DONALD CAMPBELL BORN: MAY 3, 1954 DIED: AUGUST 9, 2016
MY BIG brother died last Tuesday. It was a massive, horrible shock, even though we have always known that people with his condition live on average 20 years less long than the rest of us. My dad lived to 82, my mum to 88. Donald was 62. His condition was schizophrenia.
His illness, not mine, is the real reason I campaign for better understanding and treatment of mental illness, not least because people who have schizophrenia do have such shortened life expectancy.