POLL. Psychiatrist, psychologist, case worker and mentor agree I can't work. Am I faking it?

Health and Recovery
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What a relief this is. My hatred, my heartless contempt of conventional work ethic, strikes me as completely genuine. I have no time, no respect, for the biblical high drama involved in becoming a “useful member of society”. Yet my health providers appear convinced it’s all down to negative symptoms, self-disturbances, anxiety and acute transitivity.

Lazy or long-term ill?
  • Lazy, sponger, parasite, leech, burden
  • Just waiting for the right opportunity (too posh to wash)
  • Seriously ill, give this man a medal
  • Your ‘contempt’ for work is just a post hoc rationalisation

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These people always discourage us from even bothering. Sometimes people get proved wrong ya know

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3 votes that you’re lazy. Not looking good

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i don’t know you well enough to vote really. I know you from on the forum but there is so much more than you show here so i find it hard to vote.

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:joy_cat: :joy_cat: Most delightful.

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I really didn’t know what to vote either

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You don’t need a poll to determine that.

First of all you have to search yourself if you yourself want to work or not. Then find out why. If you really have so bad symptoms you can’t work then that’s it.

I’m working because I want to and because I can. I want to help make the wheels turn if I can like everybody else is doing for me so I can get food on the table, transportation, electricity and so on. I’m only working about 30% because I do get ill if I work too much. But I’m learning my boundaries. Also I enjoy being sociable at work. It’s the social highlight of my life at the time being.

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Being honest I think it’s both.

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Being adverse to hard work and having schizophrenia are not necessarily mutually-exclusive.

I don’t really know your particular situation @NotSeksoEmpirico, so with that being said, I didn’t vote.

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The many governments in the world would prefer their citizens be productive towards the GDP of their respective countries whether they have an illness or not. Surely a person with cancer or multiple sclerosis cannot work. The same can apply to schizophrenics although each individual should be evaluated on a case by case basis.

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I don’t know exactly your situation @NotSeksoEmpirico but maybe the docs are right and you are very ill?

With that said I don’t think you have schizophrenia unless the doctors think differently?

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Sometimes I wonder if the doctors are in it for the money.

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Being a doctor or psychiatrist isn’t the easiest educational credential to achieve. They are taught in medical school to have compassion for their patients and care for their patients. Money or income is only a financial compensation for the work they do.

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I really don’t know. The thing is I do find some motivation for reading and writing, but I guess these are solitary activities very much on my own terms. I no longer seem to be able to handle even moderate amounts of stress. Who knows…

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Maybe compensation is too strong (as in too weak) a word.

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Please elaborate why “compensation” is too strong a word? Financial income then? Or paid salary?

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@2Waynez You make a good point. Some medical facilities and the doctors who work in them have a financial bottom line. That is unfortunate as greed goes against every ethical rule in regards to medical care. Not all doctors are crooks and few crooks are doctors.

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I agree 15151515

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I can’t answer that without going into some controversial territory and right now I don’t have the stomach for it. Apologies.

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