Many many people are on SSDI for amazing reasons. Hey and with HIPPA you cannot find out why. No one can write about it because of those Health privacy acts.
It is a shame and a way for healthcare to protact and enlarge their scope.
“Many many people are on SSDI for amazing reasons.”
Tell me about it. I worked in the field. Long ago the government ruled that alc/substance abuse were no longer reasons to allow benefits. There was a mad scramble by social workers and shrinks to get their clients reclassified as having ANY mental disorder to keep the monthly checks rolling in. The most commonphysical reason I saw however was back problems. I recall one guy sitting across from me telling me how he could no longer work because of his bad back, the pain, etc. Then he stopped and said “I don’t sense a whole lot of sympathy coming from you.” I smiled and said nothing as I shifted my position a bit in my wheelchair. LOL! One of my most fun things to tell people on line who are complaining about back problems and being on SSDI is this. “So let me get this straight. Your back problem is so bad that you cannot sit behind a desk and work. But you can sit behind a desk yakking on the computer for hours every day. Have I got that right?” For the record, I am a paraplegic and have never even collected unemployment, let alone SSDI.