Dr Guddi Singh

@drguddisingh.bsky.social

Paediatrician | Campaigner | Broadcaster Justice | Joy | Jokes (in that order) Founder @WHAMProject | Trustee ‪@ncch.bsky.social‬ | https://www.whamproject.co.uk/

We talk about a “youth mental health crisis” as if kids just became fragile. In clinic, their distress maps perfectly onto poverty, housing, racism, school & digital harms. My new @bmj_latest piece asks: what if they’re not overdiagnosed, but overexposed? 👇 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Blaming overdiagnosis fails to confront the deeper causes of children’s distress

An upcoming UK review1 into the possible “overdiagnosis” of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in children risks overshadowing another crisis: a generation being made ill by deprivation. ...

bmj.com