I have my consultative examination next month!
Next month I will finally have an appointment for a consultative examination via telehealth. I have a bunch of disabilities, but my main qualification seems to be mental health.
I applied last year in October, I'd been fighting myself the last 10 years thinking I should work from home, but those jobs are dwindling and are far and few between especially now with ai.
I being true when I say I believe my ability to stop working started in 2017 that's when my anxiety and panic attacks got so bad I couldn't focus on college, couldn't even take the exams or go to school, stopped being able to leave the house to go shopping or drive my car because of it. So I just stayed inside where I knew I could relax the easiest if I did start to panic, at least I was home.
Without going into too much detail as it is very embarrassing for me and I still deal with this every day; I want to know if the DR who is doing my consultative examination will be able to determine when I became disabled / unable to work. I ask because I am hoping to get on SSDI, I think it pays more but could be wrong? I think I qualify for SSDI if my disability starts back then because while I have built some websites for people and made some reddit avatars through Reddit's collectible avatar program I haven't worked anywhere except online and it wasn't much in the last 10 years. The only reason I didn't apply sooner is I didn't really know this was a thing, but I'm very glad I found out.
Could you just let me know what you think about any of this. I feel very hopeful I will get on some type of support finally, and I was reading that SSDI requires some type of work up to when you became disabled, I think that would be 2017 tbh and I worked full time up until 2015 before I went back to college.
Thank you!