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Thornsandroses · May 23, 2012 at 06:31 PM

I hope someone will see this post that has already applied and was approved, so those of us applying will have a bit more to go on.
As for me I ended up calling the employment center here in my town and they told me an agency for disabled adults will help "anyone" fill out disability applications. All the agency had me do was get assessment notes from my T, and medical notes from my pdoc. I also gave them my relavent medical records from my MD, becuase I also have physical ailments.
I took me about three visits with the disability agency to finishing filling out all the paperwork. It should have taken a week or two, but I was just unable to leave my house, (other then going to my psychotherapy sessions 2X a week) and kept canceling my appointments with the disability agency so they could help me finish getting the paperwork filled out. It ended up taking about 3 months to finally get everything together.

Then when everything was filled out, my casemanger called the local SS office and made an appointment to bring in the paperwork. I rode along with the supervisor and case manger because I didn't know to get to the new Social Security office. When we arrived we met with an intake worker, and when she asked me questions my case manager answered for me.

I was stressed for days when my case manger first told me about the meeting at the SS office, but being able to ride along and having my casemanger do all the talking, the whole thing turned out to be a piece of cake.

Unfortunately, my case manager said I will probably get turned down for disability the first go around. But my case manger told me that they had a list of lawyers, and then told me the lawyer will only charge me, if I am granted disability. I have been out of work for six months now. I don't know how I am going to pay my bills when my savings runs out. I only applied for disability 3 months ago.

I hope this information helps someone.