Yes, you should get legal representation. I highly recommend you start calling law firms. Call several. I recommend the big firms that specialize in helping people get disability income. They have large staffs of clerks who get things done in a timely fashion.

Lawyers have no stimatizing attitude toward mental illness. All they care about is the chance of getting your husband's application approved. If they think he has a good case, they'll jump on it. If law firm after law firm rejects the case, that just means your husband is unlikely to get approved. A lawyer is the best person around to make that assessment.

Here's what the lawyers won't like because they know it's what the Social Security Administration won't like:

Your husband has a history of being non-compliant with taking his ordered medication.

Your husband does not have a long history of working well with therapists by being open with them.

Some things are in your husband's favor. He tries. He keeps getting jobs. He has a history of repeated failures. That strengthens his case. Being repeatedly hospitalized strengthens his case.

The attorneys get nothing if they don't win for you. That's why they won't take you, if they think your case is weak.