So back in August after I had my first confirmed seizure my anxiety got worse than it'd ever been. But still I was able to uncomfortably work. But when May came around and I had another seizure my anxiety got even worse, which I did not think was possible. It was horrible. I'd wake up every hour shaking so bad it would shake the bed. I was constantly crying and couldn't eat, I would throw up everything I tried to eat. Everything was horrible. I went to the ER twice in a week from anxiety alone. Then I got into therapy.

In May I went from 50 hours of work to 16-24 hours a week. By last month I was down to 16 hours and even that was horrible. I couldn't be at work, my anxiety would get so bad I would call my fiance to come sit with me while I worked. It got bad.

So two weeks ago I was at work and they had cancelled my insurance right in the middle of my testing for epilepsy. My anxiety was horrible, my stress was through the roof and I couldn't handle being there. I had to leave work early and got fired for it. But the thought of going back is bad. I would always have anxiety at work and constantly got these "spells" that the neurologist thought were simple partial seizures. I've now been diagnosed with epilepsy and they just started me on treatment.

I want to work, I just can't. The idea of going out and looking for a job scares me, I get anxiety, and the thought of this continuing scares me. I'm afraid to even leave my apartment a lot of the time.

I've been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder as well as PTSD and epilepsy. I have other diagnosis' but those three are what are really effecting me right now. So as much as I hate to, I applied for disability today (online).

My fiance talked me into it. He kept reminding me of how hard it was for me to work even part time, how much worse I got having to be around people, and that for now I need to consider it until the seizures are under control at least and I can get the anxiety under control. My anxiety is so bad I'm terrified of even taking my epilepsy medication and it causes panic attacks to just look at the bottle.

So I only filed for Generalized anxiety disorder and epilepsy for the disability. It looks like I fit the criteria but I know it can take a long time to get approved and often you're almost guaranteed to be denied the first time around. So I'm here hoping for some advice on what else I should do to try and make it go through easier, anything they don't tell you that you need, but that you do actually need. Anything that will help my case out? I hate the idea of taking money from those who need it, those who physically can not work, which is why I haven't filed yet. But it's just gotten to be entirely too much for me right now with everything going on. I've had a constant anxiety attack for nearly 2 years now and I just can't work anymore.

So if anyone has any words of wisdom or knowledge of the system or anything, could you please help out? It'd be nice if I could just get the ball rolling and not have to jump through a million hoops. Thanks a bunch