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Originally Posted by lisajones
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.
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Ok, Ill try again,
Does the organisation that you represent class any form of depression as one of the mental illnesses that you're organisation lists? Is that simple enough.
I have a family member, who amongst other things has learning difficulties, a condition that leads to random seizures (not epilepsy) and she was assessed as a test case for ESA and was told (and I was there when she was told it.) That she was exempted from looking for work. But would need to revisit a Dr. every five years (I think)
Would you like to know something? She got a job, she works as a carer in a nursing home. not content with claiming benefits she wanted to do something despite living with a rather nasty illness.
The most seriously ill people are exempted from this. Yet again, you have little or no knowledge whatsoever of the subject in hand.
The key point you miss is this, there are levels of sickness someone can be blind in one eye or blind yet is perfectly capable of working.
The government have taken a very hard line because in the late eighties or nineties they wanted to get the unemplyment figures down, transferring people over from 'the dole' to the then 'IB' was the easiest way of massaging the figures to show a reduction in the unemployment rate.
Oh, do you know in the past what the secret tick box on a IB form was for?