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4 years 1 week ago #258440 by dulededulede
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Hi,
In my initial denial of my PIP on DLA transfer in 2015 I was awarded zero points across the board by Decision Maker. Mandatory Reconsideration increased it to standard care. Tribunal took me to enhanced daily care.
I want to get things right this time at main award review. But in the denial for PIP the DM used 'no evidence of any physical, learning or cognitive disorder that would affect the claimant for most of the time'.
My understanding is that cognition includes areas such as thought and perception you make of such thoughts. I suffer from a delusional disorder and as far as I'm concerned has always affected my thought process. They also assumed; I probably didn't make it clear enough, that my focus and concentration was and is deeply influenced by my conditions. In addition I have a selective attention bias through which I filter out things not important to my conditions. Essentially I miss important issues in the environment that my mind sees as mundane as not part of the issues surrounding the mental illness conditions I suffer from. Hypervigilance and selective focus or attention are paramount and as far as I'm concerned did not enter the DM's thought process.
Am I on the right track regarding Cognitive or Cognition as it is a somewhat difficult aspect of intelligence or the mind to grasp and deconstruct. A clearer definition?
In my initial denial of my PIP on DLA transfer in 2015 I was awarded zero points across the board by Decision Maker. Mandatory Reconsideration increased it to standard care. Tribunal took me to enhanced daily care.
I want to get things right this time at main award review. But in the denial for PIP the DM used 'no evidence of any physical, learning or cognitive disorder that would affect the claimant for most of the time'.
My understanding is that cognition includes areas such as thought and perception you make of such thoughts. I suffer from a delusional disorder and as far as I'm concerned has always affected my thought process. They also assumed; I probably didn't make it clear enough, that my focus and concentration was and is deeply influenced by my conditions. In addition I have a selective attention bias through which I filter out things not important to my conditions. Essentially I miss important issues in the environment that my mind sees as mundane as not part of the issues surrounding the mental illness conditions I suffer from. Hypervigilance and selective focus or attention are paramount and as far as I'm concerned did not enter the DM's thought process.
Am I on the right track regarding Cognitive or Cognition as it is a somewhat difficult aspect of intelligence or the mind to grasp and deconstruct. A clearer definition?
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4 years 1 week ago #258466 by Catherine
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Hello dulededulede,
You are right, what you describe is a difficult aspect to grasp. I would certainly argue that what you describe is a cognitive problem.
When it comes to the activities which are impacted by the issues you describe in your post I would write something like ‘I cannot reliably xxx because of yyy. This means that zzz’. Follow this up by giving examples of when you have had real life issues because you cannot reliably xxx.
I have seen many Assessor’s and DM’s say that there is no evidence of cognitive disorders. I have also never seen any evidence of an assessor attempting even a basic cognitive screening and I suspect that most do not have the experience or qualifications to do so. Include a paragraph in your PIP form similar to the third paragraph in your post, at least that will tell them what they should be aware of.
Hope this helps a little,
Catherine
You are right, what you describe is a difficult aspect to grasp. I would certainly argue that what you describe is a cognitive problem.
When it comes to the activities which are impacted by the issues you describe in your post I would write something like ‘I cannot reliably xxx because of yyy. This means that zzz’. Follow this up by giving examples of when you have had real life issues because you cannot reliably xxx.
I have seen many Assessor’s and DM’s say that there is no evidence of cognitive disorders. I have also never seen any evidence of an assessor attempting even a basic cognitive screening and I suspect that most do not have the experience or qualifications to do so. Include a paragraph in your PIP form similar to the third paragraph in your post, at least that will tell them what they should be aware of.
Hope this helps a little,
Catherine
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