[handful]

Hey guys, I signed up last night!

So, I’m 25 years old so I guess I’m still young enough to fix this without too many issues, but I can’t stop obssessing over the £10,000 I’ve lost through football bets.

I started a few years ago, and like most I started off with small bets and gradually increase my states.

I work fulltime, but only earn just above minimum wage so I feel like it will take me forever to try and earn any of this £10k back. I currently have £15 to my name, thankfully pay day (every two weeks) is on Thursday so not long to

wait till I have some money again.

I feel as though I can fairly easily not gamble, but i feel depressed about the money I’ve lost…I feel like I need to do something to try and get it back..I don’t even care it’s it’s incredibly slowly, I just wanna make some steps to earning it back.

I’ll be grateful for any advice on this, thanks 

[dunc]

Hello and thanks for starting a thread in the Gambling Therapy forums

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[Steev]

You wrote: „I feel as though I can fairly easily not gamble …“

I wish that had been the case for me. I found that gambling is one of the most persistent addictions – precisely because we believe the easiest way to get back what we have lost is to gamble again. Yes you can earn £10K – but it will take a lot of time and effort and the temptation to win it in a bet will always be there.

But to answer the question you asked … If you don’t mind how long it takes to get your £10k back – then all you have to do is work for it. Either do more hours in your current job or take on something else in the time that you would have used to gamble with. This will also lessen your chances of betting again.
A rough calculation would be if you earned an extra £100 per week and put it in a interest bearing account, you should get to £10K in just over 2 years. That would be a challenge – but is do-able. Selling some of your possessions may be another option.

The danger is seeing this money as „extra“ and in time maybe money to gamble with. Remember that as a problem gambler, having money lying around can be like having tokens to bet with. So, get support for your gambling urges – phone helplines, go to meetings, ban yourself from gambling establishments – ensure that your recovery is strong – and then look at ways of getting yourself back on your feet financially again. I wish you well.

[Callmecrazy]

One of the best things to do is to write it off as a bad business investment and move on.
Do you know how many people lost much more than that investing into a business? Into a car wash, a software company, real estate, a trucking business etc? The solution might be looking at it from another angle. To wrong thing to do is to continue betting.

[brerio]

Great piece of advice. Looking at it this way makes me feel a lot better.

[Autor]

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