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Mental Bisexuals
Published 5th Dec 2011
In a new psychological study (Lindley et al, 2011), it has been found that women who identify themselves as bisexual are more depressed than lesbians or ‘straight’ women; also they are more likely to suffer from stress and to binge drink. This holds for their male (bisexual) counterparts who experience this depression, although not as intensely as females.
There could be many explanations for these results; one suggestion is that there is a stigma surrounding bisexual people. They are more commonly told ‘it is just a phase’ or ‘you are being greedy by not choosing’. This prejudice comes from both those with a ‘straight’ and a gay orientation.
More research is now needed to discover whether this stigma is one of the main causal factors of female depression, which is what Lindley is now planning for her next study involving focus groups with bisexual women.
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