Forty years ago I was a young person with serious MH issues. I bounced about from hospital, to benefits to any job I could get. The only jobs that I could get were ones that required no qualifications, did not ask for references and would fire you if someone better came along. I was fired from many of these jobs.
The whole situation made me feel like a total failure. I felt like I was a pariah in society who could not even hold down a 'dead end' job. There was a lot of stigma about mental illness in those days as well.
Now people are not so afraid of declaring mental ill health, and there is not such a pressure for people to take any work that is going, no matter how inappropriate it is for the individual. People have been able to recover, and find strategies that enable them enter and thrive in a workplace, if this is possible, Yet, the government's current rhetoric seems to be turning the clock back and resurrecting the stigma against people with mental health issues.