[January 30, 2013] Higher Risk of Mental Health Problems for Homosexuals

psychcentral.com ^ | January 30, 2013 | JANE COLLINGWOOD

[ilovesarah2012]

I don’t even know when it was from but I don’t think it’s news to us. We have known all this for years.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, bull. They are mixed-up people either from being cruelly treated by adults as children or by some biological malfunction. As adults, they fall into all kinds of deviant and disfunctional behavior which only adds to their unhappiness.

My advice? Never sit in front of a gay guy when viewing “Mommie Dearest.” It’ll teach you everything you want to know about crazy queens.

[Sans-Culotte]

The doctor finds this result ‘’very worrying’’.

[allendale]

The most significant politically correct falsehood ever told was when the American Psychiatric Association declared that, contrary to all prior clinical experiences and consensus, homosexuality was no longer considered a mental illness. That was the same year the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand. 1973 was a very bad year for America.

[Albion Wilde]

Or is it that mentally ill people are more prone to engage in homosexuality?

That question needs to be asked and answered with regard to risky or transgressive sexual behaviors, in that many people engage in high-risk behaviors of various types, including car racing, alcohol binges and extreme sports, in order to self-medicate depression with adrenaline. It only works for a brief time, and then the need for more. So, if one's orientation gets people upset, it increases the adrenaline rush to do it and to parade it.

[huldah1776]

So what does this mean?

“This “lends support to the idea that people who feel discriminated against experience social stressors, which in turn increases their risk of experiencing mental health problems,” he says.

These higher levels of psychiatric problems in homosexual people call for greater efforts at preventing the issues arising, Dr. Chakraborty adds.”

[lightman]

Dr. Apu Chakraborty

Ape-you Shake-yer-booty?

[CharlesOConnell]

The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better on numerous indicators of personal well-being than children of homosexual parents. Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research. Children of lesbian mothers are nearly 12 times (≅ 1200%) as likely to say they were sexually touched by a parent or adult as those raised in intact biological families. Asked if they had ever been raped, 31 percent of those raised by lesbian mothers and 25 percent of children raised by gay fathers answered yes, compared to 8 percent of those from intact biological homes. Twenty percent (20%) of those raised by lesbians and 25% of those raised by gay men reported having contracted a sexual transmitted infection, compared to 8% of those raised by their biological parents. Twelve percent (12%) of those with a lesbian mother and 24% of those with a gay father reported having recently contemplated suicide, compared to only 5% raised by an intact biological family or a single parent. Nineteen percent (19%) of those raised by a lesbian mother or gay father were currently or recently receiving psychotherapy, compared to 8% of those raised by their heterosexual parents. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of those of working age raised by a lesbian mother and 20% of those raised by a gay father reported being currently unemployed, compared to 8% raised by an intact biological family and 13% raised by a single parent. Regnerus’ findings conflict with studies widely touted by homosexual activists which have claimed that children raised by homosexual parents fare as well or even better than their peers. Many of these studies, Regnerus points out, have relied on small, self-selected samples, parent rather than child reported outcomes, and have exhibited evidence of political bias. Regnerus drew his data from the New Family Structures Study, a data collection project that drew from a large, random sample of American young adults. This study is one of the few that measures outcomes as reported by the children of homosexuals, rather than relying on an assessment by the homosexual parent. Children from same-sex households much less likely to graduate high school: large study Girls living in “gay” households are only 15 percent as likely to graduate compared to girls from opposite sex married homes. A large-scale study by Douglas W. Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, has found that children in same-sex households were only 65 percent as likely to graduate from high school as those living in traditional opposite sex marriage families.

[Oliviaforever]

“The rate of alcohol dependence was ten percent versus five percent, “

Are they saying that the rate of alcohol dependence in the UK is only 5%?

That is way off. That’s all they do is drink and eat crappy food.

[Albion Wilde]

That would be because homosexuality IS a mental health problem, and it used to be classified as such by the American Psychiatric Association until the assault homosexuals started showing up at their yearly meetings and targeting them for harassment at their homes and places of business.

The APA was the first group to get the Chick-fil-A, Duck Dynasty, Cracker Barrel, Mozilla treatment. Before that, it was an individual: Anita Bryant.

[Vision]

Homosexuality is a mental problem so this is obvious to sane people.

[Adder]

Discrimination may contribute to the higher risk

really? Maybe its because their minds are warped to start with.

[upchuck]

Of course they are nuts. They are queers. This should be expected. Is anyone surprised?

Fortunately, there aren't very many of them. But they do an excellent job of living the "squeaky wheel" syndrome.

[IronJack]

So to summarize: people who have mental problems already might have more mental problems because of their mental problems?

Yeah, I can see that.

[PGR88]

I got to know a number of gay people in college, and I found they nearly all had really deep-seated problems. Addiction, depression, etc... Some were nice people and some were very weird and creepy, but they all carried very heavy burdens.

[BipolarBob]

That’s all they do is drink and eat crappy food.

What?? You don't like haggis, blood sausage, marmite or black pudding?

[Norm Lenhart]

I never cease to be amazed at the category error of scientist/psych types.

[ilovesarah2012]

Very interesting. I’m saving it. Thanks.

[ilovesarah2012]

I remember the Anita Bryant story well. I lived in South Florida.

[Bigg Red]

It’s un-PC. It will be buried.

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Not exactly, as one of the researchers is quoted as saying that the sodomites’ mental illness may result from their being discriminated against.