La Gran Bretagna ha soprannominato “Uomo malato del G7” mentre le affermazioni invalida per l’ansia hanno colpito il record

It’s impossible to disprove someone has anxiety or depression, so chancers are going to chance.

Anxiety benefits need to be strictly time-limited.

I know so many young people who genuinely consider themselves unable to to ever work due to anxiety, and I feel sympathetic because as a teenager and young adult I had horrendous anxiety and I know how it feels when even the most straightforward of interactions or social demands can trigger huge panic attacks. But I was forced to step out of my comfort zone by simply needing to work and wanting a good life for myself. And now (after a lot of tears and meltdowns) I’m like a different person and I’m so massively glad I had to do it.

Whilst in the pit of anxiety, I know how genuinely it feels like you will never be able to work but it’s actually a disservice to young people to let them accept that and consign them to a life on benefits so early. It’s not even about the economic imperative of “people should work”, “people should be productive” etc. It’s about allowing somebody’s world to get smaller and closing off their options and prospects so early in life.

anxiety should never have been a disability and whoever decided that needs whatever legal or medical licence that allowed them to make such speculation revoked.

They can work though.

Disability should be only for those who genuinely are incapable of working.

Since when was anxiety considered a disability? Genuinely asking.

It makes logical sense to claim benefits if you are on low income maybe fo a cash in hand job in the side

Who’d have thought that if you defund all the mental health support for both kids and adults, put people through austerity measures, experience a global pandemic, and allow the wealthy to profiteer off it so badly that they create a cost of living crisis, it would lead to a rise in mental illnesses and a lack of the resources required to treat them to keep people in the workforce? 🤷‍♀️

And, let me guess, the “solution” to making people ill through stress and financial instability is to make everybody’s lives more stressful and poorer?

it’s OUTRAGEOUS that people who only suffer anxiety but are physically fine would get PIP. many people who have chronic health conditions – physical conditions that restrict them in many ways – struggle to get PIP or only get the basic rate, or only get one part of it. Nobody who only suffers anxiety should be getting PIP. something very wrong when physically ill people are being refused, but Johnny nervous who is otherwise fine is being given PIP.

Financially incentivise people to claim disability for a feeling, and you’ll find loads of people claim disability

Some of these claims will be from people who have other conditions in addition to anxiety/mood disorders surely? Article doesn’t seem to mention anything about that

Anxiety and depression are temporary, no one should be on benefits long term for either of those

Here we go, again.

Do those who bash those on benefits know the process in receiving the most amount of PIP?

Are they aware how much a month PIP is? £749.80 a month.

If you get the ‘mobility’ component you pay £308 a month off of your £749.80 leaving you a month with £441 a month to live off.

Every conversation about every topic in this country bar taxation.

Where are the patriots angry with how their fellow man and women are treated by billion pound grossing companies in this country?

Why are the poor, disabled and immigrants daily negatively attacked by an Australian media mogul’s massive influential paper and the other non brits that own most of UK media.

When I lost my baby 2 years ago I had to quit. I seriously could not function. I think I had 4 months where I spent time with my friends and family instead, then I started applying for jobs and I got one! I started in the October, and it was HELL. but I went.

I took a LOT of time off for it. I worked in a hospital so you can imagine… walking into the same place I lost my first baby was the worst. But I stayed for two years. They were amazing and helped me through it all. I had 45 days off in a year due to the physical and mental symptoms of severe anxiety and depression.

I left and now I’m not grieving as such anymore, I got a new job. A new start.

I had rent to pay! I had no choice. I had to do it, I was lucky to have 4 months that I *could* take off because of savings and help. I wouldn’t have gone back so soon if I didn’t have to. I didn’t take medication, I had to force myself out of bed. The anxiety and crying at my desk daily was horrific. But you HAVE to do it. For your mental health to get better you NEED to get the fuck out of your depression hole and DO THINGS.

It’s easier now but I still get panic attacks, I still cry at work sometimes. It’s debilitating some days. I now have pain all over my body due to being constantly on edge, I’m always poorly or whatever. But just… do it. Life really isn’t that scary, even if you feel like it is. You must train your brain back to health again and it is possible. I don’t think I wanted to be here anymore after that loss but I got up off my arse and did something about it despite constant pain in my head and body. Without medication. Without therapy. I went outside and I connected with others and it worked wonders. It’s doable if you WANT to do it. If you don’t want help, don’t want to help yourself, then there you go, you won’t do it.

I don’t think you should be able to claim it as a disability making you unable to work unless you are diagnosed by psychiatrist and are cooperating with whatever treatment they prescribe. My MIL had manic depression her entire adult life and she’s managed to work full time and then part time once she reached 50. She retired last year and she said it’s more depressing being at home than working.

But at the same time, social media does not help, you get onto an algorithm sequence that tells you how shit everything is and how there’s no hope or doomer porn you’re going to end up depressed.

I spiralled on holiday abroad once because I watched a bit of BBC world news in the hotel room while my kids had a nap.. fuck me if I didn’t think the world was ending that day I’d be lying to you all.

Wanna know what’ll motivate people anxious enough to motivate them to go to work? Not being able to afford to eat

Social media and smartphones should be highly restricted for kids and young teens. The research is insanely strong on how damaging it is for developing brains. As a teacher we see the connection daily. As a mom my kids friends are even admiring how happy he is and hoe they know they would also be happier without social media, but they can’t stop it. One friend fell into a tiktok hole and got depressed and anxious, the school made the accomodation for his anxiety that he wouldn’t have to write tests anymore, which helps noone in the long run.. Luckily they could afford good therapy and banned social media from his phone and he was back to being ok a year later. But not everyone can afford it.

There are lots of reasons for it but money needs to be invested for early intervention by trained professionals in primary schools as well as in building up resilience and coping mechanisms. Far too often children’s worries and fears are ignored and because of this they develop into teenagers and adults who have never had the help they needed. It shouldn’t be ignored or treated as a weakness and something to be belittled because it definitely is not something those living with it use as an excuse. I’m a teacher of children who cannot access mainstream education and I can definitely spot the children who could do with mental health support before the anxiety becomes embedded. I saw a job for 5 trainees in ‘Mental health in education’ for my area but the jobs were to cover 3 counties when each county could do with 5 each. Prevention is always the cheaper option but rarely the one taken.