Help applying for PIP Depression & Agoraphobia

Hi Marie,

I'm glad that bit is behind you now!

We have given up trying to guess the possible outcome from the way the face2face went, so I will keep my fingers firmly crossed on your behalf for a few more weeks!

Thanks. I will just have to see. I will let you guys know when I find out.

The more I think the more I realise I messed up my face to face. She asked me questions but I forgot some things that have just come back to me. My brain is like a fog on my tablets I take and I am so forgetful. She asked when the agoraphobia was dignosed and I remember now and I remember the medication they gave me to try and help the anxiety going out. She did ask that and I forgot and just said I didn't know if I had been officially diagnosed and never had any medication for it.

I forgot a fair few things I should have mentioned. I hope that whoever makes the decision really reads what I wrote on my form as I took my time with that doing it bit by bit over 2 weeks.

For anyone reading this thread I do suggest you take some notes for a face to face. I should have as in the moment I couldn't think.

Hi guys,

I just got my decision letter through just now and I have been awarded the standard rate for daily living!!! That is what I was hoping for with my conditions. I didn't expect mobility at all so that's fine. I was shocked to read the amount going in that's been backdated to when I applied. I just never expected to get it. This has made me feel a lot more secure and taken a bit of the financial worries away.

This forum and the guides were inavaluable so thank you all so much. Especially Gordon and MrsHurtyback. It did help that I was lucky enough to have a very sympathetic assessor and she did understand my problems. She even rang my doctors surgery to get me more help as I have really been struggling lately and my new GP is useless. I am now going to be seeing a psychiatrist which I really do need to do.

I've been awarded PIP until 2018. It's not too long but I am happy with that.

When I applied for PIP I was sent an ESA review at the same time which I haven't heard back about yet. Hopefully that will be ok too.

Thanks so much guys for the support and the wonderful guides. I hope this thread will help someone else in a similar situation to me.