People who are gay, lbian or bi have more mental health and substance e problems, survey fds | CNN

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• PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
• DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
• MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH

PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS

A new book reveals how Dr Matt Bristow, who worked at the Tavistock Clic’s Genr Inty Development Service (Gids) for five years, raised ncerns that boys and girls who said they wanted to change sex might simply be gay. He warned gay children were ‘phed down another path’, towards transng, and that there was a ‘reluctance’ om the Gids learship to engage properly wh sexualy.

And the doctor claimed that many heterosexual members of staff ‘jt didn’t realise’ that many genr non-nformg behavurs applied jt as much to children who grew up to be gay, lbian or bisexual as to children who would grow up to be trans. Staff at the centre even joked there would be ‘no gay people left at the rate Gids was gog’, was claimed.

Dr Bristow, who was openly gay when he joed the service, said when he raised ncerns was suggted to him that homosexual staff ‘weren’t profsnally distant enough’.

DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG

Transgenrism stroys the gay argument, you know — gay people say they were “born this way, ” and while that’s been difficult to prove blogilly, at least mak some sense. ” No one stops to notice that the mand is for a straight man to engage a homosexual relatnship wh another man; that pot isn’t even allowed to be ma. Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report.

And about a third of all bisexual people and gay mal said they had a problem wh a substance e disorr the year before they filled out the survey, the report found.

However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men. Jeremy Kidd, a psychiatrist who has worked on studi to improve health out for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer populatns. “LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.

MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH

Bisexuals may face more challeng bee they may be experiencg mory strs a way that is different om people who intify as gay or lbian, he said. “For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said. 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.