A long post but the actual reason homosexuality is not listed as a disorder is because the condition must either regularly cause subjective distress or regularly be associated with some generalized impairment in social effectiveness or functioning. Clearly homosexuality per se does not meet these requirements: Many homosexuals are satisfied with their sexual orientation and demonstrate no generalized impairment. Therefore there is reason to consider it a disorder.
Not listing homosexuality as a disorder makes no statement as whether it is normal, a good or bad influence on society, or a serious social problem. There is simple no reason to list it as a disorder in the DSM because doing so does not help the clinician make a diagnosis which is the purpose of the DSM.
Text of discussion by Drs R L Spitzer and I Bieber on decision by Amer Psychiatric Assn to change its official definition of homosexuality from 'psychiatric disorder' to 'sexual orientation disturbance'; illus of Bieber and Spitzer
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So if a pedophile or a psychopath doesn't show any "subjective distress" or no "generalized impairment" (whatever the heck that means), in "social effectiveness" (more ambiguity), or "functioning", their condition is not a disorder? Homosexuals aren't sexually attracted to the opposite sex but are rather attracted sexually to members of their own sex, which leads to very serious impairment, namely, seriously undermining their ability to procreate. Most people in society are naturally repulsed by homosexuals, despite not admitting it publicly in our modern, Western society, due to political reasons. So it does indeed impair their ability to effectively interact with and function in most societies. A society that doesn't recognize homosexuality as an illness becomes ill itself, as is evident today with our "woke", gender fluid, and dysphoric, highly sexualized (pornified) culture. I should also add "pedophilic" because some people in positions of influence are even considering legalizing pedophilia.
Objectives. We examined lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts and psychosocial correlates in a large population-based sample of men who have sex with men (MSM). Methods. A telephone probability sample of US urban MSM (n = 2881) were interviewed ...
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" Result of the above study. Twenty-one percent had made a suicide plan; 12% had attempted suicide (almost half of those 12% were multiple attempters). Most who attempted suicide made their first attempt before age 25. Although prevalence of parasuicide (i.e., attempted suicide) has remained constant across birth cohorts, mean age at initial attempts has declined. Conclusions. MSM are at elevated risk for suicide attempts, with such risk clustered earlier in life. Some risk factors were specific to being gay or bisexual in a hostile environment."
Of course, some will say that it is due to being in a hostile environment that they've become suicidal. But even in an egalitarian society where homosexuals are parading themselves in the streets, can get married, adopt children, GROOM children to be gay, and do whatever they want, with all of that, they're still committing suicide at much higher rates than heterosexuals."
Background Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people may be at higher risk of mental disorders than heterosexual people. Method We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of mental disorder, substance misuse, suicide, suicidal ideation and deliberate self harm in LGB...
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" Meta-analyses revealed a two fold excess in suicide attempts in lesbian, gay and bisexual people [pooled risk ratio for lifetime risk 2.47 (CI 1.87, 3.28)]. The risk for depression and anxiety disorders (over a period of 12 months or a lifetime) on meta-analyses were at least 1.5 times higher in lesbian, gay and bisexual people (RR range 1.54–2.58) and alcohol and other substance dependence over 12 months was also 1.5 times higher (RR range 1.51–4.00). Results were similar in both sexes but meta analyses revealed that lesbian and bisexual women were particularly at risk of substance dependence (alcohol 12 months: RR 4.00, CI 2.85, 5.61; drug dependence: RR 3.50, CI 1.87, 6.53; any substance use disorder RR 3.42, CI 1.97–5.92), while lifetime prevalence of suicide attempt was especially high in gay and bisexual men (RR 4.28, CI 2.32, 7.88).
Conclusion
LGB people are at higher risk of mental disorder, suicidal ideation, substance misuse, and deliberate self harm than heterosexual people.
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" Statistics on Mental Health and Suicide Among LBGTQ Youth
LGBTQ teen suicide rates and LGBTQ mental health statistics reflect the societal and relationship challenges that these young people face. The Trevor Project’s new survey captured the experiences of some 34,000 LGBTQ youth, ages 13 to 24, across the United States. Here are some of the key findings:
- 75 percent of LGBTQ teens experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past year.
