My disability was for major depression reoccurant & major anxiety & I got it on the first try way back in 1996. My pdoc was the one who encouraged me & actually helped me fill out all the forms.

For me, I had been working as an engineer for 15 years & disability was basically like getting my social security early based on my current income at the time it was necessary for me to leave work because of a breakdown I had which ended up turning into the major depression with the major anxiety. I was so bad off that it didn't take SSI any time to determine that I was seriously disabled.

I have only come to realize just how much my seriously BAD marriage added to the major depression to the point where I could no longer function in my computer engineering career. It was quite obvious to them that I could NO LONGER preform the tasks necessary for a computer engineer.