I've been on disability for almost 3 years. What finally made me do it was a combination of side effects and med changes that didn't help. Almost 40 changes in the year before I stopped working. If I had a legitamite reason for thinking things would get better I would have kept working. Looking back I am glad I did stop and I try to look at how my day-to-day life is now and whether working is possible. I know it isn't. I do work 5 hours a week for a friend and most days I come home from that and crash. She knows the situation and has allowed me to work from home or cancel weeks if I need to. Somehow knowing I can barely handle that makes me more sure that if I tried to work full time, it would be another disaster.

You may not feel disabled and that your meds should make you stable enough to work, but finding the right meds and getting to know yourself on them and what your limits are takes time. Disability gives you that time to re-evaluate yourself and put you on a path that works for you instead of you working to fit yourself into a bad situation.

Wish you the best.