Posted: Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 Schizophrenia has been around for a long time. References to people who were clearly insane appear in classical writings and the Bible, for instance in Mark 5 we hear of the Gerasene Demoniac who, “All day and all night among the tombs and in the mountains he would howl and gash himself with stones”. In […]
Posted: Friday, April 17th, 2026 Research from Denmark has confirmed the findings of previous studies that there is a connection between cannabis use and schizophrenia and has underlined the need for extreme caution when considering legalisation of cannabis use. Led by Danish researchers, this was a large study of over 60,000 participants diagnosed with cannabis use disorder using data from […]
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 […]
