To this is absolutely insane! Universal Credit Sanction

I really wish that MN had a FCK OFF or a STOP BEING A CNT react button/widget (apologies not too sure what they are called) at times!

I've worked with clients with mental health issues for almost 2 decades. I've seen first hand how utterly life destroying severe anxiety, depression and PTSD can be. Your glib attitude is ill-informed and frankly insulting.

Anxiety is an awful lot more than just being a bit worried or uneasy: it can be utterly paralysing, render people unable to speak coherently etc. Similarly, clinical depression is not just being fed up. It can rob people of the ability to motivate themselves to do the most basic things, like eat, bath or shower and dress themselves. I've supported clients who are so shut down by their depression that they can barely speak.

And as for PTSD, the sheer terror sufferers experience when something triggers a PTSD flashback can be impossible to overcome. One of my clients now has a physical disability after being hit by a car when their PTSD was triggered by the loud bang and crash of something being unloaded by a lorry and they bolted across the road, another is so terrified of encountering dogs that they are scared to leave the house.

All my clients would love to be free of their mental health conditions and able to live a normal life, but they can't. MH services are shockingly under-resourced, many go months without seeing a psychiatrist, the waiting list for things like EMDR therapy are endless and for many conditions there is no meaningful treatment.

My DB is bipolar. The only medication that controls it effectively is a 4-weekly depot injection (aripiprazole) that renders him zombie-like for 7-10 days after he's had it and starts to wear off about 10 days later so that he gradually becomes more manic and delusional. What employer would keep someone in a job who's only capable of working for a week or two out of four?

The ignorance and prejudice some people on here display about mental illness is so appalling that I come close to hoping that they'll experience it for themselves sometimes.

Sorry to hear about your brother, I had an elderly neighbour on the same 4-weekly medication, I did his shopping and it was difficult and upsetting the nearer it got to the injection, then sad for a few days when he was “too” calm. A lot of other neighbours steered clear but perhaps didn’t know the full story.

I've worked with clients with mental health issues for almost 2 decades. I've seen first hand how utterly life destroying severe anxiety, depression and PTSD can be. Your glib attitude is ill-informed and frankly insulting.

Anxiety is an awful lot more than just being a bit worried or uneasy: it can be utterly paralysing, render people unable to speak coherently etc. Similarly, clinical depression is not just being fed up. It can rob people of the ability to motivate themselves to do the most basic things, like eat, bath or shower and dress themselves. I've supported clients who are so shut down by their depression that they can barely speak.

And as for PTSD, the sheer terror sufferers experience when something triggers a PTSD flashback can be impossible to overcome. One of my clients now has a physical disability after being hit by a car when their PTSD was triggered by the loud bang and crash of something being unloaded by a lorry and they bolted across the road, another is so terrified of encountering dogs that they are scared to leave the house.

All my clients would love to be free of their mental health conditions and able to live a normal life, but they can't. MH services are shockingly under-resourced, many go months without seeing a psychiatrist, the waiting list for things like EMDR therapy are endless and for many conditions there is no meaningful treatment.

My DB is bipolar. The only medication that controls it effectively is a 4-weekly depot injection (aripiprazole) that renders him zombie-like for 7-10 days after he's had it and starts to wear off about 10 days later so that he gradually becomes more manic and delusional. What employer would keep someone in a job who's only capable of working for a week or two out of four?

The ignorance and prejudice some people on here display about mental illness is so appalling that I come close to hoping that they'll experience it for themselves sometimes.

I've worked with clients with mental health issues for almost 2 decades. I've seen first hand how utterly life destroying severe anxiety, depression and PTSD can be. Your glib attitude is ill-informed and frankly insulting.

Anxiety is an awful lot more than just being a bit worried or uneasy: it can be utterly paralysing, render people unable to speak coherently etc. Similarly, clinical depression is not just being fed up. It can rob people of the ability to motivate themselves to do the most basic things, like eat, bath or shower and dress themselves. I've supported clients who are so shut down by their depression that they can barely speak.

And as for PTSD, the sheer terror sufferers experience when something triggers a PTSD flashback can be impossible to overcome. One of my clients now has a physical disability after being hit by a car when their PTSD was triggered by the loud bang and crash of something being unloaded by a lorry and they bolted across the road, another is so terrified of encountering dogs that they are scared to leave the house.

All my clients would love to be free of their mental health conditions and able to live a normal life, but they can't. MH services are shockingly under-resourced, many go months without seeing a psychiatrist, the waiting list for things like EMDR therapy are endless and for many conditions there is no meaningful treatment.

