I am a psychologist and a researcher in the field of mental health care in general practice. Increasing numbers of people with mental health problems visit the general practice. On the one hand, this is desirable, because professional help for mental health problems can be valuable or even indispensable. On the other hand, a risk of medicalization arises if (normal) life problems are labeled as diseases. General practices offers low-threshold care and, with their gatekeeper role, have an important function in the mental health care system. For all these reasons, it is important to conduct research in this field, for example by monitoring the numbers of patients with mental health problems who visit general practitioners and general practice mental health professionals (GP-MHPs), and by investigating what care they receive.