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Common causes of anxiety: adolescent homosexual experiences COMMON CAUSES OF ANXIETY: ADOLESCENT HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCES
At the present time there is a fashion for frequent reference to the problem of homosexuality in literature, in the theatre, in films and TV. As a result, the idea of homosexuality is brought to the minds of many sensitive young people who would otherwise never have thought of it. They begin to question themselves, and come to worry about it, and they often think back to some experience of their childhood or youth which involved some degree of examination and experimentation with another of the same sex. Such experiences are common in the youth of normal people, and in the vast majority of cases do not lead to any difficulties in later life.
The opposite set of circumstances also occurs. There are of course young men who do have homosexual traits in their personality. But many of them are not aware of any homosexual bias in themselves. These people are often chronically tense. Strangely enough their tension shows itself in different circumstances according to the degree to which their homosexual traits are repressed. They may become very tense in the company of girls of their own age, while with others the nervous tension is more marked with companions of the same sex because of the strange feeling of attraction which they do not understand or of which they may not be aware. However, the reader is warned that many sexually normal, but introvert, young people experience rather similar anxiety which is of no serious import at all.
Of course it is not uncommon for the young person of either sex to become aware that he or she is homosexually inclined, and then to marry in an attempt, as it were, to cure the homosexuality. In these circumstances a married life based on love and tenderness is virtually impossible, and both husband and wife soon develop the symptoms of nervous tension in greater or lesser degree.
This week I saw a tense young woman who was having difficulty in her marriage on account of her tension. She was working as a fully qualified professional psychologist. With a valiant effort to control her distress, she asked, "Am I a Lesbian? I have a girl friend whose company I enjoy very much."
She was greatly relieved when I explained that we all have quite normal homosexual traits hidden within us. It is only when these are grossly exaggerated that the individual is abnormal. If she had not been concerned with psychology, the thought of her being a Lesbian would probably have never occurred to her.
An intelligent young widow, the mother of three children, was desperately lonely for adult companionship. She came to enjoy a close friendship with a woman, who unbeknown to the patient was in fact a Lesbian. The widow enjoyed the friendship, and as a result her general health, mental and physical, improved. Then suddenly the patient realized that the other woman was a Lesbian. She was overwhelmed with the most terrible panic and self-loathing in the belief that she herself must be tainted.
Tranquillizers and logical explanation did nothing to relieve her turmoil; but as she learned to relax physically she came to experience calm of her body in her mind, and over a period of some weeks she regained her equilibrium.
A young university student arrived in great distress. Before coming to the point, he had to justify himself. "The only way to have a full life is to have full experience of life." He was rather a mixed-up youth, and had come to associate with a group of pseudo-sophisticated students who talked a lot about homosexuality. He had decided to put this theory into practice. Quite deliberately he had sought out a homosexual, had accompanied him to his flat, and had had the experience he was seeking. Now he was in a pathetic state of acute anxiety.
The theory of living the full life and of experiencing all we can of life when we are young attracts many students of both sexes. There are, however, two areas where experimentation frequently leads to disastrous results. These are in homosexuality and in taking drugs.
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