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Homosexual lifestyle choice leads to depression - Stonewall Study

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More than half of LGBT people have suffered depression in the past year, according to a major new study. A report by LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) charity Stonewall found 52 percent had experienced depression and 61 percent anxiety . Why? The standard rejection argument? Stonewall’s “health report”, a survey of 5,000 LGBT people, found one in eight people aged between 18 and 24 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year. For trans people, it also found 46 percent had thought about taking their own life. Stonewall chief executive Ruth Hunt said the report had uncovered “worryingly high rates of poor mental health experienced by LGBT people in Britain today”. Gospel Health spoke person Lydia Gron, "LGBT leaders who read this study will point to homosexual exclusion barrier, personal rejections etc rather than looking at their own sinful disordered lives. Harsh, maybe, truthful yes. The Netherlands which is very gay-friendly for decades still r