Thread: SSDI. Again?
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Old Oct 30, 2022, 12:41 AM
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I am cross-posting this. I think a post in two forums is allowed and I posted in the Insurance and Finances forum.

I applied for SSDI in late 2017 and was approved immediately (I had an attorney but he did not in any way participate: the decision was instant).

My diagnosis is Bipolar I with Psychotic features. I have had 3 sui attempts in history. The latest was in early 2017.

In 2018 I went on Zyprexa and it worked for me for a while and I was able to work.

In 2019 my SSDI ended.

Zyprexa later caused unbearable side effects and I had to go off of it. I am now on Latuda and Thorazine and Gabapentin. They work, but I still feel depressed, am unable to work, am on an approved leave of absence from work. My condition is exacerbated by sleep apnea which I developed after I went off of SSDI. I am now reading online that sleep apnea is not considered a disability by the social security administration. The thing is, I need exorbitant amount of sleep to feel functional and I cannot report to work on time. I once overslept and was late to a meeting with all of my reports where I was supposed to deliver a presentation. They started texting me. I was not hugely late, but enough for them to text me. And it was a ZOOM meeting at 9AM, from home, but I did not hear alarms. The time when before the pandemic I was at work, in the office, at 9, having gotten up at, say, 7, seems to be so distant as if it were from a book of fiction.

In addition to being depressed, I now have high anxiety.

I am writing to see if anybody has been in this situation: first, approved for SSDI, then off of it and thinking you would never need it, but then a relapse and maybe an added diagnosis. Is it possible to get back on SSDI after a period of working?

Thank you!
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