So you aren't on a full disability pension then?
I think their trip was only three weeks and their normal payments didnt change, it was only when they went to get their medications that it came unstuck. This was a few years ago so it might have changed.
I think anyone who said the food wasn't that great got a bit of a blast. I decided I'd ignore it until now.
I wasn't blasting anyone I was just pointing out that not everyone's standards are the same. My perspective on what is coughty or not is skewed by the lifestyle I'm forced to live. A rotting steak is unparalleled luxury for a dog, what do you think is luxury for the disabled?
It's extremely hard to get without a stack of medical evidence which I do have but took years to accumulate, I've had 3-4 three month exemptions per year since 2011 + I was hospitalized involuntarily 3 times in 3 years for a total of 9 months and the only reason I didn't get DSP back then was because I was too sick to fill in the paperwork and keep on top of bureaucratic processes and I had no one helping me because they too though I would get better, haven't been that acutely ill for a very long time(2015) but I'm still suffering from the aftermath and managing my illness is my full-time job as my doctors will tell you.
They tried so many different medications(27 all up) on me that my symptoms became worse for a number of years and it was only after I had a black box reactions to two different medications in the same year that they reduced my medication to the weakest, least harmful mood stabilizer available and tossed the anti-psychotics except for short-term intervention to prevent/end an episode before it takes off after enough needling. I regained the ability to read and understand paperwork, control my emotions more successfully (those things made me aggro, irritable and suicidal, a known side effect of many psychiatric drugs) and pulled off what I did in the last year and a half versus sitting alone in a slowly decaying room with slowly decaying hardware living only to visit my physicians and my centerlink appointments.
I spend most of my time slowing/prevent further degradation which is typical and expected which each and every episode that isn't nipped in the bud and carefully managed to prevent permanent brain damage. Every episode does similar damage to a seizure and I've had four, three severe enough to warrant hospitalization, once for four months. I haven't had an episode since I changed the way I approach life and I do it with a minimum of medication using diet, cardio, meditation and extremely frequent visits to private medical professionals.
Rather than give me DSP when I got sick, they gave me the paperwork told me to submit it and they put me on 8-14 hours work capacity then handed me exemptions non-stop for the entire period while continuously suggesting I apply for DSP again when I've got more evidence which I refused to do after a couple of attempts early on because I thought I could improve my health and get back to work in a regular job which I've tried numerous times but found myself unable to hold anything down long-term after I got ill because of the nature of my illness.
It's only been since I accepted that I would never fully recover that I've made the progress I have by managing my life in such a way that I don't trigger full-blown flare ups and mostly have to deal with the chronic rather than acute symptoms of my illness which is crippling enough.
28 days per year on DSP is acceptable for me and I don't care if I have to voluntarily admit myself to a private mental hospital when I return from Japan in late May to fast track re-initialization of my current payment if they cut it off and simply ensure I have enough money to last me in Japan until I get back.
If I need medical permission each year to drive, what do you think my chances are of getting DSP considering I've had over 64 3 month exemptions approved by centerlink? This means they, themselves on their own records admitted I was incapable of working for years with only sporadic periods of employment and only two courses completed in the entire period, one of which was done this year with 75 percent of my coursework completed in the middle of night from home and less than 50 percent attendance rate(acceptable with documentation).
I pre-studied some of the coursework in advance of the course and had the teacher stuff I didn't understand even if it wasn't being covered yet once the course started so that if I got hit by a depressive spiral which made it hard to leave the house, I could finish the school work from home whenever I could without stressing out about whether or not my insomnia would leave me trying to learn in classroom after having not slept for 2 and half days. It worked, my teacher was happy to let me come in on the last day and let me use stuff I did at home to finish the course after I modified it to meet the coursework grading rules to pass. Pulled it off without a hitch and I have permission to do the same thing next year, I'm studying in advance so that if the worst should happen I should be competent enough to complete with the work with minimal class time because I'm familiar enough with the basics to do my schoolwork without much assistance.
Prisoners and Mental patients skip the wait and all requirements upon release and are back-dated somewhat(patients at least) so you can voluntarily admit yourself to a hospital if you have a condition that is symptomatic with very little effort, get released after having been treated and monitored for awhile and have your payment back dated to the day you walked into the hospital.
