when is somebody in power going to listen?

pollyanna1052 said:

Roddy said:

DWP = Decisions Without Proficiency
PIP = Professional Incompetence. Period.
ESA = Exist Suffering Alone
UC = Unethical Conduct

What beneficial  Benefit  will they introduce next? 
DII? Disability Is Idleness? 
YPIO Your Putting It On?


The world is their oyster... Perhaps they should have a referendum eh? You know, put it to the proper people: The able-bodied 'we're-all-right-mob' and those that don't know 'jack' about what it's like to be treated with total disregard or respect, of do they think that all disability is a matter of personal choice? There is more intelligence in one of my walking sticks than the entire workforce at the Department of Works and Pensions.  

Roddy said:

DWP = Decisions Without Proficiency
PIP = Professional Incompetence. Period.
ESA = Exist Suffering Alone
UC = Unethical Conduct

What beneficial  Benefit  will they introduce next? 
DII? Disability Is Idleness? 
YPIO Your Putting It On?


The world is their oyster... Perhaps they should have a referendum eh? You know, put it to the proper people: The able-bodied 'we're-all-right-mob' and those that don't know 'jack' about what it's like to be treated with total disregard or respect, of do they think that all disability is a matter of personal choice? There is more intelligence in one of my walking sticks than the entire workforce at the Department of Works and Pensions.  

Different subject, but with very similar overtones.
I have no hearing in my right ear. Some years ago, I joined a free Adult Ed programme for lip reading. The next set of lessons became payable for. When questioned why this had changed. The answer was that lip reading had been put under the category of `pastimes and hobbies`. Oh yeh, like we CHOSE to be deaf, like we choose to make a raffia basket! I left the class.

If they can squeeze another £1 from you, then they will. It's atrocious. It's like giving a child an ice cream and then taking it back. Don't get me wrong, I'm eternally grateful that my medications are all delivered, my recycled trash is collected etc. etc. but it costs me a fortune and for what? A shoddy and a sometimes forgetful service run by Aliens and the incompetent. If WE managed other peoples lives in this way, we'd all end up in Bedlam. It doesn't matter in which direction you turn to for a professional service these days from ANY government run department, it all goes pear-shaped. What's wrong with these people?     

Everything needs a re-think, doesn't it @justdon. Most systems are so antiquated that they do not cater for the needs of the modern world. I don't know the answer or how much the costs are for running a country, but then again neither do those who supposedly govern with their own implemented rules. We all hear about our local authorities struggling to finance their communities etc., and yet they soon manage to finance the cash to tart-up their offices! There is only one thing wrong with the NHS, and that is the decisions made by a Health Minister who's only ability is to shout 'here here' in the House of Fools in Westminster.  They can't even get their own camp in order, and so how can we be expected to depend on the Muppets? Year in year out they run about like headless chickens and achieve jack **** during the process. REAL PEOPLES LIVES & WELBEING are at the mercy of these 'F**k-Wits' and yet STILL they don't have the acumen to give a brass farthing. It's no laughing joke, unless you're sadistic.  

justdon said:

@Roddy ....yet another stumbling block we face ..how can we present evidence when we are forced to wait months and sometimes years to get an initial appointment ?

And then months or even years for a diagnosis ?

I have had severe pain with sciatica for coming on two years ..i have been backwards and forwards from the GP regarding this disabling problem for well over 18 months .i saw a physio last year ...nothing was said !....and have only NOW been told i have spinal stenonis..a year and a HALF later ...

This is another reason(amongst many) why we are slipping through the net .

It's quite simple really. They make it as difficult as is possible for people to submit their evidence within the time allowance given by the DWP. Don't forget, they're in this to save money and THAT is their motive. They give you 10 days to respond, and they take 10 months. Many, just simply give-up with it all as it causes too much hardship and distress. The DWP know this. We are all flogging a dead horse half of the time with these people who don't even have a central office that one can visit in person. You get passed from chimp to chimp, whilst applications are 'lost' or 'haven't been received' due to them wilfully providing you with a wrong department address and forgetting all and every conversation with them which may have taken you up to  90 minutes of trying to speak with somebody, and all of the whilst your health is deteriorating at lightning speed and aby recovery steps that you have made take you back to step one again.

They a are VILE and abhorrent to the core. Whatever happened to Customer Service, eh? They couldn't serve a poxy tennis ball, and they've absolutely zilch from their ongoing catalogue of errors, mistakes and countless wrong decisions. The entire system, sucks and at OUR expense. I was in tears at my assessment, and I've only ever cried before at funerals. Heartless the lot of them. They KNOW I cannot walk and yet they forced me to travel TWENTY MILES, on three separate occasions to get to their Interrogation Centre For The Elderly Sick & Disabled. From 2pm until 5:30pm without any drink or even the offer of one... "Hurry Up we haven't got all day!"  and neither have I got 2 years to waste kicking your ass into order.     

justdon said:

@roddy ..yet again there is nothing you say that i could possibly disagree with ...

It does reduce you to tears ..it is also very harmful for our mental health ..but who gives a sh** about that !

I have been failed by the system repeatedly since the day i was born ...and im STILL fighting ..47 years later .

And you know what ?i will continue to fight in any way i possibly am still able ...

Not because i believe i will get anywhere or be listened to ?but because it is the right thing to do ..

Even if it kills me ..and to be honest ..it wouldnt suprise me if it did !let alone the periods of severe depression and suicidal ideation  i have been through it is a constant physical deterioration too  ..and just like you said ..any healing that has taken place is simply unravelled the minute we have to deal with these people yet again or try to wrap our heads around yet another totally gobbledygook form  .

I hear someone on some sick doctors programme yesterday talking about how the future looks "bright" for mental health sufferers ...i mean ?people are actually believing this stuff ??

I hold the system directly responsible for what has happened to me over the course of my life time.And countless others.

I too have been abused by assessment centre staff and complaints have had to be made (not that they will ever be taken seriously or admitted to of course)

Have been reduced to tears by the downright open preducice and rudeness of some of them ..

Not to mention from other people who are meant to be in positions of "care"

What can we do tho when this is what we are up against ??

I love your posts btw ..because you voice the actual TRUTH of whats really happening out here ..

Thankyou !

I am now finally free from the horror of my care home, and so NOW is the time for the real fun to begin. Their antics are soon to be splattered on Facebook and on other social media sites where the so-called carers can rot in their own ****, like they make their residents do. I'd bet my last bottom $ that you'll be seeing about it the national press... My body is broken but they didn't break my mind, and it's pay-back time, Roddy Style. Their worst possible nightmare is about to unfold. Trust me.