Suicide attempts and planning suicide are high in youth.

[Justanotherconsumer]

https://www-m.cnn.com/2017/12/19/health/lgbq-teens-suicide-risk-study/index.html

Just an article on youth attempting or planning suicide, covers hetero also, its extremely high, seems to cover high school aged kids. Wondering why its so high?

 

[Circles]

https://www-m.cnn.com/2017/12/19/health/lgbq-teens-suicide-risk-study/index.html

Just an article on youth attempting or planning suicide, covers hetero also, its extremely high, seems to cover high school aged kids. Wondering why its so high?

Because they begin to 'wake up' from our adolescent slumber and realize life is not for them. Those that make it through their young grown up stage may survive but those that lag behind will never succeed.

 

[WaitingForTheBus]

As someone who first thought of ctb at 14 (35 years ago), I completely understand.

As a parent of a 14 y/o who also had their own desires to recently ctb, it distresses me. (Both cases as hetero)

Teens face enough challenges with changing hormones, peer group pressure etc. Add to that the complexities of also having to deal with the fact that your sexuality is considered outside of the "Norm", it's completely understandable why their percentages are higher.

It would be interesting to compare this data to 30/40 years ago, although I doubt such data in this form would exist from back then. It was a lot more socially unacceptable to be anything but hetero with many people staying safely within the closet.