I was an addict before and I suffered many losses. It was depressing but the depression was not lasting more than few hours and I will forget about it, but it was not just a good thing at all to be losing.
I now prefer to gamble not often and using small amount of money for it which is better. I noticed that I significantly not gambling like before.
Is a difficult thing to experience because it doesn't attributes but push the gambler to loss more, however I'm happy for you to have come out of it and still gamble on a control manner because not every addicted person can do that without going back to the old habits because at some point the thinking of lost amount will come as an interference to make the gambler want to get some part of those unwilling lost. However I did not only handle losses by feeling bad but I also handle it by the unwillingness and feeling irritated by it that for that day I wouldn't like to think about the games that caused the lost, although is not a frequent feeling but only comes on those kind games we usually see very annoying because of the people representing it.