Hi Thinker. I am happy to see you back on the board. i don't have a good answer to your appeal question, but when i applied, i got accepted. I think it is because I wrote everything specifically about how my condition affected my work throughout my whold life even when i was undiagnosed. I think I remember you have been hospitalized. (??) I wrote a lot about how i was hospitalized and I need time to recover from that. I also have a great therapist on my side who was willing to write a letter highlighting all the negatives that I am facing. he let me read the letter and then reassured me that there are many things going right for me in life and that he just wants it to look good for the SSDI application. I don't qualify for SSI because I have some savings and my husband makes too much.

Between my spotty work history and my T, I think it all came together.

I have also heard that an attorney can help quite a bit.

I missed you around here.