Hi iamhere,
I know the burden of remorse that comes with gambling debt and loosing insane amounts of money to casinos.
The fact of the matter is, casino lords are predators and they make themselves extremely rich exploiting the misery of others. I myself don’t believe in occasional gamblers, there is no such thing. These businesses don’t live off of somebody’s 50 dollars/ euros here and there. They would go bankrupt in a second. The less we feed them, the sooner they’ll go away and they will eventually.
I got a little sidetracked, but what I wanted to say about your 35 k debt, as a possible strategy to help you više, is can you trick your mind into believing you invested that money into a business that went sour?
Tons of people invest into businesses that fail. They open a carwash, a laundromat, a bar, a diner, a petshop…whatever… and they go into debt and fail. These people brush off and carry on, they don’t linger and fester over the loss as gamblers do. This is because deep down we know we’ve been lured and tricked and we’re unable to forgive ourselves.
So if you trick your mind your loss was an investment into a business that failed no different than a laundromat, you might be able to get over the loss quicker.
A lie repeated many times becomes truth. “I invested into a business opportunity that backfired and crashed. Time to move on and look for something else.”
That’s one strategy that might help.