Why are so many Americans on disability?

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Thank you for posting that. Hopefully it goes viral.


Thank you, someone has to pay for all of these freeloaders. This lady could get a job and get insurance from a job.


She currently does not work and she is receiving mental health treatment. She has bc as an implant which presumably she did not have when she conceived this child (she or else her husband has 2 additional kids diagnosed with autism who live in another household).

When I was 29, I had a mental breakdown. For a good year and a half my functioning was severely impaired, I cannot even describe it. I moved in with my parents and my mom helped get medicaid for me, I was pretty much a zombie, just sat and stared into space or slept following a stretch of 3-4 months when I was severely manic. The psychotropic drugs caused me to gain 60 lbs. They stopped the mania but triggered the depressive side of my illness. I absolutely believed my life was completely over. It took a long time but eventually I did go to work and moved out. I had a bout of severe depression several years later when I was in pretty much the same state. You cannot assume this woman's situation is permanent or the extent of her mental health symptoms on an ongoing basis.

It doesn't need to go viral. There's an abundance of contempt for people in need as it is. There are plenty of people in the WH who are sucking off the govt teat (KL for instance, not to mention her boss) doing absolutely no good for anybody.


PP, thanks for posting. Some here will refuse to accept your story, but it does show how the safety net of Medicaid helped you in a bad patch and may have played a key role in your getting back into the workforce. If we had more robust health coverage, then people, especially in manual labor jobs who get injured, would be able to obtain PT and return to work.
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Some of the physical jobs are back breaking, like roofers, construction workers, movers... If you have not hurt yourself in an accident by 40, your body will be full of aches and pains anyway. You can all try it by working as a full time mover for 3 days.
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