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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
I've also been aware of this for some time however I am robbing the future to save the present. If the literature is correct we will on average die sooner than our peers so it may not matter that these brain changes are slowly occurring.
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Rethink (UK MH charity) are running a +20 campaign at the moment, saying that people with MI like sz (idk if the data is the same for all MIs) die on average 20 years younger than their peers, mostly through physical complications like heart disease & diabetes from meds & smoking & poor lifestyle. One guy with sz was 45 and he went to his GP surgery 3x with chest pain that was dismissed as anxiety, then died of a heart attack the day he went the last time! GPs get paid to do an annual review of MI patients to try to minimise this, but often physical symptoms get put down to MI and ignored, like with that example.
I am fully aware that APs are bad for brains. I already think I've got dementia, so why on earth would I voluntarily damage my brain even more?!
*Willow*