jimells
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Is he saying 20% of the UK population gets some form of disability payment based on Persistent Physical Symptoms?
Maybe they just mean "impairment", as opposed to "benefits payment".
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Is he saying 20% of the UK population gets some form of disability payment based on Persistent Physical Symptoms?
GPs are constantly moaning about the 'worried well' who fill up their waiting rooms and they probably associate MUPs with that. Of course if it didn't take 10 visits to get a GP to do the most basic things then they would have to deal with less appointments,
He probably smugly assumes that you've simply been unsuccessful so far in hoodwinking the authorities into giving you the help you're still shamming illness in the hope of eventually getting.And yet I still have ME. I wonder how this crackpot explains that?
No doubt you are correct.He probably smugly assumes that you've simply been unsuccessful so far in hoodwinking the authorities into giving you the help you're still shamming illness in the hope of eventually getting.
He would tell you that you shouldn't be ungrateful under the circumstances; your failure to secure any benefits is at least sparing you from falling into the vicious cycle that would be your undoing. As it is, you still have a chance of redemption, as long as you can learn to see things in the clear light of day (losing your home may help you in this) and you can come to understand that there are more worthwhile things to do with your time than persistently try to role-play your way towards a life of permanent social parasitism.
Can anyone in the US getting any type of social service for ME add to this discussion? Is anyone getting any social service beyond SS Disability payments... something like caregivers, shoppers, or other helpers? What evidence did you have to show to get those services?
@Michelle, I'm so sorry to hear you have been kept in the "perpetual cycle of illness and benefits".So, you know, lots of "terrible" people keeping me in the "perpetual cycle of illness and benefits."
Pain, alarm and cats.
Can anyone in the US getting any type of social service for ME add to this discussion? Is anyone getting any social service beyond SS Disability payments... something like caregivers, shoppers, or other helpers? What evidence did you have to show to get those services? What is required to get SSDI? It's not just a matter of applying with sufficient proof, either. Don't you have to have been working shortly before you apply, so if you were sick a long time before applying or if you were a stay-at-home mom, you're not eligible for SSDI, right? There must be some other way for people in those circumstances not to be starving on the street. Some sort of poverty benefit?
what people do while they wait for the government to decide if I was eligible, she replied that most of her clients were homeless. That's right. In these fine United States of America, if you get sick, you are quite likely to end up on the streets.
You said somebody came and put in functional capacity scores. Do you mind saying how those scores were determined? I can't imagine an assessor just asking me what I can and can't do and taking my word for it.
Too disabled to hike and lift weights? Maybe. But how could I be too sick for a desk job? I was in serious denial.
People might sometimes wonder why my posts are so critical of the institutions (both state and private) that push us around like cattle. This is why. I have seen the true face of "American Democracy", up close and personal, more times than I can shake a stick at. It is ugly and barbaric - society literally does not care if any individual lives or dies (other than certain VIPs, of course), and when it comes to "Useless Eaters" like us, it would prefer the latter.
Be sure that Rona Moss-Morris blames you for the fish and knows that you can remove it whenever you want to.I realise now I'm sick because I have an entire trout stuck in my head.
I realise now I'm sick because I have an entire trout stuck in my head.
I realise now I'm sick because I have an entire trout stuck in my head.