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Welcome to QueerMentalHealth.org! We are a community-based support and resource site for queer people with mental health issues. We welcome anybody including (but by no means limited to) people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, intersexed, queer, questioning, and allies as well.

Writers Wanted!

We are always looking for new writers! If you want a safe space to write about your mental health issues, you have come to the right place. You are welcome to join the Queer Mental Health Writers' Team. You may be credited or anonymous, with names or details modified to protect your privacy, and the privacy of others mentioned in your work. Check out the details at http://queermentalhealth.org/write/



Doing Things in Threes

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to destroy.—Henri de Lubac I’m so tired, I thought.  If I just lay here, I’ll forget about it and fall asleep eventually…  Won’t I? Yeah.  Of course.  Right? I’d been having this conversation with myself for at least thirty minutes, and no matter how hard I tried to […]

Rolling out our information library

Hey everyone! I’m now setting up categories for our information library. If you look at the menu, you will now see a new option – Info – which can be found to the right of About. In here there are several sub menus where you will, in time, be able to find blog posts related […]

Ahoy mateys!

Ok, this is sort of an unofficial launch of QueerMentalHealth.org? What you need to know at this point: The site is still under construction. You may occasionally notice changes to the site being made, or pages that don’t load properly. We are developing on a live site. Why did we choose to do this, rather […]

From Darkness To Daylight

It’s the little things that bring meaning to life. I will never forget that morning. I didn’t want to open my eyes. I couldn’t believe I lived through that. What happened? Why did I chicken out? It felt like there was nothing left of me.… It was just before 9 a.m. I decided to pick […]

Demons and Other Monsters

I’ve always known that monsters were real.  When I was five years old I asked my father to tell me a scary story, so he told me about the first house he lived in alone, down the road from his parent’s farm in Springport County, Indiana.   Daddy heard a “clip-clop clip-clop” on the tin […]

gay with ocd…does that mean you’re fabulously organized?

So, in reading some comments on an earlier blog (which, forgive me, I did not even know existed for a few weeks after they were posted), I noticed someone had asked me to talk about being gay with OCD…That was in February. I’ve been pondering the connection in my life and if there even is […]