Researchers at Oxford University have confirmed that the life expectancy of people living with schizophrenia is lower than normal by 10 to 20 years; worse than that caused by heavy smoking. The research carried out by Doctor Seena Fazel and published in May 2014 looked at 20 previous studies covering over 1.7 million individuals and […]
Posted: Thursday, March 13th, 2014 At 10.00 am on 14th January 2008 a young man called Jonny, suffering an acute episode of schizo-affective disorder stood on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge in London deciding whether to throw himself off. If he had succeeded he would have been one of the 2,800 people with schizophrenia who end their own lives every […]
