![]() He has lost £200,000 of his own money in three years and continues to gamble in an attempt to recoup his losses. The next new patient is – like 20% of the clinic’s patients – a City trader, who finds it difficult to navigate the line between his gambling (he places bets on the currency market) and the risks he is required to take as part of his job. The only place he ever sees anyone is in a gambling shop,” the clinic’s founder, psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones, notes. “He has no job, no family, lives in a room somewhere. Until recently he thought he was smarter than the machines, although he now concedes he probably isn’t, given how much he is losing. ![]() He is particularly drawn to the roulette machines that have in the last few years become a lucrative – for the bookmaker – feature of every high street betting shop. ![]() He has lost £50,000 over his gambling career, and says the only time he doesn’t gamble is when he is in hospital (which is relatively frequently because of a complicated mental health condition). The next man, in his 40s, a sometime mechanic, is living in temporary homelessness accommodation because he gambles away all his money every week. ![]()
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