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GPs believe that mental health issues are over-diagnosed

Iain

The BBC just published an article that says:

'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis

Of the 752 GPs who took part in our research, 442 said they believed that over-diagnosis is a concern. More said mental health problems were over-diagnosed by a little than over-diagnosed by a lot. 81 GPs who responded felt that mental health problems were under-diagnosed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pvxdn9v4o

I believe that around 10% of GPs were approached with the questionnaire although only 2% of GPs responded.

I wonder how much of this will influence the governmnets current policy considerations towards neurodivergent people.

<edit> I'm trying an edit to the original post to see if this will clear the error message that is stopping people seeing the replies<>

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  • Most of us are mentally ill. Most of us it’s hidden disability. Gps should stop handing out MH medications. It would be cheaper for the government to make stop purchasing psychiatric medications and use the money to make everyone eat healthier fresh food and shutdown social media that allows vast amounts of harm. 

    If visual content was removed. Social smearing activity was removed. Nurturing content was increased. Different countries blocked unless they had a special encryption key to access to speak to family or friends and share good information. Reduction in society social content and overwhelmed with good safe reliable health and fitness and safety and education content. Wipe out all the darkness online and the darkness of how people treat each other. 

    Then we would have a Significant reduction in MH. We would be healthier, Safer, less psychologically abused etc.

    All forms of media including BBC etc are creating content that is harm.

    The government knows that sleep, good nutrition, safety, good hygiene, social friendliness etc all make people lives better. 

    instead they create harm.

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  • Most of us are mentally ill. Most of us it’s hidden disability. Gps should stop handing out MH medications. It would be cheaper for the government to make stop purchasing psychiatric medications and use the money to make everyone eat healthier fresh food and shutdown social media that allows vast amounts of harm. 

    If visual content was removed. Social smearing activity was removed. Nurturing content was increased. Different countries blocked unless they had a special encryption key to access to speak to family or friends and share good information. Reduction in society social content and overwhelmed with good safe reliable health and fitness and safety and education content. Wipe out all the darkness online and the darkness of how people treat each other. 

    Then we would have a Significant reduction in MH. We would be healthier, Safer, less psychologically abused etc.

    All forms of media including BBC etc are creating content that is harm.

    The government knows that sleep, good nutrition, safety, good hygiene, social friendliness etc all make people lives better. 

    instead they create harm.

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