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Apr 21, 2012, 03:56 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2011
Location: USA
Posts: 12,867
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I'm filling out paperwork for SSA. Doing this causes me great anxiety. I'm so worried I will not put enough of the right answers on the page. I spent five minutes on it and put it down. I could do this paperwork - describing my last 15 years of work and describing my daily activities, now - in collaboration with a clerk from the lawyer's office. The clerk would get info over the phone from me and fill out the forms, on my behalf, and FAX them in to SSA. Those clerks, however, do kind of a half baked job on anything they fill out. So I most likely would do a better job on my own.
I'm getting disillusioned with the law firm. These places that only do Disability are like paperwork mills. They just churn stuff out. Their claim to fame is that they get stuff in to the SSA on time, which I'm not keeping up with on my own. So I'm glad of them, or I wouldn't have even started the process, yet.
Hamster - thanks for feedback.  It is what it is. If you submit a claim, I'ld be real interested to know how you make out in the process . . . like how you find doing the paperwork to be.
I feel like I'm in a tunnel that I'm never going to find my way out of. The clerks say that SSA is mainly interested in what they see in medical records. I have a long documented history, but it does not show me to be unable to function. So I am pessimistic.
I have physical problems that are truly limiting me, but my PCP said that SSA will be much more interested in my psych history. He wants to see me get approved, and he seems very smart, so I try to do what I think he suggests.
I better get my resume out and fill in that 15 years worth of jobs on the paperwork that the SSA wants.
I appreciate any feed back anyone has on this whole process.
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