The Weight of Mental Illness: Why Treating the Body May Help the Mind
In his talk Dr Pillinger will explore the growing recognition that mental and physical health are deeply interconnected.
People with serious mental illnesses die 20 years earlier than their peers, most commonly from cardiovascular disease. For decades, this crisis has remained hidden in plain sight. Many of the medications that transform mental health can also profoundly affect body weight and metabolism, leaving patients caught between mental recovery and physical decline.
In his talk Dr Pillinger will explore the growing recognition that mental and physical health are deeply interconnected and discuss why people with serious mental illness face such extreme physical health inequalities.
This will also include a Q&A section from Professor Derek Tracy, Chief Medical Officer at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Lecture four Toby Pilinger
Dr Toby Pillinger , who is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. His research focuses on the relationship between mental and physical health, and the emerging field of “metabolic psychiatry”.
