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Reader’s Comment of the Day: Anxiety is not the same as depression

February 27, 2016

In response to Louise Kirk: We should listen to this judge. Marriage means happiness, Woman at home wrote:

The figures being bandied about are based on massive overdiagnosis.

Nowadays, when teenagers and students present to their schools/colleges with stress and anxiety (a normal feature of adolescence), instead of reassuring them, their tutors suggest they may have depression.

Cue more worries. Cue medication. Cue reliance on medication. A very vicious circle.

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