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So, you& #39;ve been stuck at home for a month or so, right about now.
No work giving your life structure. The days are bleeding together and depression is kicking in.
What I want you do is take that feeling and extrapolate it out to nine months.
Sounds like hell, right?
No work giving your life structure. The days are bleeding together and depression is kicking in.
What I want you do is take that feeling and extrapolate it out to nine months.
Sounds like hell, right?
Okay, now imagine doing it on functionally no income.
imagine being vilified in press and the wider population for being in that situation.
imagine being vilified in press and the wider population for being in that situation.
Imagine the primary event in your upcoming schedule being an interview in which you could loose what little income you have and where you will be treated like a criminal.
That is what long term unemployment feels like.
That is what long term unemployment feels like.
But wait; theirs more.
The system discourages you taking actions to improve your situation.
Want to engage in an accredited educational course? Hard limits on the numbers of hours you can be doing it.
Volunteering, same mood.
The system discourages you taking actions to improve your situation.
Want to engage in an accredited educational course? Hard limits on the numbers of hours you can be doing it.
Volunteering, same mood.
Find a freelance gig that pays 30+ days down the line, well shit son, you have to sign off to do the work(and not get a doll payment) and then once you& #39;ve signed back on and you finally fucking get paid, you have to declare that income, and you loose your doll payment.
Our welfare system systematically dis empowers and damages people.
When I was a teenager, my depression and anxiety was largely manageable. In fact, it was probably the least of the problems which my mental health problems and neuro-diversity brought me.
When I was a teenager, my depression and anxiety was largely manageable. In fact, it was probably the least of the problems which my mental health problems and neuro-diversity brought me.
Then in my early twenties, I ended up on the dole through til my late 20s.
During that time both my depression and anxiety became SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE, to the point where there are real questions about which is worse, my PTSD or my anxiety.
During that time both my depression and anxiety became SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE, to the point where there are real questions about which is worse, my PTSD or my anxiety.
We need to fundamentally re-think the way in which we deal with un-employment.
- free training and education
- support with volunteering
- support focused intervention in finding work.
- free training and education
- support with volunteering
- support focused intervention in finding work.
We also need to more generally deal with the way we see joblessness in the wider society.
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