- 61 percent experienced symptoms of depression.
- Among all LGBTQ youth surveyed (ages 13–24), 82 percent wanted mental healthcare in the past year.
- However, 60 percent of those youth were unable to access care.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), LGBTQ teens are six times more likely to experience symptoms of depression than the general population. Research shows that low family satisfaction, cyberbullying victimization, and unmet medical needs contributed to their higher rates of depression. The Trevor Project found that the pandemic also contributed to mental health challenges: 60 percent of teens reported experiencing poor mental health sometimes or all the time since the pandemic began. "
A contributing factor doesn't imply causation. Homosexuals, whether they're in the American Bible belt or ISIS-controlled Syria, facing the specter of being thrown off of a roof, or they're living in the most egalitarian societies in the world like Norway or Denmark, the rates of depression and suicide are still much higher for homosexuals than they are for heterosexuals. Same shit.
"Depression is a risk factor for suicide (Oliffe & Phillips, 2008), and suicide is a leading cause of male death (Statistics Canada, 2014). Within this context, there is strong evidence that gay men are more likely than heterosexual men to experience suicidality (Brennan, Ross, Dobinson, Veldhuizen, & Steele, 2010; Hottes, Bogaert, Rhodes, Brennan, & Gesink, 2016; King et al., 2008). Depression and suicidality may also increase gay men’s risk of alcohol and drug overuse, unprotected anal intercourse, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; Cox, 2006; Ferlatte, Dulai, Hottes, Trussler & Marchand, 2015). In terms of potential causes of depression and suicidality in gay men, relationship problems, accepting one’s homosexuality, experiencing homophobia, institutional discrimination, and alienation from gay communities have been reported as underpinning issues (Cox, 2006; Haas et al., 2011; Wang, Plöderl, Hӓusermann, & Weiss, 2015).
Scant research exists about gay men’s health beyond sexual health issues, most often HIV (Hottes, Ferlatte, & Gesink, 2014). Though gay men self-report that they rank mental health as one of their top health concerns (Grov, Ventuneac, Rendina, Jimenez, & Parsons, 2013) depression and suicidality in the lives of gay men are poorly understood (Haas et al., 2011; King et al., 2008). "
Gay parents are more likely to have children with a homosexual orientation:
Ten narrative studies involving family histories of 262 children of gay fathers and lesbian mothers were evaluated statistically in response to Morrison's (2007) concerns about Cameron's (2006) research that had involved three narrative studies. Despite numerous attempts to bias the results in...
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"Data from ethnographic sources and from previous studies on gay and lesbian parenting were re-examined and found to support the hypothesis that social and parental influences may influence the expression of non-heterosexual identities and/or behaviour. Thus, evidence is presented from three different sources, contrary to most previous scientific opinion, even most previous scientific consensus, that suggests intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation can occur at statistically significant and substantial rates, especially for female parents or female children. In some analyses for sons, intergenerational transfer was not significant. Further research is needed with respect to pathways by which intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation may occur. The results confirm an evolving tendency among scholars to cite the possibility of some degree of intergenerational crossover of sexual orientation."
There are several studies showing that the sexual orientation of parents has an influence over their children's sexual orientation.
By every metric and standard of health, personal safety, and welfare, homosexuality is a disorder. More depression, suicide, substance abuse, and a higher frequency of STD infections among a plethora of other ailments, and yet you assert homosexuality is just a "healthy alternative" to heterosexuality? Really? Seriously? All of this is healthy for society? You deny this is a disorder and you make homosexuality "mainstream" and this is what occurs:
No. That should NEVER be acceptable in a civilized society. NEVER. You keep your homosexuality in your nightclubs, bathhouses, in your bedrooms, and keep that crap away from our children.
