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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Telephone Assessment

The Personal Independence Payment Assessor failed to ask some vital questions and asked irrelevant question such as who feeds the cat. Medical evidence should suffice without putting someone through over an hour of questioning on a disability that currently does not have a cure. Assessment in these cases should be done every 5 years.

Zena’s Online Journal MS Journey

Zena’s Online Health Journal about her Multiple Sclerosis Journey and her OCD traits. She talks about her obsession for spending and it gives her a sense of relief and excitement when she buys things to cheer herself up.

Stress & Cognitive Function.

Psychological stress can affect a person’s cognitive abilities, in the short term (e.g., when an individual’s thoughts are pre-occupied with an argument or problem that happened earlier in the day resulting in reduced ability to concentrate) as well as over the long term, where the intrusive thoughts creep in and the problem simply does not go away and festers, which in turn can lead to anxiety, depression and other mental health disabilities.