How reliable is the media ?

Your thoughts align with mine, vouchers would be a nightmare to administer and further stigmatise those using them. The catalogue scheme would be like the PPE contracts, mates making the contents up and charging a premium for items that may not be the exact fit for the person. One off grants to purchase things required at short notice, clumsy,time consuming and costly to administer.

Cash paid direct can provide what is needed and when. For larger items, the cash can furnish a loan. Take away the cash which is valid declared income for a loan and the individual may not get a loan and be potentially left struggling without the item required.

Exactly Nightcity 😊

Losing sleep and severe anxiety does no one any good and will make physical symptoms worse.

Look after yourselves everyone ❤️

Stop picking on people with mental health issues. We are all equal

No one will ever know a persons suffering other than the individual living with it.

We all need to be empathetic and non judgemental.

As a community we have enough prejudice to deal with let alone it coming from someone who is disabled themselves and should therefor know better.

As posted before we our Son took his own life last year due to severe mental health problems.

Think before you post.

Luckily we do have a great deal of support. A dear friend started a Mental Health Group where people can just talk to each other and vent which has been of great benefit to us all whilst enduring the long waits for help from the NHS. He is an Army Veteran battling with PTSD.

Thank you for your kind words ❤️ We are grateful for the love and support we have. It's so sad that others are left to deal with it alone.

There are so many battling with so many different challenges mentally and physically.

We need to be kind to each other and look out for each other on this site.

We hope that our experience can help others.

We wouldn't wish that level of grief on anyone.

The Media seems to be pushing an agnda of disinformation in many case speading outright lies. The winter allowance for the elderly being a case in point. While leaving out anything that benifits people, the planned increase in pensions in April.

Why they want to course so much upset and worry is another question altogether.

Its best to take anything the media says that as only a staring point for further research. Even more so when politics is involved. Following the money and look who owns the media outlets can be rather enlightening

Don't forget that no matter how gloomy a picture the media paints there are some incredible people who genuinely care about the welfare of others .