UK Employment Tribunal Awards Compensation to Man For Having Disease Which Doesn’t Exist
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the acknowledged go-to ‘How Mad Is My Patient?’ guide used by head-doctors in the West today. Currently in its fifth edition, known as the DSM-5 for the sake of the continued mental wellbeing of those with ADHD, it has ballooned in size from the first DSM, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952, which was a simple, 32-page spiral-bound booklet, to the near 1,000-page shelf-breaking monster it is today.
This isn’t anything to do with the publishers using a much larger type-face and double-spacing to aid those with Fear of Reading Books Disease: it’s because, in our intervening decades of ever-increasing social insanity, the number of often possibly imaginary mental diagnoses available to physicians has ballooned. The newest ways to go loony include Prolonged Grief Disorder, Stimulant-Induced Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, and the incredibly vague Unspecified Mood Disorder.
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Having read this, I realise my illness is serious and I’m just booking an appointment to get it confirmed.
Problem is we now have a generation of judges with “Not Being Able To Do Their F**king Job Properly Syndrome.”
Lazy,Piss taking Bastard syndrome. LPB
‘How Mad Is My Patient?’
Britain is the patient; Whitehall and Westminster are completely mad.
This country has been infected by the U.S. disease: ‘Look busy’. The United States can get away with it because they have a vibrant private sector that is encouraged by the tax regime. We do not, cannot.
Activity is mistaken for progress within the public sector and parliament.
Less is more.
Long hours (‘hard work’) do not guarantee useful progress. Long hours lead to tired minds and bad decisions.
Britain requires a much smaller parliament (that was one of the reasons Cameron was voted in) and a great deal less government. Hands up who thinks the answer to Britain’s problems is more politicians?
Get the government in particular and government in general out of our lives.
One example: how easy is it to know what the speed limit is at any given moment when driving?
Only two speed limits are required: 30 mph in urban areas, 80 mph everywhere else.
Reform the constitution (Britain should be federal) and parliament, reform the public sector (social insurance based health system for starters), get the tax code back to 1990 and then get out of our lives…..
I like your speed limit suggestion.
Speed limits serve no purpose except collecting fees from people who don’t obey them. Anything else is – at best – a conjecture. People who drive sensibly will drive at a sensible speed. People who don’t won’t.
I tend to agree but my gut feel is that this is a suggestion that most people will find utterly mad and it will never happen, so some rationalisation would be better than nothing.
That people are so accustomed to random numbers on signs next to a street that they’ve just accepted them as part of the natural world order and that they’d feel uncomfortable at the thought of them not being there doesn’t mean they make any sense. Eg, despite there’s generally no safe speed for a car to collide with anyhing, at least not unless the speed is much less than 1mph, it’s often claimed that Speed limits are sensible because stopping distance depends on speed! But that’s wrong. Stopping distance depends on the impulse (German term) of the car and that’s its mass times its speed. And this is still an oversimplification, because it also depends on road conditions at a particular time and how one has to use brake and idling motor to slow the car considering road conditions. When railways were a new thing, safety theoreticians demanded that they must be shielded from view by suitable fencing to stop bypassers from going mad when seeing something moving at the incredible speed of 16mph. Nowdays, these theoreticians invent speed limits. Or rather, politicians invent them because they seek approval by the “road traffic Trisha Greenhalghs” who are convinced that nobody… Read more »
They don’t make much sense to me but it’s not me you need to convince.
People intuitively think that reduced speed means less risk and like to feel safe, whether they really are safe or not. So it appears to be a fairly easy sell. That said, lots of people drive cars and an awful lot of them regularly break speed limits so there would probably be substantial support for at least some relaxation of the current restrictions – instead it is going in the opposite direction.
I know people break the limit a lot because I don’t (because I don’t want points on my licence) so it’s obvious that other people are. I do make a point however of ignoring the 20mph limit recently imposed in my immediate neighbourhood as it’s the most ridiculous thing ever and there is zero chance of getting nicked – the police never come down here as nothing happens.
Only two speed limits are required: 30 mph in urban areas, 80 mph everywhere else.
That you believe they’re warranted doesn’t prove that they’re required.
In a spirit of helpfulness:
If you meant compulsory and not essential/ indispensable, why didn’t you write that? As a dictionary helpfully tried to teach you, albeit to no apparent avail: The adjective you were using can mean either of both and you also weren’t obviously referring to the opinion of somebody else.
Nuances of language can be tricky outside your native tongue.
‘Required’ has a number of meanings, including ‘in keeping with one’s wishes; desired.’
Nuance can be tricky inside your native tongue as well. Otherwise, you’d have managed to express yourself clearly.
Try telling that to the local councils that are imposing 20mph limits on all their roads – major, minor and local.
“When I use a word,” said Humpty Dumpty in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
Rejection Sensitivity Disorder ?
Good Christ. I thought this was irony and sarcasm.
Is that like; ‘Long Rona’, or ‘Sars II’ (magic computer image, dark spot, arrow pointing)
The ultimate Libtard-Vaxxtard-Hypochondriac dysphoric fantasy.
Sorry can’t train in to the office I have ‘Train Sensitivity Dysphoria‘ and ‘Leaving my dog alone Disease‘.
In Sparta such weaklings would have been left on the mountain top, who produced such a pathetic specimen? what chance does he have of living a life when he is cossetted into thinking he is above correction and that anything he does is acceptable, and to say otherwise makes him the victim. What a sick society we have become if we tolerate this nonsense. The guy clearly needs to be put in an institution and given psychiatric help as he is not well enough to be in normal society.