My DB is bipolar. The only medication that controls it effectively is a 4-weekly depot injection (aripiprazole) that renders him zombie-like for 7-10 days after he's had it and starts to wear off about 10 days later so that he gradually becomes more manic and delusional. What employer would keep someone in a job who's only capable of working for a week or two out of four?

The ignorance and prejudice some people on here display about mental illness is so appalling that I come close to hoping that they'll experience it for themselves sometimes.

I've worked with clients with mental health issues for almost 2 decades. I've seen first hand how utterly life destroying severe anxiety, depression and PTSD can be. Your glib attitude is ill-informed and frankly insulting.

Anxiety is an awful lot more than just being a bit worried or uneasy: it can be utterly paralysing, render people unable to speak coherently etc. Similarly, clinical depression is not just being fed up. It can rob people of the ability to motivate themselves to do the most basic things, like eat, bath or shower and dress themselves. I've supported clients who are so shut down by their depression that they can barely speak.

And as for PTSD, the sheer terror sufferers experience when something triggers a PTSD flashback can be impossible to overcome. One of my clients now has a physical disability after being hit by a car when their PTSD was triggered by the loud bang and crash of something being unloaded by a lorry and they bolted across the road, another is so terrified of encountering dogs that they are scared to leave the house.

All my clients would love to be free of their mental health conditions and able to live a normal life, but they can't. MH services are shockingly under-resourced, many go months without seeing a psychiatrist, the waiting list for things like EMDR therapy are endless and for many conditions there is no meaningful treatment.

My DB is bipolar. The only medication that controls it effectively is a 4-weekly depot injection (aripiprazole) that renders him zombie-like for 7-10 days after he's had it and starts to wear off about 10 days later so that he gradually becomes more manic and delusional. What employer would keep someone in a job who's only capable of working for a week or two out of four?

The ignorance and prejudice some people on here display about mental illness is so appalling that I come close to hoping that they'll experience it for themselves sometimes.

Maybe the Poster you're insulting is just getting a little bit peed off with people not being able to get out and do a bloody job due to anxiety, depression, PTSD or whatever other condition is flavour of the month!
OP daughter and the other poster who can't leave their houses need a bloody good shake and get a job!

Crikey.

I prefer not to engage with someone who has such a low opinion of people who claim benefits.

Off out to the Co-Op now to spend my Carer's Allowance on gin. Must feed my free goat when I get back.

Awe, you poor wee sausage. Who hurt you?

Awe, you poor wee sausage. Who hurt you?

Even the government recognise this. Weekly or greater incidence of faecal incontinence is one of the things that leads to a claimant to be deemed to have "limited capability for work or work-related activity", and rightly so imo.

I did read it all. No, I don't think we should never leave the house. I go out and about as much as possible. It's clear you've never experienced the terror of thinking you might not get to the toilet on time, of having a disaster outside the toilets with teenage girls giggling, of then leaving a trail of excrement on your way into the toilet, of causing the closure of the toilets for cleaning, and of being in the toilet, listening to people outside the door calling you 'disgusting.' Very difficult to concentrate on a job with all that hanging over you. I applaud those who work, and thank my lucky stars I'm financially OK. Yes, I'm aware it has nothing to do with OP post, but you're talking about it, so why not me?

I spent some time job hunting a few years ago, but I didn't spend my days in bed while I was waiting to be granted an interview. I signed on with a temp agency and did all sorts of work while I was job seeking. That's the sort of thing that people who are serious about finding a job do.

So how do you suggest that DWP kindly encourages people to get their arses out of bed and attend appointments, funded by the taxpayer, to try to get them in to work and paying taxes? I'm not sure that fluffy slippers and tea and cake will really cut it as much as "you have no beer tokens this month. If you want other people to pay your rent, don't miss your appointment".

What was she supposed to do. Only her and him left in the room.

Laugh and agree?

She was shocked.

So you’re another one who thinks it’s totally inoffensive to say that people with bowel issues have no choice but to have an accident on the job centre chair and can’t actually leave their house?

Another one who thinks it’s really awful to talk about medical aids which allow people with disabilities to leave the house.

And apparently another one who things that the poster going on about it was absolutely relevant on a thread about a woman with zero disabilities.

No, you didn’t read the rest of the comments.

oh! And also the fearmongering from that poster! Despite being told repeatedly that, as she has a disability, UC would arrange alternatives for her so she wouldn’t be put in that position if she really couldn’t. But she kept going. People with disabilities will be reading this, and it makes claiming UC even more scary as they’ll think there won’t be reasonable adjustments for them.