Posted by Vincent_QC on September 19, 2010, at 18:09:54
In reply to Re: oh canada! » Conundrum, posted by Maxime on September 19, 2010, at 15:36:01
> People abuse the system here. When you are on Welfare you get all your meds for free. So why would you try to get a job. I hated being on Welfare. I only started my new job a week ago and I feel better about myself. When I am welfare I feel like a parasite of society.
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> It's hard to look for a job because there are not many out there. I hope you find something soon.*************************************************
Maxime, I think you have to be carefull and not generalise here... not everyone abuse of the system... and having meds for free is not a good reason to be on the wellfare... I admit that some peoples tend to abuse of the system, but they are not sick...just lazy...and it's maybe only 5% of the peoples on the wellfare... REmember that a lot of peoples loose their job in the last years because of the bad economy... i'm sure they didn't wanted to ending on the wellfare but sometimes they have no choice...
I felt guilty for a long time in the last 2 years because i'm on the wellfare... but I worked for almost 20 years and I had money retrieve from my pay check every week at the time and it was to cover those kind of social programs... so now I don't feel guilty!!!
Some peoples in the last 2 years treat me like sh*t because i'm on the wellfare... some of them said that I didn't want to work, that I was coward and lazy, that I was just a piece of sh*t living in the hook of the society, that I didn't had any human rights... Trust me, hearing this is not helping you to get better...
Peoples who are not sick and work are often frustrated when they see someone on the wellfare... But they don't understand what it is to be depressive, anxious, bi-polar or whatever the disease you can have... they have no idea of what it is and they judge us... I hate those peoples...
It's like the TV announcement that play 1-2 years ago... where you see a guy in an hospital bed and all his co-worker go to see him and told him he choose a good time to take some holidays... That the best example of how peoples have bad jugdments and poor opinion about mental diseases...
Find a job when you can't get out of the house will not make me more happy... I understand that you can feel better about yourself and i'm proud of you that you have a job now, and I can understand that you now feel better because of this... but for some peoples, working is impossible...
When I will get better, I will start by doing volunter work, will have my own work schedule, just to put me again into the work world...will respect my limits... will return to school for sure at the same time and with hope I will be heal or stable and will be able to find a good job in my study field...
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