Depression and/or Oppression? Bisexuality and Mental Health

Perhaps the most important, and consistent, finding in existing research on bisexuality is the fact that bisexual people are more prone to mental health problems than either heterosexual, or lesbian and gay, people. This article considers bisexual mental health from an individual, and a community, perspective. It asks how we, as individuals, generally understand mental health, and what ideas might be useful in relation to this. It also asks how the bisexual and wider lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer communities that we are located in can relate to the ways in which we engage with mental health.