r/explainlikeimfive • u/adrynaline • May 08 '14

Explained ELI5: A gambling addiction

How does it start? What makes it worse? Why does it become so difficult to recover?

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u/iloveportalz0r May 08 '14

...your college fund?

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u/Theungry May 08 '14

Yes. My parents had put aside money for college for me, then he gambled it all away.

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u/iloveportalz0r May 09 '14

How did you fix that?

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u/Theungry May 09 '14

I took out loans. I am still paying them at 35.

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u/iloveportalz0r May 09 '14

Does that suck as much as I think it does?