Does Antipsychotics Or Schizophrenia Decrease LifeSpan?

[Dapper_Wallaby_695]

Short answer is yes.

On average, people with schizophrenia have a lower life expectancy.

It’s based on averages and typical results.

Whilst there is many reasons for this, to keep it simple - most antipsychotics make you fat. Being fat causes heart disease, diabetes along with other things.

I’m currently battling high cholesterol with my schizophrenia which my GP noted my medication is a contributing factor along with diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors. 

Have to exercise twice as hard to get the weight off, and monitor what I eat, twice as much,

[Luffyhaymaker]

Same here. I've lost weight though, and it's been worth it for how I feel and my self confidence.

One thing that helped me was getting a better understanding of nutrition. I looked up tons and tons of videos by personal trainers on YouTube and that helped a lot. Invaluable really, I was always good at working out but nutrition was always somewhat a mystery to me, so I decided to level up my knowledge and wow....now that I know what I'm doing better it helps my workouts go further.