How not to be gay
Keys to Recovery from Homosexual Attractions
by: LHM Board
[Note: while we are confident that the following list is accurate, we are conscious that it can be overwhelming. It would be like handing a newborn baby a list of all the things he will have to acquire in the next five years: everything from teaching to turn over, education to walk, becoming potty-trained, learning to talk, revealing hes not a part of his mommy, education how to obey, getting ready to read, going to school. . . like we said, overwhelming! This is the giant picture of how to walk out the target of recovery. Allow us to encourage you to continually ask the Lord, What one thing execute You want me to do next? and then do it.]
1. Accept that its not going to be easy. Change that challenges our known comfort zone is difficult and painful. You are altering not just one isolated habit, but a collection of thoughts and behaviors that have made up your relational pattern for a lifetime. An essential component of recovery is changing the wrong conviction about your identity, that this is me. This will take an unreal amount of effort, but you don’t have to do it in your own strength: the identical power that raised Christ from the
The Lies and Dangers of Actions to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Individuality Change Efforts
We, as national organizations showing millions of licensed medical and mental health care professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to express our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to alter a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We stay firmly together in support of legislative and policy attempts to curtail the unscientific and unsafe practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Infant Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Youngster and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that suc
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Mental health support if you're lesbian, gay, bisexual or gender non-conforming (LGBTQ+)
Mental health problems such as depression or self-harm can affect any of us, but they're more common among people who are lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders and trans (LGBTQ+).
This may be linked to LGBTQ+ people's encounter of discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, bullying, social isolation, or rejection because of their sexuality.
Other things, such as their age, religion, where they live, and their ethnicity can add extra complications to an already difficult situation.
How talking therapy can help
It might not be easy, but getting help with issues you're struggling to deal with on your own is one of the most essential things you can do.
Talking with a therapist who's trained to work with LGBTQ+ people may help with issues such as:
- difficulty accepting your sexual orientation
- coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality
- feeling your body does not reflect your true gender (gender dysphoria)
- transitioning
- low self-esteem
- self-harm
- suicidal thoughts
- depression
- coping with bullying and discrimination
- anger, isolation or rejection from family, friends or your co