welcome to atos where all who enter are made whole where you go in and come out made once more well ready to go and sign on where your health will now be a lot better as you have been treated by jesus who now works for this company welcome to tory britain where the sick and disabled cant take our goverment to court like the yanks done that would be justice jeff3
The first few pages start out as if they were written by someone half way smart. Then it suddenly drops into the “its all in their minds” style and goes on about exercise and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to make it better. Sadly this DOESN’T get better and just about any exercise makes you pay for it with days of pain and outright misery. Next they will be curing lepers, the blind and the lame by having them put their hands on the TV while they are on air. Pseudo scientific garbage of the worst kind that blames people for getting ill and staying incurably ill by not listening to the exhortations to buck up and just get well. It is hardly surprising that they have such a poor reputation. I would prefer an honestly run gas chamber to this sort of smarmy patronising rubbish. The idea of getting a diagnosis of how bad someone with ME actually is by having them do strenuous exercise until they get heart palpitations is the sort of thing the BMA quite rightly want stamped out. Let’s just hope they succeed before this company can damage anyone else.
How right you are Rogr. I read this “training” doc before my ATOS assessment and it upset and angered me terribly. The information is out of date and wildly inaccurate. I have fibromyalgia and am terribly disabled with it- exercise makes it flare up terribly and as for CBT- made me depressed because there was no acknowledgement of the terrible grief I had because of losing my ability to work and live an ordinary life. I was insulted by the notion that it is all in the minds of sufferers. in fact it is all in the brain- there are differences in MRI brain scans between sufferers and non- sufferers and other hormonal differences which lead to the horrible symptoms and disabling nature of this much misunderstood condition. I have asked my Rheumatologist to send me up to date information on fibro to show the ESA Appeal tribunal when I go to it because I am sick of the misinformation circulating.
It is just another ruse to blame the patient and withdraw the benefits we are entitled to. I will never give up! Courage all.
This document is not worth anything, medical services do not give a shit who has a copy of it.
ATOS Doctors are not trained in any of these medical conditions, they are doctors that can not get a real job in our NHS or private health care, or as GP’s. They are not disciplined in an medical condition. If it was not for ATOS they would be unemployable….
welcome to atos where all who enter are made whole where you go in and come out made once more well ready to go and sign on where your health will now be a lot better as you have been treated by jesus who now works for this company welcome to tory britain where the sick and disabled cant take our goverment to court like the yanks done that would be justice jeff3
The first few pages start out as if they were written by someone half way smart. Then it suddenly drops into the “its all in their minds” style and goes on about exercise and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to make it better. Sadly this DOESN’T get better and just about any exercise makes you pay for it with days of pain and outright misery. Next they will be curing lepers, the blind and the lame by having them put their hands on the TV while they are on air. Pseudo scientific garbage of the worst kind that blames people for getting ill and staying incurably ill by not listening to the exhortations to buck up and just get well. It is hardly surprising that they have such a poor reputation. I would prefer an honestly run gas chamber to this sort of smarmy patronising rubbish. The idea of getting a diagnosis of how bad someone with ME actually is by having them do strenuous exercise until they get heart palpitations is the sort of thing the BMA quite rightly want stamped out. Let’s just hope they succeed before this company can damage anyone else.
How right you are Rogr. I read this “training” doc before my ATOS assessment and it upset and angered me terribly. The information is out of date and wildly inaccurate. I have fibromyalgia and am terribly disabled with it- exercise makes it flare up terribly and as for CBT- made me depressed because there was no acknowledgement of the terrible grief I had because of losing my ability to work and live an ordinary life. I was insulted by the notion that it is all in the minds of sufferers. in fact it is all in the brain- there are differences in MRI brain scans between sufferers and non- sufferers and other hormonal differences which lead to the horrible symptoms and disabling nature of this much misunderstood condition. I have asked my Rheumatologist to send me up to date information on fibro to show the ESA Appeal tribunal when I go to it because I am sick of the misinformation circulating.
It is just another ruse to blame the patient and withdraw the benefits we are entitled to. I will never give up! Courage all.
This document is not worth anything, medical services do not give a shit who has a copy of it.
ATOS Doctors are not trained in any of these medical conditions, they are doctors that can not get a real job in our NHS or private health care, or as GP’s. They are not disciplined in an medical condition. If it was not for ATOS they would be unemployable….