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In regards to '''mental health and homosexuality''', studies have long indicated that [[homosexuality|homosexuals]] have a substantially greater risk of suffering from a psychiatric problems (suicide, depression, bulimia, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse).<ref>http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/Gender/Site/depression/mental_problems.htm</ref>
 
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[[Image:Powder meth foil small.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The ''Los Angeles Times'' reported the frequency of [[methamphetamine]] use is twenty times greater among homosexuals than in the general population.]]
 
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For example, a national survey of female homosexuals was published in the ''Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology'' which found that 75 percent of the approximate 2,000 respondents had pursued psychological counseling of some type, many for treatment of long-term depression or sadness.<ref>http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS01B1</ref>
 
  
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In contrast to claims by [[gay rights]] activists blaming this heightened incidence of mental issues on discrimination, John R. Diggs, M.D. states the following regarding homosexuality and health:
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== The only MENTAL DISEASE that is afflicting homosexuals is you bigots trying to tell them that loving someone is wrong. DOESN'T YOUR GOD TEACH TO ACCEPT EVERYBODY? ==
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{{Cquote|An extensive study in the [[Netherlands]] undermines the assumption that [[homophobia]] is the cause of increased psychiatric illness among gays and lesbians. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] have been considerably more accepting of same-sex relationships than other [[Western World|Western countries]] — in fact, same-sex couples now have the legal right to marry in the Netherlands. So a high rate of psychiatric disease associated with homosexual behavior in the Netherlands means that the psychiatric disease cannot so easily be attributed to social rejection and homophobia.<ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0075.html</ref>}}
 
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In addition, the late [[Harold I. Lief]], who was a leading a leading sex therapist who was an early defender of having medical schools put greater emphasis on sex education in training doctors, conducted a 1977 survey of members of the [[American Psychiatric Association]] and 73% of the psychiatrists responding said that they thought that homosexual men are less happy than others. <ref>[http://home.messiah.edu/~chase/h/articles/regenera/4.htm Harold I. Lief, Sexual Survey Number 4: Current Thinking on Homosexuality, Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 2 (1977), pp.110- 111 (Cited in Growing Up Straight by George A. Reker)]</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/obituaries/23lief.html?ex=1175313600&en=b9ffa2542d0e043a&ei=5070&emc=eta1 Harold I. Lief, Advocate of Sex Education, Dies at 89, NYT, By JEREMY PEARCE, Published: March 23, 2007]</ref> Also, in regards to homosexuality and mental health, seventy percent of the psychiatrists surveyed stated they believed that the homosexuals' problems were due more to personal conflicts than to social stigmatization.<ref>[http://home.messiah.edu/~chase/h/articles/regenera/4.htm Harold I. Lief, Sexual Survey Number 4: Current Thinking on Homosexuality, Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 2 (1977), pp.110- 111 (Cited in Growing Up Straight by George A. Reker)]</ref> In respect to personal conflicts studies report that [[Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence|homosexual couples have significantly higher incidences of violent behavior]]. These studies are not surprising given what pathologists have stated regarding the  [[Homosexuality and Murders|commonness and brutality of homosexual murders]].
 
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The late [[Charles Socarides]] wrote:
 
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{{Cquote|For most of this century, most of us in the helping professions considered this behavior aberrant. Not only was it "off the track"; the people caught up in it were suffering, which is why we called it a pathology. We had patients, early in their therapy, who would seek out one sex partner after another-total strangers-on a single night, then come limping into our offices the next day to tell us how they were hurting themselves. Since we were in the business of helping people learn how not to keep hurting themselves, many of us thought we were quietly doing God's work.<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/socarides.html</ref>}}
 
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Richard Fitzgibbons wrote:
 
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{{Cquote|The failure to understand the actual causes of homosexuality impacts those who counsel teenagers and adults with this disorder. Therapists regularly tell those seeking help that the Church's teaching on homosexuality is insensitive to homosexuals, unscientific, and erroneous. They are advised to accept themselves as being created homosexual by God. [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0011.html]}}
 
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In regards to a matter relating to homosexuality and mental health, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported the frequency of [[methamphetamine]] use is twenty times greater among homosexuals than in the general population.<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/methuse.html ''More Gay Men Using Meth, Study Finds,''] by R. Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times, April 11, p. B6.</ref>
 
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==See Also==
 
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*[[Homosexuality]]
 
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*[[Homosexuality and Health]]
 
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==References==
 
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{{reflist|2}}
 
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]
 
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[[Category:Mental health]]
 

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