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Are There Side Effects of Mental Illness?
A lot of my patients come from broken homes. They simply have families that don't look out for them. And those are the people that drift into homelessness. The mental illness itself can massively damage their physical health. A really poor lifestyle, so from alcohol drug abuse to smoking can massively decrease their life expectancy. Also something that we cannot ignore that I'm responsible for in a way is medication. So taking anti-psychotic medications, if you've got something like schizophrenia, has massive physical implications on your health. With heart arrhythmias, for example, or increasing your lipid profile or increasing your blood pressure,. Your risk of having a heart attack has massively increased.