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My experience of physical health checks for severe mental illness (SMI) Our blogger talks about how a physical health check made such a difference to him

"Knowing that the average life expectancy for a male with schizophrenia is 60, I am happy to be a male with #schizophrenia aged 73. Physical health checks have been really useful." Our blogger Andrew talks about the importance of #physicalhealthchecks
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