Dla?

andyandflo

sh1305 wrote: »

I think you'll find I was / am one of those people. If your illness was that severe, you'd have no choice but to get help.

Not really, you find other ways round the problem.

I have become a recluse, don't go out, don't have a social life.
Lack trust in anybody.
Alcohol does help!!

andyandflo

TOBRUK wrote: »

If you don't attend appointments and do not see your GP how can they give the DLA information they need! You knew that they may contact your GP - you should have made an appointment to see your GP to inform him/her!

If you ceased to have anything to do with the Mental Health Unit in 2004 then they can't give any information about your present condition. They can't base your claim on 2004 medical reports!

That's why I have the problem both with ESA and DLA.

There is no way that I will go back into that system. So, I can't access benefits. Who wins?

burkey365

no i was not a member of the public but served in afghanistan and iraq and was shot at daily and dont look for pats on the back or look for hero status as you seem to do..bottom line get your backside the doctors and the consultants and if they decide you need the meds then you need the meds...plenty of other people who are ill want help and would love the opportunity to be healed yet you refuse...as i said earlier GROW UP

Indie_Kid

andyandflo wrote: »

That's why I have the problem both with ESA and DLA.

There is no way that I will go back into that system. So, I can't access benefits. Who wins?

What do you think should happen? If you didn't have to have a medical history (many disabled people do) then you'd have loads of people self-diagnosing and claiming without having any form of input from a doctor.

TOBRUK

andyandflo wrote: »

That's why I have the problem both with ESA and DLA.

There is no way that I will go back into that system. So, I can't access benefits. Who wins?

It's not a matter of winning! You lose out - nothing to do with anyone else and it's not anyone's fault but your own and you can't put the blame onto anyone else - It is your own doing nobody elses, as you have pointed out, you know what the problem is. You know what you need to do if you want to claim DLA so you have to choose.

andyandflo

burkey365 wrote: »

no i was not a member of the public but served in afghanistan and iraq and was shot at daily and dont look for pats on the back or look for hero status as you seem to do..bottom line get your backside the doctors and the consultants and if they decide you need the meds then you need the meds...plenty of other people who are ill want help and would love the opportunity to be healed yet you refuse...as i said earlier GROW UP

No I don't want hero status, far from it, I hate what I did and wish it had never happened. I really want to forget and see that going through that system again only rakes up the old feelings of guilt.
The 'mind bending' drugs are awful, and being locked up in that place - well it is somewhere that people should not know about.

It's a damn sight harder coping like I do - on my own - than it is with help. It's a battle every day to try to live soemthing like a normal life. But to get help - I have to admit to needing it.
And yes I am grown up - 62 now, but don't relish the idea of being locked up when I have done nothing wrong!

andyandflo

sh1305 wrote: »

What do you think should happen? If you didn't have to have a medical history (many disabled people do) then you'd have loads of people self-diagnosing and claiming without having any form of input from a doctor.

which proves the point that 'medical history' is the key - not how ill you are or what disbilities you have.

andyandflo

TOBRUK wrote: »

It's not a matter of winning! You lose out - nothing to do with anyone else and it's not anyone's fault but your own and you can't put the blame onto anyone else - It is your own doing nobody elses, as you have pointed out, you know what the problem is. You know what you need to do if you want to claim DLA so you have to choose.

Thanks for that!!
Some choice!

Living in society but with no help.
OR Getting help claiming benefits, but being locked up under the Mental Health Act. Been there done it!!

TOBRUK

From your post you seem to be implying that I or others are to take some blame for pointing out your options.

You have admitted you need help - get it, it's there if you need it so it's up to you. If you don't want to take advice that's fine, you know what you need to do - you have said it yourself.

Seeing your GP would be the first step. You're not going to get locked up by speaking to your GP!

andyandflo

TOBRUK wrote: »

From your post you seem to be implying that I or others are to take some blame for pointing out your options.

You have admitted you need help - get it, it's there if you need it so it's up to you. If you don't want to take advice that's fine, you know what you need to do - you have said it yourself.

Seeing your GP would be the first step. You're not going to get locked up by speaking to your GP!

Sorry, but you do not have the faintest of a clue about the Mental Health Act.

One of the main reasons that I refuse to have anything to do with the medical profession is that I went in to see my GP in 1998, for a repeat prescription, and started telling him what was on my mind. Within 10mins, I was in a taxi with him going to the hospital where I was admitted without my permission into an Acute Psychiatric Ward. I was in there for 4 months - never being allowed out of the ward. You had no choices about anything, medication, food, anything!