*The census results also showed that people were twice as likely to be disabled in the most deprived areas of England compared with the least deprived, with around one in four in the poorest locations declaring a disability. The pattern was similar but slightly less pronounced in Wales.*
*In the most deprived areas, people aged 40-44 were just as likely to be disabled as people aged 70-74 in the richest areas. In Blackpool, a higher proportion of those aged 40 to 44 were disabled than among people aged 70 to 74 in Windsor and Maidenhead.*
*Hart in rural Hampshire, rated England’s least deprived council area, had the highest proportion of non-disabled people over the age of 60.*
The real story people will ignore so they can have a bash at millennials/zoomers for being weak and spoiled instead.
Mental health issues spiralled as a result of the pandemic, although they were already growing amongst younger people before that too. It is important we recognise how life-limiting mental health issues can be, as that will be the only way we might see a change in how we view those affected as a society. It might also go partway to us having a talk about how modern life is contributing to the growing mental health crisis we are living through.
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Good luck to all the people trying to get PIP. It’s an uphill battle of trying to prove to people who think you’re trying to scrounge benefits, something that effects you that they can’t physically see.
Poverty ruins your body and mind, disability is almost inevitable over time. Constant sickness because you can’t afford to heat your home or eat properly. Ruining your body working long hours without enough rest. The constant anxiety gnawing at your mental health until you crack, at which point you’ll find there’s no help available because the services have been cut systemically for over a decade.
I’m not surprised; it seems that if someone isn’t a good partner or does something selfish they are a ‘Narcissist’.
If someone is having a bad day or feeling low they have ‘Depression’.
If they found a situation difficult and don’t want to repeat it they have ‘PTSD’.
I am not making light of any of the above serious conditions. On the contrary I think they have become so part of mainstream conversation that their seriousness has become watered down by a lot of people exaggerating their more mundane problems for attention.
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone stubbed their toe and recorded themselves as ‘Disabled’.
> The census was taken in March 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic when depression rates surged.
Is it particularly representative then??
You might as well survey people during the record breaking heatwave on how hot they were and then say a year later that the data shows peoples’ average temperature has gone up.
If the Government were to spend more money diagnosing, and treating young people in the early stages of their mental health problems, would almost definitely save the taxpayer in the long run. Earlier treatment would probably result in less people getting benefits and/or getting sick in the first place. Secondly, if they are better treated, then they would be probably be able to work, helping to lower the shortage of workers, and then they would be paying NI contributions, and Income tax, and therefore helping the UK economy, instead of getting benefits and costing the economy money.
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*The census results also showed that people were twice as likely to be disabled in the most deprived areas of England compared with the least deprived, with around one in four in the poorest locations declaring a disability. The pattern was similar but slightly less pronounced in Wales.*
*In the most deprived areas, people aged 40-44 were just as likely to be disabled as people aged 70-74 in the richest areas. In Blackpool, a higher proportion of those aged 40 to 44 were disabled than among people aged 70 to 74 in Windsor and Maidenhead.*
*Hart in rural Hampshire, rated England’s least deprived council area, had the highest proportion of non-disabled people over the age of 60.*
The real story people will ignore so they can have a bash at millennials/zoomers for being weak and spoiled instead.
Mental health issues spiralled as a result of the pandemic, although they were already growing amongst younger people before that too. It is important we recognise how life-limiting mental health issues can be, as that will be the only way we might see a change in how we view those affected as a society. It might also go partway to us having a talk about how modern life is contributing to the growing mental health crisis we are living through.
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Good luck to all the people trying to get PIP. It’s an uphill battle of trying to prove to people who think you’re trying to scrounge benefits, something that effects you that they can’t physically see.
Poverty ruins your body and mind, disability is almost inevitable over time. Constant sickness because you can’t afford to heat your home or eat properly. Ruining your body working long hours without enough rest. The constant anxiety gnawing at your mental health until you crack, at which point you’ll find there’s no help available because the services have been cut systemically for over a decade.
I’m not surprised; it seems that if someone isn’t a good partner or does something selfish they are a ‘Narcissist’.
If someone is having a bad day or feeling low they have ‘Depression’.
If they found a situation difficult and don’t want to repeat it they have ‘PTSD’.
I am not making light of any of the above serious conditions. On the contrary I think they have become so part of mainstream conversation that their seriousness has become watered down by a lot of people exaggerating their more mundane problems for attention.
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone stubbed their toe and recorded themselves as ‘Disabled’.
> The census was taken in March 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic when depression rates surged.
Is it particularly representative then??
You might as well survey people during the record breaking heatwave on how hot they were and then say a year later that the data shows peoples’ average temperature has gone up.
If the Government were to spend more money diagnosing, and treating young people in the early stages of their mental health problems, would almost definitely save the taxpayer in the long run. Earlier treatment would probably result in less people getting benefits and/or getting sick in the first place. Secondly, if they are better treated, then they would be probably be able to work, helping to lower the shortage of workers, and then they would be paying NI contributions, and Income tax, and therefore helping the UK economy, instead of getting benefits and costing the economy money.