Psychiatry Matters story - "Up to half of all patients visiting their primary care physician with a new illness complaint have a current psychiatric diagnosis, study findings show. The results, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, also reveal that a third of such patients have more than one type of psychiatric condition. To better understand the prevalence and co-occurrence of mental health disorders among patients within the primary care setting, Tomas Toft and colleagues, from Aarhus University Hospital in Demark, screened for mental and somatic symptoms, illness worry, and alcohol dependency in 1785 patients aged between 18 and 65 years who were waiting to be seen by a primary care physician for new complaints."