Hi,
I'm new here - I signed up partly to post about a petition that's trying to get the appalling WCA stopped (
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...ng-sick-disabled-people.312405/#post-12369651) and I've been starting to read some of the posts on this thread.
However bad I know the WCA is, having been through it myself, seen friends go through it, and having read so many awful reports of people's experiences since starting trying to promote the petition, I'm still never prepared for how horrified I feel reading more. I'm feeling so sorry for everyone on here that's been chewed up and spat out by this vicious system, and because it's June and my own ESA (support group - I had to get a reconsideration from WRAG) is due to be reviewed at the end of July, I'm finding myself hyperventilating and anxious at the thought of going through it all again. I lost half a stone last time (dangerous, because I have gut problems and am already underweight), and I didn't even end up having to go through full appeal.
It's one of the most obviously failed policies I can think of - I almost can't believe it can carry on much longer in its current form, but both the government and the opposition still seem to be in denial as to how fundamentally flawed it is