A certain type of book claims that the growth in the diagnosis of depression since the 1970s has been misguided. Here are the essential assumptions of such treatises: There is such a thing as real depression, certifiable by objectively measurable biological markers. But for various reasons, depression's occurrence has been inflated and/or conflated with other illnesses, leading to more frequent but inaccurate diagnoses. There has in fact been no growth in real depression; indeed, there cannot be, since there are no grounds to expect that the endogenous sources of real depression would ever increase
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