Members of the Diverse community are more than twice as likely to acquire a mental health disorder or life depression and anxiety. Poor mental health may be linked to experiences of discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, bullying, social isolation or rejection due to your sexuality.
It might not be easy, but getting the right support and support is essential.
What help is out there?
There is lots of tip and support out there for you.
Talking with a therapist who is trained to understand your specific situation may help if you:
Have difficulty accepting your sexual orientation.
Need support coping with other people’s reactions to you.
Feel like your body doesn’t indicate your true gender.
Are currently transitioning.
Are trying to cope with bullying or discrimination.
Are feeling depressed, contain low self-esteem, are thinking suicidal thoughts or thinking about harming yourself.
There are different types of talking therapies, so you can find one to suit your needs. Treatments available on the NHS include:
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Guided self-help.
Counselling.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Read more about talking therapies
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List of Homosexual terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A synonyms used to depict people who contain a fluid sexual and/or romantic orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as successfully as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who encounter romantic attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also employ terms such as gay, bi, womxn loving womxn, straight and gender non-conforming in conjunction with asexual to explain the direction of their romantic or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to describe the wide group of people who trial a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of lovey-dovey and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also utilize terms such as gay,
Find out more about LGBTQIA+ health with Crohn's or Colitis
Colitis has really affected my dating, sex and intimacy in ways over the years. It can always be difficult to talk about bathroom habits and poo to someone you’re dating, but as a gay man I think there is an extra layer of shame and taboo surrounding the conversation. I have sadly had partners who hold found that they no longer find me 'sexy' or wish to be intimate with me if I had recently been poorly. There is also the mental exhaustion and anxiety of needing to be acutely aware of the status of my condition, to be tracking all feelings, pain and movements which could produce an intimate situation embarrassing. I have had embarrassing moments where accidents contain happened, and although mostly partners have been compassionate, it does still impact you mentally, as you then worry each period that it will occur again.
Even throughout periods of feeling better, the persist still exists, and my mind would be very aware that a flare could happen at any moment. Any slight stomach twinge would send me reeling with worry.
Being on medication and steroids can also impact your body. Some people experience weight gain, and I
How can a sense of belonging be forged in a setting where one’s existence is forbidden? That is the question that LSE’s Dr Centner and his co-author Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore in their groundbreaking study into Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife.
But it was not an easy topic to research. Dr Centner explains: “It's an illegal, or criminalised, identity and put of behaviours and practices, so in a very general perception, it's a taboo. And taboo subjects are very often under-researched, sometimes because people have a hard time gaining access, gaining that trust, but also because, even if people gain that access, there could be significant repercussions for themselves as researchers, or for the people who are the research participants.
“As two queer researchers, we were capable to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Western gay expatriates. Secrecy is often the norm, but the field was familiar to us, through previous visits and research projects.”
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