Mental health

I have just been told I'm no longer eligible for PIP, it seems to me that it is increasingly difficult to keep PIP. I never got PIP for depression as I tend to cope with it and manage to just keep it kind of hidden. It's a hidden depression that I experience within. I'm sure it affects my day to day, I know that it does. For depression to be classified as a disability I was reading earlier, it must significantly impact your day to day living so much so that there might be a need for a carer to help one cope with it. I probably kick myself in the teeth when it comes to expressing any depressive disability, it's kind of masked by my not being able to work due to heart failure, which is another hidden disability I experience. I do not like to claim these disabilities as part of my being as such and thus I tend to distance myself from claiming it as 'mine'. I avoid saying things like 'I have disabilities' in favour of saying 'I experience disabilities'. It might seem like a small thing but to me it is an important way of coping. Unfortunately, this kind of coping, cost me the PIP I was receiving because of the heart failure. Any way. @Strawberry1 You can get PIP for depression if it is significant enough and generally persistent. ! You might consider asking organisations such as Benefit Answers or getting help to fill out the PIP claim form from CIL 'Center for Integrated Living' I think it's called. There are people who can help. I'm tired of fighting the benefit system and am trying to raise up my spirits and find a new way of living with disabilities. That is why I joined the Scope Community today.