Thank you. The entire NHS is like this. I have to see the endocrinologist, neurologist, stroke clinic, GP and others, and it’s always endless difficulty and bureaucracy, struggling to get an appointment, being on waiting lists for years, I’m finally on the urology waiting list after begging to see a urologist for about a decade. This whole time I’ve had endless bladder problems and all the doctor wants to do is prescribe more and more drugs (all with terrible side effects) without even trying to find out what the problem actually is. And if I’d been given a proper programme of rehabilitation after my stroke I might not be disabled now. It also took them nearly 4 years to diagnose my cancer because they refused to do any tests, saying I was “too young for it to be anything serious.” Not to mention having to beg for money to pay for bandages and things after my foot surgery. The NHS has ruined my life.

Thank you.

It’s just pure snobbery to insist everyone must have a top notch job and a degree. So many kids who aren’t cut out for it get pushed and bullied into going to university by their parents and teachers, only to end up tens of thousands in debt with a useless bit of paper at the end of it. It’s child grooming.

It’s hard when most people are using all the effort they have just to survive from one day to the next. Which is probably why they make life so hard in the first place.

Not exactly by a Marxist, since Marxism didn’t exist yet, but I like this poem:

They hang the man and flog the woman

Who steal the goose from off the common

But let the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from the goose.

Yes, that’s fine, thank you. 🫂

The majority of people here have been nice, but there have been several who’ve teased me over mutual aid, spending weeks constantly promising to send help but then never coming through until I had to accept they were just teasing me. Those instances have been really stressful and disheartening. One actually got temporarily banned for doing it but then they let him back and he started doing it again. I had another person here recommend that I should commit suicide and give me tips on how to do it and say it doesn’t matter if I end up homeless. His comments eventually got removed. I’m just resigned to the fact that society absolutely hates and despises the disabled, even in a community like this.

People really do treat being ill or disabled as a moral failure. When I was first diagnosed with cancer people were understanding and sympathetic for a short while, and then as i got sicker and sicker and eventually had to quit work and didn’t go back, they just became judgmental and eventually drifted away and abandoned me. It really annoys me how whenever you meet someone the first question is always “So what do you do?” I would find myself trying to explain my health situation to justify why I wasn’t doing anything work-wise. But I could always see the look in their eyes, I was now considered subhuman and no longer worth talking to. They’d look shocked and judgmental, then their eyes would glaze over and they’d drift away.

🫂

Thank you. Yes I am clearly talking about all of the medical “professionals” in the UK.

I hate them all, including each individual doctor personally.

I don’t want to go because they never cure anything but just cause extra side effects.

Thank you.

Sorry you’re experiencing it too. They are always like this. It took them nearly 4 years to diagnose my thyroid cancer because they refused to do any tests, believing I was just a hypochondriac or depressed. The only reason it got diagnosed in the end is because my employer at the time paid for me to go private.

Yes, please do. It will make me feel less alone in this.

Profit is all they care about, patients are just a means to an end.

Thank you. 🫂

This is the only place I have any friends now. Everyone in real life just drifted away and stopped contacting me when I got sick and wasn’t fun to hang out with any more.

they could make a post on mutual aid, but if they won’t give their payment details I don’t know how people can help.

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/mutual_aid@lemmygrad.ml

Me too!

Thanks for posting! I’ll enjoy this.

Thanks, I don’t usually worry about god but I was having what I believe to be a manic episode a few weeks ago and that always stirs these worries up. I wish that would just go away but I don’t want to get diagnosed as I am already dosed up to the eyeballs with meds with awful side effects, and I’m worried if I’m deemed to be insane my right to refuse medications might be taken away.