Doctors have not heard of pip

Tardis said:

You certainly seem to mix with a lot of fraudsters Yadnad.  I guess that must have affected your outlook on life.

You could say that - all 44 years of them. Cases ranging from multi million £'s involving money laundering, drug dealers, so called professionals who decided that working was not for them as fraud was much more lucrative, a convicted murder who was also involved in a high value gold bullion robbery, a public school bursar that defrauded the school account and my favourite a twice convicted paedophile who just couldn't stop making and downloading child porn and then selling it to an internet site (the nearest I ever came to knocking him from one wall to the next in the interview room - and oh yes a well known TV & music personality - out of a girl band.
Most of those few cases hit the TV and the newspapers one way or another.

Yep it's no wonder that I find it difficult to accept anything anybody says as being the truth having spent most of my life dealing with those types.

Tardis said:

Weren't you medically retired after the armed robbery in the mid 90s?  That must have been quite an early internet crime case.  And please don't try and minimise it by using the term child porn.  It's images of child abuse.

No I wasn't 'medically retired in 1995, I went on unpaid sick leave In 2000 I went back to work only because of after 5 years of seeing the insides of mental institutions I had had enough and besides which I was bored stiff with inactivity. I worked during the day and eventually started to mix alcohol with the anti psychotics and anti depressants at night in order to shut off the mess in my head. I dropped off the radar of the CMHT so as to avoid any more contact with them.

Then in 2004 I went down with Acute Pancreatitis which developed into full blown Chronic Pancreatitis because of the amount of booze I was consuming.

After spending months in hospital I went back to work until 2008 when I turned 60 and retired permanently.
 
Then in 2011 I restarted my DLA claim (the old one was closed down in 2004 as I did not send back the renewal form). 

Now looking back I didn't do myself any favours in the way I acted. The demons came back with a vengeance hence why my GP treats part of the problem (depression) with the max dose of Sertraline. I need to get what is in my head out and accept that when I had the chance to do that previously I turned it down.

My changed personality (from the brain damage caused at the same time of the robbery) is my worst enemy - too late to treat it now - I discharged myself from hospital when I was flown there by HEMS in South London. 

Tardis said:

That doesn't sound like it was an ideal working environment to return to after those experiences.  You sound like you need a new project.  How about campaigning for a welfare advice service in your area?

Depends on how you view it. If you are a person that has never seen or experienced large scale trauma then yes I can understand what you say. But having been in the forces in the late 60's+ and having experienced what went on in NI then it was nothing that unusual - been shot at many times before. It's people that make it worse by panicking.

That really will put me up against over 50% of the local population and not do much for my popularity at the forthcoming elections next May.

The main question to solve is who is going to pay for such a service? The Council Taxpayer?

When my council axed their in house welfare rights advisory and support service a few years back, there was little support in wanting it to change it's mind and retain it. More concern was raised over the state of the local council gardens not being replenished during the seasons of the year due to the cuts in staff and cost of plants

Certainly not - would you?
We are looking to extend the Public Space Protection Orders, They already cover the city centre and most of the wealthier suburbs now we are looking to include the areas around the two universities as well as anything within the ring road.

Obviously I have reservations about this as all that will happen is to move people on to other areas which will cause problems for those residents.