LGBT people often struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, and self-acceptance due to the continuous discrimination in the course of their life. Young LGBT people have a risk of three or four times higher than attempt suicide than their peers.
There is evidence of the fact that these higher rates of mental health problems are due to constant exposure and intense of LGBT persons to prejudice and social discrimination, and institutional. There are many similarities between the effects of discrimination and the way in which people react and deal with the stress that is directly related to the injury.