Ok so in about january I decided to get a mental eval, and the RN who did the diagnosis I think was not listening and only trying to give me the worst case disease she could think up so that the government could continue to shove me into counseling and keep me on medications I dont need. A little background about me, Growing up I was an orphan my mother was dead and my father ws not to be found, I was in and out of group homes forced to take every kind of medication you can think of that they *(case workers, And government) wanted to test. When I turned 18 my case file that I was promised i would get to look at and see if all my suspicions were correct of them abusing me and using me as a test dummy for drugs. But when the day came that i turned 18 suddenly my case file and all of its contents mysteriously dissappeared. Anywho's that was going to be a very relevent file to my diagnosis by the RN, she diagnosed me with schizophrenia. So i tried to get some support thrue a company called Vocational Rehab they get you through school and into the work force. Well the couselor told me in 3 weeks I would recieve a letter and have to get another eval but after that they would help me. SO 6 weeks later no letter I left messages no answer no call back. Im currently going to school to become a teacher but im thinking about making a radical turn in my carreer choice and becoming a lawyer for people like me who's file just "dissapear after years of abuse from the government both physical and mental." I have so had it. You would think that by me living on food stamps and both of my parents being gone the government would have some sympathy for me but they dont even when i tried to get real help they turn their backs on me. A non profit organization made to help people with disabilities is only a bogus lie I found out what they really do to help.
They pay your tuition but keep the left over grant money and while doing this they make the person (you) feel like your milking the government and make you feel bad when they are the ones who are fucking scam artists. After I pay my tuition i have an extra 1000 dollars left over. They find people whp dont understand the fafsa system and take that extra 1000 dollars and then have the guts to make people feel bad.
During my first and only interview the couselor said to me " I know exactly why your here" I say " oh yeah whys that" he said " you want to milk the government and have us pay off your loans and pay your tuition. There probably isnt even anything wrong with you, you look fine to me. This isnt a scholarship program" I said "Excuse me I get 4310 dollars from the fafsa grant program, and are you assuming im normal because im not in a wheelchair, or because i dont look a mess?." In the end I told him their company shouldnt make remarks like that.
Why are so many government agencies out to piss us off? Is it their job to make you so angry that you want to call the authorities and claim shananigans.
I am on food stamps to feed myself. I have no children and will not be a welfare mother Im just trying to get by, So please no comments on me being a waste by getting food stamps. If it wasnt for this program I wouldnt be able to eat. Just consider feelings before making mean comments.
Once upon a time in my little mind.
By me Kaity Kat
I would not advertise food stamps if I were you. I know people may need them etc, and anyone with schizophrenia wouldn't have the mind to get them themselves, and it shows you have some priority to fix your own situations, but its just embarrassing sometimes.
I was a single mom in college and though-out that time I used them as well. I used them as a tool to advance myself. Otherwise I'd never have been able to get through school. Otherwise I would have been stuck in a career that lended me odd hours while trying to raise a child in good health and mental security on my own without giving her the latchkey get in trouble hood mentality. It wouldn't have worked.
I lot of people look down on others with food stamps because they think that those people won't ever work, or they have mental disorders, etc. That is not the case. Then, like with people like me, they get jealous thinking somehow I've cheated the system because I was in college and blah blah blah (THAT's schizo to me, to think someone is trying to cheat the system, etc). This comes form the European ascension where students who pass there levels end up getting paid through the universities to attend. So, automatically if your poor in college your cheating, your schizo because your there and think you can succeed. I never try to argue that my family is rich (because they are) because if I do, that would serve to enhance all of those prejudiced thoughts. I just get through it.
In a policy class I learned that food stamps and medicaid are taken from your final social security amount that you receive upon retirement. SO, if your living of them today, it will come out of your money that you get in the future. SO, if you use it to get through college you can make it back, but it is always best to then take out a 401K plan. That can be done privately or through a company. I prefer to do it privately because a lot of companies don't want you getting into their program. THey don't even pay that much match, most companies, they just feel that unless your part of their "family" its easier to get you to quit or let you go or pay you too little rather than to give it to you. Or unless you have an extremely important position. 401K's are important though, because they provide a better return that the social security act. Something to look into.
I am now working on my obtaining a master's degree. I wonder how many people will refuse to accept that, especially since it shows a woman with self sufficiently. Who knows if I'll be back on the stamps or not. My family decided that it's best I don't work full time while getting through it so now I have to search out a high paying part time job (yeeh right, it'll be 30 hours or more, I can't stan not to have money) so it maybe that way again. I don't care, I love the tasks and engineers make good money (or lawyers if I decide to go that route). Basically, its not schizo, it's worth it. That's a good example of what the government was set up for, not people who take it as an excuse to just settle where they got left off, people who will use it to better themselves to repair their situations.
OK, peace out.
Lotsa love,
-Wildrose
I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with Vocational Rehabilitation. It may just be that your case worker is jaded. All of the case workers I have spoken to from Vocational Rehabilitation have been really great and a tremendous help to my family. They are currently helping my brother take care of all of his needs for his vision, which he lost in a severe motorcycle accident. Although my brother is not ready to go back to school right now, she is really helpful in providing information and support for when he is ready to go back to school.
Maybe you should ask for a different case worker? Not everyone in the organization is so demeaning.