Due to political reasons, homosexuality in modern Western society has become "normalized", a supposed "healthy alternative" to heterosexuality. It's self-evident for most reasonable people, even if they refuse to admit it, that homosexuality isn't a "healthy alternative" to heterosexuality. It's an illness that could perhaps, with hormone treatments, genetic therapy, medications, and professional counseling (that's not politically influenced or coerced), be effectively treated, if not cured. Due to political reasons, medical science is not allowed to even consider the possibility that homosexuality is a disorder that can be effectively treated and cured. So due to politics, homosexuals are being deprived of a potential, effective treatment and cure for their illness.
I don't believe in witch hunts for homosexuals or that they should be abused or deprived of their human rights. I just don't consider the "human rights" of homosexuals to include placing children at risk of developing a homosexual orientation, gender dysphoria, or any condition that might place them at serious risk of having problems with depression, suicide, substance abuse, starting a family and siring offspring (spreading their genes).
I will offend homosexuals, the LGBTQA+++ community ALL DAY & FOREVER, before I place any child at risk of injury and death by being influenced and abused by homosexuals or anybody else.
Now what I'm about to say, I know is going to be scoffed at, ridiculed, and used to discredit everything I mentioned earlier and that's fine. I frankly don't care, because I know that what I'm about to reveal is 100% real. It's the reality (it's part of the "cosmos") and relevant to this issue, whether the nihilistic atheists and materialists agree or not. I was an atheist, and materialist for most of my adult life, so I know that what I'm about to say sounds crazy. Nonetheless, what you are about to see in the following videos, I confirmed for myself with much research, conducted with others, at the University of Arizona in Tucson. We had to do this type of research privately, without any of our colleagues discovering what we were doing, lest we lose our careers. All of the phenomena that you're about to see in the video below are 100% genuine and authentic, it's not a fraud.
This video presents some of the ITC evidence for non-physical minds (i.e. spirits).
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People are influenced, not just by genetics, biology, the environment, or material conditions, but also by a metaphysical reality. There are non-biological minds (i.e.intelligences), entities, that are able to influence our thoughts, feelings, behavior and even our health. The Christians and Muslims, the Hindus and spiritualists, all of these religious folks, that I used to mock, and make fun of, are correct with respect to the existence of "spirits". When I say spirits, I'm not referring to Jack Daniels. These "Bible thumpers" are correct, when it comes to the existence of non-biological life, angels, demons..etc. They're correct. To what extent do these beings influence sexual orientation? Ask yourself that. To what extent do these entities, whatever they actually are, desire to influence our thoughts, behavior, our health, and relationships? Don't run away from the question, consider it. As yourselves these questions, especially if you're a seeker of truth.
You think you're really smart, and perhaps you are, but we need to be a bit more humble, because all of these religious folks that we dismiss as being "stupid", dumb, might be right on certain issues.
I'm no longer an atheist, and although I'm still a Marxist and materialist, I consider the spirits and the "frequency of existence" in which they live, to be as real and material as this one. It's just a different type of material. Physics has been telling us for years that there's "dark matter" and "dark energy", a reality that influences the perceivable world but can't be directly detected by our scientific instruments. We only see its effects on our material world, hence we mathematically determined that this hidden or "dark" matter and energy exists. Well, perhaps what we are identifying as "dark" matter or energy is nothing less than the so-called "spirit realm", the world of spirit. The "aether".
I believe this is relevant to the issue of homosexuality and what is happening today in our country with all of this gender confusion and children being subjected to all of this sexual depravity. Children are being sexualized by these demonized "liberals" and homosexuals. This isn't just psychological, within the orb of sociology, no no. There is a spiritual component to all of this. The "religious folks" (that's what I call them), are correct on this issue. This is demonic. Evil, destructive entities.
Just because I feel like having sex with someone, doesn't imply that I should or have to. Feelings don't justify the act. More, love isn't necessarily sexual. A parent should love his or her children, and it goes without saying that, that parental love shouldn't be sexual. Love doesn't equate to sex or eroticism. There are different types of love. When homosexuals appeal to "love" to justify their sexual practices and lifestyle, they're applying very poor logic.
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