Posted on 06/26/2014 4:46:02 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Homosexual people tend to experience more mental health problems than heterosexual people, research indicates. Discrimination may contribute to the higher risk, believes lead researcher Dr. Apu Chakraborty of University College London, UK.
His team looked at rates of mental disorder among 7,403 adults living in the UK, whose details were obtained from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007. Rates of depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobia, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and alcohol and drug dependence were significantly higher in homosexual respondents.
Four percent had a depressive episode in the last week, compared to two percent of heterosexual people. The rate of alcohol dependence was ten percent versus five percent, and for self-harming it was nine percent versus five percent.
The proportion of homosexual people who described themselves as being fairly or very happy was 30 percent, versus 40 percent for heterosexual people.
Dr. Chakraborty believes the findings are “very worrying.” He said, “This study is the first time the mental health and well-being of gay, lesbian and bisexual people has been examined in a random sample of the population.
“Our study confirms earlier work carried out in the UK, USA and Holland which suggests that non-heterosexual people are at higher risk of mental disorder, suicidal ideation, substance misuse and self-harm than heterosexual people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at psychcentral.com ...
Difficulty growing up in a world orientated to heterosexual norms? I guess they’ll always be mentally ill, since we’re 97% of the population.
I thought homosexuals make it a spectacle. As far as I know, heteros aren’t arranging Pride parades.
I got in an argument with a homosexual online once, because he said there was no such thing as gay bowel syndrome. Apparently, homosexuals have forced its removal from medical books. Don’t know if it’s a real disease, because it’s not listed anymore.
Who would have ever thought that perverts were also mentally ill?
In all seriousness I work with a lot of young people, some of them gay, and they have a very high rate of partner abuse and suicide. One time I had asked a student about her absences and she told me a the tale of how her lesbian mother was trying to still her girlfriend. TMI for sure.
Yeah, I was surprised no one posted it before. Guess it’s not getting any news.
That would be “steal” her girlfriend. Four glasses of Spatten may have been one too many.
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