Q&A: Do You Think Depression Is Overdiagnosed?
Question by Ted: Do you think depression is overdiagnosed?
It seems that the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex in recent years has begun this campaign to label understandable, but painful emotional responses to life’s stressors a disease that can be cured by popping a pill and increasing the bottom line for Eli Lilly and Dr. How-Does-That-Make-You-Feel. Isn’t it normal to be bummed out by a crummy existence in a cubicle in Corporate America? How do drugs solve that problem?
I’m not trying to belittle people with severe depression, I just think our threshold for diagnosing “Major Depression” has crept downward in this decade due to the increasing influence of Big Pharma. Some people certainly do benefit from antidepressants, but psychiatrists really do push them onto too many people with simply life problems.
Best answer:
Answer by nickipettis
i do not think it is over-diagnosed by professionals, but i know lots of people who have self-diagnosed, and most of them are wrong. so in that since, i feel many people who self-diagnose are over-diagnosing clinical depression.
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