Symposium: Are We over-Diagnosing Mental Health Conditions?

Symposium: Are we over-diagnosing mental health conditions?

Britain is in the grip of a mental health reckoning. Once taboo, the language of anxiety, depression, trauma and neurodivergence is now part of everyday conversation. Public campaigns have encouraged us to speak openly about mental well-being. But as awareness has surged, so too has  a thornier question: are we diagnosing too much, too readily? In March, Health Secretary Wes Streeting argued that we are. “Not every feeling of sadness is depressi…

Disorder or distress? The hermeneutical injustices of overdiagnosis within psychiatry

Epistemic injustices within diagnostic practices in health care have increasingly been the object of research in recent years. However, most accounts focus

Are we diagnosing the human condition?

As grief, anxiety, and everyday struggles are increasingly pathologised, are we losing sight of what it means to be human? By Jo Skinner