[Comment] Lived experience perspectives on the development of a Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator (PsyMetRiC)

In this issue of The Lancet Psychiatry, Benjamin Perry and colleagues1 present a collaboratively developed, refined, and externally validated risk prediction tool (the Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator [PsyMetRiC]) that is clinically available, and that can separately predict the risk of clinically significant weight gain, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes in young people with psychosis. Key to the collaborative development of PsyMetRiC has been the involvement of young people with a lived experience of psychosis, supported by the McPin Foundation and Equally Well UK.

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Appetite and ingestive regulation. Body-focused and impulse habits. Cognitive focus and executive control. Dissociation and identity integration. Fear and threat response. Mood and emotional regulation. Motor and impulse regulation. Reality testing and perceptual stability. Sensory processing. Sexual drive and regulation. Sleep and arousal regulation. Sleep-related parasomnias. Social and attachment drive. Speech and expression. Bipolar, schizophrenia, insomnia. A medical device would be good.