In this video I discuss the book Straight Jacket and my own experience of growing up gay.

Time stamps:
0.16 Shame
3.29 Escape
5.39 Recovery

Straight Jacket-

Research into the experience of LGBT+ indivduals in school-

Just Like Us releases Growing up LGBT+ report on bullying, schools and mental health

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/the_school_report_2017.pdf

Impact of an overactive sympathetic nervous system-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679852/
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00007.2009
https://www.livescience.com/65446-sympathetic-nervous-system.html

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