Women gambling

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Nov 25, 2006
 

Women gambling

Gambling is a form of entertainment, sociable, and exciting for most of the women. Gambling does not interface the daily routine, relationships, or employment. They enjoy all kinds of recreation besides gambling, and their thoughts do not revolve around when they can gamble next or find more money. Women usually gamble funds that are not needed for food, shelter, or other necessities. They have a realistic view of their odds, although they hope to win, they also expect to lose. Women do not lie about gambling or winning neither money nor do they compulsively return to gambling to win back lost money, women are just social gamblers.

Women gambling

Some women have a very different relationship to gambling, a completely different view altogether. They go gambling as a means of escaping or avoiding people, circumstances, and emotions by developing a tunnel-like focus, blocking out everything but the game they are playing. They just lose awareness of time passing, money disappearing, and other people, while they are gambling. When such a woman is feeling sad or depressed, her mood will soar with the excitement of a win or near-win. When she is suffering from low self-esteem, she will equate winning with a sense of accomplishment or importance, such women are problem gamblers then.

Common reasons for women going gambling

1. Minimizing their loneliness, feeling that they would overcome

2. Escaping mentally and emotionally from the past or the current problems and the unresolved grief

3. Escaping physically from chronic pain or the health conditions

4. Major thing, winning money

5. Avoid conflict or abuse at home or at work

6. Relieve stress or tension in the other areas of life

7. Change in lifestyle such as retirement, divorce, or separation

8. Trauma caused such as a death or another loss

9. Just have fun in life

Gambling different for women

Women gamble for different reasons altogether different from men. Women about 70 percent go gambling to overcome several circumstances. Women usually play different games than men. Random games that are played alone and require little skill or knowledge. They may go for bingo, slot machines, lotteries, scratch tickets, pull-tabs, and raffles. The male problem gambler is typically outgoing, talkative, and gregarious. Men often seem self-assured and in control, while on the contrary women problem gambler is more of withdrawn, socially isolated, and suffering from extreme feeling of guilt, shame, and low self-worth.

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