MENTAL illness: applying for DISABILITY
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Hi I’m a 23 year old male and I am applying for social disability here in NC. I have suffered with depression/anxiety/ocd slash you name it for the past 10-15 years. I ended up dropping out of school at 17 because of my condition. Pretty much stayed at home most of the time. I tried working with my father (construction company), that only lasted about a year. But it was pretty much back and forth. I worked a couple of more odd jobs, but only stuck with them for a couple of months. I recieved my GED about 3 years ago. But yep, pretty much have been dealing with this BS for too damn long. Mental illness runs throughout my family. My grandfather had 3 brothers who committed suicide, and his father (my great grandfather) committed suicide as well. I don’t want to end up down that road. The only thing that’s kept me going was my girlfriend of the past 5 years. But recently I lost her and now she’s in love with another man, 5 months after she gave birth to our baby boy! I don’t know how I survived that break-up and the grief I went through. I’m still in terrible pain. But it’s only making me stronger. Now anyway, back to what I wanted to ask sorry…. I want to know if anybody out there has applied for disability for their mental illness? I’m hoping if I can get some kind of financial aid, this might help me. Especially considering the fact that I have a kid now, that I love to death. I’ve had the hardest time trying to get back on my feet. I’m hoping to start some semesters at a community college and concentrate on myself. Maybe the break-up was a good thing afterall, it’s going to be tough but now I have time to concentrate on myself for myself and for my son’s sake. I’m really torn up about my ex and this grief has made things 1,000 times worse. Now she’s already asking for money, and demands I pay her child support weekly before I can see my kid. She’s basically keeping my kid away for financial gain. Funny thing is, when she’s had a longer line of mental illness than I do, and the only family she has, her mother, suffers from schizophrenia. The past year my family paid for her to go see a psychiatrist, she starts feeling better and now she’s gone. Funny isn’t it. Same girl that was trying to commit suicide a couple of years ago. Oh well that’s a ANOTHER story, believe me, I guess misery loves company. She didn’t help my depression one bit i can tell you that. She doesn’t understand my situation and my inability to hold down a job right now and..anyway nevermind, you can still see what my mind is on. anyway… My therapist mentioned disability to me. any stories, ideas, relation, etc..? reply thanks biwicovi
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This isn’t much help but my friend is pretty nuts and he’s getting assistance called SSI. He pretty much just smokes pot all day and stays in a small apartment with his equally crazy younger brother. He’s my age, 25. Oddly enough, his birthday is halloween so maybe that’s answers things. Anyway, good luck, i’ve been battling depression my whole life and after getting laid off from my first real job 7 months ago, I just don’t care about anything anymore. See you on the other side. -greg
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi I’m a 23 year old male and I am applying for social disability here in NC. I have suffered with depression/anxiety/ocd slash you name it for the past 10-15 years. I ended up dropping out of school at 17 because of my condition. Pretty much stayed at home most of the time. I tried working with my father (construction company), that only lasted about a year. But it was pretty much back and forth. I worked a couple of more odd jobs, but only stuck with them for a couple of months. I recieved my GED about 3 years ago. But yep, pretty much have been dealing with this BS for too damn long. Mental illness runs throughout my family. My grandfather had 3 brothers who committed suicide, and his father (my great grandfather) committed suicide as well. I don’t want to end up down that road. The only thing that’s kept me going was my girlfriend of the past 5 years. But recently I lost her and now she’s in love with another man, 5 months after she gave birth to our baby boy! I don’t know how I survived that break-up and the grief I went through. I’m still in terrible pain. But it’s only making me stronger. Now anyway, back to what I wanted to ask sorry…. I want to know if anybody out there has applied for disability for their mental illness? I’m hoping if I can get some kind of financial aid, this might help me. Especially considering the fact that I have a kid now, that I love to death. I’ve had the hardest time trying to get back on my feet. I’m hoping to start some semesters at a community college and concentrate on myself. Maybe the break-up was a good thing afterall, it’s going to be tough but now I have time to concentrate on myself for myself and for my son’s sake. I’m really torn up about my ex and this grief has made things 1,000 times worse. Now she’s already asking for money, and demands I pay her child support weekly before I can see my kid. She’s basically keeping my kid away for financial gain. Funny thing is, when she’s had a longer line of mental illness than I do, and the only family she has, her mother, suffers from schizophrenia. The past year my family paid for her to go see a psychiatrist, she starts feeling better and now she’s gone. Funny isn’t it. Same girl that was trying to commit suicide a couple of years ago. Oh well that’s a ANOTHER story, believe me, I guess misery loves company. She didn’t help my depression one bit i can tell you that. She doesn’t understand my situation and my inability to hold down a job right now and..anyway nevermind, you can still see what my mind is on. anyway… My therapist mentioned disability to me. any stories, ideas, relation, etc..? reply thanks biwicovi
