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GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL and transgender teenagers are twice as likely to self-harm and three times more likely to attempt suicide, the results of a new survey show.
The results also show that over half of LGBT teenagers surveyed aged 14 to 18 had self-harmed and a third had attempted suicide.
In contrast to this, the report also found that the majority of LGBT people over the age of 26 reported high levels of self-esteem and said that they were proud of their LGBT identity.
The survey forms part of the LGBTIreland Report commissioned by gay rights and support groups GLEN and BelongTo, and funded by the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention.
It gathered data from 2,264 LGBT people – with 53% of those surveyed over 26 and 47% aged between 18 and 25.
The report will be launched this morning by former president of Ireland, Dr Mary McAleese.
“This scholarly report is as essential and revealing as it is horrifying,” said McAleese.
The ongoing damage is undeniable. That it involves so many young people is tragic. That it is soluble is the good news.
Bullying
The report points to bullying at school, fear of rejection and discrimination, harassment and violence as reasons for stress, anxiety and depression in LGBT people.
“Some of the findings of The LGBTIreland Report are harrowing, showing higher levels of self-harm and suicidal behaviour among LGBTI teenagers as well as worrying levels of severe and extremely severe stress, anxiety and depression,” said Odhrán Allen, director of mental health at GLEN.
Being LGBTI in itself doesn’t increase the risk of poor mental health.
It’s the experience of being bullied, being rejected or being harassed because you are LGBTI that leads to higher levels of self-harm and attempted suicide.”
Key findings of the survey include:
The key findings of the survey can be viewed here.
The national LGBT helpline can be reached at 1890 929 539
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Imagine the d*ckheads that would live in this town? Beards, retro dark rimmed glasses, cycling around on mini scooters eating tofu with pet hamsters in baskets
@Fergus Sheahan: What difference does it make to you how others want to live?
@Kal Ipers: what difference does it make to you how I think others should want to live?
@Fergus Sheahan: Answering a question with a question isn’t an answer. Simply any aggression towards anybody else because they aren’t like you is pretty pathetic.
@Kal Ipers: The irony…
@Kal Ipers: but you answered my original question with a question..are you pretty pathetic? Is it ok that i asked another question??
@Fergus Sheahan: Adding a question mark doesn’t make it magically a question. The same way people don’t understand irony. Note you still haven’t answered
What type of hamster does he have ?
@Nigel Sheehan: is that a question because there’s a massive claim on this thread that question marks don’t mean questions? (This is a question)
@Nigel Sheehan: I was wondering what kind of basket could fit a hamster and a hipster and still leave room for a serving of tofu
@Fergus Sheahan: you’re the one that forced your narrow view on the rest of us. But you object to us now questioning it.
@Chris Linehan: There is no massive claim that question marks don’t mean a question. There is simply the point that adding a question mark doesn’t mean the preceding sentence is a question.
@Kal Ipers: it’s nearly lunchtime why don’t you have an ironic jam sandwich, de fog your retro glasses and take your hamster Earl for a trip on your scooter
@Fergus Sheahan: you mean Sth William Street!
@Fergus Sheahan: Tofu and hamster sounds wonderful, with or without Mayo lol.
This honestly just sounds abhorrent. Let’s hope it never happens. The book 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual.
@AdijazzJohnson: You do know this is not new and was in place well before the book was ever written? Companies have done this all over the world. Bournville being an noticible example.
@Kal Ipers: Globex done it too.
@AdijazzJohnson: ” and I sold my soul to the company store”
And Guinness
Imagine the amount of the graffiti in that town, with everyone writing on each other’s walls.
@Scundered: Full on poking in the cafe queue.
@Scundered: Peeing on them anyway lol.
Welcome to the Globex Corporation. Wonder will they have a hammock district?
@David Mitchell:
Scorpio!
He’ll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth.
Beware of Scorpio!
His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world.
And his employees’ health.
He’ll welcome you into his lair.
Like the nobleman welcomes his guest.
With free dental care and a stock plan that helps you invest!
Plus three weeks paid vacation each yearAnd on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!
He loves German beer!
@Joe Bloggs: You know, there’s a little place called Mary Ann’s Hammocks. The nice thing about that place is Mary Ann gets in the hammock with you.
The cult of Zuckerburg gathers pace…
@Carlos Bandanas: I’ll wait until he starts to build the space ship to take us all to the new world …. Faceworld!
Very good idea. If we had any imagination we would allow Facebook to build their own town on a rail line somewhere in the Greater Dublin area, maybe in Kildare or North County Dublin. Would be a massive help to the cost of rent in the city centre.
@Fred Jensen: Nothing new in this idea. Cadbury built a whole town for their employees.
Rail companies, Guinness, and others built houses for employees.
Great idea. Facebook could build houses for their employees in the docklands area.
@Fred Jensen: Build Facebook city, high walls around it – then put all Facebook freaks inside and close the gates !!
Coughcoughcoughblackmirrorcoughcoughcough
@dampsquid: think you should see a doctor bout that fierce bad cough
I would hope that most people would have a life outside of work that has nothing to do with their jobs, and hopefully they would not turn into the company zombies or work slaves that Facebook or ucd (see previous sponsored article) seem to want them to do!
15% below market price . Which should be around 1 million mark, real affordable for someone working at Facebook
@marty johnbann: Facebook heading into the mortgage market. Your wages this week was $1,000. Less tax, $600. Less facebook mortgage. That’s $200. Mr Murphy, you’re fired, and now homeless too!
Faceworld.
Nothing new about this to be fair. There are neighbourhoods & towns all over the world that were built specifically for employees of factories.
@Michael O’Toole: Disney?
Anyone watch the Circle? Cause this is sounding like its going in the same direction with the whole live on campus business…
@Siobhan McKenna: Emma Watson proving she can’t act and a terrible ham fisted script. Picking one very small similarity doesn’t make them the same
Would I be barred from the town if I didn’t sign up for facebook ?
Big deal ,nothing new about this idea .
It’ll end up like this place…
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Cypress_Creek
I’d love to visit the hammock district :P
@marty: the place where they turn the homeless people into post boxes.
Why does this remind of the film Idiocracy?
@SteveW: Because you didn’t understand the film
Jim Jones tried the same thing. Didn’t work.
Sound very scary kind of like “Stepford wives “job meet “the Village ” creepy to say the least
Should just buy a country, Greece or some basket case
When you go into the corner shop, it’ll suggest the things you had 4 years ago and expect you to swallow it all over again.
I’ve seen the film, it was called Moonraker?
Called Stepfordville…
Fakenewsville?
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