Maybe I should just force myself to get a job and be like everyone else.
This ESA thing is a load of bulls***… they’re constantly asking me to send them things and threatening to stop my payments if I don’t send them. Well I’m clearly not very sick am I, if they need so much proof?
Then I have my granddad coming over later who will be asking me if I have a job as if it’s a crime to not have one. Here’s a suggestion for him- why not just handcuff me and throw me into a dungeon where I won’t be a burden to anyone?
This care in the community thing is going great, making me feel really good about myself
So yeah, I’ll just get a job at some retail store where I’ll be too anxious to eat or take care of myself, then have a massive mental breakdown again. Yep, I’ll be so freaking FIT to work then, won’t I?
I’ve got to go for interview I really don’t want to go
If I could do paid work I would do it in just not fit I do volunteer work a couple hours a day but i can only just manage to do that
You have to send medical certificates till they decide what to do with you and Dr’s only like to sign you off a month or so at a time to begin with.
They are under pressure not to sign people off these days.
At some point (after your ESA assessment/decision is made) they will decide if it’s best put you in the Support/WRAG groups! Lets say you recover slowly they might put you in the support group at which point you no longer need to send in Medical certificates.
Perhaps have a conversation with your granddad about working, mine gives me a lot of slack as I’m studying again and actively volunteering (He’s 90 and not bitter with the world)!
We always get hassled because we don’t have jobs and some of us receive assistance. Most of us mentally ill people know money isn’t everything… health is more important. And truth be told we are selfless as a whole because we’re the type that gives to the homeless, to charities, or at least wishes a better life on someone. This is generally true for most people, we are the other 1% the one that counts to 100. Even animals. We are unified in that we really are treated as lesser. Not only that we are experimented on. And yet deep inside we know we are not that different.
I can relate. I know how overwhelming the ordinary problems of everyday work can be. I’ve been on disability for probably twenty years now. I know just the prospect of work can be daunting, but you can probably get more out of life if you try to work. You don’t have to do something you hate. Maybe you can find something you like doing.
Yeah I’m trying to get a job to improve my mobility in terms of location not upwards mobility in terms of economical class. I doubt I’ll ever own a house.
