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Teenage Carer stars with Gok Wan
Wolverhampton teenage carer stars with Gok Wan
Saturday 18th February 2012, 11:00AM GMT.
A teenager from Wolverhampton who helped care for his father for more than eight years is the latest star of new TV show Gok’s Teens.
Michael Watson, aged 13, will feature on the Channel 4 show next week as part of an episode dedicated to looking at the lives of young carers.
Millions of healthy people could be wrongly labelled ‘mentally ill’
New mental health manual is “dangerous” say experts
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent
LONDON |
(Reuters) – Millions of healthy people – including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes – may be wrongly labelled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.
In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts said new categories of mental illness identified in the book were at best “silly” and at worst “worrying and dangerous”.
