Will NHS/PIP acknowledge a private diagnosis?

[PopsiMox]

I recieve PIP for several illnesses and am in the middle of my award. I know that I will be having a review next year and I have been to my GP several times asking to be referred for a diagnosis of 2 things. Twice they have set me up for counselling (which I am doing, but it is unrelated to the 2 issues that i need to get diagnosed so I can get proper therapy in regards to those issues)

On my last therapy pre-ssessment the nurse said herself it sounds like you have X and Y and tried to do a point scoring assessment over the phone but couldn't as he phone kept cutting out. I also had a review for another of my illnesses and that dr (who is a psychiatrist) said in his report i have many symptoms of these things.

I just don't want to go to the GP again and ask for help because they will fob me off with self help internet courses (which are helpful but ive done them all so many times) and say I am already in talking therapy etc.

Im not even sure how you go about getting a diagnosis on the NHS.

I do get PIP so I thought I could use that to pay for a private assessment but then I wondered if the GP will accept that? It is expensive but these 2 issues keep coming up in my files, in conversations with MH nurses and within my diagnosis notes for other issues and if I do have them i feel it changes things significantly and if it is correct then I could also pay privately for some appropriate therapy to tackle it and stand the best chance of me getting better and starting to have a functioning life again rather than trwating the wrong thing and nothing ever changing?

They should but worth considering why you are pursuing in and how the information might affect you either way before you pay out. You don’t need diagnoses to claim PIP.

You don’t need diagnoses for PIP.

however I have private diagnoses for a number of my conditions - peripheral neuropathy and complex regional pain syndrome and they were accepted.

Yes I know on paper you don't need diagnoses but lately all Im seeing fekm every single political party is that PIP will be taken away for people who 'just have anxiety'

My history of MH issues is extensive and heavy but they only thing I am actually diagnosed with in the MH area is depression & anxiety despite being told I seem like I actually have PTSD from extensive childhood abuse and OCD. I didnt even know what OCD was really until one of my reports mentioned it, i thought it was washing your hands, but all my 'anxiety' symptoms actually fir perfectly within the OCD and PTSD diagnosis. It seems like for years I've bene told I am just anxious and yet the medication has never helped me and neither has the online therapies they offer based on that.

I am sick of living this way and I want help for it.