{"id":301344,"date":"2025-12-06T00:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:56:04","slug":"life-being-stressful-is-not-an-illness-gps-on-mental-health-over-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301344\/","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":301345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}