Awhiles, I have some sympathy with your position, we do over medicalise what aren’t medical problems at all.
Social issues-debt, poor housing, domestic violence, family breakdown, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, childhood abuse, executive stress, status anxiety, etc all conspire to present people with problems that aren’t diseases in the medical sense. Society’s solution is to send them to see me, the GP.
My preferred solution would be to look at the cause of their problems rather than support an industry whose main method of operation is to hoodwink people into believing that the can be cured by quackery.
And yesterday I gave the parents of a troubled kid a leaflet for a (non nhs) provider of alternative therapies, relaxation, reiki etc, because there is nothing else I can do about the fact that dad left 4 years ago and doesn’t send a card at birthdays etc.
so yes it’s a problem.
and social prescribing may be (part of) the solution?
Gotta be a better road to go down that water-with-a-memory anyway…