PIP Update

@justdon That's pretty disgusting, he's not meant to judge people, he's meant to help them.

I do try and speak out if I can and if I feel the need, I feel it helps others to speak out as well.

I'm very sorry you were treated like that and failed by the system. 

Justdon, If you're interested, this is a blog I wrote a while ago with the help of a friend of mine. It obviously doesn't go into full detail of things that happened to me because I don't want to trigger people mental health, plus I can't remember some of it.

https://raiseawarenessblogblog.wordpress.com/

Okie dokie, hope you have a good rest

Hi @Chloe_Scope thanks, I often try and get support but I don't seem to get anywhere, a lot of people don't seem to give a stuff about people who have mental health problems, I've even contacted Mind for help and they try and send me here, there and everywhere and the last thing they suggested was the Samaritans who I've also been in touch with previously but their help is limited.

I pretty much sit here with anxiety, depression and pain among other issues on a daily basis, the whole thing with the DWP and Capita haven't helped matters, they've succeeded in making me feel worse if anything.

Agreed, I'm tired of trying to seek help, it took almost 20 years to be referred to a psychiatrist and diagnosed.. and even then treatment hasn't helped. 

@paffuto10 I agree with you.

when I first started getting help with my mental help (which took how many years of taking different meds), it was much faster and you were given more sessions, like for counselling I had around 26 sessions.

I can't remember how many sessions I had for my first lot of CBT but I know when I tried CBT again I was only given 6 sessions which I didn't complete because the therapist was a bit ugh.

I was also considering going private until they dropped my PIP, there's a nice lady on Scope I was going to do the counselling with.

@paffuto10 Nah it's ok, my stuff is complicated because the DM made a decision without my GP's report which she was waiting on, I was told it wasn't the final decision but she still sent me a decision letter anyway and Welfare Rights wrote an MR for me which has gone in, so we'll see what happens, I'm hoping she'll see the GPs info and realise the assessor was wrong, but I doubt it, if not and the MR goes nowhere, I'll just appeal, hopefully they don't touch my current award in the meantime.

Thanks @Chobbly that tune is pretty awesome, I'm sat here listening to it while typing this lol. Yeah anxiety is a nightmare to deal with, it's like having a little devil on you shoulder telling you how to think!