Do you believe sz takes ten to twenty years off your life? I’ll probably die early cause I chew tobacco and drink red bull every day and don’t exercise. But I don’t think the sz will kill me
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I don’t plan on much of a retirement because of this
Oh my I hope so. Endless dreamless nothingness.
I wasn’t alive for 14 billion years and the worst and best thing that happened was the suffering of life.
Yay!
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Yeah. I plan on retiring in Penn state. Part of me wants to die early. Part of me wants to be able to grow old so I can watch my nephew’s grow up
I plan on becoming 90. Time will tell if I succeed.
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Yes. Let me know when you are 90. How old are you now?
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35 
I don’t smoke anymore and have a healthy weight. So that should help…
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I think probably the use of antipsychotics takes more years off than the disease itself on average.
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I’m 34. I don’t feel to unhealthy. It would be good for me to start walking more. I’m 190. Kinda chunky. But not that bad. I just started smoking again. I smoke about a couple days every 2 months.
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I’ll probably die of a heart attack during one of my paranoia episodes. My heart seriously gets pumping
Sorry you have to deal with that. I’m a very calm person, so have a different perspective. Guess we all have our different challenges.
My paranoia is odd I think. It comes on very strong but not very often.
It gets really intense. I think it’s a panic attack mixed with paranoia because it’s all the symptoms of panic. Thinking you are going to die, trouble breathing, heart racing, but I also start to see things. And my doctor won’t give me a strong sedative
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I take clozapine as a prn when I have extreme anxiety. It helps.
That’s good. I’m going to ask my general doctor for something.
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Yeah Ill probably die early the invega is making my cholesterol go through the roof
The average life expectancy is down largely due to preventable factors in schizophrenia. It’s not like schizophrenia is cancer or something and it’s not like a diagnosis of schizophrenia automatically takes 10-20 years off your life.
We die early directly due to our lifestyle choices which admittedly seem to be common in someone with the diagnosis. Most of us have unhealthy habits and live sedentary lifestyles and smoke. We usually don’t have good diets or exercise and are usually overweight. These factors lead to being more likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and these can lead to an early heart attack or stroke or other complications.
But technically, all this is under our control and preventable. The tendency to be poor makes it hard to correct some of those risky behaviors. But if we ate right, exercised, didn’t smoke and had full, well rounded lives it would raise our individual life expectancies. But genetics also play a part too. Even normies who live healthy can die at an early age due to genitive or just bad luck.
Like I said (despite some studies maybe) schizophrenia itself does not mean you don’t live long. It’s all the unhealthy things and lifestyle choices as a result of it that make us more suceptable to a lot of diseases which seem all to common in most schizophrenics.
There could be other yet unknown factors such as single men don’t live as long as married men and some people claim that medication shortens your life but I don’t know if they proved that yet beyond a shadow of a doubt.
And of course I left out an important factor that lowers the average life expectancy, and that’s suicide. When you’re mathematically figuring out an average life expectancy by using data of how long people live, if someone commits suicide at age 20 or 30 that’s going to lower the average. And we all know that schizophrenics have a higher suicide rate than the average person.
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Yes our lives are shaved off considerably on average because of our lifestyle choices.
Drug use, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, over eating.
It’s primarily because of the psych meds though.
These drugs cause obesity which in turn cause lots of different health ailments like metabolic and cardiac issues and diabetes.
I’m 58 years old and have been on psych meds since my early 20s.
These meds contributed to my obesity and in turn I suffer with diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, a fatty liver and atherosclerosis and an enlarged heart.
I’m lucky if I get to see my 65th birthday
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Looking back would you have quit your meds earlier and try to manage?
Are you addressing me @Jonathan2?
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