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Housemates could face nervous breakdown, says psychiatrist

Big Brother housemates risk serious mental illness as a result of the pressures of the reality TV show, a psychiatrist has warned.

Dr Raj Persaud said producers of the Channel 4 show were putting contestants' psychological welfare in danger.

And he says that sooner or later a housemate will have a breakdown either during the show or once they have left.

Dr Persaud is a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London.

He adds that being shut up in the camera-filled house could harm potentially vulnerable housemates.

"Sooner or later someone in the house will have a breakdown either during the show or once they have left," he told the London Evening Standard.

"At what price do you buy ratings?"

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One day, it could well happen.
Last year they were worried about Pauls mental stae and had to call in a psychiatristaul:
The housemates put into the Big Brother house are put under so much pressure, I really would not be surprised if they had a nervous breakdown, more so when coming out of the house because it is such an initial change to how they have been living, coming out to all that attention.