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ramboghettouk
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I notice for the new esa they've done away with illness, they're using that disability movement argument it's stigma, for the assessment they don't measure illness but what work you can do.
Many years ago i was in a hostel were they argued that as long as i took the meds the illness was controlled and it was all stigma.
For years i refused to go on the sick even when benefit clarks would tell me to get a 6 month backdated sicknote
When i tryed to work in haringey social services these people had no doubt i was ill, i was pushed onto the sick, i'd got the job under the disability they couldn't by law sack a disabled guy the only thing they could do was send him home sick.
It was the end of the tory years when a lot of people who were regarded as questionable went on the sick, one thing i was diagnosed schitzoprenic, though according to my old hostel i wasn't sick as i was "stabilised on meds"
I've got friends who had langian therapy and still argue they're off meds and well even though thats counterproductive as they're not fit for work like me
I went to the gym today, heard people talking about me, i'd rather use the word stigma than illness were i'm imagining it, i got into a bad argument with a women friend who says i say people are talking about me in pubs but she's been there and they're not
Whether stigma or illness it's not me who decides it's the people in power like the benefit doctor who at some time will question me and will be under pressure to argue my fit side or social services under pressure to close cases who'll downplay illness, thats already happened
Many years ago i was in a hostel were they argued that as long as i took the meds the illness was controlled and it was all stigma.
For years i refused to go on the sick even when benefit clarks would tell me to get a 6 month backdated sicknote
When i tryed to work in haringey social services these people had no doubt i was ill, i was pushed onto the sick, i'd got the job under the disability they couldn't by law sack a disabled guy the only thing they could do was send him home sick.
It was the end of the tory years when a lot of people who were regarded as questionable went on the sick, one thing i was diagnosed schitzoprenic, though according to my old hostel i wasn't sick as i was "stabilised on meds"
I've got friends who had langian therapy and still argue they're off meds and well even though thats counterproductive as they're not fit for work like me
I went to the gym today, heard people talking about me, i'd rather use the word stigma than illness were i'm imagining it, i got into a bad argument with a women friend who says i say people are talking about me in pubs but she's been there and they're not
Whether stigma or illness it's not me who decides it's the people in power like the benefit doctor who at some time will question me and will be under pressure to argue my fit side or social services under pressure to close cases who'll downplay illness, thats already happened