Advice on disclosure.

Question:

It’s good to a get a physical ailment diagnosed, as most everyone with problems like these have some physical condition as well. Then you list that physical ailment as the disability. Personal problems are best kept private.  If someone has depression and gets medication to help with it, he should also point out a physical problem to be addressed as well. Often depression goes along with a physical condition like anemia (low red blood cell count), stomach viruses, serious nerve pain in the back or neck, and breathing disorders like asthma or bronchitis or similar.  Even more often, a person with depression ignores these real physical problems so they’re not even treated, and it makes the depression worse. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Right, I have been on sick pay with my last job for about 2 months in total. > I was made redundant with 40 other people, and it has come to the time where > I have job offers and they ask questions such as ‘have you been on regular > medication in the last 2 years’ and > ‘do you have any disability which may affect your work’ etc. Now presumably, > I have to answer the questions, in fact I think I must since they are legal > documents. > My question is, will an employer discriminate against me / And – are they > allowed to because I have been off work, and have been diagnosed with social > phobia, dysthimic depression and dissociative derealisation. > Now presumably they could say this job may cause you further ill health > because of the nature of the work. Still, I have been pronounced fit for > work. So my questions are these: > Will they discriminate against me because of my medical health history? > Are they allowed to do this? > Oh Yes, and a PS, I live in the UK, so things might be different from the > states.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->It’s good to a get a physical ailment diagnosed, as most everyone with problems >like these have some physical condition as well. Then you list that physical >ailment as the disability. >Personal problems are best kept private.  If someone has depression and gets >medication to help with it, he should also point out a physical problem to be >addressed as well. >Often depression goes along with a physical condition like anemia (low red blood >cell count), stomach viruses, serious nerve pain in the back or neck, and >breathing disorders like asthma or bronchitis or similar.  Even more often, a >person with depression ignores these real physical problems so they’re not even >treated, and it makes the depression worse. >The kind of "thinking" that goes on in these biopsychiatry posts is so >overloaded with ignorance of neurochemistry, fallacies about what >conclusions follow from what premises, groundless assertions, >breathtaking leaps of illogic, wishful thinking, appeals to authority, >and just flat-out horseshit that it’s hard to know where to even begin >dismantling them. >It’s just astounding that people believe this stuff.  Scratch that — >it’s astounding that people think this stuff even *means* anything. >Cortisol levels?  Oxidative stress?  Neurotransmitters?  Huh?  Do these >people just believe whatever they’re told? >Christ.  Basing your life around a cesspool of fantasy being passed off >as "science" is really not the best approach to living. >Here’s the truth: no one has any idea how the brain works.  No one has >any idea how psychotropic drugs work.  There are no "mental illnesses." >Talking about "serotonin levels" as if you could put a dipstick in your >brain and measure them is laughable.  Don’t be such a bunch of suckers. >The relationship between consciousness and neurochemistry probably won’t >be unraveled with another thousand years of research. >Just for starters (assuming anyone is willing to think):  When SSRIs were >new, we were supposed to believe that they corrected the specific >"chemical imbalance" that "caused" depression.  They were "selective." >Leaving aside the fact that (1) pharmacodynamic selectivity was >deliberately conflated with selectivity for mood states for marketing >purposes, (2) the causality between neurochemistry and consciousness >isn’t even *slightly* understood, and (3) the phrase "chemical imbalance" >doesn’t actually mean anything, we are now supposed to believe that these >drugs also "cure" "generalized anxiety disorder," "post-traumatic stress >disorder," "obsessive-compulsive disorder," "social anxiety disorder," an >d even fucking PMS for god’s sake.  Wow.  That sounds *really* >"selective."  What are the odds that the same "chemical imbalance" is >responsible for virtually every feeling that someone doesn’t like? >How does "zero" sound? >Stop being such a bunch of idiots being led around by the nose.  Smart >people buy drug company stock.  Dumb people buy drug company products. >This is because there are always more dumb people than smart people.

