PIP phone assesment

Got my PA4 copy yesterday... I am not impressed

it turns out that a physiotherapist assessed me, so I was right in my guess that they were not a mental health specialist. There are some "interesting" assumptions and leaps of logic in there like saying that being able to attend appointments means that I can undergo a journey, which I don't understand as almost every appointment I have had in the last 2 years has been other the phone, MSteams, or the attend anywhere site... so I've literally not had to leave my house for them.
They also claimed that I can cook and budget becuase I can drive, which I really can't work out at all...
And that because I go to a shop once a week that I don't have symtoms of psychological distress, conveniently she neglected to add to the report that I am drive to the shop and accumpanied around the shop as I can't go alone.

There were loads more but I won't list them all and bore you all

one bit that stood out though, and I quote word for word here was "although she has a history of autism this is a learning difficulty and not a disability"... I kind of feel that this one statement shows how little knowledge she has on my conditions

I've started writting a letter pointing out the innacuracies and adding some extra info to the bits where she either conveniently forgot to add detaiols or where she claimed thing that I wasn't even asked about (she's claimed in the report that I have never seen a speech theripist and had no support at school when in reality she asked about neither of these and I have had both). I hope to get this posted this week


I am also started getting some prep in place for the inevitable MR/appeal. I know that this is not the final decision, but I get the impression that the decision makers rarely go against the assessors and I would rather get some prep work done now while I can as knowing my brain it is liable to overreact to the actual decision...
Currently tring to think of more sources of evidence but struggling a little. Hoping that my formulation document and treatment plans will be of use when I get them next week, but will have to see what they say once I get them. I now realise how careful I need to be based on how much the assessor twisted what I said last week. Will also ask my care coordinator for a letter and see if I can convince my housemate to write a statement.

Hazel, hope this may help prove the assessor does not know what they are talking about
Section 6 Equality Act 2010:

‘(1)A person (P) has a disability if—
(a)P has a physical or mental impairment, and
(b)the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’

Denby

I wrote a letter to the decision maker and posted it off. In hindsight I should have spent longer on it and cut it down as it was loooonnnng... I may have kind of hyperfocused on it and written it in a solid 12 hour period... bad move... should have gotten someone to look over it before I sent it

I have spoken to my CMHT care coordinator, he said he'd write a letter but only if I supplied him with an email address or name of someone to contact dirrectlly at the DWP... he won't give me a letter to forward. I dislike this idea as A i don't have a contact, and B I need to check what he writes...
I also still don't have a treatment of crisis plan to forward on as for some reason he won't give me a copy... Though to be fair as the extent of my treatment seems to be "here are some links to the recovery college for self help, we have referred you to see a psychiatrist for a medication review, but we suggest you look for private therapy" I am not sure it would have helped much anyway... I've not been discharged, but also not getting any real treatment...
Too ill to discharge, not ill enough to get access to the limited support/services available... story of my life

So I am back to the lacking evidence problem, and as now it appears that private treatment is my only option so I kind of really need PIP to even attempt to get better or have any sort of life I'm going to have to find something

Anyone know if statements from friends are taken seriously?
My housemate is going to write a statement this weekend and another friend has also offered - but as I have hardly seen her in the last 2 years I am not sure what she can realistically write if I am honest. I can't think of anyone else to ask really as I basically never see anyone due to rarely being able to leave the house, but thinking I might write up a general facebook status asking if anyone is willing to write anything, even if it's about how I was when they last saw me or confirming that I don't really go anywhere or see anyone