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« on: July 22, 2008, 07:14:05 PM » |
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My aunt had the nerve to tell me that, when I was explaining the sorry state of my finances. Man, I am blacklisted--when you can't conceal that you are on SSI for psych, you are blacklisted from the work world, and that is a fact! Not that the type of jobs i could apply for would pay much more than SSI, anyhow, especially after taxes. I am not so anxious to make some sinful rascal richer---it is not my svadharma (occupational duty of a brahmana)--I would rather starve to death. What I need is an independent income, but so far I have not been able to come up with much besides getting a shopping cart and picking up cans--and that is not as easy as it looks, either. Meanwhile, I have to depend on family and friends. Get a job, my ass!
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2008, 08:37:18 PM » |
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In my case I have a job .... not sure I can keep it.
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Cathy
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 03:27:15 AM » |
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That's pretty harsh. I guess some people don't even bother to try and understand mental illness.
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« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 04:48:18 PM » |
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Like you I'm sure, I wouldn't be able to afford my meds if I went back to work. I would lose all the benefits that I have now and actually go backwards. I would be in more of a hole that I already am, or I could just go without meds, and ensure that the worst would happen to me.
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2008, 12:19:15 AM » |
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Nothing from nothing...leaves nothing! The stigma of, people with MI's, is #1...worldwide. Stigma effects all of us in differrant degrees. We have no control, over stigma. Stigma decreases the quality of our lives. Stigma of society to stigmatizing ourselves, is totally a f*cked up situation. WHY?  .......WHY NOT!!!!!! (Got to get a little Philosophy in this) |
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2008, 01:40:14 AM » |
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yep, and there is of course the other famous phrase "you can't squeeze blood from a turnip". I don't expect anyone to understand anymore. There was this lady that I knew from the past that I ran into at one of my few outings to my daughter's softball game. I took care of her husband when he was dying. Anyway, when I saw her, she asked me where I was working now. I told her that I wasn't working anymore and after talking with her for a while, she seemed generally interested in what was going on with me and I mentioned that I was suffering with a mental illness and was on SSDI. She began to tell me that she has heard of alot of people losing their disability check because they were caught doing things that proved their ability to work, and she told me to be careful or that would happen to me. I got pretty upset, as I could tell that she knew shit about MI. I told her that my illness was one that they were scared to off of disability because if they put me back to work, they could be liable for me shooting people at work when I flip out. LOL. Anyway, she shut up and I walked off.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2008, 10:54:14 AM » |
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Exactly, High. For some people it's immoral to live on disability when "all" you have is a few mental problems--the people who get caught, though, are mostly guys on worker's comp who claim back problems and get nabbed remodeling their garages and carrying 50 lb sakcs of cement around! And absolutely true, if we could go to work we would lose our medical benefits and be in deeper shit than without the job.
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2008, 05:38:07 PM » |
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dont you just "love" the stigma they give us
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« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2008, 06:01:30 PM » |
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may sound silly but my aunt has a dog sitting business and charges 20 dollars a day for a dog and 25 for overnights,sojo  |
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« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2008, 04:04:37 PM » |
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i'm sorry your aunt said that. our predicament is so much different than most people can possibly understand. they also don't get the medical benefits that come with disability that make it possible for us to even survive. like you said after being on disability for a MI we don't actually have great resumes to present and if we are stable not much guarantee of staying that way. and then you might be able to make what you're getting but you get your medical and medicine cut off. here you're stable now go out and get a job and don't forget to make enough to pay the $1000.00 a month in medicine to help you stay that way! i know that if i was kicked off disability i would be dead. anyway, it's hard to make ends meet and my heart goes out to all who struggle each month.
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« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2008, 06:25:46 PM » |
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now that too is understandable i myself am going from stable to tripping. also hoping to get on abilify i just have to ask my PA
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2008, 10:59:16 AM » |
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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2008, 10:52:29 PM » |
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Clayton, i receive more per month than i did on my last job after taxes... and i have medical benefits. I'm certainly much better off on social security than i would be working... after gasoline alone, i'd be broke.
If i could get a job making a decent wage, i'd do it right now, pain and all... believe me.
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« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2008, 03:12:34 PM » |
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Pickle,
That is not bp, everyone does that. I usually throw up before a job interview.
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« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2008, 06:18:36 PM » |
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Well, Clayton, i understand the position you are in very well... especially on the subject of medical benefits. Without them, i wouldn't be able to go to a doctor, orthopedist, have xrays on my leg, the pdoc, get my medications, nothing!
Next year i might be shit out of luck, because my SSI review is then.. i'm sure that, by then, unless they figure i'm in a bipolar fog never to return, i will have to work.
i was fortunate enough to get the name of a lady who helps bipolars get back to work. i accidently stopped at Marin Health and Wellness Center when i was looking for the Marin Clinic for those of us on medi-cal. so maybe that was a step in the right direction?
i have to wonder what a 52 year old woman could do for work in this (expensive) county and survive on her own? I want my own place sometime in the future. i am looking forward to working toward that. but i'm very very frightened...
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