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Gay Suicides Are On The Rise. This Epidemiologist Explains Why.
The Huffington Post ^ | 06/05/2019 | Michael Hobbes

Posted on 06/06/2019 8:09:28 AM PDT by fwdude

One of the indescribable aspects of being a member of a minority group is knowing that things are better than they have ever been and, simultaneously, not good enough.

The LGBTQ community has won the right to same-sex marriage and achieved unprecedented visibility in politics, media and entertainment. Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.

Travis Salway is an epidemiologist trying to close this gap. In 2014, he discovered that in Canada, suicide had surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death among gay and bisexual men.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fdrq; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; psychology; riskybehavior; suicide; trends
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To: fwdude

Imagine that. Go against nature and what all humans know at some level; that homosexuality and transgenderism are both wrong. Even leaving God and all religions out of the equation; one cannot fool nature and the natural order of things.

Having said that; I still have a measure of compassion for those who are mentally ill and who cannot correct this mental imbalance through no fault of their own. Those who choose those lifestyles are a different story but for those who are born this way; they have my pity and some understanding.

Maybe one day science and medicine will advance enough to correct this mental illness.


41 posted on 06/06/2019 8:43:03 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: fwdude

No one ever wants to admit that people who are mentally unstable are more apt to commit suicide, and that Homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders are by historical definition mentally unstable. When you then celebrate their illness instead of trying to treat it you just complicate matters. They know they are different, not normal, but when you feed the delusion that they are the normal ones while the rest of us are the abnormal ones it messes them up even more. They want it to be true, but they know it isn’t. They are living a lie constructed and promoted by society and eventually it becomes too much for many. They learn that unfettered sex, bodily mutilation and unhealthy desires do not make them happy and can’t give them what they really want, the normalcy that the rest of us enjoy in our lives. At that point many kill themselves because it is the only way to kill the inner demons they live with daily.


42 posted on 06/06/2019 8:46:49 AM PDT by redangus
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To: fwdude

“...knowing that things are better than they have ever been and, simultaneously, not good enough....Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.”

That is because you homos are crazy, you poke your tongue and you junk in someone’s pooper, and you take drugs to try to get over how miserable you are. Things will NEVER be “good enough”, because deep inside you know the problem is you.


43 posted on 06/06/2019 8:47:09 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: fwdude

Since the 1960’s the left has been encouraging people to act in self-destructive and socially undesirable ways. But the left never accepts blame when the inevitable negative consequences occur.


44 posted on 06/06/2019 8:48:03 AM PDT by djpg
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To: fwdude
Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.

Those who are, by definition, mentally ill lag behind normal people on mental illness. Who would have guessed? Those who engage in shockingly dangerous - and gross - activities that spread HIV lag behind normal people on HIV rates? Another shocker.

45 posted on 06/06/2019 8:48:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Moonman62

That’s because you are mentally ill.


Well, they officially were until the American Psychological Association took a vote at a meeting and declared homosexuality wasn’t a mental illness. Imagine taking a vote on whether or not something is an illness. At some point the same august body may vote to declare ‘homophobia’ to be a mental illness.


46 posted on 06/06/2019 8:49:45 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: fwdude

It’s a mental illness and it’s practically illegal to give them the treatment they need. Not surprising that they go over the edge and kill themselves.


47 posted on 06/06/2019 8:50:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: mrmeyer
Unintended consequences of free will.

Are you actually saying that God could not see this coming?

48 posted on 06/06/2019 8:50:35 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: fwdude

Homosexuals cluster with other mentally ill people in all these metrics. They commit suicide well above the societal mean (in all countries no matter how leftist they are), they are more likely to commit crimes and be the victim of crimes. The more out in the open they are the worse their life span is.

They used to teach this at the university level. I doubt they do that anymore.


49 posted on 06/06/2019 8:51:26 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Boomer

But if they do will society allow it’s use? They have already criminalized conversion therapy in some states and Canada.


