Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
I think much of the problem here is many people still don't recognise mental health problems and prefer a pull your socks up approach to many conditions. Depression is very common in my job but employers and gps don't seem to recognise it.Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
My stepson suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is (partly) controlled by medication. He is currently on DLA, but no doubt will shortly be transferred to PIP and will have to make a new claim for benefit. On what appears to be one of his good days (maybe one in every 10 days), to a stranger (like a DWP assessor) he would appear totally normal - logical, controlled, rational, intelligent and quite able to work. What is worse, on these "good" days, he is in denial about his illness and claims that he is "better." On a bad day, he spends most of the day in bed in deep depression, he talks to his voices constantly - sometimes conversationally, sometimes in angry argument. He is confrontational, antagonistic and occasionally violent. He sees people who are not there and will interrupt your conversation to make a cynical or unpleasant comment about you to one of his nastier voices. His voices might tell him to do something strange - a few weeks ago his voices told him to get on a train and go to the seaside but also to turn off his phone to stop people bothering him. We were insane with worry until at 9pm he turned his phone on again and asked me for a lift home from a seaside town over 100 miles away as he had no money left.Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
What a wonderful dad you are mick managing to carry on as normal with that terrible condition. I know parents who have crumbled under the pressures, good people that couldn't cope.Re: DWP tells disability assessors to discriminate
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