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How LGBTQ+ people can protect their mental health during a traumatizing Pride season
LGBTQ Nation ^ | Bil Browning | Bil Browning

Posted on 06/18/2023 8:33:13 AM PDT by Salman

With hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed over the past year, both at the federal level and in state legislatures across the country, it’s a difficult time for the queer community. Republican politicians, far-right online personalities, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists have launched vicious attacks against the community, especially drag queens and transgender people.

June is usually a celebration for the LGBTQ+ community, but this year many have found it challenging to enjoy Pride like in previous years. They’ve been traumatized by the nonstop vitriol and threats of violence.

So how can you take care of yourself this year? The onslaught of negativity can quickly take its toll, so LGBTQ Nation spoke with a therapist and psychologist to get tips on how to recognize your trauma, protect your mental health, and show yourself some compassion at the same time.

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“As a Black psychologist, so many people have shared messages of anti-compassion they’ve learned from their family, often with the best intentions. Instead of giving ourselves permission to feel, to self-empathize, we’re told just to get back out there, pretend,” she said. “For many of us, without the capacity for the healing effect of self-compassion, we seek strategies to distract ourselves or numb ourselves.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at lgbtqnation.com ...


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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; mentalhealth; pride; sadismasmedicine; transagenda; victimmentality
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Mental health problems in the "gay community"?

Your fault.

1 posted on 06/18/2023 8:33:13 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

What mental health?


2 posted on 06/18/2023 8:35:16 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Salman

What about normal people who want to protect their mental health from a medical system that is poisoned against them?


3 posted on 06/18/2023 8:35:41 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (cxs)
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To: Salman

the few L and G acquaintances that I know want NOTHING to do with this trans-freak non-sense.

my ex-wife’s lezbo sister no longer is involved in any “gay rights” silliness she championed for 20-25 years ago.
She ain’t no conservative to say the least, but she’s isn’t evil and will not condone the perversion of children.


4 posted on 06/18/2023 8:40:57 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Salman

If they are LGBTQ+ it’s too late.


5 posted on 06/18/2023 8:41:27 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Salman

The alphabet people and their partners are tyrannts and should be treated as such.

Props to Dave Chapelle for coining the term alphabet people.


6 posted on 06/18/2023 8:42:19 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Salman

May I suggest MASS SUICIDE


7 posted on 06/18/2023 8:43:13 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Salman

If being queer traumatizes you there’s always a dark room with a door. Stay in it, door closed. You know, kinda like a closet?


8 posted on 06/18/2023 8:48:39 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Cry me a river, vicious wannabe dictator.


9 posted on 06/18/2023 8:52:34 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Salman

Mental health … gay community.
Those are mutually exclusive.


10 posted on 06/18/2023 8:59:56 AM PDT by Frohickey
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“If being queer traumatizes you there’s always a dark room with a door. Stay in it, door closed. You know, kinda like a closet?”

I think the idea behind this stupid article is that the alphabets are “traumatized” because less than 100% of the population is throwing parties non-stop to celebrate the alphabets’ fascination with anal sex and child grooming.


11 posted on 06/18/2023 9:02:37 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Salman

More ATM

works like a charm


12 posted on 06/18/2023 9:03:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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To: Salman

If your mental health is determined by the approval of people you don’t know, and you are above the age of 14, then you are mentally weak and I’ll to begin with.

If folks failing to validate your lifestyle harms your mental health, you aren’t mentally healthy to begin with


13 posted on 06/18/2023 9:10:26 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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“How LGBTQ+ people can protect their mental health during a traumatizing Pride season”

How LGBTQ+ people lost their mental health while supporting a perverted lifestyle.


14 posted on 06/18/2023 9:11:25 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: Jaysin

Make sure you thank her next time you see her for starting the world down this inevitable conclusion. Pedophilia validation was the end conclusion of the normalization of sexual deviancy


15 posted on 06/18/2023 9:12:11 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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How LGBTQ+ people can protect their mental health

Assuming facts not in evidence.

16 posted on 06/18/2023 9:17:27 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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17 posted on 06/18/2023 9:20:36 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Salman

Alphabet people protecting their “mental health” is like a cancer victim protecting their “cancer health”.


18 posted on 06/18/2023 9:24:58 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Simply click their heels together and say “there’s no place like home; there’s no place like home.”


19 posted on 06/18/2023 9:29:07 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: Salman

It’s too late for this community to protect its mental health.


20 posted on 06/18/2023 9:39:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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