Highlights of the specific mental health needs among gay and bisexual men.
Contents:
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
- DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
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MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng Pl (LGBTQ+*) muny reprents a diverse range of inti and exprsns of genr and sexual orientatn. Transgenr youth face further dispari as they are twice as likely to experience prsive symptoms, serly nsir suici, and attempt suici pared to cisgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, queer and qutng youth. High school stunts who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual are more than four tim as likely to have attempted suici pared to their heterosexual peers.
The majory of gay and bisexual men have and mata good mental health, even though rearch has shown that they are at greater risk for mental health problems. However, ongog homophobia, stigma (negative and ually unfair beliefs), and discrimatn (unfairly treatg a person or group of people) n have negative effects on your health. Keepg your sexual orientatn hidn om others (beg “ the closet”) and fear of havg your sexual orientatn disclosed (beg “outed”) n add to the strs of beg gay or bisexual.
In general, rearch has shown that gay and bisexual men who are open about their sexual orientatn wh others have better health out than gay and bisexual men who do not. However, beg “out” some settgs and to people who react negatively n add to the strs experienced by gay and bisexual men, and n lead to poorer mental health and discrimatn.
DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
Mental health unselg and support groups that are sensive to the needs of gay and bisexual men n be pecially eful if you are g to terms wh your sexual orientatn or are experiencg prsn, anxiety, or other mental health problems. While many gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men may not seek re om a mental health provir bee of a fear of discrimatn or homophobia, is important to keep this as an optn and to fd a provir that is tstworthy and patible. In the 1950s and 1960s, many therapists offered aversn therapy of the kd featured A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexualy.
First published 1968, DSM-II (the send edn of the Amerin classifitn of mental disorrs, and a forenner of DSM-5) still listed homosexualy as a mental disorr. In this, the DSM followed a long tradn medice and psychiatry, which the neteenth century appropriated homosexualy om the Church and, what mt have seemed like an élan of enlightenment, promoted om s to mental disorr. In 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) asked all members attendg s nventn to vote on whether they believed homosexualy to be a mental disorr.
The APA then promised, removg homosexualy om the DSM but replacg , effect, wh "sexual orientatn disturbance" for people " nflict wh" their sexual orientatn. Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn (WHO) Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn.