ESA50 Wording

Dear WF2K, may I agree with Gary and back up what he says, you might be embarrassed to give TMI to the forum but when the assessment does happen sock the lot to the assessor -he/she's being paid well enough out of all our money to hear it!
You have every right to moan about such bad treatment and I would even add telling your GP, perhaps by writing it down as then all the [gross?] details will be on your file not just what somebody can be bothered to type up. And include how it has all made you feel. This way if you put in a complaint about them later, you can call on the GP records to back you up.
Hope it's not needed but better it's there in case isn't it?
Best,
Denby

Thanks Gary.

No, they're waiting on info from the GP who I now don't trust after reading the "supporting" letter that she wrote for me, I honestly don't know why I went to the trouble of trying to explain my mental health conditions to her via email or when she came to my home, I thought she understood my struggles, I wonder if she was being lazy and didn't bother to jog her own memory, I said it didn't need to be a long letter but I also said I needed my health conditions confirming and that fact treatment hadn't helped etc.

The supporting letter doesn't say I'm agoraphobic, it says "struggles to leave the house" she also put my significant anxiety as anxiety and said medication hadn't helped in the past when it was treatment including counselling, CBT etc that hadn't help, I've been diagnosed with these conditions, she's not even mentioned that I rarely speak to anyone other than my son... I won't be using the letter and have emailed to tell her that the letter lacks info considering I paid £25 for it. She also doesn't seem to understand the difference between complex PTSD and PTSD..

It's something else that's now added to my anxiety and worrying.

The assessment centre are aware of the impact because I made a complaint in October, however I've not moaned at them about their recent mistake and I think my advocate wants to now complain to ICE.

I'm hoping I don't need to have an assessment with them requesting info from the GP, not getting my hopes up after reading the letter. If I had known the assessment centre was going to request further info I wouldn't have asked for the letter because there's no point in sending it is there?

Thank you BIS, yeah, I read the letter and immediately started to get very anxious.

No, I would only use a letter that I felt was beneficial, although the letter does state certain things, I feel that it was important that my agoraphobia, significant anxiety be properly stated, the fact I struggle with people as well.

Is there any point in the GP writing me a letter now the assessment centre have asked for further information? I was going to keep it if it had been good just in case I needed it for something else. Also, what if the information the medical centre provides doesn't support what I've said? Which is part of my worry.