Sunday, November 22, 2009

Depressed?

Hello lovelies, I recently read a story about a young Canadian woman who has lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on facebook where she appeared to be happy. The woman, Nathalie Blanchard has been on long-term sick leave from her job at IBM for the last year and recieving benefits from Manulife insurance. When she called to see why her payments had stopped, and was informed by her insurance agent that the Facebook photos were evidence that Blanchard was no longer depressed.   She tells the CBC that her doctors told her to try to have fun to forget her worries.



 
Now I have a Facebook page and I don't know about some people, but my page is private and you have to put in a request for friendship to even see my page. Did the agent ask to be friends with her and she allowed? Did they get to her through one of her friends? Does she have an open page that anyone can see? If its the latter then that was just foolishness on her part. You've gotta keep things like that private, and even that doesn't keep the weirdos and creepers away. But at least you have some sort of control. 


I feel for this woman, if she really is suffering from depression in such a way that keeps her from working then this a great blow to her recovery.

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