Primary Care · United Kingdom
'Life being stressful is not an illness' — GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs across England tell the BBC they believe mental health problems are being over-diagnosed.
The BBC's survey of GPs across England finds a substantial share who believe ordinary stress and life difficulty are being formally diagnosed as mental illness, with implications for both individual patients and NHS capacity.
The piece is balanced — it features GPs on both sides of the debate, and patient voices who say a diagnosis was the thing that finally got them care.
Read the BBC's full report for the data and the range of clinician views.
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