80% of psychotropic drugs a given out by primary care doctors, who have no experience in psychiatry, usually in 10 minuets of first visit. Which they shouldn’t. Real diagnosis actually takes lots of time, and multiple visits, to see if someone has an actual disorder. Natural everyday triggers aren’t disorders and usually go away with time, human resilience and support.
Diagnosis being made by schools, and legal court systems that have no experience in psychiatry.
Diagnosis being made to solve social issues, which they shouldn’t do. Classes are overcrowded and kids gets less hands on time with the teachers. So they label kids with a disorder so they can get into special classes that are a lot smaller to give them a learning advantage. Also places with poor social safety nets during a recession usually people get the mental disorder label, that aren’t sick, so they can qualify for social service benefits. Places with strong social safety nets don’t have depression and fake depression skyrocketing. We are trying to solve social issues with the mental health label when we shouldn’t. We are misusing the diagnosis treating social issues as mental health issues.
Pharmaceutical companies advertising drugs directly to the public which deregulation allows them to do. Americans don’t question how weird this is. No other place in the world advertises directly to the public except the U.S. and New Zealand. They convinced people that everyday stresses are disorders and chemical imbalances which is ridiculous. You shouldn’t be recommending medicines to doctors, it should be the other way around. And their primary targets are kids. Get them on drugs young and they’ll probably be customers for life. It’s a billion dollar industry.
These are a couple of reasons on how it’s over diagnosed.
