voices

Bryando

I have my tribunal in less than a week for DLA.

Something is worrying me. Getting asked what the voices say! Might sound daft, but telling folk what they say has landed me being detained!!

My partner /carer is coming with me, but I propose my partner does NOT come in with me. Purely as me saying the voices sometimes tell me to kill my partner might alarm. Plus I will probably feel at greater ease able to speak without having to wonder what my partner thinks.

So should I just tell them exactly what the voices say and my battle or what? Tried looking online with folk in a similar position, but found nothing.

Errata

Would it be worth you talking things through with your local MIND or Rethink? See what they suggest?

kurgon

Are you on medication? If so, you should be exempt from the review process and if you have a care coordinator they should have sorted this out for you.

Unless the rules have changed, people who are precribed an anti-psychotic licensed for treatment of psychosis do not have to attend tribunal reviews.

Thomas_Hardy

kurgon wrote: »

Are you on medication? If so, you should be exempt from the review process and if you have a care coordinator they should have sorted this out for you.

Unless the rules have changed, people who are precribed an anti-psychotic licensed for treatment of psychosis do not have to attend tribunal reviews.

That exemption was for the IB PCA, not DLA (or ESA). No one has to attend the tribunal hearing, but an appeal is far more likely to succeed if they do.

OP, be honest with the panel, they will have heard the same (and worse) before.

bigboybrother

kurgon wrote: »

Are you on medication? If so, you should be exempt from the review process and if you have a care coordinator they should have sorted this out for you.

Unless the rules have changed, people who are precribed an anti-psychotic licensed for treatment of psychosis do not have to attend tribunal reviews.

Since when?

I didn't think that for ESA and DLA purposes anybody was exempt other than those with 6 months to live.

niandsa

I have always taken an anti psychotic for my on going psychosis whilst claiming IB, then ESA and DLA. I have never been exempt from any review process although I haven't had a face to face interview for over 8 years.

I sympathise Bryando, I find it much easier to write about my voices and thoughts than tell someone face to face. Perhaps you could write it down in a letter to the tribunal and request that they read it before they see you?

Good luck x