Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health (2019)

I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of British society’s attitude towards mental health. Attitudes to mental illness 50 years ago were undoubtedly crude and prejudicial, and many patients with treatable problems were denied help that would have transformed their lives because they stayed silent. One of the things that is most protective to mental health is not to spend too much of our lives consciously obsessing about it.

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