The Prejudice Against People With Psychiatric Conditions

Most of the American public probably equates mentally ill people with homeless people, with prisoners in orange jumpsuits, or with "deranged" people getting into and out of a van and living in an institution. That is a stereotype, and it usually lacks factual basis. Mentally ill people often live troubled lives, but this doesn't mean we are less than regular people.

I am 60 years old, and I have lived with a psychiatric condition my entire adult life. To begin with, it is probably better than average that a man diagnosed with schizophrenia (and that's my initial diagnosis) can even make it to this age and not suffer from dementia or be on his last legs of living. According to some sources, life expectancy for a schizophrenic man is age 59.

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