Thanks Catherine. I really appreciate your kind words and reassurance. I would give you a hug in person if that was ok. I like hugs to from friendly people. I think I'm just in anxiety overload mode living alone with fear of how to pay rent, etc. I know SSA has to weed out the phoneys. Geez I honestly kinda wonder myself about some of the people I know who are on it yet are so freakin active physically, they work out multiple times a week, do volunteer work and have such a busy social calendar they are too busy to speak on the phone 5 minutes with me but want to meet me for dinner if they can find an opening in their calendar. Geez! I get worn out after 15 minutes of grocery shopping and pay for it for several days afterwards for even walking that much. So I think I am maybe overly sensitive because I think it should be readily apparent to SSA that I truly am severely disabled. I talked about this to my neuropsych about the whole somatizing (sp?) thing and he said "Good Lord it was apparent to me when you walked in that you can barely even walk with a cane".