Frith challenges some of the ideas that have crept in over time.
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Frith challenges some of the ideas that have crept in over time.
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Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
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The US government is murdering its own citizens. I will not share the disturbing videos that are circulating, but there can be no other account.
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This is no longer about priority-setting; it is a failure to meet a basic standard of public health investment.
What infuriates me is that there has long been strong evidence of LGB+ health inequities, now reinforced by new population-level data, yet research funding bodies have not invested at a routine or proportionate level in LGB+ health research, as far as I have observed.
-Among people aged 16–24 who died, suicide accounted for a much larger proportion of deaths in LGB+ people (around 45% of all deaths, compared with about 27% in heterosexual people).
- Deaths from any cause were about 30% higher in LGB+ people.
- Alcohol-related deaths occurred at almost twice the rate.
- Drug-poisoning deaths occurred at nearly three times the rate.
A major new ONS analysis linking Census 2021 to death records (2021–2024) shows that LGB+ people in England and Wales have higher mortality than heterosexual people.
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This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
PHQ-9, GAD-7, and PSS are discrete integer scales. Post-treatment SDs of ≈0.5–0.8 suggest that most people in intervention group ended up with the same or nearly the same total score — strikingly little between-person variation, both in a single summed score & across multi-item symptom measures! 😬
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The potential overturning of conversion therapy bans highlights something wider: therapy isn’t “anything goes.”
We don’t just say or practise whatever we think or believe — our work is guided by evidence, ethics, and professional standards.
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We’re looking for LGBQ individuals who’ve had NHS therapy (in the past year) to share experiences of topics that felt hard to discuss. I’m supervising this project — see the poster in Millie’s post for details. #LGBTQ #Mentalhealth #Psychotherapy #NHS
LGBT+ Health Evidence Review - NHS England
The evidence submission process will close on Sunday, 7 September 2025. #LGBT #NHS
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LGBTQ+ in clinical psychology training in the UK: The sound of silence
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This is the 2017 study
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Another study we did using data from a German clinic
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After the many rejections of both manuscripts, which I did not experience before, I decided to move away from LGB-related research.
But our study, and international studies, suggest (good) psychotherapy may buffer these types of external stresses and help narrow disparities in clinical outcomes.
There’s likely regional variation in environmental stigma and community support — so it’s a natural hypothesis that these factors affect outcomes.
We really need updated national analyses to see whether those estimates have shifted — especially given improvements in data collection and social attitudes over time.
For gay men, national evidence already points to broadly equivalent outcomes. The real unknowns are bisexual people and lesbian women: an older national IAPT study suggested poorer results, but it had missing data and is nearly a decade old.
At the end of the paper, I suggest that rural areas or regions with smaller LGB populations would be a valuable focus for future research — to explore how local social and structural factors may shape therapy outcomes.
Thanks for the repost, André — and great question! Because our data come from urban London services, I’m careful not to overgeneralise.
UK study: LGB patients benefit as well from psychotherapy as heterosexual pts.
We did a similar study in 2017, it was very hard to get it published, maybe bc results didn't fit the narrative. Don't get me wrong, homophobia is real, also in healthcare. We need to get rid of biases in research, too
@thementalelf.bsky.social Would really appreciate a RT to help the findings reach a broader audience if possible. Thank you!
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🙏 Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors at @uclpals.bsky.social & @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social
Thanks also to the NHS Talking Therapies patients whose care journeys made this study possible, the clinicians who provided that care, & the LGB service users & therapists we consulted.
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🗣️ We consulted LGB service users and therapists to help interpret the findings.
They spoke of openness toward therapy and strong motivation to engage.
Many saw it as a rare space to feel safe, understood, and supported — which may help explain these outcomes, despite high distress levels.
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📊 Bisexual men were less likely to drop out than heterosexual men (26.6% vs 29.7%).
Bisexual women also dropped out less often than heterosexual women (24.2% vs 26.8%).
Lesbian and bisexual women attended more sessions — but the difference was negligible (≈1 extra per 100 patients).
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📈 Gay men showed slightly greater reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms.
These differences are unlikely to be noticeable for most individuals — but at group level, recovery was higher (54.0% vs 47.5%) and dropout lower (25.5% vs 29.7%) than for heterosexual men.