Perhaps he can use his compensation to pay for it.
There is another worrying aspect to this case – Lidl employed him, what does that tell us about their recruitment procedures?
i suppose the ‘disease, disorder, delusional’ tendencies may not have been apparent until his delicate feelings were upset. Diddums.
He’s probably unemployable now – who will want to risk upsetting him in the future when he’s got the life-long terrible twos affliction? No one being able to say ‘no’ to him, ever.
A life on benefits beckons…
I have just self-diagnosed with DIPS, which mean Digital Identity Password Syndrome, and it is triggered when I try to log on to a familiar bank only to be told my password is not recognised and would I create a new one. After going round in circles for an hour or two, still not recognised, I feel like reaching for a bottle of something soothing, so I must be a DIPSomaniac.
😀😀😀
We have entered a post truth world. Disaster awaits.
It’s too bad that all the people who got turned down as “too much of a risk for the company” (etc) when applying for the job Mr Toghill ended up getting can’t sue the idiot who hired him for compensation.
Why wasn’t he allowed to use a pallet truck…could there be Health and Safety angle to this story?
Good question. Back 40 years when I was using pallet trucks they were mainly manually powered so generally you’d only be likely to do yourself an injury. These days they seem mainly powered (electric) so you potentially run amok and demolish things and people.
A story I still fondly back from the time when I was working in a warehouse: After a few relatively calm weeks, a new female apprentice joined. She was a rather good looking girl of about 15 (above age of consent in Germany) and especially, the only female person in the whole hall. She thus triggered all kinds of weird posing behaviour by the men (30 – 50 years old) to attract her attention. One day, one of them drove his forklift through a dashing curve while raising the fork at the same time. Unfortunately, he seemed to have ‘forgotten’ (sarcasm) about the line of shelves hanging from the ceiling above the central driveway and by the time he passed through there, the fork collided with them, broke clean off and smashed into the floor about 5m below, followed by much of the content of the shelf it had hit.
Morale: Nothing is safe to use by idiots.
🙂
[I hope this is at least mostly comprehensible. I had to improvise here and there.]
Lol. I worked in a similar setting and a good looking young woman would have caused exactly the same reaction among the all-male staff
I have Starmer Sensitivity Disorder. I also have chronic, severe Labour pains. Where do I apply for compensation?
You will be sent to fetch a Long Weight 🙂
Presumably the next time an incel goes insane and blows up a load of people, he will be able to point the finger at some stunning looking woman in the town where he lives and say it was all her fault for giving him RSD. Or even better, the next illegal migrant who decides to assassinate someone can claim the right to freedom and a life on benefits because of his RSD. For god’s sake, we sixty pluses have all gone through a life of triumph and tragedy, rejection and criticism, struggling with examinations and school punishment, being told we’re rubbish at our job on occasions and vowing to do better. Many have gone through real conflict in life threatening situations in the military or emergency services (I bow to every single one of them, not having faced it myself). What the hell has caused the latest generations, generally under forty, to be so bloody feeble, to cling to false illness, to not know if they are a man or a woman, to not be able to communicate except via a keyboard, to think they and they alone are important and that only they have experienced life’s trials and tribulations.… Read more »
It won’t last. Enjoy it while it does. Like whiplash syndrome someone will call it out (of course, when they do, the subject will suffer a severe exacerbation). Some years back RSI was the rage. There were some genuine cases, but most were OSS, or over sensitivity syndrome, and the mass of court cases dwindled to nothing. My own experience of court cases included one where the prosecution counsel’s expert orthopaedic surgeon didn’t know his anatomy and a judge who didn’t understand the difference between acceleration and speed.
The ortho surgeon will have found his tribe within the NHS amongst those who cannot tell the difference between the ‘flu and a bad cold.
unfortunately, there are people like this, unable to take criticism of even a minor type, they react in a neurotic way, taking the comment out of all proportion, and unable to think rationally. It is like ADHD, which maybe is a strong personality type not a condition as such. Basically such people are unemployable, tho often v able in other ways.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/692708bf2a37784b16ecf54a/1602900.2023_R_J_Toghill_v_Lidl_Great_Britan_Ltd_-_Corrected_Judgment.pdf
Interesting reading over a cuppa and a biscuit or two. However, be mindful to hold the cup / mug properly; that the contents may be hot; that if wanting to dunk the biscuits, they are of suitable calibre to be quickly immersed in fluid without falling apart.
The short answer to this psycho babble is this. Doctors have proven themselves to be the last person you should take advice from for anything! The last five years of “medicine” has made that abundantly clear. Grow a pair and crack on with life. No one said it would be easy. And for all those who are unable to crack on, the uk has a wonderful welfare system that includes housing, a car, free healthcare with unlimited visits and meds. You might as well use it.
Sometimes I think conscription would be a good thing.
“ These were once what was called human feelings”
The point is that for some people and children on the autistic spectrum ( ADHD or whatever) these “ normal” rejections and demands that most of us cope with DO become totally overwhelming and they are unable to regulate their emotions. It is not a pretty sight when they have meltdowns. What is wrong is when those trying to care for them don’t try to help them with ‘tough love’ to get better, but start pandering to them. We now have the therapeutic industrial complex, Big Pharma, Tik Tok et al cashing in on these social anxieties.
Another side to this story is that Lidl gave this guy a job despite being aware he had some serious problems. He was able to perform OK for a while. These people don’t deal with changes well so that’s probably when it went pear shaped. But I say its better that people work rather than sit at home all day on dubious pharmaceuticals watching a screen and living off the state.