Would you be willing to sacrifice some of your benefits payment if the money was used to improve mental health services? I think I would, the MH services here in the UK are poor compared with other western countries.
The Healthcare budget for any government especially those in Western countries can only do so much. A percentage of the Healthcare budget will be allocated to Mental Health Services. What did you @fingolfin have in mind in regards to improving Mental Health Services?
Also, monetary benefits whether those funds are from the government or due to your disability is for goods & services that the Healthcare system doesn’t provide.
I have not been on assistance for decades, but it was awful trying to scrape by on the little I received. I ate poorly and had no life. I cannot imagine trying to make do with less.
Also, if someone were to ask you, “what do you do for a living?” and you answer, “I collect disability”. It doesn’t sound like a great career designation to impress.
Can you please stop shaming those here who are unable to work? I didn’t go off disability to impress anyone. I went off because it was what I wanted to do for me. I do not judge anyone else who cannot do what I did. SZ is a spectrum and others are not where you or I are.
Yinyang I’d basically like to receive more support, it’s currently not good enough. For example, regular visits to a psychiatrist, currently I don’t see one unless it’s an emergency. Better qualified nurses and therapists, who understand the illness. More hospital beds, I’ve been refused a place on the psych ward in the past when I was psychotic… I dunno there are lots of things but that’s off the top of my head.
In Easter world if I have money I would get better health care services.
I was unable to work for 10 years. I literally couldn’t do it.
And why should I have to impress others? Are you saying I’m beneath them if I’m not working? Do you think poor people have no value in society?
I may not have worked, but I did my best to be the best mom, wife and friend I could be.
@shutterbug @LilyoftheValley I too was unable to work for 10-years. 10-years that was wasted away doing nothing and living miserably. 10-years that I cannot gain back.
It’s not a failure on your part @yinyang . It’s completely out of your control. You survived it.
I 'm a pensioner now, but never had a paid job-when of working age. When I’m in the right frame of my mind I can give strong,legitimate, reasons as to why it wasn’t a viable thing. When I’m not I feel that I’m a useless and worthless person.
Definitely on the side of benefit money. When mental health services gets all the money we will all be locked up again.
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