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Mental health
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan: 'Do these diagnostic labels help people in the long term? Are they leading to anything lastingly positive? There's a lot of doubt'

'Diagnosis creep' shifts normal behaviors into illnesses, fostering illness identities instead of encouraging recovery, warns Dr. O'Sullivan.
Mental health
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan: 'We are a perfectionist society, we explain away differences or struggles as medical problems'

Diagnosis creep encourages individuals to adopt illness identities rather than focusing on recovery.
Mental health
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan: 'Do these diagnostic labels help people in the long term? Are they leading to anything lastingly positive? There's a lot of doubt'

'Diagnosis creep' shifts normal behaviors into illnesses, fostering illness identities instead of encouraging recovery, warns Dr. O'Sullivan.
Mental health
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan: 'We are a perfectionist society, we explain away differences or struggles as medical problems'

Diagnosis creep encourages individuals to adopt illness identities rather than focusing on recovery.
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