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Disability

hollysmom

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2. I am not going to be able to give you advice, just commisserate with you

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Oct 2, 2012, 04:57 PM

Oct 2012

I have a friend who has been fighting an odd auto immune disease for a long time and just got divorced. There are people helping her apply for disability now, she was reluctant, but she can barely leave her house and has no social life apart from her teen aged son, so it's way past time.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people.

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Finally considering applying for Disability... reconciling conflicting emotions [View all] FirstLight Oct 2012 OP

Sounds normal - No one likes accepting that they are disabled rox63 Oct 2012 #1

thanks, good to know FirstLight Oct 2012 #3

I am not going to be able to give you advice, just commisserate with you hollysmom Oct 2012 #2

thanks FirstLight Oct 2012 #4

Please put your health first and foremost above anything else! LeftofObama Oct 2012 #5

thank you so much for the input FirstLight Oct 2012 #6

After two years I finally got approved for disabilty rl6214 Oct 2012 #7

thanks FirstLight Oct 2012 #8

You are not alone. I would say 50-75% of the people there list some sort of mental desease rl6214 Oct 2012 #9