What does pain and depression look like?

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  • Nystagmite
    Nystagmite Community Member Posts: 595 Empowering
    I've met people with things like bi polar, schizophrenia, etc. I only knew because they told me. They (the illnesses) don't have a look, which is what it seems the assessors / DWP are implying here.

    I've been told more than once I shouldn't have my bus pass (I'm registered partially sighted) because I "look fine" and because I wear glasses. There's the odd visual impairment where it's clear there's an issue with the eyes, which I thankfully don't have. But you can't tell what someone sees just by looking at them.
  • CockneyRebel
    CockneyRebel Community Member Posts: 5,188 Championing
    Victoriad said:
    Hello @whistles
    I also believe that having a driving liscence also has a lot to do with the points.

    You  gave me food for thought on a thread you’d posted ( can’t remember which) on earlier about forgetting to mention Id had my licence revoked on my application form.

    Next week when feeling a bit better .......still feeling off due my shingles etc.
    I will see about mentioning this when phoning up the dept that awarded me PIP.

    I think having had your driving liscence revoked on medical grounds by the DVLA ( who are VERY thorough)
    adds on the points.


    In what descriptor would this add points ?
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  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing
    I don't think invisible illnesses have a look. That's why it's called invisible.
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  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing
    They do have guidelines to follow you can download that. But it's interpretation and assumption.

    My choice of clothes tells you nothing about how long it took to put them on. Our whether I have chosen then because I struggle with clips or lack confidence to wear anything else. 
    My guess is having an assessment in January and wearing a summer dress could be seen as inappropriate and scores points. However that could also say I'm eccentric and I don't feel the cold. Someone would stop me going out like that- so I would be dressed ok! That's what the forms said. Someone prompts the correct choices.  
    I scored when I set foot out of the house though. I won't be in a summer dress so you can lose that image. I don't own any.  :)

    As a totally different subject on appearances and behaviour, the police are trained to recognise suspect behaviour and they say a criminal doesn't have a "look" 
    So maybe that's it @Victoriad the behaviour. Though that requires a lot of training and subject knowledge. 
    I think the subject is interesting, and we do make a judgement about someone meeting them for five minutes. 
    A male assessor might view someone wearing a sack as well kempt!
  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    After years of chronic pain I’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia by going to a different doctor . What does it look like? My GP says it’s the symptoms I have and it’s the way the brain perceives pain in the body. He says I feel pain MORE. He says it makes me Hypersensitive. Does that draw a picture for you, or is it just me  being able to because it’s me, lol. Assessors need a clear method of understanding invisible illness. Maybe an invisibility meter?
  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    @whistles onslaught at invisible reply
  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    What ! P M S L !
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    debbiedo49 Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    It was my keyboard lol
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  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    Yep you got me!

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