BiPolar and Disability

[blugill]

Does anyone on the forum have any experience with getting approved for SSDI for BiPolar and Borderline?

My ex wife applied for it and it's been almost six months now.
What are the chances of being approved in the initial step?

She's got a lot of documentation to back everything up, plus my experiences with her.
Thank you.

 

[dabro]

Well I got approved in four months but if she does get approved it will either be SSI first or if she has had enough job experience SSDI but I think they do SSI first...Not sure tho.....Did she have a advocate go with her to social security and a treatment team backing up what she goes thru....I had that and it helped greatly and also documents showing she's been in the hospital?

 

[blugill]

She hired a place called AllSup to get the paperwork in order.
I just filled out a survey for her as well and she's working on two of her own to send back in.
I know that her counselors have filled out the same and I'm pretty sure the hospital stays are all included in the paperwork that they have now.
I've just heard it's hard to get approved for a mental disability, way harder than a physical one.

 

[dabro]

No it's the other way around its hard for pain management patients to get approved because well they don't have hospitals to go to to get better paid by the state and also if they can walk sit or stand then they most likely won't get approved. For mental health patients once your mind goes hay wire than it disables the whole body. Rest on this and know it is easier for a mental health patient then a PM patient. Trust me I know a guy who can't do hardly Anything and that's because he hurts physically and has to get a lawyer which will drag out the case because they get 25% of the back pay. She will either have to see one of there psych doctors or they will approve her.

 

[blugill]

She's really counting on it being approved. Her rent is only paid up through March and her car is three months behind.
So she's really struggling right now but I did notice one small thing.
On the paperwork I filled out it had a ten calendar day deadline to return it to the SS office.
She gave it to me eleven days after she received it and it was on a holiday weekend when I sent it back off. She's still working on her two that she has to fill out.

If she sent it back in today it would get there ten days after the deadline was up.
This might hurt her but I hope not.

 

[dabro]

I waited till the last moment to fill my own out.....cause I really didn't want help by the Goverment even tho I was so disabled that I couldn't even get out of bed......Um, I'm not sure whether that will effect her or not.....Just pray about it...If she has loads of proof and she is unstable enough to where she has to see a psych doc every month then either they will want her to talk to the psychatrist which he will determine whether she is fit or not or they will approve her......I just know so many people with MI's get approved because mental illnesses are really tough for that person.

 

[Talihood]

I have bipolar disorder. I got approved after 3rd time applying. they look at hospital visits. they will backpay from the time of the first application. my first check was for over 10k.

 

[Loven God]

I went through AllSAP and had my SSDI in three months .