Question on how to respond to ALJ Denial
Hi!
I have a lawyer, got denied, did the digital hearing thing and felt good about it, but then a bunch of stuff from an 8+ year old VA thing got mentioned which I frankly had no real recollection of and it captures a time in my life when I.... still habitually downplayed the problems I was going through and which I did not even know to mention certain things relating to daily living as I still thought of my PTSD as the "and then I just crash out and I am useless sometimes" and not all of the smaller stuff.
So, a question comes to mind,
Should I just write out a response as part of my appeal?
Like "On page 4 paragraph 3 it states xyz and \~explanation of why that doesn't fully capture what I was going rhrough\~"
Is that a thing?
See, with VA PTSD guidelines the one thing nobody told me was that... not showering was a serious marker. Or that like, if all you did was like... buy junk food and never ate anything healthy that was indicative of depression and all that junk. So I either didn't bring it up or I'd be like "yeah, I can go to the grocery store (but half the food or more rots and I end up just eating a bag of chips)
I haven't thought about any of that stuff for years and these VA contractors are sort of notorious for up talking/inferring if you don't mention something
I'm gonna call my lawyers up Monday, but I'm just sort of spiraling and would really appreciate any help.
I'm just trying not to spiral.
I'm only doing this process because my therapist was flabbergasted I didn't already have ssdi and I'm just..
trying not to spiral.
Oh, and there was a lot of focus put on my "ability to live with roommates" which surprised me because I was just renting a room in a shared house. I didn't have control over who they were and I damn near stabbed one of them once and needed to be calmed down by another tenant.
I dunno y'all, I'm just, I know this stuff takes forever, it's just :(((