According to the governments DWP im severely disabled - and even copped the enhanced rate of PIP this month. But it reality - so long as i stay indoors, and limit public contact, i do pretty bloody well on my own.
Its when people mess with my head i get problems. Call it poor social skills or paranoia.
Iām dreading my next assessment for it . Itās potentially going to be the economic equivalent of being seen as doing well because you have no debts when in reality thatās only the case due to family support.
Sorry to hear that mate. Dunno how ive managed it, but i havent had a face 2 face assessment in over 26 years. You not got a CPN that can write a supporting letter?
She knew to use keywords like āchronicā and ālifelong conditionā in mine, cos she asked her associates i think lol.
I do hope you get it mate. Try not to worry, altho i swore blind i was gonna lose mine, and they ended up increasing it. You maybe the same.
Iām, to be fair,someone very prone to anticipatory anxiety. My greatest fear is that a symptom profile of being āquite a lot in remission with some breakthrough psychosisā will be taken as ātoo well to get itā . Iām doing better because of, and not in spite of, support from my stepfamily. A lot of that can be put down to reduction of stress. Strip that away & the likelihood is things would gradually deteriorate.
There isnāt a month that goes by that Iām not disabled 100. I know whatās happening and have insight, but canāt seem to fight hard enough.
I try as hard as I can but still fail. Iām constantly trying to learn new coping techniquesā¦
i couldnāt keep up with working in the militaryā¦ Iām not sure it would stimulate you into doing anythingā¦ you still have to get up and go do it then huh
my schizo limits me like 25%, but my anxiety limits me maybe fifty percent
I am the same mentally, only not physically.
Almost the same habits.
Itās just that the people around me perceive me differently.
Iām down as chronic SZA too. I have never been for an assessment for PIP or even DLA before that. I first started getting DLA high rate when I was 17. Iām now 35.
I would say 50%. I donāt really know what criteria everyone else is using for their numbers, but I say 50% because I have a job but I canāt work full time. I am of clear enough mind to manage my own home and finances but I still struggle with hallucinations and panic attacks. Iām am independent enough to live alone but sometimes I have complete breaks from reality where I have to call someone for help grounding myself. So about half of my ability to succeed has been consumed by this disease.
On 15mg I was also about 90 percent disabled. It is crazy because it was mainly invisible. But you can tell something was up because of the flatness and alogia. And the fact that I was 90 percent in bed
My negative symptoms were little on 20mg Abilify but yeah before I quit meds I was stable on 10mg Abilify and my cognition+negative symptoms were even better. I wish I didnāt stop meds for 2y as it did damage and after they put me on 20mg Abilify. Now on 4mg Risperdal negatives and cognition are even worse than 20mg Abilify.
Sounds rough Aziz. Youāre a strong guy!
Iām on 10mg abilify, and would like to see what an even lower amount would be like. I donāt want a setback though, like you had. Mentally I feel strong enough to make the move down but my p doc says no.
I stopped my meds, thats why I relapsed.
Why didnāt you try to go to a lower dose, instead of abruptly going off them ?
I wanted to beat sz without pills as the pills made me tired.
I am geting back my former functionality idd say Im at 40% now after 100%. I believe @shutterbug
the health care says iām 66%+ disabledā¦ so iām not sure what the number is but itās over 66% but i donāt know how they put that number together
Who tested you and what tests did they make you do? I never had such a test, just had an IQ test.