LGB people are more likely to get mental health problems

According to a review of NHS data, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more than twice as likely to have a long-term mental health illness than heterosexual people. According to the survey, they are also more prone to smoke and drink heavily. In the 2011–18 Health Survey for England, 2% of respondents identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Rights organizations claim that the data "support well-established health disparities for LGB individuals." 1,132, or 2%, of the adults polled throughout the course of the eight years identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Gender identification and trans status were not questions for participants. However, this is being thought about for follow-up polls. Approximately 16% of LGB respondents, as opposed to 6% of heterosexual people, reported having a long-term mental or behavioral condition. White persons of all sexual orientations had a similar percentage of abstainers, while in ethnic minority groups, LGB people were more likely to drink than heterosexuals. In the pandemic, LGBT youth are "alone and lonely." That are the smokers who still smoke? In comparison to heterosexuals, LGB people also reported worse average mental well-being scores, with LGB women reporting the lowest scores of any category. Additionally, they were more likely to consume more alcohol than what was advised. Compared to a quarter of heterosexual people, one-third of LGB adults consumed more than 14 units of alcohol per week, which "placed them at elevated or higher risk of alcohol-related damage." Smoking was also substantially more prevalent among LGB individuals. Compared to one in six heterosexual women, this includes one in three LGB women. But the likelihood of being overweight was lower. Compared to half of the LGB community, over two-thirds of heterosexual people reported being either overweight or obese.