Posted: Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney who suffered with hearing voices probably lived with schizophrenia. Hearing voices, or auditory hallucinations as psychiatrists call them, is a common experience for people living with schizophrenia. In fact, it is so common that it is considered to be one of the principal indicators when doctors are […]
Posted: Thursday, February 12th, 2026 After over a century of study of this mental ill health that we call schizophrenia we can be sure of one thing: that the causes of schizophrenia are very complex and are still not fully understood. A question frequently asked about schizophrenia is exactly who is at risk of experiencing it? Can it happen to […]
Posted: Friday, September 1st, 2023 It has long been known that people with schizophrenia in particular and serious mental illness (SMI) in general will die at a much younger age than their colleagues in the general population and deaths from cancer form a large part of this disparity. Although people with serious mental illness are no more likely to suffer […]
Posted: Friday, July 28th, 2023 In recent reports, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the UK body which regulates and represents psychiatrists working in this country, has highlighted the continuing national scandal of adult patients suffering with mental ill health being sent out of their local area for treatment due to a lack of inpatient psychiatric beds in the locality: a […]
Posted: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 Recent reports in both the mainstream press and the academic literature coming out of Canada and the US have strongly indicated that people with schizophrenia are at an increased risk of death from heat-related illness during heat waves and other periods of excessive hot weather. And, with summer just around the corner, people living with […]
