I'm not exactly the story you are looking for as I never ended up on disability although I was 2 seconds from it.
I was able to stay at my former job for ten years mainly because I did 12 hour shifts every weekend and then they paid you an extra 8 hours free
once I moved to full time days things imploded and I got fired. i was cycling a lot back then and in and out of hospitals. they pulled me in th he office a number of times and said your manic go home (they knew about the bp).

finally i was fired. I got worse. threw me into a tailspin of an episode. I was just nuts for a while.Really wierd. I figured I was never working again and applied for ssdi online. my family was in agreement.

this is alreAdy long enough lol but I slowly got better and started working again. it's not easy but I tend to do worse not having something to ground me. I sort of spin off into never never land

school is an awesome idea! you can control the hours and all that

if you can't manage to ever work again there is nothing wrong with that either!

you are an awesome chic no matter what elsa!