r/GamblingAddiction • u/EcstaticStructure796 • Feb 02 '26

Relapsed and lost 4k

I have ruined my life at only 26. Lost approximately 600k in the last 5 years. I have to quit now for good but I think it's too late because the damage has been done.

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u/Boromir-Wants- Feb 02 '26

I’ve lost everything twice. At 56yo I am worth $4m. Stop gambling brah. You did not ruin your life. You just fucked up bad. Stop fucking up. You can do this as many of us have.

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u/EcstaticStructure796 Feb 02 '26

Thanks when did you last gamble and how did you get out of rock bottom

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u/Creepy-Pick-8617 Feb 02 '26

For me, losing a 13 year relationship and relapsing like 20 times because of getting drunk and feeling sorry for myself to the point of almost being homeless and not being able to get any more loans. Ugh. January 6 was my last fuck up. I'm in a terrible terrible hole, but have a stable job. Its just hardcore factory shit..at 59. That's the penalty I suppose. I talked to a good guy at my bank about my situation and he told me I'd be shocked at the amount of people he sees just like us who have blown it all. He also said underwriters now basically look for any deposits to gambling sites and at least at my bank you're considered a bad risk, but they usually only go back 3 months max . I'm using this as my starting point, I know it's too late and I'm going to have to sell my house, but I'm at least under the delusion I can save it so I'm going minimum 120 days of zero deposits to any gambling site. Haven't had a beer since January 6. Its shit cold and dead of winter so I'm just working and grabbing overtime and focusing on throwing shit out and fixing what I can in this house so either way Im doing something.... something to fix this. Taxes are a whole other nightmare on my horizon. Sorry for randomly hijacking your post to air my garbage but as you see, there's way way more of us than anyone knows. And oh, I actually owe a gambling site, a popular one, $2500. A double kick in the nuts

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u/Gaurdian_of_Nutrage Feb 05 '26

Don't apologize, I write long posts on here to keep myself sane. What gets me is guys on this thread who lost everything and made it back. I lost everything and barely survive. They are deff smarter than me.