Specialist – 'lottery winner' may need help

“Am I reading this correctly? Someone goes around window shopping for expensive goods...hey presto..it`s the Government`s fault. Was any crime committed? Are we 100% certain that this person has any disorder? Sounds more like free advertising.
I once went into a car sales room looking at an expensive family car but had no means of buying it, I suppose I better go section myself.”

“Hubert1841....................care in the community has been around since the fifties.
This Govt have been in office two and a half years.
Try looking back the previous thirteen years for real social change, like mass imigration for starters.”

“Oh I don't know, I think Hubert may have a point...
Harping back to my own experience (before I was sectioned and diagnosed all those years ago!)
I'd been to-ing and fro-ing between Cheltenham and Brighton, doing the odd hour or two for a friend behind his bar while away. He'd mentioned needing another licensee to help run the place and my delusional mind went *boom*
I coached it back to Chelters, got an appointment with a financial advisor at my bank and went into total delusions of grandeur overdrive! I turned up, fake fur coat, fake glasses, dripping with gold and with the poshest accent I could muster. Went out with a £500 overdraft and a £100 cheque guarantee card. Not bad for someone who'd recently been made redundant and was raking in £35 a week on the dole... £3,000 and a fortnight later, without even returning to my friends bar... The beggars sectioned me! It was all part and parcel of my bipolar disorder. I genuinely did believe I was about to 'hit the big time'. Blamed the services for ruining my chances of a fulfilling career...
These days there aren't the number of admissions to psychiatric units as there were then, (15 odd years ago) for one thing there aren't the beds or the staff! Cost cutting. You fairly much have to be swinging an axe 'round in the street to be admitted to hospital. Even then they are releasing people while they are far from well. We only have to read this news site to see how sadly lacking the services have been, when recently discharged service users go on to commit suicide.
On top of this there's the added pressure of the constant battle with ATOS reviews, a stressful experience that's simply not tuned to those with mental health problems.
So yes. Before you dismiss this chap as nothing but a fantasist. Think on. 1 in 4 people will suffer from mental health issues at some point in there lifetime. The services provided for those in need are appallingly underfunded.”

“@Hubert1841 - It is speculation what mental capacity this man has, and what level of treatment he is receiving. The quote did say he 'may' not be getting the medical attention. There is no way of knowing if this man has received treatment and rejected it. Under every government there are stories of mentally ill people doing things in the wider community, not just this government. ATOS do not provide medical treatments, we have a NHS for that.”

“I doubt he is mentally ill, he is just a fantasist.

TiG--this is not a news story! What can we expect next week? "Man sees fox", "Cleaner finds rubbish"?”

“"Sadly, if he is going around shops doing this, he may not be getting the medical attention he needs." Who'd guessed, that in Cameron's Britain, the mentally ill are roaming the streets untreated? Who'd thought that? It's not like ATOS are on a quasi-crusade to exterminate the mentally ill, by fair means or foul, is it? Oh, wait a minute...”