50 posted on 06/06/2019 8:53:08 AM PDT by redangus
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To: alloysteel

A homosexual will not transmit their genetic information to remaining generations of humanity. It must be really depressing to be a homosexual, arriving into your 40’s and 50’s without children, and knowing that you will leave nothing behind on this rock when it’s done with you.

Children that live longer than we do and the knowledge that they and their children will NEVER forget you is a profound source of hope and joy. More important than those comforts though, I have a knowledge of and faith in a God that loves me even though He knows everything about me and has forgiven me every time I have fallen short of the mark. Pretty incomprehensible how THAT happens, but it is the central truth of my life.


51 posted on 06/06/2019 8:53:37 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: fwdude

God is not mocked.


52 posted on 06/06/2019 8:54:34 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: arthurus
Now their homosexuality is a necessary part of the relationship with everyone and it is depressing. Harry says that car people don’t want cars to be the only damned thing people talk about or think about when they are in the same room with them.

Excellent comment.

Disabled people who use wheelchairs don't want to be "the guy in the wheelchair".
The woman with cancer doesn't want to be "the woman with cancer".

People with challenges sometimes say "I am not my disease" -- which I think it a good and positive attitude to take. They are people. That's enough.

But, as you say, modern culture pretty much demands that the homosexual be designated as "the homosexual" in all interactions. He or she can't really be a person. They are busy full-time being "the homosexual". Nobody really want that role.

53 posted on 06/06/2019 8:55:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: fwdude

Homosexuals have been hurt and traumitized at some point or points in their lives. All the attempts at legitimization and normalization will never remove the plain fact the homosexual has been damaged, and that homosexuality is a perversion of health, and a coping mechanism.

Normalization of homosexuality puts the focus on homosexuality, and not on the underlying trauma. It is a cruel thing to do to the homosexual.


54 posted on 06/06/2019 8:58:09 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: nwrep
The real shocker and mystery from this graph is why do heterosexual women have almost 3X the suicide rate of heterosexual men. Any ideas?

At some point during the aging process, 50% of women have some form of mental illness. This isn't my opinion, it's data from a study I saw some months ago.

IMHO, it's higher than that.
55 posted on 06/06/2019 8:59:53 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: fwdude

Three percent of hetero men and six percent of hetero women have attempted suicide? This seems a bit high.


56 posted on 06/06/2019 9:00:44 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: fwdude

It’s always someone else’s fault, not?

Could it be that.....................?

Nah.


57 posted on 06/06/2019 9:02:19 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yep!

Given that most homosexuals were sexually abused as children, what they've done is outlaw RAPE THERAPY.

58 posted on 06/06/2019 9:04:29 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: hanamizu
Not everyone I spoke to over the years rejected what I had to say out of hand. I once corresponded with an English ex-Dominican. I was ecstatic to learn that he was gay, and was eventually kicked out of his order for refusing to remain in the closet. He included an e-mail address in one of his books, and I wrote him, wanting to know if his experience of life as a homosexual was significantly different from mine. I presumed it must be, since he had written a couple of books, passionately defending the right of homosexuals to a place in the Church. His response to me was one of the last nails in the coffin of my life as a gay man. To my astonishment, he admitted that his experiences were not unlike mine. All he could suggest was that I keep trying, and eventually everything would work out. In other words, this brilliant man, whose books had meant so much to me, had nothing to suggest except that I keep doing the same thing, while expecting a different result. There was only one reasonable conclusion. I would be nuts if I took his advice. It took me twenty years, but I finally reached the conclusion that I did not want to be insane.

- Ronald G. Lee, The Books were a Front for the Porn: The Truth About the Homosexual Rights Movement, Virtue Online (https://virtueonline.org/truth-about-homosexual-rights-movement-ronald-g-lee)

59 posted on 06/06/2019 9:05:09 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: Fiddlstix


PERFECT!

60 posted on 06/06/2019 9:06:18 AM PDT by onyx
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