in another thread you stated you didnt know how to explain or talk about your problems to your treatment provider that you are having communication problems in how to get yourself to open up and tell them things....

heres where my curiosity / thought provoking reality testing question comes in......

how is this going to work?

you know telling a complete stranger who you have never met before and who is being paid by Social Security to be non bias, to only look at the facts not let their emotions and your emotions tell them what to do, and to make a judgement based on diagnostic testing, when you in the past few days/ weeks have been posting you cant tell your own treatment providers what your problems are.

a bit of a quandary huh.

heres a tip/ info social security isnt going to do anything that your treatment providers havent already done. if they send you to see someone it will be to a complete stranger who has absolutely no dealings with you or your treatment providers. they will have information from your treatment provider and social security on what your diagnosis's are and what your application statements of what your problems are. the job of the specialist is to confirm or deny your documented history affects your life so severely that you can not work. they do this by doing a psychiatric evaluation (same thing you went through a year ago when you received your diagnosis's)

then they report to SSI what the facts are (what the test results are and whether you are physically and mentally unable to work in even the most generalized job/ career. it doesnt have to be the career / job of your choice...)

the report will show the facts not what you want or dont want.

example dr so and so writing to ssi

I saw amandalousie on such and such a date, administered this test with a score of such and such, and that test for a score of such and such interview score was such and such, compared to the past diagnostics scores I can confirm (or deny.......) that this client has ....(list of mental and physical health problems) with a severity of (scores from tests) which does (or doesnt) qualify this person for the state standard of being a fully disabled person unable to work even a part time general minimum wage job. my recommendation is......(treatment options that can improve this persons life)

my worry is that since you are unable to talk with your own treatment providers you will not be able to communicate with some stranger who is doing the same thing your own treatment providers are trying to do, talk with you and have you go through diagnostic evaluations.

the only difference here is the SSI specialists are picked because they dont get involved with the clients. they dont take time to get to know you better. their job is a one time visit of diagnostics.

my suggestion would be to put off applying for SSI until you figure out how to communicate with your own treatment providers. I would hate for you to get denied and then go through years of heck with SSI, and paying lawyers for fighting an appeal with SSI when you can apply later when you are much more open and comfortable with talking about your problems first with your own treatment providers who may have the time to take it slow and easy with you before you have to deal with someone who frankly is supposed to be by the books and cool demeanor lets get down to business kind of person that SSI sends people to if they need confirmation or denial of the persons diagnosis and severity level.