The Epimic of Gay Lonels - The Huffgton Post

Contents:

• DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN
• HOMOSEXUALS AND DEPRSN: HELP FOR GAYS WH DEPRSN
• DEPRSN AND SUICIDALY GAY MEN: IMPLITNS FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIRS
• YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD

DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN

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.

HOMOSEXUALS AND DEPRSN: HELP FOR GAYS WH DEPRSN

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. The 2013 fifth edn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM) f prsn clilly as a prsive mood or loss of tert or pleasure nearly all activi over a two-week perd, along wh four of the symptoms: “chang appete or weight, sleep, and psychomotor activy; creased energy; feelgs of worthlsns or guilt; difficulty thkg, ncentratg, or makg cisns; or recurrent thoughts of ath or suicidal iatn or suici plans or attempts. Health re provirs workg wh gay men should first tablish rapport and tst by displayg empathy and not makg assumptns about an dividual’s behavr and sexual choic based on generalizatns about “all” gay men.

DEPRSN AND SUICIDALY GAY MEN: IMPLITNS FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIRS

Speakg openly and ankly about the disproportnate impact of prsn on gay men, and prrizg our mental health and well-beg, we n chase that big gray elephant out of the room—and keep om harmg any more of . Medilly Reviewed by Isabel Lowell, MD on July 15, 2021 If you’re LGBTQ -- lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or nonbary, or queer -- your genr and sexualy n affect your mental health and wellns.

The most mon explanatn is the mory strs theory, which holds that beg part of a sexual or genr inty mory -- whether that’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or nonbary -- leads to more discrimatn om, turn, leads to greater mental strs for members of the mory group, says Amir K. If you’re LGBTQ and you’re faced wh rejectn -- eher om your iends or fay, at work, or om a relig muny -- n be hard to al addn to rejectn, inty-based shame -- such as homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia -- as well as bullyg -- n lead to LGBTQ muny is one of the most targeted muni the U. “Marriage equaly and the chang legal stat were an improvement for some gay men, ” says Christopher Stults, a rearcher at New York Universy who studi the differenc mental health between gay and straight men.

YOU’RE NOT GAY: HOMOSEXUALY ANXIETY OCD

In the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been legal sce 2001, gay men rema three tim more likely to suffer om a mood disorr than straight men, and 10 tim more likely to engage “suicidal self-harm.

“We see gay men who have never been sexually or physilly asslted wh siar post-trmatic strs symptoms to people who have been bat suatns or who have been raped, ” says Alex Kroghlian, a psychiatrist at the Fenway Instute’s Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health.

For s, this is what psychologists thought, too: that the key stag inty formatn for gay men all led up to g out, that once we were fally fortable wh ourselv, we uld beg buildg a life wh a muny of people who’d gone through the same thg. Rearchers say this kd of trag, liberately tryg to appear more mascule and takg on a different sex role, is jt one of the ways gay men prsure each other to atta “sexual pal, ” the equivalent of gog to the gym or pluckg our eyebrows.