You wouldn’t have thought a lot had happened since my last post – neither did I. But, it did. A LOT. None of it good! Firstly, work are still taking the mick with my wages. They’ve picked the wrong person to mess about! Secondly, pub man is still at it! Well, what do I say […]
Mental Health
We’re Not Crazy!
I’ve had this overwhelming urge to write about my experiences of the last 3 years. I will start back in January 2010 and go right through to the present day. I am coming at it from a mental health point of view. It may be a long post, so please bear with me and be […]
My Weird, Crazy Life
I was supposed to see Dr B on the 6th of Feb, but for one reason or another it got cancelled and now I won’t see him until March. By the time I do see him, it will have been about 6 months since my last appointment. It’s pretty unacceptable, but when you only have […]
My Flawed WCA
As I mentioned in my last post, I am now going to talk about my most recent WCA and how flawed it was in favour of the DWP The stress and anxiety of the WCA doesn’t just start on the day that your assessment is. It starts the moment you open the letter that says […]
ATOS, DWP & WCA – Why All The Hype?
Who are Atos? The problem here is that the DWP has outsourced the conducting of the Work Capability Assessments (WCA) to a company that specialises in IT – by their own admission. The company do not have the expertise to provide the skills necessary for conducting this brutal assessments. In my case, they have very […]
An Update On My Journey
So, I was looking back through my blog and noticed that it had been quite a while since I posted anything about my mental health journey. I was shocked to see that it had been nearly 5 months and thought that I had better update my blog with everything that has been going on in […]
Dear Seetec – I Hate You!
So, I received a letter last week from the DWP stating that I failed to attend an appointment with Seetec on August 8th and that I needed a ‘good reason’ as to why I didn’t turn up. If I didn’t have a good enough reason then my entitlement to my ESA may be affected. I […]
Life So Far
So, since I haven’t written for a while I thought it was time that I did. Life has been hectic still since the last time I wrote about what had been happening. The last couple of weeks has been concentrated on getting assignments finished. The deadline is next Monday (July 16) I had 2 presentations […]
Mental Health Inequalities
I am writing this post based on a report I have read from The Centre for Economic Performance and The London School of Economics and Political Science. he report is entitled How mental illness loses out in the NHS. The report goes through and talks about how mental health does in fact lose out. I […]
Lib Dem (Broken?) Promise
Let me preface this by telling you why I am writing this. Jamie is studying a course at the OU at the moment. It is a psychology course. Her first TMA is to read 2 articles and discuss them. She read bits from the article to me and then I had to get the link […]