I'm just asking this question as I look back years ago when I was in the height of my gambling addiction. So perhaps I might also ask the community about it and see how it goes if we are the same or maybe those who might fall into addiction might have experience it already.
"What’s your worst loss, and how did you cope afterward? "
As for me, when I have one of those days that I have a big loss, it's more on a mental trauma to me. I can't function as normal, I went into depression mode, can't get out of my bed and go to work and will just call my boss that I'm sick. And this might take to 3 days or even a whole week. And of course, the physical effect as well, I can't eat and so I lose a lot of weight.
How about you guys? Did you experience this when you gamble a lot?
I don't have this experience maybe because I don't go above what my emotions can't handle. I have loss money in trading one time and I know how it hurt, I don't allow gambling greed to make me make some uncertain decisions that is going to hurt me later in the future, so I do settle for small amount of wagers and then hope to win something with that amount. If I win I appreciate it and if I lose I feel nothing, that's how you deal with emotions in gambling.
The only times I will say I was hurt in gambling is anytime I have a potential winor cashout option but I refused to use it just because I believe that the game will come home. It has hurt me so many times and this thing is very tricky. When I have cashout and decide to take half amount of money or lower, the games ended up just like I predicted them but after the ones I don't cashout ended up disappointing me and I still haven't figure out how to deal with it.