Mental Health https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk CMVM Psychiatry at work Tue, 31 May 2016 07:51:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Deadly stigma? Does the stigma of mental illness kill people? https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/07/deadly-stigma-does-the-stigma-of-mental-illness-kill-people/ https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/07/deadly-stigma-does-the-stigma-of-mental-illness-kill-people/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:11:15 +0000 http://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/?p=76 People with a mental illness die on average about 10-15 years earlier than people without one. The evidence is probably strongest, as it often is, for schizophrenia – because that condition tends to get the most research funding. Ten years ago, Hennekens and colleagues showed that people with schizophrenia had … Continue reading →

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