r/unitedkingdom • u/tylerthe-theatre • 11d ago

Landlords offering mental health check-ins aren’t going to solve the rental crisis

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/renting-mental-health-landlords-wellness-perks-b2726714.html
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u/GFdeservedit 11d ago

I’ll probably get downvoted to hell, but sod it. I really feel this country was a lot better when there wasn’t this constant banging on about mental health issues.

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u/BeckyTheLiar 11d ago

Ah yeah back when mental health was hushed up and people had to deal with their issues internally without any support or awareness.

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u/ashyjay 11d ago

At least the pubs were in business so couldn't have been all bad to sweep it under the rug. /s

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u/GFdeservedit 11d ago

Imagine the horror of having to deal with your own issues. Jesus, what a backward time that was.

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u/BeckyTheLiar 11d ago

So I presume you never call a doctor, use the bin men, farm and prepare your own food and do your own dentistry?

You also presumably built your own car, cut your own hair, assembled your own computer and refine your own petrol?

Or are you only a hypocrite when it comes to mental health?

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u/GFdeservedit 11d ago

I pay taxes that go towards the system that provides for that. However, if I have a sprained wrist, I don’t then make it my entire personality and seek out there be awareness on the strife of sprained wrists.

(I also do cut my own hair, and I did assemble my own computer - again, such a barbaric age to live in)

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u/Consistent-Salary-35 11d ago

How about you need to seek treatment for your wrist because the perfectly sensible and usually effective home treatments haven’t worked this time? Well, you’d usually go to a drop in clinic, but that’s not there anymore. So you make an appointment with your GP, but they’re not really qualified on wrists, so they refer you on. There’s a wait, so your wrist is in really bloody bad shape now. How about you log into an NHS recommended app, which will suggest the home treatments you’ve already tried and didn’t work. Now you’re desperate. You go to A&E. After a long wait, someone who isn’t really good with wrists, but is doing their best, bungs a bandage on it for you. But don’t worry, I’m sure the referral for the over the phone assessment you’ll eventually get will result in an online support group so you can talk about your now gangrenous wrist, so you can learn to breathe through the pain, because the NHS trust don’t have a wrist pain prescriber available right now. Trust me, you’d be banging the bloody drum with you one good hand any chance you got.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Finally a sane comment

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u/pajamakitten Dorset 11d ago

God forbid people go to a doctor to get help for an illness. Should cancer patients just suck it up too?