“Even more stringent benefit cuts are on the cards.” “Ministers are planning billions in cuts to disability benefits.” “the House of Lords economic affairs committee said this might not be enough.”
FFS just legalise euthanasia already. I’d rather get a quick injection than starve to death out on the streets. Even the Nazis were kinder to the disabled, gassing them to death quickly.
CW: suicide
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What you described is my worst nightmare. Really sorry you had to go through that. I’m in Canada but even at my worst moments I never even let my doctors or therapist have even the suggestion that I was suicidal. I don’t know what the best strategy is to deal with people having a mental health crisis but personally getting institutionalized would probably drive me insane. The other thing that comes to mind is that so much mental illness is caused by capitalism ie rent, low wages, poverty. All issues national governments seem to have no interest in addressing. Papering over the cracks is their method of choice.