Government welfare reform bill

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19627

Bluestreak wrote:

Splod wrote:

The biggest problem seems to be mental health. The rise in the welfare budget is predominately down to young people claiming mental health issues: depressions, anxiety coupled with ADHD etc. Is the problem social media, covid, entitlement, wokery or what? The system really needs to find a way to get these kids into employment. They can't spend their lives on benefits. Its the same with the NHS, ambulances spend so much of their time dealing with mental health cases they can't get to heart attack or stroke victims in time. The withdrawal of funding for mental health services is possibly the biggest own goal in recent times. In addition I would support the appointment of more assessment of welfare claimants and stiffer penalties for those who defraud the system.

My feeling is that there are at least two strands of MH issues, firstly you have the real serious stuff like bipolar,schizo-phrenia etc which are called severe mental health illnesses and the others of medium to low depression and anxiety etc.
I worked with a guy who was very experienced in MH and he once said that most of the lesser MH issues come about simply because of certain basic things are not there in a persons life like a role,job,family,hobbies,money,housing etc etc and that once these things are put back into that person life they get better.Therapies like counselling mindfullness etc help but are not a silver bullet.
Maybe it goes back to a good happy childhood, education,travel,sport, friends and mentors and a guaranteed job at 16 where father and grandfather keep you in check?

reading that it does go back to the covid restrictions that stopped so many having the normal life they needed. mental health has always been with us but seems to have escalated since then. is it as serious as some make out ot just the new bad back for the workshy or somebody who wants a month off. i,m not trying to say it doe not matter as i have suffered once where it was hard to actually go to the doctors to even get diagnosed never mind doing anything else.

Government welfare reform bill

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