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“You cannot have a million or a million-and-a-half people on a waiting list and think this is a functioning healthcare system.”That is the warning from Professor Peter Fonagy, pictured above, author of a wide-ranging report into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions in the UK. It makes for alarming reading. Among young people, he says, common mental disorders - things like depression or anxiety - have risen by 50% since 1993. Some 20% of young people are now in serious distress. By 2030, the report warns, the two million young people in England who have self-harmed will become 2.5 million. The report comes off the back of remarks last year by the then-Health Secretary Wes Streeting, pictured below. He told the BBC that there was an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions meaning “too many people are being written off”. He later apologised for the remarks, his contribution to a culture war narrative of a ‘snowflake generation’. Today’s report is an attempt to answer those concerns. “That’s not true,” Fonagy told Channel 4 News.
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