#psychiatrists #psychiatry #overmedicalization #medicalization

Original post on c.im

🧵 1/2

I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.

The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.

Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct […]