As my username indicates, I'm just so confused by all that is happening at present. I currently receive both IB and DLA. Apart from suffering from a chronic depressive illness, I have angina, asthma, crumbling discs in my lower spine, leading to permanent back pain and chronic sciatica in both legs and my groin, and have bursitis in both shoulders. I also have sleep apnoea which can lead to me falling asleep and stopping breathing at any time. The depression has led to me being afraid to leave the house most of the time, and I have frequent anxiety and panic attacks, and I'm simply becoming terrified of life itself. AS you can imagine, I have to take a great deal of medications and my doctor recently put me on morphine, in tablet and liquid forms to try and help me cope with the pain I suffer every day.
Now, we have a government who seem hell bent on stigmatizing me and people like me by labelling us 'benefit scroungers'. I should add that I'm 57 and worked for many years before illness forced me into my current position. If I lose my entitlement to the benefits I receive all it will do is cause great hardship to my family and leave me on a bigger scrapheap than I'm already on. Who,in their right minds, would offer a job to someone like me, who spends all day in pain, quivers and shakes like a jelly at the thought of going anywhere, can't sit or stand for long, and who is usually 'spaced out' just from the effects of the drugs I have to take to try to control my various illnesses?
