Topical issues of Gamblers in Kazahstan

The reasons for the formation of Gamblers

The main reasons for the formation of gambling are:

• The feeling of loneliness makes a person for the first time to resort to the game, and the resulting look and feel in the game forced to return to it once again.
• Malaise causes a person to express themselves in the game. Being insufficiently implemented in real life, a frown, a man tries to put in a game where a lot easier to be a winner, than in real life. And the more successful it results in the game, the more he wants to return to it again and again.
• Sense of easy money. Once received a prize, and feeling the adrenaline rush of owning so easy to get money, a person tries to repeat his success in the game, which is often not possible.
• Easy yielding all sorts of dependencies. Gambling is a risk for people with any other addiction, such as drug/alcohol addicted.
• Mental disorders of varying severity. People who once treated with from mental disorders, are also susceptible to this disease, as gambling.

Signs Gamblers

Identifies a number of features characteristic of gambling as a form of addictive behavior (Короленко & Донских, 1990):

• Sustained engagement, increased time spent in the game situation,
  Change the range of interests, ousting former gaming motivations, constant thoughts about the game, and the predominance of imagination situations involving game patterns.
• “Loss of control”, as expressed in the inability to stop the game after the big win, and after persistent losses.
• State of psychological discomfort, irritation, anxiety, developing in a relatively short period of time after the next part in the game, with an insurmountable desire to once again start the game. These states are a number of features reminiscent of the state of abstinence from drug/alcohol addicted, accompanied by headache, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depressed mood, impaired concentration.
• Characterized by a gradual increase in the frequency of participation in the game.
• Rapidly growing decline in the ability to resist temptation. This is reflected in the fact that, having decided once and for all “tie” at the slightest provocation (meeting with old friends, talk on the theme of the game, the presence of a number of gambling establishments, and etc.).

Stage of development Gamblers

Distinguish 3 stages of Gamblers:

• 1 stage wins – social gambling,
• 2 step losses – intense gambling,
• 3 stage of frustration – the problem gambling.

Stage wins represented by the following features: random play, frequent wins, imagination precedes and accompanies the game, the more frequent the game, increasing the size of bets, fantasy game, a very big win, irrational optimism.
Loss for the stage is characterized by: the game alone, boasting wins, thinking only about the game that can span episodes of losses, the inability to stop the game, lies and cover-up of friends of the problem, reducing the care of the family or spouse, the reduction of working time for the benefit of the game, refusing to pay debts, personality changes – irritability, fatigue, unsociable, severe emotional situation at home, the lending of money on the game, a very large debts by both legal and illegal means, the inability to pay debts, desperate attempt to stop playing.
Signs of frustration stage are loss of professional and personal reputation, a significant increase in the time spent in the game, and the rates, removal from family and friends, remorse, repentance, hatred of others, panic, illegal activities, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts and attempts, arrest, divorce, alcohol abuse, emotional disorders, withdrawal.

Thinking errors – irrational installation Gamblers

Emit so-called “thinking errors” that form the irrational installation Gamblers. Strategic thinking errors are that determine the overall positive attitude towards their addiction and tactical, that trigger and maintain a mechanism of “possession trance”.
A strategic mistake of thinking include internal beliefs:

• Money talks, including the problem of emotions and relationships with people.
• Lack of confidence in the present and the expectation of success as a result of winning, the idea of ​​being able to kill vital failures successful game.
• Replacement fantasies of control over their own destiny fantasies about winning.

For tactical thinking errors include:

• The belief in winning day.
• Setting that must come a turning point in the game.
• The notion that it is possible to return the debt only with the game, that is to play.
• Emotional connection only with the last episode of the game when giving himself the words never play.
• Persuasion that will be able to play only for the money.
• Perception of money while playing as chips or numbers on the display.
• Presentation of rates as transactions.

The prevalence of gambling among men and women

Although painful passion for gambling is more common in men, in women, this addiction takes a more severe form. Women are drawn into a dangerous hobby to 3 times faster and harder amenable to psychotherapy. Unlike men, women are subject to gambling addiction in adulthood, and for other reasons. The most common of them – personal problems from which they try to leave the game.
This occurs most often between the ages of 21 to 55 years, and in 1-4% of cases, the passion takes such forms in which the need psychiatric help. Every third pathological Gambler – is a woman. Sex differences between men and women are also in the fact that gambling in women often accompanies depression, and men – alcoholism.