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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. In Sweden, the Board of Health recommends that all adults with mild to moderately severe depression are offered psychotherapy, but only 1% get it.

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Usage of Depression Pills in Children and Young People Must Stop

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1,2 We have a mental health crisis because the existing approaches that focus on drugs are not working and worsen the outcomes. 3 In the UK, mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and the gap in life expectancy between people with severe mental health issues and the general population has doubled.