The suicide rate among people with a mental illness is at least seven times higher than the general population. It is one of the main causes of premature death in this group.
SANE further elaborates:Indigenous Australians experience much higher rates of psychological distress than the general population, and lower access to mental health services.
Homosexuality was long recognized as a mental disorder until it became politically incorrect to do so.
LGBTIQA+ people experience very high rates of depression and psychological distress and are the most at-risk group in Australia for suicide.
Mental illness is not more common in rural and remote areas than in cities, but rates of suicide are much higher, services are harder to access and stigma can be higher.
One in seven children aged 4-17 have experienced a mental illness and over a quarter of Australians aged 16-24 are experiencing a mental illness at any given time. Many people who live with mental illness first experience symptoms during adolescence.
You may not agree with the assessment but to reduce it to 'political correctness' is unreasonable, not least of all because 'political correctness' can't be verified in any objective sense.
I have a daughter who has just graduated from a typical 'catholic' girls' school where lesbianism is fashionable, their numbers burgeoning and the players not bullied but encouraged and supported as avant-garde, cool and brave young catholic women.
Burgeoning? As far as I'm aware those who identify as homosexual number somewhere between 10% and 15% and that has remained fairly stable. Do you have statistics that indicate otherwise?
Whereas, my daughter had her last 18 months schooling ruined by being mercilessly bullied for entering the fray on an online students' forum, daring to delicately question the morality of homosexual acts.
Bullying is never justified.
Although this was all very traumatic for her, being a girl of strong character and faith, self-harm or suicide was never even on her radar.
That's good.
This phony nexus between alleged school age homosexual bullying and suicide is just another tactic used by the inclusion/diversity propaganda machine and, my goodness, what amazing success it is having.
I'm not sure on what basis you regard this nexus as 'phony'.
There are all sorts of well-documented and well-researched materials (for example) linking bullying with suicide. Being 'different', including identifying as homosexual, can make a student a target for bullying.
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