Pip review assessments. Mental health.

Oh damn it. I just made a comment here which took me a long time to put together, but it's not showing. :(

This happens sometimes as it gets caught up in the spam. When admin start work later this morning they will post it and it will appear in this thread.

Can someone please tell me if it's OK to type my answers to the form question s and print these and include it with fhe form, or is it best that I write on the form and fill the boxes in?

I started typing out my answers on the computer as I didn't want to mess the form upwith mistakes and crossing things out. With typing I can go back multiple times and edit over many days to get it worded right. I generally write too much and usually go back and try and shorten it - my worry is ifnit's too long they won't bother to read my explanations and just refuse my claim.

If writing on the form is beneficial then I will do so and copy across what I have typed out, I just didn't want to unnecessarily waste additional time.

A few of you above mention claiming PIP and mental health. Do you think I would have much of a fight to try and get this for myself? My main issue is I have difficulty communicating with people and socialising. I've pushed myself to talk at times and ask for a lottery ticket in a shop for example, that's more of just saying a statement - but even that I have humiliated myself and just made a strange noise or been unable.tomspeak, and look like an idiot. It's incredibly frustrsting. As I look over the form and type out my answers it's hit me suddenly that I haven't actually had a conversation with anyone outside of my own family (now late 30s). The closest I've come to chatting with someone else is my GP, but I mostly email him and have what I want to say on notes to pass to him, but inbetween I can get some words out but these are often muddled up.

I get panic attacks around trying to speak and socialising, in particular attending appointments like reviews are extremely difficult and soul crushing. So much so that CAB had attended ESA reviews for me many years ago. I kind of regret not applying for PIP back then, but the ESA reviews were incredibly stressful when I had to attend, that I was terrified of just have a second benefit thing, and the thought of being pulled in for two separate reviews just makes me feel sick. Tbh I've only considered it now all these years later because the hospital wants me to go back to my dentist and pay for treatment, but my dentist is now private (not NHS anymore) so I have to pay for Xrayd and dental treatment out of solely ESA income. This is the main thing that'a prompted me to try for PIP now, but I do hope it might help me also get my own place in the near future - if they even allow me to get it.

I'm worried about the form too, is it best to be completely open about all of my issues? Or do I just focus on the day to day struggles, rather than 'what I think' are the reasons why I function in such a broken way.

I am mostly reluctant to include details about my body image concerns and suicidal feelings, and many email exchanges with Samaritans and my GP.

Do PIP need to know these details iltonincrease my claim chances, or do they just need to know the symptoms only and my struggles - rather than what I think is fhe root cause?

Mmm sorry, I made a long post, this is kind of what I am worried about with the form, but I think I can trim that down.

Sorry I didn't finish my post from above clicked on it to early . Has I was saying .He's on both care and mobility for pip . But he had a lot of written evidence. He's also on 2 lots of antiphycotics medication . He got the mobility part of pip for his paranoid scitsophrenia because he can be very agitated and sometimes verbally abusive to people on publick transport ,so I or a family member have to accompany him .

And also I take him shopping when he gets his weekly food .

He was also sectioned a couple of years ago but is now fairly stable .he lives on his own in a council flat

He really hasn't got much insight into things he dosnt wash his flat is a mess . If I prepare food for him he sometimes thinks it's contaminated so he throws it all in the bin .

I honestly don't know how he'd survive if is pip were to stop as he uses this for taxis to get to his appointments and extra clothing ,as he will only ware certain fabrics.

He dosnt even open his letters he thinks people are spying on him I'm his Appointee ,so I'm the one who fills in the forms .

Thanks Meg24 . Trauma must be awful to live with it's in itself a mental health condition. I feel for you . And I know you can still get pip without a diagnosis. I hope you got your pip . Hang in there and take care of yourself .