No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1160894 |
| Date: 2025-04-07 17:53:59 |
| Nickname: Hopeless |
| Age: 60+ |
| Main health condition: Mental health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Enhanced |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: It depends on the assessor, and their knowledge/understanding of my condition. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: When I'm completely closed down, I do not communicate or function at all - don't leave bed, don't eat, don't wash, don't listen, don't talk. When I'm not closed down, I'm exhausted due to hypervigilance. My life consists of fight/flight/freeze modes. I'm exhausted 24/7/365. My memory is shot - disassociation - brain opts out when difficult/important issues are being discussed. Unrelenting feelings of shame, guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness and uselessness. I don't understand the point of me. when the nightmares take over, almost every night, I rely on MH help lines to see me through to the next day. Leaving home - extremely rarely - is only achievable if I have someone I trust with me and is only for medical appointments. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: PIP NS ESA |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: I just wouldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I achieve, on average, less than three hours sleep per day. I worked for 40+ years on that amount of sleep, it made me ill (depression/anxiety), unproductive, and generally unsafe. Due to hypervigilance, I was considered weird, a freak, and a drama queen whenever I reacted differently to events than colleagues. Reasonable adjustments were resented and frequently commented on (negatively) by colleagues. |
| Anything else to tell us: At home, I can minimise the triggers that will result in flashbacks and all that comes with those. In a work environment those triggers are omnipresent from tone of voice, to scent, to noise, to trigger words etc. etc. |
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