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Is a cold day today,my baby not feeling okay will take her to the GP today

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No I didn't get any help in my area at the moment

I hope I never ever meet Liz Kendall in person! For if I did I would give her a piece of my mind she would never forget.

I have just been reading through her speech from yesterday.

"Benefit reform is like the fight for women’s equality", states the work and pensions secretary.

Forgive me if I am wrong here but weren't the rights of women fought by women who were affected and concerned by those rights. Where as benefit reforms are being led by policy and decision makers.

Spot the big difference here?

Liz Kendall is an ignorant malicious individual with no real clue about life with a disability.

Exactly what planet is she on to believe that cutting benefits of the people who need extra support equates to the struggles of the suffragettes?

In short, the whole debacle was a word salad peppered with vile lies.

Would have been more truthful had she said "we are simply not prepared to tax the rich but will go ahead and take cuts from the disabled instead"!

She better hope she doesn't cross my 'Pathway' any time soon that's for sure.

Honestly I have not found my mental health professional in my area. I don't even know how to begin, I just make sure to keep myself busy so that I don't think too much and stress out things I cannot control.

I’m feeling a bit exhausted from work. I feel like not going into work but I need to get up, get dressed and go win today. Sometimes, I feel I need to go out more often to spend time alone. I just want to wake up in a lovely hotel by the sea.. The biggest problem is how do I afford this trip. Some day one day.. I’m gonna achieve that. I will look back to this memory and smile☺️.

Hôm nay tôi đã bị từ chối tị nạn, tôi đã rất cố gắng để gợi lại chuyện cũ trong quá khứ để trả lời phỏng vấn, và sắp tới tôi phải làm thế một lần nữa. Thật sự nó khiến tôi rất mệt mỏi và áp lực, nó ảnh hưởng đến cuộc sống của tôi và con gái rất nhiều

Today I was denied asylum, I tried very hard to bring up the past to answer the interview, and I will have to do it again soon. It really makes me very tired and stressed, it affects my life and my daughter's life a lot.

I am struggling hugely with my daughter at the moment, and just was in floods of tears to her Occupational Therapist. She is now in the process of helping find some support for me; but if I didn't have her, I wouldn't know where to turn. The GP waiting list for therapy is long and although I think it might be helpful, it will be some time away. I would like to meet parents who are also struggling so we can support each other, but I wouldn't know where to look for these kinds of groups. My mental health has struggled more since having children than at any other time of my life, and if I am not okay then it impacts my whole family. I wish it was easier to find out how to get help, when it is needed. I imagine there are lots of other parents in a similar situation to me.

I have been able to get support for my mental health issued at some point with a Community Link Worker attached to my GP clinic. And she was really helpful in terms of handling my mental wellbeing but since I moved away from the county I have not been opportuned to come across any help.

I could hear from friends though that there are some private organisations that help people in this area which I recommend to people even though there is a long waiting time before help could come to you.

There is a great need for quick access to people with mental health to get help before they develop into an illness that will deter their health

Do the middle class hate the lower classes? More the deemed undeserving poorer members of the lower classes, the unworking or invisibly disabled. Yes, I think they do. Not cos they understand our realities, I'm sure if they did they'd change their tunes.

I used to enjoy people watching in cafes, a cheap cuppa and nice view for my version of a day out. But these days it's becoming an activity I partake in less and less often because of the conversations I overhear. I live in a middle class town, with pockets of deep poverty but mostly middle and upper working class majority. And their attitudes towards people on disabilities benefits and the unworking are getting more and more derisive. This last year esp I feel everytime I force myself to go out, get out of my flat and try to have at least a semblance of some kind of life around my invisible but debilitating disabilities, I overhear more and more that makes me fearful for my safety. To hear strangers casually debating at the local coffee shop which disabilities are deserving of aid (often summarised as if I can see their disability then I won't argue they deserve aid - when most of the people I know in wheelchairs can do so much more, day to day functionality, than many with hidden disabilities, cos all disabilities impact each persons differently, visably or not). Or the usual complaints that if you're on benefits you shouldn't be able to go on holidays, if you're not working what do you need luxuries for, they're a reward for hard work, etc. I can go on and on. The tones they use when they say "unworking" "faking/lifestyle disabled" feel like a slur, like we're dirty. Undesirable, undeserving, unwanted. When we just want basic level of liability. Same as them.

But I don't get the impression they have this view due to lack of compassion, they often talk if one or two people they know who are deemed deserving in their eyes, due to harsh traumas or long term relationships(we have more empathy for people we know than for unknown strangers who are just numbers, statistics on a screen). It's a mix of accepting propaganda meant to turn the masses against the poor (and distracted from the rich), and a bit of fear. They fear becoming like us, so internalise their own work based abuses like a cloak of pride. Like if we get basic nessecities when such things are increasingly harder for even the middle class, then are they even better than us anymore. They fear us coming up to take from them, when it's rich businesses and corporations taking from all of us. They're closer to us than to the aspirational upper classes. But they're so busy trying to maintain their lifestyles that they fear it all being taken away, which it easily can be (as many of their deserving disabled poor friends who used to be super hard working before some tragic accident or illness). I have empathy for their fears, their instabilities and their anxieties. Why can't they see we're dying down at the lower classes, why can't they empathise with us and use their brains to see past propaganda. Why is that so hard.

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It is a Sunday but also cold,will be indoors today baby not feeling okay also

Yes where we live on a cul de sac is really quiet compared where used live and kids have thrived more being here xx

Yes it does

Backgrounds mould a person depending on how he /she controls the situation. I can be raised by thieves but despise their actions, on the other hand there may be reason for their acting eg lack of provisions