Psychiatric News (7/1) reported, “Young homosexual, bisexual, and gender-diverse people experience more mental distress than their heterosexual and cisgender peers,” researchers concluded after examining “data from 762,541 people who participated in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System between 2014 and 2018.” The study revealed that “the difference in rates of mental distress between people who identified as a sexual and gender minority and those who identified as cisgender and heterosexual was strongest in those between the ages of 18 and 24 years.” The findings were published online June 23 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “Young Adults Who Identify as Sexual, Gender Minority Report More Mental Distress, Psychiatric News, July 1, 2022