[Margaret Pilkington]

Kipax you are entitled to your opinion.......but it is a topic that should be discussed. If mental health problems are so prevalent, why do you think that is? Is it because diagnosis has got better?...or is it something environmental...or is it as I said because the young people concerned have too little to occupy themselves with......it is well accepted in treatment for depression that physical activity is better than many drugs in treating mild depression.
No slur was intended on people who do have genuine mental health problems...but sometimes Doctors will label someone with a mental health problem that stick and follows them for the rest of their lives. I have personal experience of something like that and the person concerned was not depressed at all, it was a side effect of prescriptiom medication.