[Psychiatric illnesses in general practice]

Abstract

The frequency of mental illness is often mistaken for the frequency of those worries and depressed feelings, which very often accompany somatic problems. The general practitioner is aware of these minor psychic disturbances presented together with somatic complaints, but he does not express this in his label of the result of consultation. In general practice somatic problems far prevail. Among the 3% at the most mental illnesses in general practice/family medicine "polymorphous complaints of probably non organic origin" are, together with depression, the disorders most often seen.