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by Fred Penzel, PhD
This article was initially published in the Winter edition of the OCD Newsletter.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing severe and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to suspect even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A study published in the Journal of Sex Research found that among a group of college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. ). In order to have doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer need not ever contain had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual exposure at all. I hold observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., , set up that approximately 4% of children with OCD encounter obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s own sexual identity might seem pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most clear form is where a sufferer experiences the reflection that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the sufferer is heterosexual
FROM THE LINCOLN JOURNAL Luminary By Bobby Caina Calvan
February 21,
Brandon Stabler remembers the taunts he heard as a boy growing up in Walthill, a village of about homes in the middle of Indian Country on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River.
All those names he was called. All those slurs are now a blur of hateful and hurtful words. Stabler, a member of the Omaha tribe, recalls feeling unwelcomed by a customs that never returned his embrace.
When he was 21, he packed what clothes he could in a green duffle bag and hitched a ride with a friend to Florida. He found himself sleeping on the sand, he said, on South Beach, with just $20 in his pockets and a resolve to leave Nebraska behind.
&#;All my life, I was told that entity gay was wrong, especially at the reservation,&#; said Stabler, now It wasn&#;t always that direct, but &#;I felt like nobody liked gay people.&#;
But there was a different second, when gays and lesbians were not only acknowledged in Native communities but, in some cases, revered because they embodied the &#;two spirits:&#; male and female.
The Omaha called two-spirited tribal members &#;mexoga.&#; The Lakota called them &#;winkte.&#; And the Navajo used t
March 02,
The Epidemic of
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes
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I used to get so eager when the meth was all gone.
This is my friend Jeremy.
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Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won&#x;t tell me the identical circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.
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