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Is depression over-diagnosed?

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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