This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Mental Health disabilites should be treated like a physical disability (PIP)
PiP is discriminating mental health disabilities
Having mental health can be just as disabling as a physical disability.
mental health disabilities you can’t see the daily struggles and pain but because we don’t have physical ailments we are passed of with having no disabilities, even when we do
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the last few years mental health has started to be recognised as an illness, still a taboo subject
Mental health Is a disability, it affects your ability to socialise,shop, be independent everything like being in a wheelchair does.
Just because you can’t see doesn’t mean we’re not disabled.
Pip is for people with disability so stop discriminating and being predujice
In Scotland and Wales people with severe mental health are entitled to a blue badge & PiP
MH Services are suffering, so are we
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