Fashionable mental disorders

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.

1. Overdiagnosis of disease
2. Excessive reliance on fashionable solutions to problems
3. Adverse consequences of scientific and technological progress

1. Psychological stress of environmental decline
2. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

1. False diagnosis of mental disorder

1. Proliferation of information

1. Fashionable operations