now I’ve lost £24000 seemed every time I went on there I was raising the stakes to try get more returns but just lost more and more it all went on and credit cards which charges £3 to bet £20 and two loans! I’ve excluded myself from all sites and not sure how I’m going to pay back all this money