tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post3722465695594855085..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: Death Threats - By Sue MarshBenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-67412229604957352912011-02-23T16:13:21.026+00:002011-02-23T16:13:21.026+00:00(Oh, I have autoimmune diseases that I didn't...(Oh, I have autoimmune diseases that I didn't know that I had until I nearly died and a form of arthritis. My partner had to leave his job to look after me.)Ms Glastonburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17922421514416158584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-77673105765175413042011-02-23T16:08:22.264+00:002011-02-23T16:08:22.264+00:00I would have ended it had my partner not stuck aro...I would have ended it had my partner not stuck around. (Though I wouldn't tell him just in case he did want to leave. I wouldn't keep him trapped in a relationship where he doesn't get much out of it.) <br />I was 21 years old. Working in the best paid job that I'd ever had (£40K!!) and then I got sick. I lost my job because I couldn't do it anymore and have got progressively and progressively worse. I applied for ESA and thankfully didn't have too many problems apart from the humiliation but if things keep getting worse and worse financially then I don't see any way out except to break the law. <br />Imagine this - young disabled mother stealing nappies and food from Tesco because I can't afford much. At least if I got put in prison I'd get a roof over my head, three meals a day and all the medication I'd need! Got to be better than the alternative of living with no money and debating over heat or food.Ms Glastonburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17922421514416158584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-34049944856761065312011-02-19T21:36:59.912+00:002011-02-19T21:36:59.912+00:00Oh yes, just to add to what I wrote a couple of mi...Oh yes, just to add to what I wrote a couple of minutes ago - and this will probably be unwelcome to many of the Broken of Britain - it's not a matter of money (yet). <br /><br />I wouldn't fear a genuine assessment either, but I'm not going to get one. This assessment is about finding as many people as possible fit to work, and then hanging them out to dry where the rest of the population can through rotten vegetables at them. <br /><br />What is finally getting to me is the hostility, "Either you are genuinely disabled in which case you're a useless f***ing sicko (to quote) or you're a benefit fraud living a life of luxury by stealing from honest folk who have to work hard just to make ends meet."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-82270555463650110922011-02-19T21:23:46.029+00:002011-02-19T21:23:46.029+00:00I have, amongst other problems, ME/CFS, and we hav...I have, amongst other problems, ME/CFS, and we have as much to go through as most. Each assessment stands a good chance of you being assessed as having nothing wrong with you except a bad case of "hypochondria and learned helplessness". I've never actually had a doctor tell me to "F off and die," but sometimes it's seemed quite close. <br /><br />Your article says, "I've heard from people in despair, unable to go through another assessment." I think there is one word missing from that phrase. "One more HOSTILE assessment." <br /><br />Someone trying to work out what you might be entitled to is one thing - tiring, depressing and undignified. Assessment where someone is trying to trap you into doing something which can be misinterpreted, to tell you that there's nothing wrong you, which requires you to be ultra careful about every word and gesture from the minute you make the arrangements to the point where you leave the area - that is different. <br /><br />Add in the need to make sure that you never ever do anything which might indicate that you might not need something you genuinely qualify for - just in case a neighbour with a grudge is watching you and will ring the shop-a-scrounger hotline. <br /><br />Now I'm beginning to see retirement age on the horizon. And seeing more and articles and online comments on how my age group has stolen the future from the young ones. How living in house which has more than 2 bedrooms is a sin when there are families out there who need what I've got. <br /><br />I am in no doubt that I am a burden on society, who has virtually nothing to offer to anyone - and never will have. There are still a few people (4, at last count) who would be deeply upset if I died, but I am trying to make sure that I have a suicide kit together. One more serious restriction and I will need to use it while I still can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-40431628668655678872011-02-19T08:54:21.273+00:002011-02-19T08:54:21.273+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-77556845908451889072011-02-18T20:44:44.086+00:002011-02-18T20:44:44.086+00:00I have come pretty close to suicide a couple of ti...I have come pretty close to suicide a couple of times. I would have taken my disabled son with me. I could not have left him behind. It was the fact that I also have another child which held me back. I know he would have been taken care of by family but I couldnt do that to him. <br /><br />Many people do feel total despair frequently. There seems to be no light at the end of a long dark tunnel. For me suicide would not have been a cry for help. I would have tried to make absolutely certain that I would suceed and during the periods of time I am speaking about I never mentioned my thoughts to anyone.<br /><br />It is a big issue. People considering it, or doing it, deserve the respect they have rarely received during their various struggles with life.<br /><br />SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-10320540121321263002011-02-18T12:18:22.705+00:002011-02-18T12:18:22.705+00:00I honestly suspect the issue isnt discussed becuas...I honestly suspect the issue isnt discussed becuase they secretly WANT that, for us to just give up and bail out peacefully, that's way better for them. I recently had to fill out one of those mental health assesment form, and was annoyed by how it seemed to only apply to depression with no cause! I think depression with a cause is WAY more common, and I'm bemused by the fact that having totally logical situational depression means that I have to wait forever (a year and a half at this point from a 'high suicide risk' referal... frankly it seems they couldnt give a stuff.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741788737588200682noreply@blogger.com