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Originally Posted by RisuNeko
I didn't know that's the kind of thing they ask for for SSI applications. I'm the same way. I have no friends, I only go to work, school and the grocery store. I have no social life. No regular activities besides watching tv and playing video games sometimes unless I'm manic, then I try to do everything. But even now I'm manic and I have no social contact with anyone other than my therapist and psychiatrist. Maybe that bodes well for me getting SSI, which is good. There's also a team at my clinic that helps people get through the SSI application process and has a very high success rate. I just have to start the process.
Try not to feel ashamed that you are in the situation you are in. The SSI could really help, so follow through. Don't put blame on yourself, but do know that it is your responsibility to work toward "getting your life back" but you can have help with that too.
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Sometimes I wish I had mania too but for me it's all major depression and extreme social anxiety. We are similar in some ways, but the ways we differ is that my illness has become so unbearable that I could not perform at my job anymore. I would cry like a 5 year old child while driving to work because I knew what I was in for. I was an RN and I loved my job until I began to receive some of the most horrible treatment at my place of work and that's what put everything into overdrive. Now I haven't worked since June 2014, I do nothing social, and many times it's even hard to go to the store. If my daughter doesn't go with me to ease my anxiety, I'll just stay home. So my life has been at a total stand still. If I'm turned down for this SSI, then I'm wondering who in the heck is it for.