@TomCat @SlowMotional and to all the other veteran on here. Just in case you don’t know it. You can get SSDI along with your V.A. disability.
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I get SSDI also, thanks.
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I also get SSDI.
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Unfortunately We don’t have that provision in my country … i am a drop out student with no goal in life…!!! tho. happy for U …!!!
Could you volunteer? I find It quite rewarding and will be able to look back and say I helped someone!
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@JH85 Yosemite (my Great Dane) and I will be going to the nursing home this afternoon. We try to go there once a week.
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I am trying that soon…!!! I can’t do demanding job…Can Volunteer only on Help and guidance …!!!
Sorry to hear that. I hope you’re getting some kind of assistance in your country?
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I get nothing from my country …!!! Luckily my brother ryte now iz in U.S and my sister iz in Australia I gonna need their monetary help soon…!!!
Well you can have it both ways.
There are times that we need help big time and hospital is the only way out.
But then you can recover at times and be strong and independent.
Problem with sz is you never know which is next.
I don’t think it’s a matter of whether or not you “feel” disabled. I’m in a position in which I can’t deny a certain level of disability, because I try to get out in the world and work and make friends and participate in activities, and inevitably the anxiety swells inside me, the voices start in telling me this or that about why I can’t trust the people around me, and I have to “take a break” from the activity. This has resulted in loss of employment, loss of friendships, and being revealed as unreliable in various volunteer activities.
It sucks, but when you’re disabled, the disability is there whether or not you want to believe it is.
There are times where I feel extremely disabled such as social settings and school.
I feel as though my cognitive abilities are slowly declining as I get older. 
I started telling people I was retired too, easier than explaining what is myasthenia Gravis.
I have psychosis nos which comes and goes. Over the last fifteen years I’ve been fully functional only to become psychotic and crash and burn. After going through this about a half a dozen times, I decided to apply for disability and accepted that I may never get back to living a normal life. It’s definitely a process and acceptance of having any disability is incredibly hard. I think being mentally disabled is one of the worst things that can happen to someone because if you don’t have your faculties then who the hell are you? I’ve watched my family go on, friends dissapear. Lost relationships, it’s like being dead while you’re still on the good side of the ground. There’s nothing worse than having a fully functional body when your mind won’t cooperate with you.
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