Government thinks mentally ill shouldn't get disability benefit

a disability is a disability whether its physical or psychological

not really. a disability is permanent. people can change their minds. or at the very least, do things despite of their mind.

take the example of someone too terrified to leave the house to go to work.

well. they can either go out. or starve to death. while distressing, they are physically capable of leaving the house. if they refuse and starves to death as a result, well it was their choice.

Define 'functional'

not really. a disability is permanent. people can change their minds. or at the very least, do things despite of their mind.

take the example of someone too terrified to leave the house to go to work.

well. they can either go out. or starve to death. while distressing, they are physically capable of leaving the house. if they refuse and starves to death as a result, well it was their choice.

It's supposed to be significant impairment to social or occupational functioning


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Overworked GP's? Don't know if it's different where I'm from - but GP's only do about 3 half-days per week, if that. And mostly they're trying to skive.

Honestly, where I live, people with mental illnesses may as well not bother going to the GP about their problems, as they're completely useless & entirely ignorant (how - after so many years studying, I don't know) - especially if you're under 18.

Maybe it is easy to fake depression etc, I wouldn't know. But GP's certainly fail to see real depression when it's staring them in the face, haha. Or maybe they see it, and just couldn't give a crap - anything to lessen the "workload" and to get home 10 mins early.

So never having a partner, not leaving house for up to 2 weeks, anxiety to point of severe panic and chest pain, not being able to make friends, not eating or overeating, hair loss, weight gain etc not imparement?

Are you serious?


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Obviously I don't know what your GPs are like, but 2 comments:

1) I've seen/heard literally dozens, maybe hundreds of individuals complain about how their GP is always running late (which means the GP stays late). You are the first to complain they leave early.
2) Recent government changes and drives see GPs do lots of the management of health services (so lots of very long meetings and form-filling), as well as shifts in A&E, as well as home visits, care home visits etc. The part-time GP you describe may well be working a lot more sessions than you realise

If GP waiting times in your area are only a couple days then fair enough - they could be under-worked. If its 2, 3 weeks though - perhaps you can see why they are constantly in a rush?

Regardless my point still stands - remove disability assessments then GPs, lazy or not, will be able to focus more on other duties.

I had my pip assessment carried out by a nurse. She had to ask me what one of my conditions was. It was also obvious she didn't have a clue on the others either.

I had my pip assessment carried out by a nurse.

I didn't even get an assessment.

I'll rephrase. What do you class as a functional life?

I did and it was clear she didn't believe a word I, my consultants or friend said at all. Scored nothing on mobility and 4 on care. Got it looked at again and got 12 on mobility and 11 on care.

She couldn't get her lies straight either.

So never having a partner, not leaving house for up to 2 weeks, anxiety to point of severe panic and chest pain, not being able to make friends, not eating or overeating, hair loss, weight gain etc not imparement?

That's terrible, how do these people sleep at night. It's good that you were awarded the right amount of points in the end. I'm in the middle of an appeal, trouble is because I wasn't assessed, there's not much paperwork for the judge to review. PIP is a total mess.

I'm sorry but that just means you've failed in life. Life is harsh.

Looking at the NAO review of assessments only Maximum employ any doctors (15% of their assessing staff). Both Atos and Capita on the PIP assessments employ no doctors at all to carry out the assessments.

My OH is STILL waiting to be called for PIP...just got his DWP letter confirming indefinite DLA for another year. I suspect it's because he's likely to go from middle rate care DLA (does not need care during the night) to enhances care PIP (needs lots of small amounts of help with a large number of tasks)...so an extra £27 a week. My hunch is they're using ESA records to front load the PIP transition with those who they assume can be bumped down or off while delaying anyone likely to end up with an increase in support.