Hey, I like that. heehee

Response:

It’s good to a get a physical ailment diagnosed, as most everyone with problems like these have some physical condition as well. Then you list that physical ailment as the disability. Personal problems are best kept private.  If someone has depression and gets medication to help with it, he should also point out a physical problem to be addressed as well. Often depression goes along with a physical condition like anemia (low red blood cell count), stomach viruses, serious nerve pain in the back or neck, and breathing disorders like asthma or bronchitis or similar.  Even more often, a person with depression ignores these real physical problems so they’re not even treated, and it makes the depression worse. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Right, I have been on sick pay with my last job for about 2 months in total. > I was made redundant with 40 other people, and it has come to the time where > I have job offers and they ask questions such as ‘have you been on regular > medication in the last 2 years’ and > ‘do you have any disability which may affect your work’ etc. Now presumably, > I have to answer the questions, in fact I think I must since they are legal > documents. > My question is, will an employer discriminate against me / And – are they > allowed to because I have been off work, and have been diagnosed with social > phobia, dysthimic depression and dissociative derealisation. > Now presumably they could say this job may cause you further ill health > because of the nature of the work. Still, I have been pronounced fit for > work. So my questions are these: > Will they discriminate against me because of my medical health history? > Are they allowed to do this? > Oh Yes, and a PS, I live in the UK, so things might be different from the > states.

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->It’s good to a get a physical ailment diagnosed, as most everyone with problems >like these have some physical condition as well. Then you list that physical >ailment as the disability. >Personal problems are best kept private.  If someone has depression and gets >medication to help with it, he should also point out a physical problem to be >addressed as well. >Often depression goes along with a physical condition like anemia (low red blood >cell count), stomach viruses, serious nerve pain in the back or neck, and >breathing disorders like asthma or bronchitis or similar.  Even more often, a >person with depression ignores these real physical problems so they’re not even >treated, and it makes the depression worse. >The kind of "thinking" that goes on in these biopsychiatry posts is so >overloaded with ignorance of neurochemistry, fallacies about what >conclusions follow from what premises, groundless assertions, >breathtaking leaps of illogic, wishful thinking, appeals to authority, >and just flat-out horseshit that it’s hard to know where to even begin >dismantling them. >It’s just astounding that people believe this stuff.  Scratch that — >it’s astounding that people think this stuff even *means* anything. >Cortisol levels?  Oxidative stress?  Neurotransmitters?  Huh?  Do these >people just believe whatever they’re told? >Christ.  Basing your life around a cesspool of fantasy being passed off >as "science" is really not the best approach to living. >Here’s the truth: no one has any idea how the brain works.  No one has >any idea how psychotropic drugs work.  There are no "mental illnesses." >Talking about "serotonin levels" as if you could put a dipstick in your >brain and measure them is laughable.  Don’t be such a bunch of suckers. >The relationship between consciousness and neurochemistry probably won’t >be unraveled with another thousand years of research. >Just for starters (assuming anyone is willing to think):  When SSRIs were >new, we were supposed to believe that they corrected the specific >"chemical imbalance" that "caused" depression.  They were "selective." >Leaving aside the fact that (1) pharmacodynamic selectivity was >deliberately conflated with selectivity for mood states for marketing >purposes, (2) the causality between neurochemistry and consciousness >isn’t even *slightly* understood, and (3) the phrase "chemical imbalance" >doesn’t actually mean anything, we are now supposed to believe that these >drugs also "cure" "generalized anxiety disorder," "post-traumatic stress >disorder," "obsessive-compulsive disorder," "social anxiety disorder," an >d even fucking PMS for god’s sake.  Wow.  That sounds *really* >"selective."  What are the odds that the same "chemical imbalance" is >responsible for virtually every feeling that someone doesn’t like? >How does "zero" sound? >Stop being such a bunch of idiots being led around by the nose.  Smart >people buy drug company stock.  Dumb people buy drug company products. >This is because there are always more dumb people than smart people.

Hey, I like that. heehee

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