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ZanyPombear · 20/09/2024 11:52

I wasn't going to but I submitted my tribunal request last night. I think I got 10 out of 12 possible mobility points as I'm classed as unable to leave my house due to significant distress because I have severe agoraphobia. I am getting graded exposure from a professional, but I also have a number of health issues and symptoms that is making it impossible to make much progress with my graded exposure, such as headaches, dizziness, a pulling sensation in my side, sharp pains, stomach issues which are a mix of constipation and diarrhoea daily. For two weeks of the month, I experience extreme ovulation and period pain that can cause me to collapse. I wrote about it at length on my original application including on my mandatory reconsideration. I am not an 80 year old woman hobbling around and I don't 'look' ill. I am doing everything they have recommended including meditation and other methods to improve my anxiety. I am afraid to get too far from my house because I often feel too ill and know I have to go all the way back. My main issue is worrying about my symptoms coming on and the trouble is that anxiety can mimic a lot of them and I will sit down for 20 minutes outside if I begin to feel them to work out if its anxiety or not. More often than not it is both and I go back. I am worried they will contact my mental health workers which I have put down as contacts and query them about my physical health issues.

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BobbyBiscuits · 20/09/2024 12:04

Firstly please don't panic. It's done now. They do not ask MH professionals to comment on physical ailments, the same as they wouldn't ask an orthopedic surgeon about severe depressive disorder. The MH ones will possibly be asked about your MH, but nothing else. For starters, what would they know about your physical illnesses anyway, other than if you said they exacerbate your MH.
Try not to worry. There may be a big backlog so you may not hear back that soon.

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