Bisexual people can struggle with a number of complicated issues:
- Living with secrets
- Coming out to family, friends, community, and in the workplace
- Heterosexism, homophobia, discrimination, and acceptance
- Feeling misunderstood or invalidated within the gay and lesbian community
- Dating and negotiating relationships
- Negotiating safer sex and sexual health
- Experiencing validation
- Connecting with competent healthcare providers
Misunderstanding, discrimination, and marginalization are common experiences for bisexual people. Psychotherapy is an effective tool to explore feelings arising from living in a culture that censures straying from rigid binary sexual models.