Mental Health & Wellbeing 360: 'Don't medicalise normal stress reactions'

Says L&G medical officer

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The role of the insurer is help people to preserve and/or regain functional ability to avoid further physical and psychological deterioration, says L&G's Dr Tarun Gupta

The last 12 months has done much to bring psychological wellbeing into day-to-day discussions, but it has also served to exacerbate an existing trend of medicalising normal stress reactions to adverse events or circumstances. The insurance industry, individuals, HR, Occupational Health and society at large, all have an important role to play here to help tackle this problem, says Dr Tarun Gupta, medical officer at Legal & General, as part of his keynote address at today's COVER Mental Health & Wellbeing 360 conference. "A clinical diagnosis of depression or anxiety requires persistent...

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