Lcwra - can I come off and go on carers element?

Just so you know @fayet27 you can actually have all three of these at once, but best of luck with your diagnosis if you've put in for it, but also, you're on LCWRA because they assessed you as such, if they didn't consider your health problems that severe, you wouldn't be on it, so you are no less deserving than any of the rest of us that are on it.

Also, depression medications don't work out a lot of the time, I'm the same where I can react strongly to medication, you can possibly ask for different kind… I'm surprised if your doctor didn't suggest it, for me personally I exercise a lot which is a natural antidepressant. Some doctors will prescribe gym memberships if it's something you're capable of, but a walk also does good.

The way LCWRA works is not about your conditions but how they affect you. As there's people who have depression and anxiety, it can still be managed with medication for them, or work helps them take their mind off whatever is bothering them. You've maybe been looking into what the media says a bit much about people on this, that it's somehow easy to get onto… it's really not.

If you do feel like you have improved, like if you feel like you can potentially not have an issue working, you should probably report a change of circumstances, but if your anxiety is keeping you from doing that still, you still deserve to be on it, they would have only awarded you LCW if they thought this was something that would get better through time for you. Like LCWRA isn't exactly easy to get on with depression alone unless it's really crippling you (can't get motivated to get out of bed, hurting yourself etc… meaning you're a potential risk to others as well), it's really not as easy what the media makes people think it is.