Considering, what I would feel, the intense trouble I have in day-to-day social activities, am I therefore justified to be on welfare and live off of your tax money? Are others with symptoms such as mine or those who literally cannot interact with reality properly (e.g, forms of autism) be a legitimate excuse?
Make no mistake... psychological disorders are every bit as debilitating as physical disorders, and can certainly prevent one from working, or working as much as someone healthy.
No question. But would you agree with my suggestion that they are harder to prove because they are easier to fake and/or harder to diagnose? I know my GP sister, who majors in psychiatry for a large primary health practice, struggles a lot with assessment work that she carries out on behalf of Social Security.
Well I was diagnosed a decade ago multiple times when seeing multiple psychologists, along with my daily symptoms and the effectiveness of medication. I have been with multiple therapists (which would be accompanied by a social worker) - who have helped in some days. Additionally I have been. One for about two or three years and the most recent one lasted a year which had terrible results due to do some disagreeable policies. the problems to an all time high, which is sometimes expected in such a program as they try to have a more pushing attitude. However after a year the program was too ineffective for me and I signed out. Ever since then I've been on appropriate medication and cruising through my linear perception of time. I definitely have been considering alternative workplace options that are less or devoid of social interactions.You are, with a few caveats.
One is that you be assigned a social worker to help socialize you and help you work through your disorders in order to become a more socialized and help you become a responsible and productive citizen.
So you able to live off of tax dollars, but only so much. You'd also be obligated to find some kind of revenue source that doesn't trigger your anxieties. There are many occupations in which you can work from home, especially with the advent of the internet. Also, your social worker should help you find some kind of occupation outside that home that you can use to generate money and take care of yourself.
I have no problem with helping out others, especially with my tax dollars, but I do have a problem with people not getting proper help.
Korimyr, I feel very sympathetic to your stated disorders, but you do have skills that would permit you to engage in paid work. You write very well indeed and clearly know your way around a computer. Wouldn't some kind of web work be an option, an alternative to life-long welfare benefits? Or perhaps just a supplement to them?
The biggest loser in permanent disability status is the sufferer themselves, as the work ethic and the self-actualisation that work brings is a fundamental bulwark to our self image and to our ego and super-ego. If your sign-off (The basis of all morality is duty) means duty to society and family, as well as to yourself, you may find that the duty to contribute to the work of the community is the key to looking outwards, beyond the confines of your neuroses/anxieties and towards a resolution of those issues.
Yes, I agree with this absolutely. I hate having to live like a parasite, and I intend to do so for as little as possible. I was designed to work-- if not, apparently, to hold a job-- and I am uncomfortable when I am not working.
Korimyr, you are not, and I'd be mortified if you thought I was suggesting that you were, living like a parasite!
Not knowing you, I struggle to know what to suggest, but don't the social services department have a rehabilitation/occupational therapy unit that could assist you in identifying your skills and qualifications and matching those, cognizant of your condition, with possible career opportunities?
I really do sympathise with your position and just wish you good luck and strength.
First I would like to consider how diverse the intensity of feeling and thought can be towards an individual. Event or challenge X can be of less or increased intensity requiring more willpower and work than the other individual based on relative circumstances.
Below is just a personal and specific example. I am not looking for sympathy or psychiatric help, although the paragraph may appear that way. This is simply a fairly detailed explanation to get the point across.
For example, for the past decade I have have been diagnosed with relatively every anxiety disorder with an explicit social phobia and OCD. My social and environmental phobias are extreme that some days I cannot leave my apartment or merely step outside if the weather is a certain way. I.E, the optimum place for bees. I get an intense sickness in my stomach, increased heart rate and a reaction to stimulai that simulates fear but without any explicit reason applied to it. The abstrat concept incites anxiety and other symptoms. I'm on medication and have gone through therapy which has helped, however I have tried to go through the workplace multiple times. Within the first day I already obsess and worry about having to do another days of labour the next day. The place itself then gives me an intense, intrinsic fear along with previously mentioned symptoms such as stomach sickness. Feelings like this are instantly relieved when said environment is left. It's sort of like waking up from your worst nightmare and being relieved that it wasn't real. I would love to have a steady career or maintain a job but it is a legitimate, daunting challenge that I have made multiple attempts at.
Considering, what I would feel, the intense trouble I have in day-to-day social activities, am I therefore justified to be on welfare and live off of your tax money? Are others with symptoms such as mine or those who literally cannot interact with reality properly (e.g, forms of autism) be a legitimate excuse?
If your symptoms prevent you from holding or seeking gainful employment outside the home, you are justified in receiving disability benefits. It's just much harder to get approved when your problems aren't physically apparent.
I'm fighting with Social Security now for psychological reasons. I have a laundry list of diagnosed anxiety and mood disorders, but the main reason I can't return to work is Intermittent Explosive Disorder. I get vicious panic attacks when I'm dealing with any kind of stress, and even on my medication I tend to lash out in scary and destructive ways when people push me. I've been in and out of the hospital for the last year, and my doctor and therapist agree that I can't hold a job, but Social Security is trying to claim that I can return to work. My hearing isn't for another year.
There's a great book that analyses the phenomenon of ever-increasing levels of anxiety and mental dis-orders in the wealthiest nations on Earth. The acclaimed psychologist, Oliver James has coined a term for the effect, Affluenza. He has written two books on the subject and they make extrordinary reading. The books are called, Affluenza and The Selfish Capitalist. I heartily recommend them.
Here's an explanation of the term.
Affluenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BTW, I am not positing the idea that this has anything to do with Korimyr or Strelok's issues. How would I know? But it is a very interesting issue to look at.
Affluenza, as a condition, is poppycock - I consider it one of the greatest BS conditions ever to be coined.
Years ago my school sent home 'information about Affluenza' - they even held an informational meeting about it - at first I was like "WTF! A new disease, OMG!" - but then I read the information about it and realized it was just about people wanting to buy stuff.
Yeah - in this town where the average person earns 8,000 a year they had a school meeting about kids wanting stuff.
The acclaimed psychologist, Oliver James has coined a term for the effect, Affluenza. He has written two books on the subject and they make extrordinary reading. The books are called, Affluenza and The Selfish Capitalist. I heartily recommend them.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is the case in some disorders. We have technologically outgrown our need for meaning in life, but the need is still there in full force. In times past, people were too busy trying to survive to be overly concerned about having whatever they wanted. If you look at cultures in less affluent countries, you will see a very different "spirit" to the country culturally. I watch and read alot about foreign cultures, and am consistently amazed at how much more satisfied people are who must actively participate in a conscious attempt to merely exist. They don't have the idle time on their hands to worry about frivolous matters. They are living in the here and now. We tend to live for the next new product from Apple or MS. That's a pretty empty existence imo.
Sounds like you've probably read something on the subject already, or have come to similar conclusions.
If it's not a condition and instead is a psychological theory then schools should stop pushing it as if it is a condition which has a 'cure' and is 'contagious'
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