Sorry to hear about your predicament HelplessHope. Some of the things you and grizmom have mentioned make me think of the problems I am having and will have in this process.

They all but told me I was too intelligent to have a true disability. Like I should just take another job with more hours. My current job would let me work more hours if I were able to. I just can't focus and I have physical problems caused by my meds. In my appeal I stated that it's really hard to do much of anything, even leave your house, when there's a voice in your head telling you it's going to kill you. Now what does that have to do with my being smart? It's crippling no matter what your IQ is. Without my meds I'd hear it constantly, as I was just back in early February and all of January.

They're dumb. If I can work part time, I don't have to rely as much on the gov and other people. But if they don't cover my meds and my docs, I'll earn nothing and be in the hospital all the time. Who's going to pay for that? Not me. I'm broke.

It may be hard to find a lawyer who will take my case too, but I have to try. The most difficult thing about being mentally/emotionally disabled is they can't point to an external wound so it's one person's word against another. My doctors all vouched for my disability, but they decided they knew better than them. Some office worker who is paid to deny everyone and see if they will go away. I doubt they even read anything in my file. They just waited 6 months and sent a denial form letter listing the names of the doctors I have been seeing, but not reading their reports at all.

Sorry to sound cynical, but they remind me of the commercial insurance cartel. Deny first and see if people are persistent enough to take them to court. Who knows. Hang in there everyone.