Depression is over-diagnosed and over-treated, says top psychiatrist: Newstarget.com

Leading mental health researcher Gordon Parker says that psychiatrists are too quick to diagnose and treat people for depression. Parker made his claims in an article in the British Medical Journal. Criticizing the current diagnosis guidelines as overly broad, Parker says that the term has now become a "catch-all" for a variety of normal emotional conditions.

"Over the last 30 years, the formal definitions for defining clinical depression have expanded into territory of normal depression, and the real risk is that the milder, more common experiences risk being pathologized," Parker writes.

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