ESA 50

HI I am filling in a ESA 50 for my son he is 26 with severe mental health issues he has Dis Social personality disorder and is very complex the consultant said,now how do I get this across to the decision makers or will they ask the consultant etc, the form is going back late as my son just did not understand what he had to do with it the day it came put it down and forgot about it, ( DWP aware its coming late.

But getting stuck on the Part 1:Physical capabilities there is so much to explain but if i put to much in the form will they get board and not bother, the other problem is my son is literally just been told what he has so really don't understand the whats going to happen to him yet really don't know how to explain it.


So sorry to be a pain but don't want to wright a book but also need to make them understand do i tell them that he seem to have 4 personality's He has been told he has to gp tp sittingborn to get a better assessment.

Thanks for your help in advance Jacqui

Hi Jacqui,

I'm sorry you and your son are having to go through this

You need to write as much as necessary in order to show how your son meets the ESA descriptors. Try to confine yourself to this, rather than writing a lot of things that are not relevant .
Don't forget to make full use of our ESA guide which will explain how to phrase things in a way that the assessor and DWP will understand.

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You might want to bookmark/favourite this on your web browser now so that you can find it easily in future. That will allow you to return with further questions/comments without having to start a new topic each time. It helps us enormously when everything relating to the same claim is kept in one place - and I hope you will find it useful too

hi thanks Mrs Hurtyback is this to much i have to explain what he cope with *******
To Womb it may Concern
After a lengthy time Depression and with very frequent bouts of overwhelming frustrating confustion also anger that I cant stop.
Struggling to get by on a day to day basses and burying my self in self dough and not opening letters or being able to get bills paid shopping bathing, even eating my parents are always asking reminding me to eat and along self hate negatively commentating is also a very painful part of my life,
I have for as long as I can remember had a lot of inner self hate and trouble in communicating with myself even I have been told more than once I am my own worse enemy a danger to myself and although not nice to hear my family never know who they are going to get when I phone them Dayly for help and support, panic me, inappropriate me, aggressive me, or just me

I can't do people much to to loud to many as in be in a place where there are a lot of people even both my parents together are sometime to much to cope with my parents got me and paid for my car running cost because I can't a buses to me a bus is like sitting in a bomb with me being the Dynamite. If am approached by to many people at a time it worries me if I going to get myself into trouble by trying to get across that Please don't come nearer I cant take it
Shops are to much Mother does internet shopping for me, makes me take over my washing she manly takes care of the important stuff, paying my rent council tax tv licence etc
So I have now been sent/been to the next ****** in ****** for my mental health assessment and they then got me a appointment with a consultant with a 7 days as it seems to be server along with my anxiety that seems to making it worse it seem that I have 3 people fighting for their chance to talk,panic attacks,( am I going to be inappropriate to anyone) asthma come next then think people are looking at me(paranoia) its all just to overwhelming to me. I have got breathing exercise self calming myself down but hard when you have your mind racing it dose not always work it just so overbearing and so restrictive as well.

I do find it hard to carry on with something once I have started if I get a good run at it with out being disturbed I have more of a change of getting it done but sadly not always the case.

I am not to good with change

?????????????? Hope this is not to much for the from you know that back page part