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Originally Posted by Rose76
While you're "in demand," you are not disabled from gainful employment. Usually, they need to see a history of failure. Perhaps, your narrative is unusual and you had only a history of success. But "a history if failure" is, generally, very helpful in establishing a legitimate claim - one that will hold up.
"Nobody wants me" is not accepted by SSA based on the applicant's subjective impression. "Nobody wants me" only resonates with SSA, if they see a history of job failures. Such a history is not subjective. A history of job failure is an objective fact.
How long had you worked for your final employer?
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This is a good point. In my situation, I had become very ill - essentially a massive, awful bipolar mixed episode (floridly psychotic and suicidal, too) while I was still employed and I'd never been fired before, "clean" work history.
That episode kept getting worse and my employer didn't know about my condition, at all. I became psychotic at work and yelled at some support staff, which is very unlike me. My mom was terminally ill at the time ... the impetuous for my episode.
Long story short, I was impatient for five months. My husband told my employer I was taking an extended absence due to "being depressed" after my mom died. Six months, I'm home and I'd been told by the psychiatrist and therapist at the hospital to apply for disability so that's what I did. I resigned and applied for SSDI. They wanted me back at work, my employer, but they wouldn't have really if they knew my diagnosis. I couldn't do the work anymore. I was a professional and there was no room for error. I wouldn't hire me, I thought. No way. I had become unemployable.
Just a coincidence, I have serious back and neck problems, too. They were secondary (to me) in my SSDI app. Bipolar disorder 1 with psychosis and several diagnosed anxiety disorders are truly what keep me from working. And I still can't work. I just got out of the psych hospital a few days ago. I hate it.
Keep us posted, my post was lengthy but I wanted to mention a clean job record is OK...or at least it was in my circumstances. My mental health careened down very quickly and severely...so I had a good work record until my health declined.
Good luck.