Clozapine-treated NMS

All-night television can damage your healthSm: Patients with chronic schizophrenia often reverse the more usual night/day pattern ofsleep and activity.This enhances their social withdrawal and hinders attempts to engage them in rehabilitation programmes.The provision ofall-night television on the independent channels since August 1987 rein forces this behaviour and can have deleterious effects on the mental states ofpatients if, as a result, they fail to comply with, or attend for, medication.The fol lowing case report illustrates how all-night television watching led to a self-limiting symptomatic relapse.Case report.A 31-year-old Afro-Caribbean male who lived with his parents and sister and who had a 10-year history of paranoid schizophrenia was symptom-free on a weekly depot and twice-daily oral anti-psychotic medication.He