Bright Lights: what one woman’s 25-year gambling addiction really cost

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Gambling can really destroy a person life. I'm 25 years old in my town a lot of ads about gambling is visible its crazy they also have social media ads and even radio ads.

When it was my 25 birthday I decided to try gambling I thought I was responsible since I only spend 10% of my monthly income I was wrong :/.

The moment I won big 1 month worth of my income I became a compulsive gamber without me noticing until it was too late.I actually withdraw the funds but in next few days I slowly gambled it back until I lost all my winning. Then I chased it and touch my saving and lost all of my savings.

Idk what happened and I'm still in the process of trying to forgive myself. Its devastating it affect my life so bad.

I lost everything to that, and now trying to rebuild, it just sneaks up on you, I have no more friends ,I just got so caught up in that world, nothing and nobody mattered. I lost my dear mother last December and instead of spending time with her ,I chose to go gamble. I have alot of guilt from that. Im 61 and should have been able to retire, I threw all that away, my health declined some as well. I can go on, but I self excluded from all the casinos for life, and just want to focus on getting somewhat back on track.

Stealing your kids piggy bank 😂😂😂

This is why I choice fent☺️

Nah man you don't understand, 99% of gamblers quit before winning, never give up!

Put a gambling block on your bank account opt out on all gambling sites so you can’t do online banking and cut up all your bank cards so you have no access to cash it has helped me a lot, I no longer can access cash to gamble. I pay for everything on my phone that I need and it works.

Addiction comes in many forms, including the devices you’re using to watch this video.

And then she took the money played for the last time won 1 millon in a night and payed for her daughter's collage loans with that money

Move to WA, no pokies!!!

You mean the electronic gaming machines in 1992. Poker machines have been around much longer.

Watched at 2x speed and the pace of this was still too slow. Art over substance

4 minutes in and I can already tell she's going to take zero accountability for anything that happened 😂😂

If it were up to me gambling would be outlawed. Im in the minority though.

case in point: once you hit your first jackpot, take those winnings and leave the casino.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with gambling / playing the lottery as part of a comprehensive, diversified wealth creation strategy.

Just like i don't understand why people are addicted to cigarettes because its so nasty and damage your organs, i never understood why people are addicted to gambling at the casino. I've been to the casino a couple of times and i found it kind of boring.

Luckily the second time, i won $500 and i was smart enough to walk out of there with my cash in my wallet.

Shoudlve played blackjack

The matimatical models getting a 250 000x on a slot machine is beyond human logics. Should be strictly banned, receiving the amount of dead spins will left the player in a black hole of loosing entire life and family, imagine only few players hit maxwin on a 5000x slot after spinnin 20-30 years. PRNG uses the most unlogical mathematical models to keep the player loosing, playing slots is more far dumber than drinking alcohol each day.

Casino is a big problem here in Philippines. They. Even advertise it in TV. What a shame! 😅😂😮

Non stop sound of machine..whispering to the machine. And even. Praying.. gee, Musical band. Play,n great entertainment.
What. Do u get! Penniless, headache, sleepless. Nights, so on and. So. Forth, Don’t. Even. Go to casino😮😮😂

What's the worst part about casinos is the complete lack of rationality…even in emotional compulsions

Next level dedication taking your kids money to the pokies 😭😭

Gambling should be illegal, sinful and evil to let people ruin their lives like this.

Bro if a jackpot isnt enough to win everything back just win the jackpot twice?

An exceptional work.

My aunt is going through this except hers is a scratch off addiction lottery tickets a video needs to be done on that now

i'm in this video

Rule of thumb. Left pocket what you started with. Right pocket with what you won.

Never use your winnings back into the machine. You dont win with whats already been won.

Let's go gambling!!!

aw dang it!

It always terrifies me that people so heartless as to build such exploitation machines exist

you have to be dumb to believe this hahaha

97% of gamblers quit right before they were about to win big

She quit right before winning big womp womp

25 years gambling? thats nothing, my degen mom's been gambling 45 years.

Sober people dont gamble, quit drinking ! Getting hammered is not awesome

More of a narrative than anything informative… Take a thumbs down.

Don’t get high and watch this

I have tried it once one day, I lost money instantly, but just a little, and after that not addicted to it at all. Money is an important thing to me so the way I lost it instantly made me like NO. Just wonder how people can be addicted to it, this is about lossing MONEY, so how can????

You can't get out of it, cz if you stop playing that, you have to think about the life, which is already degraded too much to get back to.

I live in Illinois, and in the last five years, gambling cafes have been placed all over. I see friends post their wins every now and again but I think of the souls that just sit in these places and play.

It's crazy that gambling like this in many countries is fully legal, but far less destructive chemicals are not.

togi wouldn't approve

Just the sounds in the beginning got my heart racing