How much stress has questioning your sexuality brought you?

"A LOT." Questioning has been rough on me. Acceptance is difficult, too, but I feel like I've climbed the biggest mountain and while I still have some rough terrain ahead it seems less insurmountable than it once did. When I first started questioning I was depressed, anxious, having panic attacks. I was a wreck and it effected my day to day life immensely. Over the last months I've started to calm some. I still have difficult periods, get into ruts and negativity, but I'm doing far better than I was at the start of all this.

 

I answered a lot but I didn't compare my stress level to what I imagine other people's levels to be. I don't stress hard or let stuff get to me much, but my gender/sexuality is something that I might lose a night or 2 of sleep over every once in a while.

Day to day, I don't stress. How it's affected me mentally and physically, also isn't much. Anytime that I have gotten depressed or had anxiety or depression, sexuality and gender have been a part of a whole that I'm stressing over. I don't think I obsess very much.

 

It gave me a lot of stress for a pretty long time. Not constantly, but it came in waves.

 

I NEVER questioned my sexuality...So, no stress at all...

 

Not much stress in my sexuality because my sexual attractions are what they are.

HOWEVER, I've been brought a great deal of stress over my gender.

 

My sexuality is confusing as hell. It has brought me stress in the past.

 

Questioning? None at all.
What little stress I have to deal with is mostly related to having to tell my parents. But my sexuality itself is not a cause of stress for me.

 

stress has caused me some personal problems like
accepting who I am
I lost a good job as a builders laborer just stooped turning up for work.
Stayed in bed bed feeling sorry for myself ,
let bills get on top of me ,
no support from my family ( am to stubborn)
did something really stupid .

 

My sexuality, not really at all. Gender is a whole other story though.

 

When I first came to terms with being gay I would have answered no cuz I was totally co with it. As time goes on its getting harder because the more I think about it the less sure I am about what exactly I am. I dont get stressed by knowing I'm gay, but j get super stressed on the days when I feel like I don't know anything.

 

A lot.

 

I never really questioned, but at one point I did stress about it quite a lot. I think that's why I fucked up one year of university and had to redo most of that year.

 

I chose "A LITTLE".

I don't recall ever being ridiculously stressed about my sexuality, but it isn't something I can be directly open with, for a variety of reasons. Most of which involve making things more difficult than they need to be; and I have enough issues, elsewhere, to deal with first.

And to copy & paste from somewhere else, something I've said:

Now gender...

 

I chose "A Fair amount"

I chose this because I was never stressed out because I hugely belief that I was asexual. But Summer last year my mind decided to stop repressing my sexuality and admit it to myself. After that, I had trouble sleeping and also I was very stressed out. After I came out, everything goes back to normal.

 

I haven't come out to any one so I'm always nervous. I feel like I'm going to get caught and then accused. When talking to my mom, I'm always thinking about coming out and get anxious. I'm terrified of confrontation in a way I've never experienced. And self doubt. In my head I'm constantly reconsidering my feelings and hiding my interests. I feel like I'm push my thoughts in an unnatural direction and suppressing what I really feel.

 

I'm pretty sure I'm homeless if my parents find out but lately I've been dropping a FEW hints.

 

Not a lot yet. Maybe because no one seems to expect me to reveal it yet. It doesn't matter that I've never had a girlfriend or that I don't talk about sexual things...maybe when the pressure starts, it might cause some more stress. Also I guess I just don't think about it that much. Maybe I should, but I don't. It doesn't really affect my day-to-day life that much. That's part of the reason why I wasn't even sure I'd join an LGBT site to begin with.

 

Couldn't care less about being uncertain about sexuality, but gender brings me much stress and I wish I would just know already.

 

A fair amount I suppose.

Came out as a lesbian, went through some gender confusion and didn't feel like a woman more than half the time so "lesbian" was no longer a valid orientation for me. Weird this sexual orientation also gives you a gender orientation as well.

I also realized how much I LOVE transmen, and non-binary people in general.
Still don't like cis-men in a sexual sense. So since I really like transmen, even sexually, lesbian is definitely not my orientation as I thought it was when I first came out.
I more or less came to terms with my sexuality has fluctuated so much to where I really shouldn't give a crap about labels because you can't fit most people in a box anyway.