(forgive my political incorectness) what's the most disadvantaged in your opinion.
2007-04-01 23:51:43 · 11 answers · asked by wingnut 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
well, i believe that any handicap or disability can be a disadvantage if you allow it. There are people who have disabilities but they live normal lives because they don't allow it to hold them back. So I guess, the most disadvantaged is the one who allows any kind of disability to hold them back from living a normal life.
2007-04-02 00:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's where someone has multiple handicaps, say after an accident, where sudden changes haven't allowed any gradual adjustment.
Eg. mental and physical handicaps, brain damage, sight/hearing loss, mobility combined together to give a major devastating blow and contrast to someone's prior abilities.
This sort of damage can cause psychological shock, as someone's new 'identity' is vastly different from before, possilbly with the loss of a partner due to relationship issues, loss of career and esteem - as well as the knock on problems associated with coping in a 'new' world.
Brain damage can be very hard to adjust to, with some cognitive impairments, such as frontal lobe or 'executive functioning'* damage being especially hard to counteract - other parts of the brain do not adjust so easily to take on board these functions, compared to say memory impairments.
Just some thoughts having worked with many people with brain damage, broken lives and having to also cope with other sensory problems and physical disabilities.
Good luck! Rob
*So called 'Executive functioning' includes such things as planning, organising, decision making, evaluation etc. Those things that are at the heart of human beings and managing life, versus being like other animals with less complex brains.
2007-04-02 07:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Rob E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that people in a wheelchair with many physical disabilities are usually able to enjoy at least a certain standard of life - albeit with help from others - I think that the most horrible disability must be that caused by disease/degeneration or injury to the brain, causing the person to basically have no life at all that they are aware of. . .
2007-04-02 07:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by Dover Soles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can I suggest that it could be a mental health problem where the disability or handicap is not obvious at first?
2007-04-02 07:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by Pit Bull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We take living and breathing for granted.any deviation from this can have big consequences.i.e.if you break a leg,this will impair you greatly(cant walk properly).lose your eyesight and you cant see.Any disability is not good.some are born with them.they learn to adapt as best they can.they have no choice.This does not mean they are any different than able bodied people,but it can introduce stigmas and can be frustrating and annoying.We are all human.
2007-04-02 07:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im in a wheelchair, and its a bugger getting stuff off teh shelves in supermarkets...
oh and people stare....that really ticks me off, but compared to my paraplegics and quadraplegic mates, im doing fine.
the bigest disadvantage today is PC madness. i just want to be treated as anyone else...im in a chair, so what... and being patronised... thats not nice either.
any disability is a handicap, but only if we let it be so... able bodied do gooders, they are the real handicap.
2007-04-02 07:01:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being completely brain damaged. If you are in a wheelchair/blind etc, most people can still live completely fulfilling lives, get married have children, work etc. If you are brain damaged severely, you are dependant on other people your whole life, cannot talk, feed yourself, think properly etc.
2007-04-02 07:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by **sugarplum** 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have cared for patients with disabilities,even children,and its sad,but the worst i have ever had to do was a stroke victim,and that is cruel,there are different types of stroke,but the one i had was severe,left side stroke,couldn't talk. then inconinent, couldn't walk,then went blind.its very very sad.
2007-04-02 20:26:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any chronic condition, ranging from endocarditis to MS to depression. I don't think it's fair to grade them in any way.
2007-04-02 08:19:41 · answer #9 · answered by boo! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW I COULD NEVER TELL YOU CANCER AIDS ARE ALL SO BAD MY MOM HAD MULTIPLE SCLROSSIS BUT IT WAS WORSE THEN THE AVERAGE PERSON DISSEASE IS SO SAD ALL OF IT NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE TALK OR USE ANY BODY PART IS SAD
2007-04-02 07:06:52 · answer #10 · answered by donielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