Don't give up yet! When I first applied for disability, in 1995, I was turned down. I heard this is usual. So I applied again, and got turned down again. Somebody told me to hire a lawyer, that's the only way I would get SSDI, so I did. I hated that he got 25% after I had done all the work, BUT, he did something I didn't. He got me in front of a judge to hear my case.

The main thing he did was have an occupational therapist present. That man said to the judge that I qualified for many, many jobs (I had worked my whole life until I got too sick to work anymore), but the nature of having BPD prevented me from holding a job for long, and that I would always have trouble being employed, and other stuff I can't remember.

But I got my disability. I was recently reviewed and again found that I do not meet the standards for being gainfully employed, or something like that. I now work a very simple parttime job, it's all I can do, I will never go back to being an RN, or a typographer making big bucks, but I am at peace.

It's been 14 years now and they mostly leave me alone. SO DON'T GIVE UP! Get a good disability lawyer and fight.