Tag: depression
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Art Therapy Can Boost Mental Health In LGBTQ Communities
This time Jackie writes about Art Therapy could boost your mental health.
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Four in Five LGBTQ+ people admit mental health has taken a hit during lockdown
79% admit mental health affected negatively as a new survey of 2333 LGBTQ+ people finds big shifts in LGBTQ+ people experiencing depression, anxiety and loneliness due to lockdown.
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Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay
Recent figures show that more than 40 percent of LGBT+ people will experience a significant mental health problem, compared to around 25 percent of the whole population, and are more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide.
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Somerset LGBTQ youth support group’s contract withdrawn
Young gay and transgender people fear a group which supports them could close after losing its council contract.
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Sweden’s Health and Welfare study of mental illness among same-sex couples show the need of action
This week the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) presented a registry study that shows the increase in mental illness, and risk use among people in same-sex marriage compared to people in different-sex marriages.
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Ireland : Gay teenagers continue to endure widespread bullying
The LGBTIReland Report, one of the largest national studies of mental health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, has just been launched.