If anyone is contemplating suicide.

Why is sonship keen to talk about sexual orientations he does not approve of on a thread about people contemplating suicide but steadfastly refuses to address the fact that 90% of suicides are linked to either diagnosed or undiagnosed/untreated mental health problems.

Greece has the lowest rate of suicide globally.

I love the place and try to visit at least once per year. The economy is pathetic but the people are great, the weather is great, the history is great.

Italy, UK and Spain next lowest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate#/media/File%3A2010_suicide_rates_in_high-income_countries.png

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

That could be because you are already well on the way to being brain washed with a bigotry of your own.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Or perhaps a by-product of my leprosy.

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Or perhaps a by-product of my leprosy.

Hmmm.

Now you showed a good amount of sympathy for people wanting to commit suicide for other reasons.

But I didn't see a similar amount of sympathy for those discovering that the happiness resulting from a SEX change was not all that it was advertised to be. The videos which you said you ...[text shortened]... er suicide instances. Are you sure you're not being deceived by a rosy colored propaganda campaign?

Those who want to drive transgender people into the closet, legislate against us, and stigmatize us, talk about all the time in order further marginalize us. It is literally a matter of life and death.

Transgender people who are rejected by their families or lack social support are much more likely to both consider suicide, and to attempt it....

Transgender people in states without LGBT legal protections are at higher risk of suicide. Other studies have found that transgender people who have been discriminated against are at a higher risk of suicide...

Transgender people who have been physically or sexually abused because they are transgender are at a higher risk of suicide...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has addressed the issue of suicide in LGBT populations, and reached the same conclusions on the actual causes of suicide in the transgender community:

“Suicidal behaviors in LGBT populations appear to be related to “minority stress”, which stems from the cultural and social prejudice attached to minority sexual orientation and gender identity. This stress includes individual experiences of prejudice or discrimination, such as family rejection, harassment, bullying, violence, and victimization.Increasingly recognized as an aspect of minority stress is “institutional discrimination” resulting from laws and public policies that create inequities or omit LGBT people from benefits and protections afforded others. Individual and institutional discrimination have been found to be associated with social isolation, low self-esteem, negative sexual/gender identity, and depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders. These negative outcomes, rather than minority sexual orientation or gender identity per se, appear to be the key risk factors for LGBT suicidal ideation and behavior.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/the-truth-about-transgend_b_8564834.html

@ThinkOfOne

“Suicidal behaviors in LGBT populations appear to be related to “minority stress”, which stems from the cultural and social prejudice attached to minority sexual orientation and gender identity.

This stress includes individual experiences of prejudice or discrimination, such as family rejection, harassment, bullying, violence, and victimization.Increasingly recognized as an aspect of minority stress is “institutional discrimination” resulting from laws and public policies that create inequities or omit LGBT people from benefits and protections afforded others.

Individual and institutional discrimination have been found to be associated with social isolation, low self-esteem,

negative sexual/gender identity, and depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

These negative outcomes, rather than minority sexual orientation or gender identity per se, appear to be the key risk factors for LGBT suicidal ideation and behavior.”

"And you Capernum, who have been exalted to heaven, to Hades you will be brought down. For if the works of power which took place in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained until today.

But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you." (Matt. 11:23,24)

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Or perhaps a by-product of my leprosy.

Hmmm.

Now you showed a good amount of sympathy for people wanting to commit suicide for other reasons.

But I didn't see a similar amount of sympathy for those discovering that the happiness resulting from a SEX change was not all that it was advertised to be. The videos which you said you ...[text shortened]... er suicide instances. Are you sure you're not being deceived by a rosy colored propaganda campaign?

@sonship said
@ThinkOfOne

“Suicidal behaviors in LGBT populations appear to be related to “minority stress”, which stems from the cultural and social prejudice attached to minority sexual orientation and gender identity.

I tell all men and women that the Savior Jesus Christ loves them and as He died for me He also died and rose again for them.

Do you think this is "hate speech" ? I think this is Divine Love speech.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Why is it curious that I have no sympathy for something I never watched.

Do you ever think about what you're typing?

@sonship said
Its more than that. Either the statistics are withheld from you.
Or you know something about it and put it out of your mind.

@sonship said
You could give some thought to the stuff you type here too.

@Suzianne

And has precious little to do with their sexual orientation or gender identity.

@fmf said
What are the statistics for the link between mental health problems and suicide, sonship? Have they been withheld from you?