Posted on 11/22/2009 2:24:16 AM PST by markomalley
Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in a bikini at the beach.
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, took long-term sick leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, more than a year ago for severe depression. She was receiving monthly benefits from her insurance company, Manulife.
When Ms. Blanchard called Manulife to inquire why the payments dried up, the insurance company said that "I'm available to work, because of Facebook," she told CBC television.
She said that Manulife cited several pictures Ms. Blanchard had posted on her social-networking Web-site page, including some showing her enjoying herself during a male strip-tease show at a Chippendales bar, celebrating her birthday and sunbathing.
Based on these postings, the firm claimed Ms. Blanchard was no longer depressed.
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It would work for me. lol
Didn't you know? Unproductive, self-absorbed layabouts are entitled to free money! Just because because they can muster up the energy to splash in the ocean or stuff fivers into a sweaty jock doesn't mean they should be forced to muster up the energy to earn a paycheck, silly.
Its good to know that you won't be taking anything that belongs to me in the future. I'm glad to hear that once you draw all that you have put into social security (plus a reasonable interest)...you will return the checks...or won't cash them anymore. I'm also glad to hear that you will only receive medical treatment up to the cost of what you paid into FICA....'cause I really don't want to be paying for your new hip when you are 80....or your Viagra.
And if something happens to you in the next year (if you are still young...I don't know)...and you can no longer work...it is a great comfort to me knowing that even though you will be sitting in a wheelchair crapping all over yourself...I won't have to worry about you filing for disability and mooching off of society...taking my tax dollars. Its good to know your family will take care of everything....and really won't miss your lost income.
That takes a load off my mind.
The percentage is different, depending on the source. The British Medical Journal claims that 10-20% of bipolar patients commit suicide. Others higher, and some lower. People reject mental illness because it isn’t visible to the human eye. The brain is an organ, just as the heart and lungs are organs, only the brain is more complex, in that, the more we learn about it, the more there is to know. And surgery is mostly out of the question since thought processes aren’t accessible, yet. I have seen pictures of brains, comparing a normal brain with the brain of a person with a mental disorder. And, I have worked with mental patients who have “good days” and “bad days”. Just when you think a depressed person is on the road to recovery, they end up in bed, for weeks on end. In some cases, the patients have to be tube fed because they lack the will to even move. I certainly don’t understand it, but I know enough to know that the brain can malfunction, just like any organ does. I have gone through bouts of depression, which is normal when tragedy strikes, but it’s not normal to be depressed for no apparent reason.
That’s more what this story is about...a free-loader who was milking the system got busted...and now she’s pissed.
I wouldn't trust these studies done by these people, they are in the business of getting people to goto their doctors for what ever reason they can get them to go, They are funded by Doctors and Drug companies that are in the business of making money whether you need the medical help or not. Basically most doctors are happy to tell you there is something majorly wrong with you and you need to take this bunch of medicine and come back and see me every month so I can make some more money off you.
The mother of one of my son’s friends had an acute manic episode about 4 years ago when they were 14.
I remember 14. I could think of nothing worse than having a parent draw attention to themselves in the best of circumstances, much less while in the middle of a manic episode.
My son and the other boys circled the wagons. They were nothing but supportive and protective of their friend and his mother. If you made that remark in front of them, you would have 4 angry 14 year old boys explain that her mania is an illness just as any other chronic illness.
IOW, they would call you on your ignorance. .
“Disability claims are almost never approved on the first claim unless the applicant is blind”
I can certainly understand the blind thing. I worked for the same company for 33 years and was “never” sick, but there were many times I couldn’t I couldn’t SEE going to work.
“I’m glad to hear that once you draw all that you have put into social security (plus a reasonable interest)...you will return the checks...or won’t cash them anymore.”
If you work for 40 years you will NEVER come close to getting back the 15% of your your lifetime wages and your employer put in (on your behalf) plus interest. Maybe you’ll get 1/10 of it...
When I was on disability, I made certain to get specific direction in from my doctor regarding what I could and could not do, so that there would be no confusion as to what I was supposed to be doing (I had a back problem that couldn’t be diagnosed to any specific difficulty, and which was “cured” with time and physical therapy).
Since my “treatment” was to do as much workout as possible, I needed that in my doctor’s notes since someone seeing me jogging might otherwise think I should be good enough to sit at a desk at work if I could jog and swim in the pool.
I was really depressed when Obama took over our country, but I didn’t think to try to get disability for that.. :-)
Well, one thing is clear from this discussion — 25% of those who have some form of bipolar disorder are NOT committing suicide.
Which is why we aren’t tripping over suicide victims.
That risk is 15% of less than 1% of the population.
Having seen it first hand, I pray it never happens to you.
Watch it, noobs.
uh, sure about that?
Puhleeze, before yapping about something you have NO CLUE about why don't you tell me how many people have been diagnosed with "bipolar disorder"....
Don't know huh?
Well because of the popularity of the diagnosis it's somewhere around 1,679 per 100,000 people.... at least that's the latest from the NIMH and now we come to your 25% mortality rate...
I'm going to go walk down the streets and see the bipolar bodies piled up on the curb for the horse drawn carts to take the to the big fire at the edge of town...
It's a big scam by the docs that over diagnose kids with this ... know about how to diagnose bipolar disorder? ... now are you talking Bipolar type I or Bipolar type II? don't know yet...
look up the DSM-IV criteria... pretty vague and general. That's why there is controversy about the "science" of psychiatry and it's diagnosis... also the politicalization when homosexuality was removed from a psychiatric abnormality.
You must have gone to the same science program that told Al Gore that the core of the earth is several million degrees and can be tapped for energy.
Only God has the list but it is enormous (majority of people on earth)
Boy...and some people just can't be civil, and are just obnoxious jerks, aren't they? I guess we all have our crosses to bear, don't we?
I can do as you suggest, which would probably help...you, on the other hand, I am not so sure that it's fixable.
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