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Originally Posted by Curiosity77
I'm also a nurse, and I was off on short term disability for 6 months 2 years ago. I was approve for long term disability, but I went back to work so I never did that. I'm working full time again now, and I have been for about 15 months. If I get sick again I'll have to reapply for disability. When I came back to work I was put on a mental health monitoring program for 3 years, which is humiliating, but I was able to go back to work. My situation is a little bit complicated, I don't think they monitor everyone. If I make it to the 3 year mark, which is in 14 months, I will no longer be monitored. The monitoring would only start again if I get hospitalized, which I will never do again. Anyways, my point is there are hoops to jump through, but you can return to work after a period of disability.
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Interesting. The biggest mistake I made was to not go back to work as quickly as possible. But this turned out to mean at least a few years before I was able to work. A couple years later, I crashed again and it has been hell on and off until recently.
Please tell me more about this mental health monitoring program. This may be a good or bad thing for me. In other words, while on this program, if I fail, will this mean I can quickly be placed on disability again?
So I have been on SSDI all this time for several years now. I want to go back to work and be totally responsible for my life again. But I do not understand the "hoops" I will have to jump through. Also I do not want to risk forfeiting my disability if in a year or two I have serious problems again. I think reapplying is a risky thing to do considering how many people are turned down for SSDI.
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