Why is this so under-reported? Or am I reading the wrong papers and listening to the wrong radio?
There have been 2 separate reports - latest from New York - that charted that those with schizophrenia have a huge chance of dying from covid. Sorry I will try to find the stats afterwards and post.
And there was an earlier in the UK with the same kind of statistics for serious and enduring mental illness...ie Bipolar and Schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder. It was in the same report as the similar news about the fate of the learning disabled.
Apart from the risks/side effects associated with the prescribed drugs for these conditions - obesity diabetes, heart irregularities etc - people with severe and enduring mental illness are likely to die 20 years earlier than those without the condition.
So why is this not headline news? Once again, the severely mentally ill, are being disregarded - as usual because they rarely have the campaigning capacity to demand parity.
I have bipolar. I think schizophrenia is the more risky illness for covid death. Am I finding discrimination where there is none? I just find increasingly that the media, celebrities and happy to talk about certain mental illnesses, the ones that can easily be labelled as 'mental health' and other mental illnesses (and that is what I consider I have) are still unacceptable and stigmatising.