Problem
Fashionable mental disorders
Other Names:
Overdiagnosis of ill-defined psychological problemsExcessive publicity for mental syndromes
Nature:
A particular mental disorder can become fashionable, often shortly after it has been publicly labelled for the first time, or after a public figure admits to suffering from it. Patients and doctors enquire if the newly recognized syndrome might be responsible for patient ill health. Overdiagnosis and overprescription of medication or therapy may occur.
Broader Problems:
Excessive reliance on fashionable solutions to problemsAdverse consequences of scientific and technological progressOverdiagnosis of disease Narrower Problems:
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderPsychological stress of environmental decline Related Problems:
Fashionable operations Aggravates:
False diagnosis of mental disorder Subject(s):
Communication → AdvertisingDesign → Fashion
Health Care → Mental health
Medicine → Pathology
Psychology → Psychology
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
30.09.2019 – 16:22 CEST