News of Gambling Addiction Forum

I’m currently 78 days free from gambling after checking myself into a 30 day rehab stint for my addiction. Sadly my life is crumbling because of my mistakes.

My wife kicked my out of the house 2 months ago and is now set on divorcing me. We have 3 kids together and have been married for 14 years. I love her now more than ever. I finally am capable of loving her the way that ...

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Just wanted to find some way to vent out frustration as Im having a difficult time not being so hard on myself for what I did recently. A couple years ago during COVID Colorado finally legalized sportsbetting, which is when I decided to dip into it since I love sports. It started off as something that I can honestly say was a healthy habit. I only was betting in ways to manipulate the ...

Hi all, well I am almost 45 now and been a gambling addict for the last 25 years of my life! I just can,t stop when I start losing. I gave up about 3 years ago for 2 years but then this last year I heard from a mate that you can win by opening up accounts and taking the special offers, so you bet them and lay them off at a shorter price and ...

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I have struggled with gambling almost four years now. When I first got into gambling, it was from my friend who was a really good poker player who suggested we should make an account on a website and see if we could make any money. At this time I was done with college and had been working my way through it. I had a lot of money and I was working a lot. It ...

Old member here, not sure how to start this.

Been gambling since 2013.

I had a few good periods in my life when I stopped gambling. In fact, that was the reason why I wasn't so active here - because life was going great from this perspective.

There were some moment when I felt like $#%^ because I lost money gambling, but nothing compares to this weekend.

This was the turning point for me - ...

A week ago, I lost a million dollars on a day trade gone wildly wrong. My family's savings and retirement are almost gone. I've been day trading for some time, winning some, losing some, net positive, but being more and more reckless. Never satisfied.

The worst part is that my wife and I had put down risk management rules for stock market investments, reserves to be set aside, protecting money for kids and moves. I ...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to gain some insight from people who have suffered with gambling addiction/currently affected. I've had a gambling problem for a number of years now and I suffer with my mental health alot, I'm medicated for this and have been for a number of years, I don't speak to anyone about my gambling, my partner doesn't know.. my family and friends arnt aware. I would like to try and stop this addiction ...

Hello I am 25 years old with a bad addiction to gambling, I just feel it’s out of control it never used to be this bad, I gamble every day with money I don’t have and I will spend every penny I have playing the online slots and never rarely win and when I do I give it all back to them I just feel so lost and don’t know what to do, I closed ...

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About a year and a half ago My wife had a stroke and I was not able to work for 6 months while she was recovering not being in the right mind I signed up to start trading hoping to make some money. Unfortunately this started a gambling addiction.... now a year and a half later I am trying to hold my self together.... This really sucks I'm glad to say I'm done ...

I was on this forum almost three years ago saying that it is the beginning of my new life as I am quitting gambling blah blah blah...

Almost three years later and after spending all my life savings and half of 401k on sportbooks (almost $100K) now I am in a very dark spot in my life..

There is not a single second goes by in my day that I am embarrassed of what I ...