Mental health: a case of overdiagnosis?

Sadness, anger, confusion, infatuation, lack of interest in sex, elation – these have all been normal human emotions since the dawn of time, said Dr Alistair Santhouse in The Mail on Sunday. But I've noticed in my work as a psychiatrist that people are increasingly prone to interpret these and other extreme feelings as evidence of some underlying disorder or syndrome.

In a survey by the National Union of Students a few years back, an astonishing 78% of students claimed to have had a mental health problem in the previous year.