Numerous articles suggest that depression is under-diagnosed in primary care.
This psychiatrist says otherwise:
Professor Gordon Parker claims the threshold for clinical depression is too low and risks treating normal emotional states as illness.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he calls depression a “catch-all” diagnosis driven by clever marketing.
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