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Women gambling
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Nov 26, 2006
Women gambling
It
has been observed that women who gamble rarely do so for
purely financial gain. Winning money is not the sole
criteria for women; a lot of psychological factors
propel women to try their hand at gambling. Thus women
gamblers share a different profile from their male
counterparts. With women, gambling is more a
psychological solution for deep-seated emotional
problems. Women gamble to escape stark reality and seek
release in the social setting of the gambling milieu.
However, in this process women may get hooked to serious
gambling and encounter financial ruin.
From entertainment to addiction
There is a rising incidence of women gamblers initially
attending gambling outlets for entertainment value and
then falling into the trap of compulsive gambling. For,
studies estimate, that the process of gambling from
recreation to addiction is insidious. Women who view
their gambling activity as harmless recreation often
initially classify themselves as social gamblers. The
gambling turns addictive at the stage when women begin
gambling to recover losses incurred. This is the final
stage when women find themselves mired in a financial
loss mode.
Effects of gambling
When women fall into a debt trap because of imprudent
gambling habits, women generally experience feelings of
guilt and remorse. This ushers in a loss of self-worth
and some women become seriously suicidal. Or
alternatively, to counter monetary loss, women may
become dangerously deranged substance abusers of either
alcohol or drugs.
Lone gamblers
It
has also been observed that women gamblers prefer
“stand-alone” gambling as offered by slot machines,
bingo, lotteries, and scratch tickets. This isolates
them further and distinctively marks them for quicker
negative self-assessments.
Women gamblers
should therefore exercise a higher degree of precaution
when they find themselves tipping the monetary scales
while gambling.
Seek help
One
optimistic outcome of compulsive gambling by women is
that women reach out for help and support programs to
terminate their gambling activities. Women will seek
professional help from gambling support groups,
colleagues, and peers to effectively stop their risky
gambling behavior. This is in sharp contrast to men who
stay in the denial mode for a longer period of time.
Women thus take more concrete steps to check their
dangerous gambling habits. What this accomplishes is it
forces women to acknowledge their addictive gambling
habit and actively spurn this financially draining
habit.
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