Hello People
New to this forum.
I have been trying to fill my PIP form and like most people I am finding it sole destroying and upsetting.
Have Crohn's Dieases+short bowel, COPD stage 3, GERD, Crohn's Arthritis and plenty of other things and I am transferring from an indefinite DLA award to PIP.
I've come to a stop at Planning and following a journey.
On all the reading I have seen this has to be cognitive impairment.
How on earth do I make a journey on foot or by public transport with sever COPD, bowel incontinence and arthritis. For a start I would freak out just at the though of doing it, second I never make a journey unless its by car or with someone.
Now I know its all about fitting the descriptors but it seams they do not take depression and anxiety into much account but that is what I would suffer - Physiological distress. I feel very vulnerable on my own, the fear and embarrassment of incontinence or breathing distress out on my own and being to unable to walk or to find relief. I read trying to finds toilets no longer counts.
I just do not know how to put it into the right words.
Has anyone any got a clue where to start
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