How much have you lost gambling?

This is my first day having stopped gambling and joined the forum. My life is hell right now. I am about 25k in debt and can't afford the payments. I took out a 1500 loan last night from ***** and lost the lot. I am going to contact step change in the morning. Going to be a long night though. Never thought I could feel this low. I'm such an idiot

I have lost in total of gambling this year 5.5k in total including this easy 18 thousand pounds. I had managed to save just over ten grand. And I lost 5 and a half this year on gambling when I came to my sense and thought w*f was I doing. I just wanted to spend the rest on something I always wanted. Which was a Bmw 330d lci m sport. I love my cars and wanted one of these so I decided to spend 5k on this and your not going to believe what had happend I bought the car with all checks done and paper work with two keys. I payed cash for this car. Two weeks down the line police came n said I had bought a stolen car and this car that I had bought was reported stolen 2 weeks after I had bought it. Basically I had been scammed out of 5k this is my f*k in luck. This left me so depressed and feeling low. People done this to me. They took away something which when I decided to spend money on that tunred out to be a scam. And they guys I had bought the car off had ran off turn thier phones off everything. This is my luck. I hope gods help me on this situation..

Loxxie wrote: Wouldn't really have a clue of the financial cost. ...and without sounding flippant or flash...I'm not bothered. ...it's gone. .. Hours..weeks...months..years... That's a different matter... Excuses made for my absences..in person...and in mind....countless times when I should have been with family and friends instead of sat at my laptop with my supposidly best mate...online slots ! The money in our lives will always come and go... The time lost with family and friends has sadley passed....and can never be replaced. .. I've accepted that....painfull as it was...but its given me the strength to fight to never loose any more precious time ..

I dread to even imagine...let's just say I could have probably bought a home outright by now with the money I've thrown down the drain gambling in 10 years.

I am a working professional and have been gambling for last 6 months . Started as a fun . But slowly I began chasing my losses . Now ended up in 25000 dollars loss . Feel really ashamed what I have done. I could recover from this since I dont have any debt and trying all my best to stay away from this hell.

But I am married and have 1 year old baby. That money would be really helpful for my baby’s future.So what I have done is really hurting me a lot . It is hurting really bad because it was hard earned money from very stressful job.It hurts even more.I now realized to stop running behind the losses . It will make more losses only . It is 100 percent TRUE . No way I could get money back. During all these days I did not even realize how much money I have spent during gambling . It just went like that . o*g . It is really hurting me. I feel I am irresponsible person . No one knows i have lost 25 k. So really wanted to share my experience in this forum to ease my mind. Please any one help me how I can take it further in positive way and to stay away completely from this .

Maybe around €100k-125k in the last 4 years and around €25k-50k in the 10 years before that. I don't keep track, it wouldn't surprise me if it was even much more than that.

My typical betting weekend would look like this: "I'm just gonna deposit 300 into my sports betting account and turn it into 10k with which I will buy a new motorbike. Oh, I lost the 300? Let's try that again. And again. Well, I guess now I need to deposit 1000 to get my losses back and win an additional 10k..."

I'm currently only on day 4 of the long road ahead of me.

To be honest I have no idea how much I've lost over the years. The money is only part of it.

Have always worked & earned decent money. I do have a nice home, but that's more down to my wife

£36k in debt - I know for sure that's all down to gambling.

I would have lost about 8000 pounds in total in my lifetime of gambling, ive stopped gambling completely and ill never bet again.

Im happy reading this thread that my overall losses of 8000 pounds are relatively on the lower side and im never going to gamble again so it will never increase, ive cut my losses.

currently just lost £3.3k in one night been coming for years though now realise my addiction as it was getting more and more online gambling and mid week silly bets, fortunatly im not in debt but has took me over 5 years to realise im a addict hopefully i can sort this and learn from it all

jacknash89 wrote:

Im happy reading this thread that my overall losses of 8000 pounds are relatively on the lower side and im never going to gamble again so it will never increase, ive cut my losses.

ive a total loss of just oevr 3.3k im with you looking at these im relatily happy but inside still hurting and dwelling and i will stop gambling now all online accounts been frozen and if im ever egar to bet it will be £5 a week and no mid week betting and bet what can afford hope your ok

I've lost 18+ years of my life. That's what I've lost. The last 18 years (minus a couple of periods I stopped) have been robbed of me by myself. I have spent the last 18 years worried about the outcome to my games I bet. I have had my face buried in my phone. Living my life that passed by around me as I went through the motions of having real conversations but only half listened to people. My thoughts were on my bets, if I won what did I do? I bet again and again and again until I lost. That is how my last half of my life has been. That's what I have lost, time spent with my family and friends. Even if I was physically there, emotionally and mentally I haven't been. I have also lost hundreds (plural) of thousands of dollars in the period as well. It's absolutely sick what I have done. If I die tomorrow or even in the next 10 years, so much of my life has been such a waste. Even if I make it to 80 yrs old, still too much of my life was an absolute waste.

usgambler311 wrote:

I've lost 18+ years of my life. That's what I've lost. The last 18 years (minus a couple of periods I stopped) have been robbed of me by myself. I have spent the last 18 years worried about the outcome to my games I bet. I have had my face buried in my phone. Living my life that passed by around me as I went through the motions of having real conversations but only half listened to people. My thoughts were on my bets, if I won what did I do? I bet again and again and again until I lost. That is how my last half of my life has been. That's what I have lost, time spent with my family and friends. Even if I was physically there, emotionally and mentally I haven't been. I have also lost hundreds (plural) of thousands of dollars in the period as well. It's absolutely sick what I have done. If I die tomorrow or even in the next 10 years, so much of my life has been such a waste. Even if I make it to 80 yrs old, still too much of my life was an absolute waste.

Poignant and thanks for sharing. Wish you all the strength and courage mate.

Don't mean to be nasty but a bit of a daft question? It almost seems like bragging which is why I say daft. Surely if someone takes their own life, that is far worse than spending millions gambling? And the money is just one tiny drawback, it's everyting else that goes down the drain when you become obsessed with the next win. We may be in debt abd have regrets but we're still breathing.

Probably over 12k or more. Stock market included. Probably more over the years. Just lost 7.5k in the past few months. Can’t believe it. I think as we can get so so bored and we gamble because we do want to win. We sometimes have self esteem problems but only end up feeling worse. I am just a basic worker on minimal wage and minimal hours. I wanted to win around 16k for Christmas. I felt like c**P. Why did I bet that much. I thought I could win. I bought my 2 year old a teddy bear. But I still feel like c**P.. I got around 11k in savings.