• aguy08 replied to the topic Daily Discussion in the forum Daily Discussion 5 years, 7 months ago

    I’m 19 years old and faced the same problem you did. I started at about 15 years old with gambling on little fun stuff and that spiraled to starting up with a bookie who I owed 1200 to when I was 16 worked my whole summer trying to pay it back (while still gambling) I met a girl that turned me around as best as she could but I needed to gamble. It’s like my high. So I would tell her that I’m still gambling but I’m being very “smart” this time and that it’s different. But the cycle always repeats itself and I lose another 700$ on top of that money I already owed with a whole different bookie and I would stop for three months bc I knew I had a problem deep down and needed to find a way to pay it. And then the same exact thing would happen over and over again. Now being 19 I probably lost over $6,000 and I don’t even know how I paid it all back but yet again like I said the cycle repeats itself and that cycle repeated itself last night finishing my week off down $2100 and no job because I’m in school and I can’t tell anyone because I used there help enough. I’m extremely depressed but am not the type to show it, it’s the only thing in my life where I can see where it ends… Broke, without a job or a family. I’m here messaging you because I have a problem and just need someone, anyone to write me back just giving me advice or anything on how to pay this money or how to fix my problem. Thanks for listening.