Re: How quickly do you forget a loss

How quickly do you forget a loss?

Well, that depends on the situation and the amount lost. Let's say I got a good amount of wins and decided to get more greedy and then lost everything eventually, including the capital. That could be hell for me, and that'll take at least a couple of days, if not a week.
With regular losses, which I have anticipated before I go gambling for the day, I can say, I can forget it just a few hours after leaving the casino. I think most gamblers do. The only time you will have a hard time forgetting a loss is when you decided to become greedy and lost it.

You are right, it all depends on the amount of money lost, I don't think any gambler is too mature to let of huge amounts of money they lost easily...This is the reason why it's important to gamble with what you can afford to lose..like you said, it's easier to to forget about losses that are regular, but remember that even regular losses can accumulate into an amount of money thats really signficant

That is true, I was watching a streamers video yesterday night in my fight to stay out of gambling by watching out people suffer from it and the people there despite being well known ones they lost like 76.000 dollars in just 35 minutes and they knew that they did a stupid thing yet it was stronger than them as they were saying in the video but it showed what you say here that people do not let go easily the big amounts of money they had lost. They kept talking like 15 minutes after about what they had done and how they were not careful to what they were doing, they were analyzing the loss and they were very repented about what they had done, so with this I want no one can easily let go huge amounts of money lost.

Yeah thats really the thing about gambling once someone drops a huge amount like that it doesn’t just disappear from their mind even if they act normal outside deep down it sticks and they keep replaying the moment over and over they regret it they try to analyze what went wrong they say next time they’ll be more careful but the pull is strong and most of the time the same mistake repeats. Losing big money in a short time is not just financial damage it’s emotional too the stress the regret the sense that you could have done something different it all piles up and that’s why people struggle to let go of those losses they chase to recover what’s gone even when they know it’s risky.

The example you mentioned with the streamers just shows how even people with money status or experience still fall into the same trap because gambling doesn’t care who you are it feeds on emotions and once you’re in that mindset of loss it’s hard to step back and accept it. So you’re right no one easily lets go of a huge loss it lingers it changes the way they think for days weeks maybe even years and unless someone finds a way to break that cycle they will keep chasing hoping to undo what happened even when deep down they know it’s already gone.