[vision-master]

[url=http://twinklelittlestar.typepad.com/letter/2006/04/a_tough_disabil.html]We'd all much rather be valued and contributing by working and pulling a decent paycheck.
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My husband has a coworker whose wife says she has some sort of back problem like a slipped disc or something but I'm not quite sure what it is. She is trying to quit her job and get on disability. It seems like there are a lot of people who aren't really disabled and try to get on disability just so they don't have to work and then go around acting like they are so totally disabled. Does this piss real disabled people like you and D off?

[Novus]

Disability should not be for people who already have jobs and want to quit. Disability should be for people who don't have jobs and cannot get another job. Disability for the most part is for people who have nothing.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

More and more I am finding there are cures out there for things, and that people are choosing to remain ignorant and ill. You have to look at and find options for yourself.

I got a pinched nervein my neck and it was very painful and totally and severely limited my life. The doctors all wanted me to go to physio-therapy and massage therapy, if I'd gone that route like most people do I'd still be in major pain and going through hell.

The sad truth is that the mdical profession isn't there to get you better. People have to stop trusting and doing what ever doctors say as the first course of action. They have to take responsiblity for their lives and their health, and therein lies the problem.

[sarcasm on] Like most people will do that.[/sarsasm] If I did i'd still have Post traumatic stress disorder, fatigued adrenal glands, and clinical depression.

See? being recalcitrant is a good thing.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')isability should not be for people who already have jobs and want to quit. Disability should be for people who don't have jobs and cannot get another job. Disability for the most part is for people who have nothing.

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')re cures out there for things, and that people are choosing to remain ignorant and ill

[seahorse]

Obesity itself is not grounds for disability. There are many factors - basically, the "disability" itself, the age, education of the person involved, and the available jobs which could employ the person with the disability. So, if you 54, a high school graduate, have only done manual labor your whole life, and suffer a herniated disc, limiting your ability to lift, walk etc, to a degree it would preclude further manual labor jobs, you are more likely to get approved for disability than if you are a lawyer, teacher, doctor, etc who herniates a disc at any age.

The views that people have on "the disability sytem" are usually not accurate. Kind of like peak oil and people who believe we have the oil in Alaska to solve the problem but for the tree huggers.

[vision-master]

Nor does alcoholism/ drug abuse directy qualify. Health problems from the abuse may.