All posts tagged "mental health"
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New study examines the differences between gay and straight suicides
Gay people are more likely to experience mental health problems, depressed moods, and intimate partner problems
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Study: Transgender veterans are as healthy as their cisgender peers
A new study finds the mental and physical health of transgender veterans is similar to the health of cisgender veterans, adding more evidence to support...
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National child welfare and mental health organizations back conversion therapy bans
A coalition of child welfare, educational, and mental health organizations has come out strongly opposing conversion therapy and supporting attempts by states to ban it. ...
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API Queer Support Group to tackle mental health
The DC Center's new API Queer Support Group hopes to start conversations around mental health and other taboo topics
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One in four gay DC teens have attempted suicide. This has to stop.
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey reveals alarming details about DC's LGB youth
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Survey shows significant disparities exist between transgender people and overall population
The results of a recently released national survey of transgender people show that transgender individuals lag behind their American counterparts for nearly every economic, health...
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Earline Budd steps back in to fill a void in transgender community
New nonprofit hopes to provide much needed services
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Arkansas allows counselors to refuse to treat LGBT clients
Lawmakers allow counselors to opt-out of treating patients over “religious principles”
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Counseling Crisis
Mental health professionals balk at Tennessee bill allowing therapists and counselors to reject LGBT clients
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Lambda Center Cuts
Three and a half years ago, amid a period of fiscal turmoil at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, the alcohol- and drug-treatment efforts of the Lambda Center...
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Body and Soul
Things would be much easier if that proverbial apple a day really did keep the doctor away. But getting and staying healthy is, of course,...
