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MR same result, next steps ?

Hi, so now I wish to take them to tribunal - what do I do? I got my MR decision today and it was the same. Zero for everything and I’m still in shock. They have said because I can drive and understood them I don’t have mental health problems! Honestly just because I’m not an idiot and I find driving mentally relaxing doesn’t mean I don’t genuinely have very real mental health problems! That completely make my everyday life a constant challenge I can’t navigate without the help of neighbours and my community! What steps do I need to take now, please can you help me. I’m so mad with them. Thank you so much.
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So its really absurd that they state I drove there fine. As that’s not actually true, is it ? It took me four attempts because I only ever drive locally. And trying to go somewhere new, if I am on my own inevitability always goes wrong. Just because I finally made it on the fourth attempt as I was literally having the best day of my mental health in five years, it doesn’t mean they can assume that is how I normally operate, is it ? They even know I called them to say I don’t think I can get there, and they said well you have to, and I failed three times and luckily succeeded the fourth time.
But that could simply be because I didn’t want to die in a ditch without any way to pay for my rent and living expenses. Consequently that day I felt under so much pressure that I just did my biggest fake ever- yes yes I’m fine totally saying what they wanted me to just so I would survive the journey and day.
How do I explain this to the court ? Having this condition means I can do a fake for 15 minutes, of pretending everything is fine, because I want to survive- but that’s not the reality of my daily living and life, so I really feel manipulated by them and everything has been twisted also I feel my condition has been manipulated as they said I answered appropriately’ No I didn’t! I was seeing things - people with guns pointing at me from behind her, in the room scared for my life and just nodding yes when she gave me an approving look!
I know that inside I wanted to say no this is what it’s really like ... but each time I tried she frowned at me so that I stopped talking. I’m so frustrated with them. The point was I knew how important it was but she made me only say what she wanted to hear and not how my life is really effected.
This was supported by my extreme fear and survival mode of pretending everything is fine.
Which is is what I simply have to do sometimes because having severe MH means I have experienced a lot of very bad interpersonal interactions.
On the face of it it's a rather strange situation because you travel to an assessment and then explain that you can't go out alone without experiencing OPD. Yet you've just driven there and are apparently OK...
Apart from asking for some support from whoever is responsible for your care - for example if they say that you can't go out to appointments etc - I don't know what else to suggest.
Sorry if I've misunderstood but please post again if you have any other questions and hopefully someone will be able to help you..
Sorry about this is so frustrating. I tried to get there three times on my own. After I had called them the first time to explain I wouldn’t be able to manage it. Why did I fail the first three times? I had OPD and it went very wrong.
The fourth attempt which was over five months of me trying to get there because even though I said I probably can’t get there every time, and have no one to help, they kept saying I had to get there - I ‘managed’ it. But I then thought aliens were controlling my thoughts for the next six months due to the stress and didn’t leave my house, and was terrified and made very unwell
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