Disability clampdown: Some struggle with ‘ups and downs of everyday life’, says MPSource: BBC Radio 4 Today
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00:00 I think we need to have a grown-up conversation about that. We've seen a
00:03 very high increase in the number of people presenting with mental health
00:07 issues and I think there is a concern that in some cases it may be the case
00:12 that we're too readily labelling those conditions as serious mental health
00:16 conditions when in fact they may be effectively the kind of ups and downs of
00:21 life that is part of the human condition. We all have challenges in our lives and