Gay communities experience depression, anxiety, and ADHD at 2 to 4 times the rate of straight ones. The speaker argues that PMP culture appeals to people struggling with these conditions because it offers belonging when they feel like outsiders.
And one of the things in that report is about how mental health disparities within gay communities are way higher than straight communities. I think it was somewhere, something like 2 to 4 times more likely to have some kind of mental health issue. So, and that a lot of that is depression. A lot of that is anxiety, a lot of, you know, ADHD, all of these things, right? Contribute to, um, This, this, again, this feeling of not fitting in, wanting, and it's why, you know, the PMP culture can be so, what I wanna say, attractive, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
