For fuck sake here we go again
Right… No need for the family part… The rest is fine imo.
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http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=24224
Higher suicide risk among gay teens
Irish teenagers who have concerns about their sexual orientation have much higher levels of mental health problems and are much more likely to attempt suicide than their peers, a new study has found.
These teenagers are also significantly more likely to be victimised.
Researchers questioned over 1,100 Irish students attending 17 mixed-gender secondary schools. The average age of the participants was 14 and 55% were male. Some 5% of the students admitted to having concerns about their sexual orientation.
The study found that those with concerns had more mental health difficulties than their peers, including anxiety, depressive symptoms and behavioural problems. They were also significantly more likely to have attempted suicide - 29% versus 2% of their peers.
These students were also much more likely to have been physically assaulted than their peers - 40% versus 8%, and sexually assaulted - 16% versus 1%.
Substance misuse was also more common among them, with one in five admitting to drinking alcohol frequently compared to 1% of their peers. Three in four were also smokers compared with less than one in five of their peers.
These young people were also much more likely to have used marijuana - 41% versus 2% of their peers.
The study also noted that the vast majority of teenagers (90%) with concerns about their sexual orientation said they had already had sex, compared to just 4% of their peers.
According to the researchers, this study supports the view that young people become concerned about their sexual orientation from a young age. While previous studies suggest that lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) young people often reveal their sexual orientation towards the end of secondary school, this appears to happen later among Irish LGBT people.
The period during which sexual orientation is hidden often coincides with feelings of vulnerability and distress.
“The current findings support the need for an environment that facilitates adolescents’ free expression of their sexual orientation concerns,” the researchers said.
They suggested that school and community-based health awareness programmes should include the topic of sexual orientation, with the aim of supporting young people with concerns and reducing stigma and victimisation.
They also added that awareness of the mental health issues these young people may face should become standard training for professionals working with them.
Details of these findings are published in the Irish Medical Journal.
Because how do you know that it wasn’t just one family member who wasn’t accepting but others were and made every effort to help? How do they feel now that they’ve essentially been called out on social media? It lacks tact. Words are important.
Once again, Sidney will go to any effort to not lose an argument, so I’m expecting another wall of text after this, but anyone with a bit of cop on knows it was worded poorly and insensitively.
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If these 14 years old are out drinking, riding and taking drugs it’s hardly surprising they have mental health issues
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We all did that though and we turned out fine.
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That is very very debatable.
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very true mate, you are what kids should be aspiring to
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Yes. We just did the drinking. Drugs weren’t available and riding was a sin that would condemn you to eternal damnation, so my generation generally gave that a skip, for safety’s sake. Even with just the drinking a lot of us turned out sketchy enough.
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We were saturated with drugs and had no interest in drink as our parents were drunks. We engaged in sex between 14-16 for the most part as we paid no heed to the church or sin.
By and large we turned out a little fucked up but are able to function in normal society and the drugs really taught us valuable life lessons - life goes up, life goes down - repeat.
No mass suicides, self harming or depression to report.
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If you think my replies here have been a “wall of text”, I would suggest you might be better suited to working in a field other than law.
I think Cusack has been a total cunt here. He could have easily talked in general terms about homophobia, depression and suicide without having a j’accuse moment.
I think other forum members have spoken about when they were suicidal and their thoughts and perceptions about how friends and family saw them and how this may not be the reality of the situation.
Truth is that Cusack has cast aspersions on a grieving family and community. Cunt.
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Yawn.
Nail on the fucking head here. Good man Arthur.
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You’d just be better off working.
You’d be better off keeping your interfering nose out of other people’s business when you don’t know it.
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ooooft
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Bi da hokey
As would cusack
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