Would you put all your effort into recovering from Schizophrenic symptoms if you didn’t have to fear losing disability benefits? Results are anonymous.
- Yes I would put in all my effort.
- No I would not put in more effort.
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I put all of my effort into recovery knowing I was likely to lose benefits.
It was just extra motivation.
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For me, I don’t expect to recover anymore. I’ve got a plan for employment and just sorta waiting to be qualified now - I couldn’t possibly do full time though. At least not conventional hours/shifts
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If you’d ask me would you snap your fingers and magically be completely free of any symptoms and off medications and have a 9-5 job, then I’d say yes.
But I don’t know how much recovery is possible for me, not to the point of having a job.
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I feel if they provide support need to support entire life.
Because !
If they start supporting then there will be lot of skills forgotten in mean time and if the support is stopped it’s like death sentence lets us to die in a horrible way !
Support then support for a life time else don’t.
Dont place an imaginary handcuffs.
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I didn’t know if I’d make it to having a job or not. All I knew was that I couldn’t stand living the way I was any longer and I was either going to swim across the lake to the side I wanted to be on or go down trying.
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I’m putting forth all my efforts but I have more than 1 disability.
I’m very afraid of losing benefits. My psychiatrist wants me to stay on benefits.
I’m not able to make good enough money to support myself without benefits due to multiple disabilities.
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That sounds familiar.
“You have a crippled heart. You have a spinal injury. Now you have schizophrenia with severe symptoms. You need to accept that disability is a good thing for you.”
Yeah, @#$% you. I decide what my limits are. No one else does that for me.
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I would definitely do whatever it takes to recover, and then see what you can do from there. I don’t know about you, but working and staying occupied always helped my mental state a bunch dude. Hope this helps
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In some countries there are disability employment agencies that help disabled people find jobs.
Usually these jobs are part time.
When I worked at a cafe in Sweden the government paid some of my wage and the cafe paid some of my wage.
I worked half time then.
I made them candle light holders at pottery for all tables to have live candles.
I sewed head protectors and a black mug with cafes name written in real gold.
That was my gifts to them because i enjoyed the work most of the time except for when the owners had power crazed moments of talking to me in unacceptable ways to me.
Otherwise was good.
I even handed out menus in letter boxes for free in my spare time.
Some disability jobs don’t require the disabled person to do much at all but simply attend and “being there” is enough for them.
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I live in the U.S. I received help with my resume, interview skills, and finding jobs to apply for.
Unfortunately every job was far from my home. Some would most likely have been good jobs to start with going back into the workforce but I don’t want to drive that far on icy roads in the winter.
So I ended up finding my own job
The interview and resume help were awesome though
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I’m a pensioner now. When I was working age I never had mainstream paid employment and only did very little voluntary work. What I did was ‘work’ in an industrial therapy unit.
Industrial therapy units were established in psychiatric hospitals, primarily in the post-war era, to help rehabilitate long-stay psychiatric patients. These units aimed to provide patients with meaningful work, often in a setting designed to resemble a factory1. The idea was to help patients re-establish their interests and standards by engaging them in industrial tasks.
Patients in these units would undertake tasks such as making novelty paper items, assembling cardboard boxes, or piece work for various companies. The work was intended to promote mental well-being by combining economic productivity with therapeutic activity1. Hospitals received income for fulfilling subcontracts, and patients were often paid a nominal wage for their work.
The concept of industrial therapy was influenced by systems of rehabilitation initiated by the Ministry of Labour to help people with disabilities re-enter the workforce. However, it also faced criticism for potentially reinforcing the stigma attached to chronic mental illness by evaluating patients based on their productivity1.
If It had just been comparatively mild sz/sz-a, and nothing else then I might have been able, to cope with a job. It was the severe social anxiety, bullying related trauma,fear of being mocked by other workers and intense dread of getting things wrong and being punished- that served as a far greater barrier to employment than the sz/sz-.a . I was never given any help and support for that. I used to work myself into a state over the periodic reassessments
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I worked briefly in industrial therapy at a psychiatric hospital.
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I’m on welfare, I got an official paper that I am not able to work more than 3 hours a day for lifetime. I’m 53.
I didn’t spend enough years to get the pension.
If I’m working somewhere and get money I will lose the welfare if I’m not telling it.
If I work and tell them they will catch a lot of the money I will earn.
I worked very long on my own without paying in the social insurance.
I repaired electronics, mostly hifi, but the new devices are not really easy to repair if you have no special equipment, my eyes gone bad too.
So I feed the birds and assist them to breed many chicks…
I didn’t grab the maximum welfare, I cut my own wood to heat my house, didn’t want money from them to repair my house, I must always ask if it’s okay to buy this n’ that and how expensive it is…
So I’m on the minimum of welfare and make the world a better place for nature.
That’s what I do.
It’s okay.
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