Wes Streeting thinks mental health conditions are over diagnosed
Wes Streeting thinks mental health conditions are over diagnosed
Mental health charity Mind warns it is important to be "extremely careful" with language around diagnoses.
Wes Streeting Thinks Mental Health is Over Diagnosed.
Who’s gonna tell him ?
And all doctors should listen to a history graduate because?
Historically they were undiagnosed seems to be the best advice he can offer. Or is it the usual political solution. Deny anything you don't like exists.
Wes Streeting can fuck right off
When asked if he agreed with experts that warn of an overdiagnosis of mental health conditions, Streeting said he wanted to "follow the evidence and I agree with that point about overdiagnosis" (my emphasis).
Is this really an unreasonable exchange of views? Shall we perhaps hold off on the outrage till we've read the whole article? Or even the whole of the sentence in question?
It would require a level of naivety that most lack.
Very carefully worded question that avoids any mention of who specifically the "experts" in question are, or what study exactly came to these conclusions.
There are "experts" that claim the world is flat, and "experts" that claim vaccines cause all sorts of problems worse than the diseases they prevent.
One can always dig up an expert that agrees with whatever bullshit you wish to peddle.
I'd bet folding money that the "expert opinion" referred to is in fact, in the report by the IFS they mention above in the article rather than any medical study examining the subject.
Wes Streetin always struck me as an odd choice for a ministerial position. He generally just seems to go out of his way to put his foot in his mouth.
Because he thinks speaking confidently about something is the same as actually knowing what hes talking about.
He also has a massive throbber for the private sector, which compromises his stance on things.
So this is why Suzanne O’Sullivan is getting so much media attention?
(For context she’s one of those celebrity doctors who has very unscientific opinions and she basically thinks most of mental health is an “excuse” for weird/lazy/unproductive people.)
Anyways she’s getting loads of media attention these days, right around the time Wes Streeting’s government is trying to cut disability insurance.
It's pretty clear he's only interested in this as a way to further the party's current austerity programme.
Let the actual experts figure out if there's an over diagnosis problem and sort it out through the proper consensus forming channels rather than having politicians cherry pick the expert who most aligns with their view.
If you're going to do benefits cuts against people who are mentally ill specifically, just do that rather than trying to get mental ill health massaged out of the statistics so that you can launder your reputation.
I think billionaires should be ground in to fertiliser for botanical gardens flower beds.
What a stupid thing to say in an interview. Labour need to get their shit together comms-wise.
Humanpenguin thinks politicians rectal cranium insertion is under diagnosed.