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lisajones · 14-12-2009, 13:39

Does your organisation class reactive or otherwise depression as part of the mental illness portfolio

The question doesn't make sense to me. Who is saying otherwise? We are a group of unpaid family carers. We don't have official opinions on medical matters or any special knowledge.

The main problem we see is that the government is going to put sanctions on almost all people applying for ESA. We are fighting to try to get at least some sick people exempted. We would like to see all sick people free of sanctions but that is a bigger and harder fight. If we can't get the most seriously sick exempted then we aren't going to reverse the whole thing overnight.

The government and the newspapers have taken a very hard line on this. They are the people causing this problem and theya re the people we have to convince.

14-12-2009, 13:39	#137
lisajones Inactive Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8	Re: disability living allowance Does your organisation class reactive or otherwise depression as part of the mental illness portfolio The question doesn't make sense to me. Who is saying otherwise? We are a group of unpaid family carers. We don't have official opinions on medical matters or any special knowledge. The main problem we see is that the government is going to put sanctions on almost all people applying for ESA. We are fighting to try to get at least some sick people exempted. We would like to see all sick people free of sanctions but that is a bigger and harder fight. If we can't get the most seriously sick exempted then we aren't going to reverse the whole thing overnight. The government and the newspapers have taken a very hard line on this. They are the people causing this problem and theya re the people we have to convince.