| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health 08:01 - Jul 17 with 1585 views | SwaneeRiver |
Mental health in all it's forms is something few of us have managed to avoid.
There is a brilliant pinned thread on here where many of our posters have discussed their battle with Mental health and many others have offered their support
Yet yesterday one poster was suggesting many who suffer with mental illness could and should stop claiming benefit and get out to work.
What an unbelievable lack of empathy from a poster who has form for extreme views
Absolutely disgusting [Post edited 17 Jul 8:05]
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| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 19:48 - Jul 17 with 500 views | Whiterockin |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 19:44 - Jul 17 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Here are some information
1. Over the last four years, there has been a large increase in spending on working-age health-related benefits, from £36 billion in 2019–20 to £48 billion in 2023–24, and official forecasts expect this spending to increase further to £63 billion in 2028–29 (all in 2024–25 prices.) Total health-related benefits spending for all ages has increased from £52 billion in 2019–20 to £65 billion in 2023–24. The increase in working-age spending has been mostly driven by an increasing caseload: from 2.2 million in 2019–20 to 3.2 million in 2023–24 for disability benefits (39% growth) and from 2.5 million in 2019–20 to 3.2 million in 2023–24 for incapacity benefits (28% growth).
This is happening in UK but no other Country..
The staggering rises are amongst work age people not pensioners. 1 million workers lost and now on benefits. An ethnic breakdown would be useful.
All people with health problems gave my sympathy. My issue is the statistics not individual issues. Why are 1 milliion extra workers off sick in the last 4 years ? Why is this not seen in other countries of very the same period.
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Where is the relevance there to mental health. |  | | |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 19:54 - Jul 17 with 450 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 19:48 - Jul 17 by Whiterockin |
Where is the relevance there to mental health. |
This is from the IFS institute of Fiscal Studies. As before.
The new claimants of disability benefits are in some ways not like those who were
beginning claims shortly before the pandemic. First, they are younger. The number of
new awards made to under-40s has grown by 150% (from 4,500 a month in 2019–20
to 11,500 in 2023–24); growth for 40- to 64-year-olds was ‘only’ 82% (11,000 a month
to 20,000 a month). Second, current new claimants are more likely to claim due to mental health problems |  |
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| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 20:07 - Jul 17 with 423 views | Whiterockin |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 19:54 - Jul 17 by ReslovenSwan1 |
This is from the IFS institute of Fiscal Studies. As before.
The new claimants of disability benefits are in some ways not like those who were
beginning claims shortly before the pandemic. First, they are younger. The number of
new awards made to under-40s has grown by 150% (from 4,500 a month in 2019–20
to 11,500 in 2023–24); growth for 40- to 64-year-olds was ‘only’ 82% (11,000 a month
to 20,000 a month). Second, current new claimants are more likely to claim due to mental health problems |
"Second, current new claimants are more likely to claim due to mental health problems"
Where did it say that. | | | |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 20:30 - Jul 17 with 402 views | max936 |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 17:20 - Jul 17 by SwaneeRiver |
My late wife developed ME in the 80's when it was called Yuppee Flu
Many had it and recovered
Others like my wife never did, but instead developed a load of other conditions
With ME she could have turned up one day with enough energy to work
However the next few days she would have to spend in bed recovering
She was depressed to the point of being suicidal when she had been ill for five years and was wheelchair bound
For the next 25 years she was constantly badgered by those who "knew" there was a job she could do.
In her working life ( all too brief ) she would jump over most people's heads and her desire to live a normal life never left her, even when she found she had terminal cancer at the age of 55
Yet there were still people like Res who were adamant there was work she ( and many in a similar position could do.
Understandably I get angry when I read such unbalanced right wing views |
My Mother suffered for years and years, but later in life she developed a terminal illness, we don't know if those depressive times were caused by the illness she passed from though, the mind is a powerful organisum as we know so it may have played a part in the illness.
I expect most have suffered with anxieties and sweaty sleepless nights, that in itself is bad enough, but that's rather mild compared to the true reality of mental health. |  |
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| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 23:38 - Jul 17 with 331 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 20:07 - Jul 17 by Whiterockin |
"Second, current new claimants are more likely to claim due to mental health problems"
Where did it say that. |
It is from an assessment by the IFS. There are 1 m extra claimants in the last 4-5 years. All of working age 18-60 presumably no longer at work. This is not seen in other countries so is not related to the vaccine.
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/health-related-benefit-claims-post-pandemic-uk-t [Post edited 17 Jul 23:49]
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| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 05:12 - Jul 19 with 183 views | Treforys_Jack |
Certainly some worrying statistics on this thread. |  | | |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 12:04 - Jul 19 with 127 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health on 05:12 - Jul 19 by Treforys_Jack |
Certainly some worrying statistics on this thread. |
In my opinion the prevalence of the use of recreational drugs is now starting to effect GDP and Fiscal matters of the nation.
From a bit of research I have done 50% of depression cases are related to recreational drug use.
Those that say de criminalise Cannabis are not thinking economically.. | |
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