Yeah, not sure what that means.
But what if you mix it with orange juice?
People with mental illness have decreased life expectancy. I have no information about this specific case and was commenting more generally on the question of whether or not our treatments for severe mental illness are effective in improving life expectancy and quality of life which was a discussion in another thread.
She did die fairly young and she was quite an advocate for mental health treatment and so why not ask the question of whether or not her individual mental health treatment or possibly even failure to ascribe to treatment was an issue in her death? Maybe the answer is that it is completely unrelated or maybe she smoked like many people with mental health issues do and we all know how that contributes to risk for heart disease. Again I don't know the answers to this as I have had nothing to do with her treatment. However, I would think that as an advocate for mental health, Ms. Fisher would want us to delve into those questions in the effort to help our patients who might be struggling with similar issues.
One thing it won't do is correct the misconception that SSRIs are effective for bipolar depression.
Or that everybody has bipolar depression.
I always miss these obvious things. I don't know whether it affected her longevity but she certainly seemed very functional.
I don't remember where I heard it, so I'll need to Google, but I heard that deaths were increasing from cardiovascular disease, while the mortality rate was decreasing, the implication I believe that more people are diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and fewer are dying from it, but that more are diagnosed with it still means more deaths in spite of decreased mortality. Basically people are more likely to survive having cardiovascular disease but more people have it so more are dying anyway. Cancer was somehow involved in this story I heard--something about the death rates from it plummeting. It could have been on NPR. I'll look around.
I may be one of the few people who has not seen Star Wars, but I was familiar with her talking about ECT. I'm not sure where I heard her talk about it. Must have been when promoting a book on some show. But she's the only person I can think of who I've "known" who has had it. I had never heard about someone appreciating ECT or doing it voluntarily before. In fact I had thought it had mostly disappeared. Strangely I only knew both her and Debbie Reynolds (whom I did not realize were related until their deaths) from NBC sitcoms. Carrie Fischer from 30 Rock and Debbie Reynolds from Will & Grace. Both were great in their roles.
You seem to have completely misread my post. I never said that Bipolar caused anything. I also didn't know whether she smoked or not. Obviously, if she was a smoker as you stated, then risk of heart disease. My only point is that she was an advocate for medical treatment of mental illness and that model might have some flaws if it is not reducing correlated problematic behaviors such as smoking, overeating, lack of exercise, etc. Take this medicine and you will be all better might not be an entirely helpful message. It definitely isn't the reality for the majority of mentally ill patients that any of us have seen who tend to have significant behavioral and interpersonal problems that coincide with their mental illness. Sure pharmaceutical treatments can be necessary to implement some of the needed changes, hard work is still needed to be done and no amount of tinkering with dosages or making med changes will substitute for that work. The tv ads don't help with how they imply that it is easy with their pictures of people taking abilify or seroquel playing frisbee on the beach or walking arm in arm happily smiling with loved ones.
