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View on mental health: overdiagnosis is not the problem facing young people — Editorial

Ministers must do more to tackle rising distress Perhaps the single most important finding of the independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism in England, published last Friday, is that mental distress across the population, and particularly young people, has substantially worsened . Its chair, Prof Peter Fonagy, told the BBC that the former health secretary Wes Streeting had been “completely wrong” to suggest that conditions and disorders were being overdiagnosed. Mr Streeting acknowledged his mistake.

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