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>Given the interaction with disability benefits, having your disease declared to be in your head may result in the money you need to live being withdrawn. It's
by gph 8y ago
>Given the interaction with disability benefits, having your disease declared to be in your head may result in the money you need to live being withdrawn. It's very high stakes.
I didn't think a disease being mental ('all in your head') was relevant to disability? At least in the US I know people on disability because of mental illnesses.
- pjc50 8y agoI did say "may"; also, there's a very big difference between declaring someone's illness to be a "real" "recognised" mental illness, and declaring it to be "all in their head". The UK system is particularly bad at finding spurious reasons to dismiss disability claims.