Lifestyle Behaviours in Mental Illness: 10min Lifestyle Psych

Welcome to this 10 Minute Lifestyle Psychiatry episode. I discuss the mortality gap in people with serious mental illness, the underlying factors driving this and some of the solutions to this.

Chapters
0:00 Show Intro
1:25 What Is the Mortality Gap Scandal?
3:20 Lifestyle Behaviours
7:55 Social Determinants of Mental Health
10:25 Diagnostic Overshadowing

My name is Indi Dissanayake and I am a PhD Candidate investigating the implementation of exercise-based psychotherapy into mental healthcare, and a Provisional Psychologist. Check out the channel for deep dives into all things Lifestyle Psychiatry. I hope you find our content valuable.

Show Notes
-Physical health disparities and mental illness: the scandal of premature mortality (Thornicroft et al., 2011)
-Diagnostic overshadowing and other challenges involved in the diagnostic process of patients with mental illness who present in emergency departments with physical symptoms--a qualitative study (Schefer et al., 2014)
-Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the management of schizophrenia and related disorders (Galletly et al., 2016)
-Smoking and Mental Illness. A Population-Based Prevalence Study (Lasser et al., 2000)
-Mortality in mental disorders and global disease burden implications: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Walker et al., 2015)
-Global Epidemiology and Burden of Schizophrenia: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (Charlson et al., 2018)