- Target:
- United Kingdom
- Region:
- United Kingdom
After being diagnosed with serotonin deficiency and suffering severe depression with suicidal behaviour, I was taken off jobseekers allowance, and put onto employment support allowance, after a while I had to face a medical assessment, this was by means of filling in a questionnaire in the presence of a nurse, (the company who carry out these medical examinations, are a private profit making company) there were very few questions around mental health, and apparently if I can make a cup of tea and prepare a simple meal then my cognitive ability was sufficient to get me thrown off ESA after some time I started voluntary work for an organisation and found many people had been subject to a similar ordeal to myself, it is like going into a gestapo death camp selection.
I am asking the undersigned to petition for fairer treatment by the ESA for people with mental health issues, and that the body that decide outcomes of medical examinations should be a government body and not a private profit making company.
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The Mental Stigma and ESA petition to United Kingdom was written by John Ibbotson and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.