Emma Rebecca Wallace
@errwallace.bsky.social
Research Fellow | University of Birmingham, Institute for Mental Health | Social Psychologist | Board Trustee The Rainbow Project 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| Belfast
🔚 Bottom line:
LGBTQA+ students face significantly higher risks for mental health disorders and suicidality.
Prevention starts with inclusion, safety, and support — at home and on campus.
Read the full study here 👉 doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#MentalHealthMatters
LGBTQA+ students face significantly higher risks for mental health disorders and suicidality.
Prevention starts with inclusion, safety, and support — at home and on campus.
Read the full study here 👉 doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#MentalHealthMatters
Mental health disorders, childhood adversities, and recent stressors as risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidality among LGBTQA + higher education students - BMC Public Health
Background Prevalence rates of mental health disorders, non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Asexual (LGBTQA+) higher education students are co...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🔚 Bottom line:
LGBTQA+ students face significantly higher risks for mental health disorders and suicidality.
Prevention starts with inclusion, safety, and support — at home and on campus.
Read the full study here 👉 doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#MentalHealthMatters
LGBTQA+ students face significantly higher risks for mental health disorders and suicidality.
Prevention starts with inclusion, safety, and support — at home and on campus.
Read the full study here 👉 doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#MentalHealthMatters
🏫 Educational settings can play a key role in harm reduction
The study calls for:
✅ Inclusive policies
✅ Trauma-informed mental health support
✅ Anti-bullying interventions
✅ Early screening & support
The study calls for:
✅ Inclusive policies
✅ Trauma-informed mental health support
✅ Anti-bullying interventions
✅ Early screening & support
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏫 Educational settings can play a key role in harm reduction
The study calls for:
✅ Inclusive policies
✅ Trauma-informed mental health support
✅ Anti-bullying interventions
✅ Early screening & support
The study calls for:
✅ Inclusive policies
✅ Trauma-informed mental health support
✅ Anti-bullying interventions
✅ Early screening & support
📌 What predicts suicide attempts in LGBTQA+ students?
According to multivariate analysis:
Childhood trauma
Recent bullying
Self-harm
are all major risk factors — even more than depression or PTSD alone.
According to multivariate analysis:
Childhood trauma
Recent bullying
Self-harm
are all major risk factors — even more than depression or PTSD alone.
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📌 What predicts suicide attempts in LGBTQA+ students?
According to multivariate analysis:
Childhood trauma
Recent bullying
Self-harm
are all major risk factors — even more than depression or PTSD alone.
According to multivariate analysis:
Childhood trauma
Recent bullying
Self-harm
are all major risk factors — even more than depression or PTSD alone.
⚠️ Critically, LGBTQA+ students began experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts around age 12–13, earlier than heterosexual peers
This underlines the imperative for early intervention
This underlines the imperative for early intervention
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
⚠️ Critically, LGBTQA+ students began experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts around age 12–13, earlier than heterosexual peers
This underlines the imperative for early intervention
This underlines the imperative for early intervention
🏠 Childhood adversities were strikingly common:
Physical abuse (6.3% vs 1.6%)
Emotional abuse (11.7% vs 2.6%)
Parental mental illness (11.1% vs 5.7%)
LGBTQA+ students were also less likely to feel emotionally close to family
Physical abuse (6.3% vs 1.6%)
Emotional abuse (11.7% vs 2.6%)
Parental mental illness (11.1% vs 5.7%)
LGBTQA+ students were also less likely to feel emotionally close to family
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏠 Childhood adversities were strikingly common:
Physical abuse (6.3% vs 1.6%)
Emotional abuse (11.7% vs 2.6%)
Parental mental illness (11.1% vs 5.7%)
LGBTQA+ students were also less likely to feel emotionally close to family
Physical abuse (6.3% vs 1.6%)
Emotional abuse (11.7% vs 2.6%)
Parental mental illness (11.1% vs 5.7%)
LGBTQA+ students were also less likely to feel emotionally close to family
🧠 51% of LGBTQA+ students had experienced probable PTSD
⚠️ 46.6% reported lifetime suicidal ideation
💔 14.2% had attempted suicide in their lifetime
These rates are significantly higher than for heterosexual students of the same age
⚠️ 46.6% reported lifetime suicidal ideation
💔 14.2% had attempted suicide in their lifetime
These rates are significantly higher than for heterosexual students of the same age
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🧠 51% of LGBTQA+ students had experienced probable PTSD
⚠️ 46.6% reported lifetime suicidal ideation
💔 14.2% had attempted suicide in their lifetime
These rates are significantly higher than for heterosexual students of the same age
⚠️ 46.6% reported lifetime suicidal ideation
💔 14.2% had attempted suicide in their lifetime
These rates are significantly higher than for heterosexual students of the same age
📊 Key findings:
LGBTQA+ students were:
2x more likely to experience depression
2x more likely to engage in self-harm
3x more likely to have made a suicide plan
compared to heterosexual peers
LGBTQA+ students were:
2x more likely to experience depression
2x more likely to engage in self-harm
3x more likely to have made a suicide plan
compared to heterosexual peers
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📊 Key findings:
LGBTQA+ students were:
2x more likely to experience depression
2x more likely to engage in self-harm
3x more likely to have made a suicide plan
compared to heterosexual peers
LGBTQA+ students were:
2x more likely to experience depression
2x more likely to engage in self-harm
3x more likely to have made a suicide plan
compared to heterosexual peers
Hi Willem, I’ve just dropped you an email about this and whether the post is flexible with hybrid/remote working. Very interested!
May 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi Willem, I’ve just dropped you an email about this and whether the post is flexible with hybrid/remote working. Very interested!
Reposted by Emma Rebecca Wallace
Practical things you can do as a Cis ally:
- Write to your MP
- Protest
- Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups
- Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.
- Write to your MP
- Protest
- Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups
- Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.
April 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Practical things you can do as a Cis ally:
- Write to your MP
- Protest
- Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups
- Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.
- Write to your MP
- Protest
- Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups
- Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.
Thanks to my wonderful supervisors and co-authors @profsiobhanon.bsky.social and @susanlagdon.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thanks to my wonderful supervisors and co-authors @profsiobhanon.bsky.social and @susanlagdon.bsky.social
Ah thank you. Best of luck with your ethics assignment!
March 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Ah thank you. Best of luck with your ethics assignment!