PIP for anxiety?

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,377 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I agree @Chris75_, but words need to be chosen carefully as a lot of context is lost when it's just words on a screen.

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,439 Championing
    edited January 25

    I've had 2 f2f assessments with PIP & they can ask to do a musculoskeletal (MSK) exam which you can however decline without it affecting your claim. The first assessor didn't ask to do a MSK exam, & I stopped the one with my 2nd assessment as they were trying to gauge the range of motion (ROM) of my joints. As I'm hypermobile & my ROM therefore exceeds that of a 'normal' person I thought it pointless to carry on to which the assessor agreed.

    However, what you're describing @Chris75_ is a DLA exam. I had one of those too before I migrated to PIP & a Dr does come to your home. I can say with certainty that your recall must have been about DLA as PIP (which is being discussed here) didn't start until 2013.

    DLA was also a completely different benefit & can't be likened to PIP due to the difference in their respective criteria.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    What do you think of this panel mw are any of them known to support disabled people

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    I agree and with the help of social media posts down playing anxiety and painting a picture of a life of riley on benefits and the only thing that will help us survive it is working and you know your never make it i feel like a child honestly a lost child i have no survival skills I've hidden for many years I can mask for an hour max then im done along with everything else I will never make it and I know that mentally physically emotionally I dont have the capability to stay in the real world but I fear and see that they don't care about that its about what you can do even to do cleaning job and im not putting cleaners down far from it apparently you have to answer so many questions

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Posts: 940 Championing

    This post is not meant to devide people of who has what and who doesn't have what. It's discussion of what some people put in for when they think they have a condition worthy of PIP. Stop trying to defend yourselves or your anxieties and explain what you think deserves gaining pip in this post. I've seen post's stating that " I must have adhd too" how would they assume that?. Keep posting though, because it's becoming interesting. Whatever you say about me is water off a ducks back, I honestly don't care.

  • Community_Scope
    Community_Scope Posts: 2,208 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    As this is beginning to turn argumentative we have decided to close this discussion and may reopen it again tomorrow.

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