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The Budget : where's the ME Charities ??

Stonebird : the lived Experience of Severe ME A  response to  The UK Budget :  where's the ME Charities ?? Greg & Linda Crowhurst 22 June 2010 (permission to repost) Where 's  ME ??? Learning Difficulties , Autism, Mental Health, seemingly every  big charity have issued a Budget response already , strongly condemning the plans for Welfare Cuts and DLA .  But where's the outraged voice of  ME ?? Come 2013 and if you are a Severe ME sufferer claiming DLA, you will have to undergo a (disdainful ) encounter with a medic who has not the faintest notion of the complex neurological disease that is Severe ME ;  it's going to be called  a  readiness to work assessment. How can continuing to deny the reality of the physical illness that is ME  and  how can the ongoing   refusal  to biomedically treat ME,   be expected to get anyone back to work ? Continually hounding people with ME  to ju...