No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1160956 |
| Date: 2025-04-07 18:47:13 |
| Nickname: JRA |
| Age: 30 |
| Main health condition: Mental health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: CPTSD, Agoraphobia, Intermittent explosive disorder (Rage issues), OCD. The main issue revolves around the impact of traumatic experiences. Sexual, physical and emotional abuse, witnessing bloody violence with murderous intent within a domestic setting for a prolonged period of time. |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Standard |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: The chances are slim to none unless assessors take into account my previous history. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I need prompting to wash myself in all areas, to change my clothes, I have absolutely no idea to budget, short term memory issues, I don't communicate face to face with anyone barring my mother, I avoid all human contact and on and off since 2013 barely ever go outside. I cannot cook or prepare food, holding sharp implements is a no go due to the want to self harm. I get angry and fly into a rage at anything, to the point of police and medical interventions over the years. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: I'll lose the standard daily living rate of PIP and the LCWRA when the WCA is abolished. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: The crux of the matter is what employer will employ me over someone fit and able? Who is going to employ someone who can't remember 5 minutes ago? I would be a danger to myself and others due to my current state, that is not even taking into consideration many other issues. As someone opined, people in my predicament will be trapped in a doom loop of training and searching for non-existent jobs wherein if they did exist I wouldn't be hired due to my issues. Then the fear of people knowing me, knowing my issues, the fear people will think I'm a nutjob or psycho. |
| Anything else to tell us: With focussed, one on one, long term support yes I do believe in time I can return to a semblance on normality, a return to a working environment most likely within home working but I fear due to the constant media and political campaign of demonising, downplaying and mocking people with mental illnesses I will just be cut aside without any support, without financial sustenance, without an ear to hear or a shoulder to cry on. It took me until the Covid years to actually claim incapacity orientated benefits due to the shame of claiming benefits, I boxed myself in further, it isn't something I'm proud of but there needs to be a line in the sand, an acknowledgement that any one of us through no fault of our own can have our lives turned upside down and that safety net is a lifeline. |
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