Ah, it was you who asked how the money could be used for mental health. I couldn’t find your post. But I wrote a post about the extra expenses we incur because of my son. I will paste it below:
To the poster who asked what PIP can be spent on in cases of mental health, you would be surprised. Apart from the obvious therapy, which would eat up most of it very quickly, there are plenty of everyday expenses. My son gets DLA for OCD (also IBD, but obviously that’s physical) He has showers that last up to two hours. He uses a quarter of a bottle of liquid soap every time he washes his hands, which is frequent. He will only eat certain foods he sees as safe. They are in individual packets and containers that can be poured out without me touching them. So separate food from the rest of the family, which is expensive. I regularly have to throw food away and start again because he thinks I have breathed on it. He will discard an item of clothing after wearing it once or twice because it’s contaminated. I have a whole drawer full of clothes I’m hoping he’ll wear when he’s better, if he hasn’t grown out of them. He will put on an item of clothing, then take it straight off because it has a piece of fluff or a hair on it. Same with bedding, so lots and lots of extra washing. Dozens of antibacterial wipes used by him every day. I could go on. And on. But it would get very boring and repetitive. It all adds up, believe me. I’m sure people with other mental health conditions have expenses that, while not the same, are similarly unusual and unthought of by most.