Labelling youngsters is dangerous

I CONGRATULATE your journalist, Jennifer Hough, on her insightful response to the recent study of adolescents which claimed that 15% of adolescents shown signs of “mental disorder”.

As Ms Hough rightly points out “labelling people’s emotions as a mental disorder” is not only unhelpful but “serves to stigmatise”.

Such labelling can only add to any feelings of fear, panic, depression or helplessness, which the victims of such a study may already have been experiencing.