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day reporter Robert Preidt reports that serious mental illness can take between 9 and 24 years off person’s life,
which is worse than the impact of heavy smoking, researchers report. What is
important are the diagnoses and when it occurs. Other factors are drug and
alcohol abuse does that come along with the mental illness.
The more problems one faces the more likely it's the compound the impact. The research is based on 20 different studies which involve a million and half people. The researchers looked at schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and recurrent depression, along with people with drug and alcohol abuse. The ranges of years lost due to having these disorders are anywhere from 9 to 24 years. I wonder if the studies also take into account smoking and how it relates to the people with mental illnesses. Dangerous lifestyle behavior such as smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, sedimentary living, obesity can account for loss of years in a mental ill person. One factor the studies did look at was suicide.
Do people with mental illness have less access to health care and treatment when it comes to heart disease, diabetes, or cancer? Do obesity and other lifestyle activities affect people who are mentally ill? For example if one is prone to be depressed does that make somebody more susceptible to be sedimentary, or stay in their room which would mean less physical activity. Having mental illness may trigger all kinds of behavior and attitudes which contribute to our health.
I have repeated looked at research that explores the three main things that kill us; heart and stroke disease, cancer, and diabetes. These things may affect the mentally ill by the diseases chemical imbalances, negative behaviors and thoughts and the effects on the body, and most important the ability to work through the right kind of care for health problems.
The more problems one faces the more likely it's the compound the impact. The research is based on 20 different studies which involve a million and half people. The researchers looked at schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and recurrent depression, along with people with drug and alcohol abuse. The ranges of years lost due to having these disorders are anywhere from 9 to 24 years. I wonder if the studies also take into account smoking and how it relates to the people with mental illnesses. Dangerous lifestyle behavior such as smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, sedimentary living, obesity can account for loss of years in a mental ill person. One factor the studies did look at was suicide.
Do people with mental illness have less access to health care and treatment when it comes to heart disease, diabetes, or cancer? Do obesity and other lifestyle activities affect people who are mentally ill? For example if one is prone to be depressed does that make somebody more susceptible to be sedimentary, or stay in their room which would mean less physical activity. Having mental illness may trigger all kinds of behavior and attitudes which contribute to our health.
I have repeated looked at research that explores the three main things that kill us; heart and stroke disease, cancer, and diabetes. These things may affect the mentally ill by the diseases chemical imbalances, negative behaviors and thoughts and the effects on the body, and most important the ability to work through the right kind of care for health problems.
Smoking
is known to take off years of life. The same is true for sedimentary living. Other
lifestyle behaviors can as well. Avoiding fruits and vegetables, alcohol abuse,
obesity is few of many. Having a mental illness can be added to that list. Having
an illness is one thing but walking with the fat man what we want to do is
improve our odds. I might also what to improve the quality of life issue that
comes with mental illness. Today we see how big a problem it is. Read the
article for yourself. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20140523/mental-illness-linked-to-shortened-life-spans?src=RSS_PUBLIC
I
will follow up with what I have done to improve my situation and I will share
helpful sites and ideas in another blog to give you needed resources. This
stuff is not easy but one thing we do is keep walking.
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