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi I’m a 23 year old male and I am applying for social disability here in NC. I have suffered with depression/anxiety/ocd slash you name it for the past 10-15 years. I ended up dropping out of school at 17 because of my condition. Pretty much stayed at home most of the time. I tried working with my father (construction company), that only lasted about a year. But it was pretty much back and forth. I worked a couple of more odd jobs, but only stuck with them for a couple of months. I recieved my GED about 3 years ago. But yep, pretty much have been dealing with this BS for too damn long. Mental illness runs throughout my family. My grandfather had 3 brothers who committed suicide, and his father (my great grandfather) committed suicide as well. I don’t want to end up down that road. The only thing that’s kept me going was my girlfriend of the past 5 years. But recently I lost her and now she’s in love with another man, 5 months after she gave birth to our baby boy! I don’t know how I survived that break-up and the grief I went through. I’m still in terrible pain. But it’s only making me stronger. Now anyway, back to what I wanted to ask sorry…. I want to know if anybody out there has applied for disability for their mental illness? I’m hoping if I can get some kind of financial aid, this might help me. Especially considering the fact that I have a kid now, that I love to death. I’ve had the hardest time trying to get back on my feet. I’m hoping to start some semesters at a community college and concentrate on myself. Maybe the break-up was a good thing afterall, it’s going to be tough but now I have time to concentrate on myself for myself and for my son’s sake. I’m really torn up about my ex and this grief has made things 1,000 times worse. Now she’s already asking for money, and demands I pay her child support weekly before I can see my kid. She’s basically keeping my kid away for financial gain. Funny thing is, when she’s had a longer line of mental illness than I do, and the only family she has, her mother, suffers from schizophrenia. The past year my family paid for her to go see a psychiatrist, she starts feeling better and now she’s gone. Funny isn’t it. Same girl that was trying to commit suicide a couple of years ago. Oh well that’s a ANOTHER story, believe me, I guess misery loves company. She didn’t help my depression one bit i can tell you that. She doesn’t understand my situation and my inability to hold down a job right now and..anyway nevermind, you can still see what my mind is on. anyway… My therapist mentioned disability to me. any stories, ideas, relation, etc..? reply thanks biwicovi
Rather than applying for disability, you can start getting better right now. The links below are all the free help you need to bring yourself to full recovery within a few short months. You will be able to see benefit within a couple of weeks. Take the time to learn the method and start right away. This is a new breakthrough therapy. http://homepages.nyu.edu/~er26/ The forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/depression-cause-cure/
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Over here in New Zealand it is pretty easy for genuinely ill people to get a sickness benefit, it helps if you have a caring counsellor or Dr. I don’t know how it differs over there, but I got myself a lovely psychotherapist who was more than happy to write a letter for me for benefit purposes – I was entitled to a weekly benefit equivalent to the unemployment benefit, plus limited benefit to help with treatment associated expenses. That benefit was small and was only for NZ$43 per week, and my weekly appointments should have cost NZ$65 for an hourly session, but my therapist only charged me what I received through the benefit, and never treated me differently because of it. She was also happy to talk with welfare office case managers when they became bitchy about my inability to work, and act as my advocate, as welfare people can be bastards. So there are still some caring, human people in the medical profession 
I hope it works out as well for you. I am so sorry to hear about how your ex is treating you. I think it’s one of the cruellest things a person can do, to use a child to hold someone to ransom. Don’t lose faith, your son still needs you very much and you can still be a part of his life, if she becomes too difficult to deal with, seek sound legal advice before things completely break down between you. There are community lawyers and the like available to people on limited budgets who can offer you free advice. Good on you for realising the waste that so many of your family members made, and deciding not to continue the pattern. Your story is a good example of how losing a parent to suicide can increase the danger to their children, so now’s a real good time to break the cycle. I think that’s an important first step Amy
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi I’m a 23 year old male and I am applying for social disability here in NC. I have suffered with depression/anxiety/ocd slash you name it for the past 10-15 years. I ended up dropping out of school at 17 because of my condition. Pretty much stayed at home most of the time. I tried working with my father (construction company), that only lasted about a year. But it was pretty much back and forth. I worked a couple of more odd jobs, but only stuck with them for a couple of months. I recieved my GED about 3 years ago. But yep, pretty much have been dealing with this BS for too damn long. Mental illness runs throughout my family. My grandfather had 3 brothers who committed suicide, and his father (my great grandfather) committed suicide as well. I don’t want to end up down that road. The only thing that’s kept me going was my girlfriend of the past 5 years. But recently I lost her and now she’s in love with another man, 5 months after she gave birth to our baby boy! I don’t know how I survived that break-up and the grief I went through. I’m still in terrible pain. But it’s only making me stronger. Now anyway, back to what I wanted to ask sorry…. I want to know if anybody out there has applied for disability for their mental illness? I’m hoping if I can get some kind of financial aid, this might help me. Especially considering the fact that I have a kid now, that I love to death. I’ve had the hardest time trying to get back on my feet. I’m hoping to start some semesters at a community college and concentrate on myself. Maybe the break-up was a good thing afterall, it’s going to be tough but now I have time to concentrate on myself for myself and for my son’s sake. I’m really torn up about my ex and this grief has made things 1,000 times worse. Now she’s already asking for money, and demands I pay her child support weekly before I can see my kid. She’s basically keeping my kid away for financial gain. Funny thing is, when she’s had a longer line of mental illness than I do, and the only family she has, her mother, suffers from schizophrenia. The past year my family paid for her to go see a psychiatrist, she starts feeling better and now she’s gone. Funny isn’t it. Same girl that was trying to commit suicide a couple of years ago. Oh well that’s a ANOTHER story, believe me, I guess misery loves company. She didn’t help my depression one bit i can tell you that. She doesn’t understand my situation and my inability to hold down a job right now and..anyway nevermind, you can still see what my mind is on. anyway… My therapist mentioned disability to me. any stories, ideas, relation, etc..? reply thanks biwicovi
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