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Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance
No. 24601 writes "A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave, due to a diagnosis of depression, lost her health benefits after her insurance provider found photos of her on Facebook smiling and looking cheerful at parties and out on the beach. Besides all the obvious questions, how did the insurance company access her locked Facebook profile?"
My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
Dude, you know what. I have depression. There's not an hour where I wake up where I'm NOT thinking about killing myself or everyone else and I just bit my damned upper lip, say life sucks, and move on. I enjoy the fleeting moments of happiness like a fine glass of whiskey and move on, and frankly, getting out and doing something, and having a job, and working, even if you screw it up, is the best thing you can do.
When you go through hell, keep going.
This is my sig.
For example when I review the WHO's stats, I don't see negative numbers for the United States. I see that we Americans are ahead of the Europeans and the Russians and the Chinese. How? Simple. When I treat the European Union as a single united government under a single president (because that's what they are now that Lisbon Treaty has passed), I see this:
(1) San Marino ... ...
(2) Andorra
(3) Singapore
(4) Oman
(5) Japan
(6) Colombia
(7) Saudi Arabia
(8) USA
(9) Israel
(10) Morocco
(11) Canada
(12) Australia
(13) Chile
(14) Dominica
(15) Costa Rica
(16) United States
(17) Cuba (the have government healthcare; why aren't they higher?)
(18) Brunei
(19) EUROPEAN UNION
(20) New Zealand
(115) Russia
(129) China
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