Are You On Disability For Ptsd?

[Paul Hartnett]

How do you survive?

 

[Lionheart]

How do you survive?

I receive disability benefits, Medicare and medicaid.

 

[seedling]

I'm a stay-at-home mom and haven't worked a "regular" job in 10 years. My Social Security statements say that I am not eligible for disability because I don't have enough credit hours of work in the past so-many years. I wasn't worried about it because I had no reason to think I'd be unable to work. I figured I would be working again at some point and gain the credit hours needed.

I hoping that I can get well enough over the next few years to be able to return to work when the kids are done with homeschool. I would have some difficulties now as I have physical crashes that come on suddenly. The work I do at home I'm able to do because I manage my time and energy to get done what I need to.

 

[Lucycat]

I am in full time employment. I have been in my current job for 9 years. Last year I had sick leave for 16 weeks, but that is my only significant time off in very many years.

I am not saying work is easy. But I do love my job, and will try very hard to keep it.

 

[Sharon Morris]

Count me out. I've tried working all my life and it has always been incredably difficult, usually ending up in disaster, more trauma and moving on. I've tried so many jobs, and I still think I can work. But every time I try, I end up spiraling down eventually.

I've been disabled for 3 years now. I'm just now accepting and mourning the fact I can't work.

God bless, I; despite my determination, am registered disabled now for a few years despite my efforts to get a job, (I worked since I was 12 and when I was diagnosed I cried. You tell yourself; give yourself a big affirmation, despite the symptoms I have I deserve better and fight and God willing something will fall into place for you.

 

[TLight]

Thank you Sharon;
I ended up going back to school at a late age, but unfortunately it was the wrong direction. I thought, oh! I'm at peace outside hiking, so I'll be a Biologist!

I did it, finally. Gruely, especially with Fibro and CFS and in denial of that too!

I did end up working in my field. OMG....developers are the most disrespectful, self-centered, arogant and they employed me, much to their distaste. I dived down quickly but kept trying. They were all men, all selfish, all terribly bad to me. I was constantly having to stand my ground and put up with a ton of attitude.

After all those years studying and all that money, I'm not able to continue.

I'm still looking into non-profits to no avail so far.
What I truly want to do is train dressage horses. Don't want to deal with their owners though. But I'm training one right now for free and loving it.

 

[abcgirl123]

I can't I quit them as quickly as I start them. The same with school, the semester begins and about the third week, I am already running.

 

[Crl1983]

I am unable to work right now, but I am not on disability. It is hard for me to even get housework and errands done most of the time. Right now my fiance is working so I can get through college. I seem to be doing good with that as long as I go to school, do nothing but work my butt off at learning and then come home. I'm unable to socialize with anyone at school, but that's okay right now because that is not what I am going for. I am hoping I will be better or at least much further down the road in my healing by the time I graduate so that I can excel in my career. I want to do this for my sister.

 

[Emilie]

my mom got back from her lawyer's office and told me that her lawyer said she could try to get me disability, but I refused. I dont want to give up on myself just yet. I want to enroll in physics at a university but I'm scared. I'm really good at math but I know that it's stressful and very memory-intensive. What the heck though...It's my dream. I want to major in physics and become a neurophysicist.

I'm keeping it in the back of my mind as a fail-safe.

 

[Lionheart]

I dont want to give up on myself just yet. I want to enroll in physics at a university

Hi Emelie,

I don't think that being disabled has to mean giving up on yourself or on your dream. I went back to school as a disabled student and graduated... just saying, maybe you can be disabled for awhile and still work towards your dream. Good luck whatever you decide to do.

LH

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

Emilie, if you can maintain... you go for it... enroll and see 'how' you do. What do you have to lose but the insanity of it all.

 

[Emilie]

Hi Emelie,

I don't think that being disabled has to mean giving up on yourself or on your dream. I went back to school as a disabled student and graduated... just saying, maybe you can be disabled for awhile and still work towards your dream. Good luck whatever you decide to do.

LH

I'm really trying. I enrolled myself on lumosity to help improve my memory, they even have a ptsd course to target problems with memory specifically related to it. I'm also brushing up and taking notes on khan academy for calculus. the memory program seems to be helping a little but it's only been 2 weeks so far so I can't say for sure. (can't post links, but you can google it if you are interested)

I'm going in next week to talk to the director of physics, see if the university has help for memory-impaired students like most do and see if it's what I should necessarily be getting myself into. I was thinking of starting with biology and taking physics afterward-but I don't know which one is better to take first.

My dream is to give psychology more to work off of based on science (since it's kind of in a pre-science phase) and maybe find out the neurological processes that cause things like shizophrenia, bi-polar, and PTSD, and maybe a better means of curing them. I hate psychotropic drugs, but right now we just don't have any other means of helping people.