Daily Mail article: One in 10 NHS trusts have a 'male menopause' policy

One in 10 NHS trusts have a 'male menopause' policy

 

Even assuming that's true—and he makes it clear enough that it's his opinion, not evidence—they're still disorders.

Right, so mental disorders aren't a problem that should be medicalised. Got where you're coming from, mate.

Why do people pay actual money for papers that print garbage like this?

 

But. You literally just did that. You literally just labeled them common mental disorders, and anxiety or depression. How do they not see how completely contradictory this is? They have zero self-awareness despite being more than smart enough for it.

Could be this. Could be that. Let's just assume it's this and that, label them that way and tsk-tsk at people labeling things in a way that is actually consistent with reality.

More like: ‘We are very keen on psychologizing things in the modern world, because we are inventing or falsely claiming to see more and more conditions, disorders or just atypical ways of being, which could be addressed better, because we have literally never succeeded at addressing any of them, having made up most of them anyway as an excuse for our many failures, which magically become successes as long as you don't ever look at the details".

It's still amazing how medicine is completely obsessed with patients' subjective reports being unreliable and will argue that a number of medical conditions have to be fake because they don't have tests for those, but then they'll massively overhype and amplify things they can't test for and either rely on subjective reports, or their own subjective interpretation without any possibility of validation. They don't even realize how absurd this is. Their argument is basically: "I don't want to go out to X, 9 pm is too late for me." But then they go out to Y, at 11 pm. Can't even be honest about what they do or why they do it.

Health care is becoming more and more ridiculous each year. And also better. The cutting edge is atom-sharp, the handle is basically a frayed bit of rotten wood at this point. It's being split apart between a scientific future and atavistic nonsense.