Imagine yourself once again in the shoes of a 16-year-old, with all the pressures and anxieties that any young person on the threshold of adulthood encounters. Now imagine you are also caring for a parent or relative who is ill and unable to look after themselves.
Before you leave for school in the morning, and as soon as you get home in the afternoon, your role changes from pupil to carer. You might have to change your loved one's sheets, bathe or feed him or her, or fulfil any of a multitude of tasks. Having a normal social circle seems like an impossible dream.
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