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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
To be fair GPs generally are pretty useless.
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I think that's why they don't bother contacting GP's anymore, or they don't take the GP's diagnosis into account in their decisions.
Out of the four GP's at my local practice, only ONE was actually genuinely interested in helping me.
It took years, to get the help I needed.
Dealing with ATOS just makes things a lot worse, because all they did for me at least, was run through a pre written checklist/script.
The problem is the government doesn't make a point of keeping checks on people on benefits.
If someone is ill, they should be making sure the person is getting treatment and help, but they don't
From experience, they just sit back and let people take in a weekly/fortnightly giro or direct debit from the tax payer, without a worry.
The problem with that is, if you're suffering with a mental condition and you are allowed to sit at home all day, everyday, getting money from the government with no intervention or help, you get used to it and you're in the wrong state of mind anyways, so you end up accepting that as the norm and you feel almost comfortable doing what others perceive as leeching off tax payers, because no one, not even your GP, wants to get you the help you need.
It took me years to get the help I needed, because all my GP's wanted to do, was keep dishing out drugs and saying "come back in 6 months if you don't get better".