Topic: More women addicting problem in UK - page 5. (Read 457 times)
TO be honest, I never thought of this as an issue related to gender. There is always a minority of people that will get hooked on things like drug, alcohol, gambling, buying Lego collectibles, smoking, collecting NFT,... there is always someone out there that will loose control one way or the other. I dare to say that most people will loose control at some point about something. I do not see any point on the article just pointing at the gender.
Well, according to sats
"... around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion gamble at least once every year."
I wouldn't assume that all of them were men. Of course women gamble! It appears they are not so different from men, as it was believed for centuries.
As a poker fan, I know brilliant poker players like Liv Boeree, Maria Lampropulos, Vanessa Rousso and others. In fact, I'm learning from them watching their play on YouTube. I'm sure there are successful sportsbettors among women too. And yeah, unfortunately, there are gambling addicts among them. Take a billion people and you'll surely find many kinds of addicts among them.
"... around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion gamble at least once every year."
I wouldn't assume that all of them were men. Of course women gamble! It appears they are not so different from men, as it was believed for centuries.
As a poker fan, I know brilliant poker players like Liv Boeree, Maria Lampropulos, Vanessa Rousso and others. In fact, I'm learning from them watching their play on YouTube. I'm sure there are successful sportsbettors among women too. And yeah, unfortunately, there are gambling addicts among them. Take a billion people and you'll surely find many kinds of addicts among them.
You just have to go to a land based casinos and see how many women are into gambling. So it has no boundaries, regardless of sex, people are going to be addicted to gambling. Although women are supposed to be risk averse, but you can still find women are really into any kind of gambling. Even in poker you will find them sitting and playing along with the guys.
I never thought that women could have an addiction as men, but as humans, they see gamble as an opportunity to make money in this pandemic. According to https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gambling-addiction-women-helpline-b1893984.html, the number of women addicted to gambling increased in 2020-2021 to 3,005.
I am curious if only women seeking help for the addiction or men also seeking for help? But I guess that could be as we know that men can play gambling more aggressively than women.
If someone, a woman or a man, does not know how much money they spend, they already become a heavy addict to gambling. So what do you think? Do you ever meet women around you doing something that they do not want to know? I mean, did they play gambling like a man?
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The pandemic has led to the sharpest ever rise in women seeking help for their gambling addictions, new figures from GamCare, the national gambling helpline, show.
Data shared exclusively with The Independent shows a four per cent rise in women needing support for their gambling addiction during the Covid crisis.
While 2,764 women contacted the helpline run by GamCare in 2019-2020, that number increased to 3,005 in 2020-2021. Women accounted for almost a quarter (23 per cent) of those calling about their compulsive gambling from April 2020 to April 2021, up from 19 per cent in 2018 to 2019. Yet it is estimated that just one per cent of them get in touch with the national gambling helpline.
Data shared exclusively with The Independent shows a four per cent rise in women needing support for their gambling addiction during the Covid crisis.
While 2,764 women contacted the helpline run by GamCare in 2019-2020, that number increased to 3,005 in 2020-2021. Women accounted for almost a quarter (23 per cent) of those calling about their compulsive gambling from April 2020 to April 2021, up from 19 per cent in 2018 to 2019. Yet it is estimated that just one per cent of them get in touch with the national gambling helpline.
I am curious if only women seeking help for the addiction or men also seeking for help? But I guess that could be as we know that men can play gambling more aggressively than women.
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“She might lose touch with a reality that feels overwhelming but in doing so she loses touch with the reality of how much time and money is spent. Often people say to me, ‘I did not know how much money I’d spent until it was gone.”
If someone, a woman or a man, does not know how much money they spend, they already become a heavy addict to gambling. So what do you think? Do you ever meet women around you doing something that they do not want to know? I mean, did they play gambling like a man?
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