Depression

Punchinello

In any form or degree of severity depression is more disabling than most people care to admit. It is so serious that the medics simply dont know how to cure it. To accept this and then the abuse that people with any disability have to to tolerate is infuriating. At any budget and every budget very little is done to even acknowledge disability let alone help to live with it. It is even more ignorable for people in power because we dont limp, we dont look disabled and we dont use a wheelchair or walking stick. There is NO indication that someone on the street has depression, unless they look when its too late.

Recognition in the workplace has been my driving force for years and parallels itself with a general ignorance about ALL forms of disability and the way we are closeted by the very people that could help us. Do we have a disabilty minister, I dont know

Bob

Rosie_Scope

Welcome to the community @Punchinello. You're right, depression can be incredibly disabling for some. There is still so much stigma around invisible disabilities and mental health conditions and the way these are represented in some parts of the press doesn't always help.

What has been your experience of fighting for recognition in the workplace? Do you feel there has been any change in how things are perceived in the past few years?

Catherine21

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/140328/depression

Yes I agree i get gaslighted alot but I dont live my life like most people im so limited within myself so sick of giving explanations like my psychiatrist says if someone's broken thier bones you can see thier pain not the same with mental health and dont talk about the masking