As Laura says welcome to the forum. Gambling addiction is an emotional illness as you will find out when you go to GA. it gets us when we have gone through difficult emotional situations like emotional loss of some sort, or maybe more than one loss in a short space of time where we escape through gambling, I have to say that you deserve better than your girlfriend. Being ten months clear now of gambling I can say that the depression will eventually go but you have to stop bleeding any more money or chase losses. When we cross the line into compulsive gambling we will never win, each win is a loss as it all goes back. There are many people who have come back from much bigger losses and it is not the end of the world. We can re over and live a better and more wiser, happier life. Good luck and keep posting. Ps, try and get private mental health support as Laura suggests.
