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Kalamity_Jane said:

are you ok teejai? wanna talk more?

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Just getting increasingly frightened/paranoid/stressed thinking about the forthcoming welfare benefit changes and how it's going to affect me.

I feel guilty enough and useless enough for not having worked due to illness and lack of appropriate help without the government seeking to terrorise people like me .

Ask me if they put the clock back and gave me the help they should have given me would i want to and be able to cope with work and the answer would most probably have been yes .
However since 18, aside from the less than general mental health care, there's been sod all help given for those problems that impact on that ability.
Instead i was basically told for years and years that work was not a viable option for someone in my position.

Also this new benefit change aside from putting mentally ill people under undue pressure is likely to see a fair number who are not exactly financially rolling in clover as it is,whatever the right wing barbarians of the populist press might say,financially worse off.

In fact this whole damn thing has got me so paranoid etc that i'm increasingly wondering how much my mh team are there to actually help me as opposed to how much they are willingly going along with reactionary policies that aim to scapegoat and demonise the mentally ill.