yeah that's true.

Good luck with the appeal, I hope you get the verdict you want. It seems most of the appeals are successful. If yours is rejected you still might get another chance to challenge that verdict.

idk WHY exactly all these people who are too ill to work then have to go through the stress of assessments and appeals. I am applying for ESA because of my depression, but I am also considering finally telling my doctor (or mentioning it during the assessment) about my problems with dissociation, as it can make things quite difficult at times, including for the past few days, when I've started doing it involuntarily because I was in so much pain from the depression. It happened once before when I was severely depressed, in 2003, and when my emotions returned I was far worse than before so I am scared of what will happen when my emotions come back I have probs with dissociation at other times too, I mean, not just when depressed.