People with serious mental illness tend to die prematurely. We can fix that

Media reports of suicides of high-profile individuals make it easy to believe that suicide is a leading killer of people with serious mental illness. It's not even close, falling behind largely preventable conditions such as heart disease (10 times higher than suicide), cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.

Although these diseases can affect anyone, they make for a particularly lethal combination among people with serious mental illness. In fact, people with serious mental illness die 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population.