
nickh
Well-known member
Founding Member
Sorry to be a downer but just wanted to rant about the Budget. I guess people will have seen that the Government now plans that from 2010 onwards everyone on IB (Incapacity Benefit) will have to attend an interview with a doctor to see if they are fit for work - and it won't be your own doctor it will be a doctor who's agenda, I am sure, will be to make sure as many people as possible are taken off IB. There will be no interest in an individuals health needs.
Again I am repeating what people have said in other threads here but this does particularly affect people with mental health issues - how do you 'explain' your illness, the fact that from week to week, day to day, hour to hour, your condition and its severity can constantly change. How do you explain that seeing other people or going out of your own front door can be enough to trigger an attack. How do you explain a complicated history, the medication, the therapy etc. etc.. It is perfectly obvious that these proposals are made by people with absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the nature of mental illness and are just an easy attack on largely powerless people
Rant over (but the fact that I am ranting doesn't make it any less true).
Nick.
Again I am repeating what people have said in other threads here but this does particularly affect people with mental health issues - how do you 'explain' your illness, the fact that from week to week, day to day, hour to hour, your condition and its severity can constantly change. How do you explain that seeing other people or going out of your own front door can be enough to trigger an attack. How do you explain a complicated history, the medication, the therapy etc. etc.. It is perfectly obvious that these proposals are made by people with absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the nature of mental illness and are just an easy attack on largely powerless people

Rant over (but the fact that I am ranting doesn't make it any less true).
Nick.