Daily healthy eating could be declared a mental illness

PEOPLE who eat healthily every day or suffer temper tantrums could be deemed to be suffering from a mental disorder if proposed categories of mental illnesses are accepted.

The proposals contained in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), due in 2013, have sparked international fury. Opponents say the manual will reclassify ordinary, clinically insignificant behaviour as a mental disorder.

If accepted, “no one will be normal,” critics claim.