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Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head

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Speaking on BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, expressed concerns that some mental health conditions were overdiagnosed. The Conversation asked two experts to comment on Streeting’s claim. Is the health secretary right? Mental distress is under-diagnosed – but over-medicalised Susan McPherson, Professor in Psychology and Sociology, University of Essex A year ago, the UK’s then prime minister, the Cons…

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Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head

Speaking on BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, expressed concerns that some mental health conditions were overdiagnosed. The Conversation asked two experts to comment on Streeting’s claim. Is the health secretary right? Mental distress is under-diagnosed – but over-medicalised Susan McPherson, Professor in Psychology and Sociology, University of Essex A year ago, the UK’s then prime minister, the Cons…

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Image Source: Getty | Photo Illustration: Keila Gonzalez Content warning: This post contains mentions of an eating disorder. It was 23 March, 2020. We sat on our sofas, in our millions, as Boris Johnson finally declared that the UK was going into its first lockdown to try to stop the spread of what we then broadly knew as 'coronavirus'. As key workers battled on, the rest of us were destined to stay at home and watch as the casualties climbed – …

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