More here: CBC News - Montreal - Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photosQuebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook.
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que., for the last year and a half after she was diagnosed with major depression.
The Eastern Townships woman was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from Manulife, her insurance company, but the payments dried up this fall.
When Blanchard called Manulife, the company said that "I'm available to work, because of Facebook," she told CBC News this week.
She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on the popular social networking site, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sun holiday — evidence that she is no longer depressed, Manulife said.
I agree. Insurance companies should leave all diagnosis and disposition in the hands of the attending physician and/or psychiatrist.Insurance companies need to get out of the doctor business.
I didn't think Canadians had insurance.
Insurance companies need to get out of the doctor business. If this poor woman were to injure herself do to the insurance company refusing to pay they should face criminal charges!
More here: CBC News - Montreal - Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos
People DO need to be careful about what they post publicly on social networking sites. There's something unhealthy and narcissistic about airing ones private struggles or drunken photos on a public blog.
Heh. Speaking of airing too much personal information...
But I do agree with you, people need to be far more careful about what they reveal about themselves online. It's like they think that a computer network with billions of strangers on it is their private diary, and they're all shocked when they discover that other people can see what they've written there. I've said some stupid **** online before, but at least I understand that what I'm doing is the equivalent of standing on a street corner and shouting it into a megaphone-- except without creating a public nuisance.
I am sorry for the woman, I am glad that I have to not deal with the Privet companies. I am on Medicare, and its doing fine for me. I feel that that when they do this it is unforgeable that they throw their clients away like this. :moody I have depression as well, and sometime I feel happy and sometimes I feel sad. I hope the woman sue their asses off.
Do you think they could find a way to possibly pay for an English class as well?
There is nothing more obnoxious than a poster who criticizes the grammar or spelling of someone who types off a quick post on an internet discussion site.
Hell, every shrink I talk to for more than a month wants me in a hospital. I've been smiling and pretending to be normal for thirty ****ing years, and the only people who even believe I'm sick are the doctors and whatever job I've been barely hanging onto this month.
Someone ever tells me I'm "just fine" because they find a picture of me smiling in a bar, I'd skin them and ****ing eat them.
So you're an online mental health adviser then??? :roflI was actually being serious and thinking education as well as ability might be related to depression. I think education is central to a productive life and does have an affect on brain chemistry.
I was not being a gammar cop.
I am sorry for my gammer, I have a disability. I did a quick typing answer, so sorry about not using any gammer. It is annoying that people point that out.
:rofl :lol:
I am sorry for my gammer, I have a disability. I did a quick typing answer, so sorry about not using any gammer. It is annoying that people point that out.
So you're an online mental health adviser then??? :rofl
Sheesh I get chastised for promoting education. No I'm not not the DP mental health advisor nor presented myself as one. I was just suggesting something.
Why is everyone so bitchy today?
Sheesh I get chastised for promoting education. No I'm not not the DP mental health advisor nor presented myself as one. I was just suggesting something.
Why is everyone so bitchy today?
:rofl: Now that is funny.Aren't you a prince!!! :rofl
You haven't gotten any lately?:2razz:
Because, you made fun of my typing and gammer skills by claiming I never had a education.
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