And as Chris says the best you can do it to learn from it. You know now that even winning will lead to more gambling – so chasing losses was not the problem – chasing winnings? You also know that just being in a casino was too much. You need to be clear to friends that you do not gamble and therefore going to a casino is not for you.
Soon you will have a new life – deliberately make that a gamble free life. There are people out there who do not gamble, not because they have a problem with it, but for moral reasons. Maybe they do not want to support the gambling industry. Maybe they have been hurt by gambling in the family are ex-partners of or children of problem gamblers. Maybe they don’t gamble for religious or ethical reasons – that in order for me to win at gambling means that others have to lose – so that I am complicit in their misery.
The point that I am trying to make is that when you have your new life – people don’t need to know the reason for you not gambling – just be firm that gambling is not for you.
I wish you well.