{"id":177428,"date":"2025-12-06T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177428\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:21:06","slug":"life-being-stressful-is-not-an-illness-gps-on-mental-health-over-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177428\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life being stressful is not an illness&#8217; &#8211; GPs on mental health over-diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, one in five adults in England report having a common mental health condition, like anxiety or depression, according to a survey published by NHS England. Rates are even higher in young people. For 16-24 year olds, it&#8217;s one-in-four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GPs who took part in our research identified 19-34 year olds as the age group who needed the most support with mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One commented that young adults &#8220;seem to be less resilient since Covid&#8221;, suggesting they&#8217;re more concerned with getting a diagnosis than finding coping strategies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But other GPs said the real issue was under-diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People need to be accepted, helped and encouraged to live life,&#8221; one said, while another said services were very reluctant &#8220;to fully assess and diagnose&#8221; patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, one in five adults in England report having a common mental health condition, like anxiety or depression,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-177428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}