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Pip For Mental Health
JustJan
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I was wondering if anyone has won a pip tribunal for mental health. I have aspects of high functioning autism. Schizotypal, impulsivity, borderline and dependant personality disorder. Also paranoid schizoid and avoidant. My tribunal was recently ajourned due to them wanting my medical records. I have difficulty answering questions without going round the long route of explaining everything. The person i have been allocated from the law centre made me really confused with questioning... i was answering and he kept saying wait for the question...where are you going with this,its not relevant when i felt what i was saying was relevant. He wanted black and white answers but not everyday is black and white. Im starting to think i have wasted a year and perhaps maybe i should give up. Its caused me so much stress.
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Unfortunately no one can answer that question for you because PIP isn't awarded based on any diagnosis, it's how those conditions affect you daily. Everyone is different, what might affect 1 person may not affect another. Hopefully it won't be too much longer now. Good luck.
You have got this far so don't give up now. The tribunal has not given up on you or they wouldn't have asked for your records.
As poppy says PIP is about how you are affected funtionaly
Have a look at the B&W self test
http://www.mybenefitsandwork.co.uk/pip/indexxx.php
This might give you an Idea of what is asked
Good luck and come back and let us know how you get on
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Hello, I'm exactly like you in a way. I talk for ages going round and round but never getting to the point of the question. I can understand why your advisor is saying these things, but they are not actually helping you. It is so easy to talk yourself out of a PIP award even when they have not asked a specific question. You think what you are saying is relevant but no one else does and that's the problem. What I would also say is you are one very lucky person to get representation. It's hard enough for others to even get advice or help in filling out the forms. I have never had a Tribunal, but for the face to face assessments I have had to go it alone as well as having to complete all of the forms without any help. Just understand that you should listen to the question and if you understand it just give a simple answer and FINISH there! SLOW down.
I recommend that you go through each of the activities that you want the Tribunal to look at. Figure out how your mental health affects your function for each one (you probably did this for your application and MR). Write down bullet points for each one. Ask someone else to look at them and see if they can make them shorter. Bring the paper into the Tribunal, and explain that you need it because you have problems with getting to the point, etc. Then you can check your paper whenever you answer a question, and if the answer is there, just read out the bullet points. Then explain anything extra that they've asked about.
Hope that helps!
Good luck! You can do this!