Bisexuality - Counseling Issues and medicine Approaches

Forming a bisexual identity helps bisexual people to structure, to make sense of, and to give meaning and definition to their reality. This requires inner strength, self-reliance, confidence, and independence.

As a counsellor we can give our bisexual clients a safe place to express their feelings. In groups they could meet others who are going through similar experiences.

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Common themes are for bisexual clients are

• communal isolation: Feeling isolated and confused, not belonging
• Fear of reactions of house and friends
• Inability to conform to the ethics of whether the gay or straight world
• Struggle to fabricate their own identities to correspond to their own experience
• confusion about their attraction towards people of both sexes
• Questioning their own reality, and wondering 'Is something wrong with me?'
• Lack of graphic role models or society ready to them

Bisexuality - Counseling Issues and medicine Approaches

The central issue is to help the client form their identity. As a counsellor we have the task to accompany them on their crusade and help them find their place in society.

Research into bisexuality, which has tended to be limited, indicates young bisexual people are more prone to thinking condition problems due to the sense of 'not belonging'. Pressure can come from the friends and house of bisexuals to conclude that they are whether gay or straight, based on the perception that they are 'really queer' and not easily bisexual.

A lot of people who are open bisexuals will touch discrimination. As soon as they tell man that they are bisexual the problems begin. If you tell people you are gay or lesbian it is separate but if you say you are bisexual the response tends to be, 'make up your mind and pick one or the other'.

Going through all the material makes is inescapable that there is a relative paucity of study on bisexual identity and counselling issues, as compared to celebrated study in the areas of homosexual identity and counselling issues. There is a growing literature that describes bisexuality as a wholesome and flexible sexual orientation. But there is still a long way to go until bisexuality will be seen as an own sexual identity.

Bisexuality - Counseling Issues and medicine Approaches