There are organizations that provide free assistance to help people navigate through applying for disability programs. Google around to find one in your area
Also don't forget your mandatory call to the doc each month for every refill
and don't forget to call a day early when it lands on a weekend
and don't forget to setup the mandatory appointment every 6 months
and don't forget to actually go to the appointment
and don't forget to schedule a drug test once every whatever-amount-of-time it is for your state
and don't forget to not eat or drink or take the medication the morning of the drug test
Cause if you forget just 1 of those they'll obviously have no choice but to deny you the medication you've been taking every day for 10 years. But you understand because punishing disabled people for mistakes/crimes of able-minded people (who don't find those things challeging), is clearly the only option they have.
In certain states in the US they require a drug test to make sure you are infact taking the medication yourself. Its almost like a reverse drug test; you get in trouble if you're not taking drugs.
So I guess also don't forget and/or try to get off the medication otherwise you'll fail the drug test and also loose access.
They're primarily checking for proof that you're taking the medication.
If levels are too low: they assume you're not using it, and if you're not using it you must be selling it.
Levels too high: you're abusing it.
Levels of something else (usually alcohol or cannabis): you're a junkie.
All three can get your prescription revoked, and the testing requirements change based on the weather and what your doctor had for breakfast last Tuesday.
Some providers will refuse to provide prescription drugs like Adderall if you fail a drug test because if you're an "illicit drug user" then you shouldn't be given any drugs. Adderall is a scheduled substance so some providers are still pretty locked down about it
As somebody on disability for psychological disability reasons, you're usually allowed to have somebody else fill those out for you. That's what I had to do.
Luckily the ones they send you afterwards every few years to check if you're still disabled are much shorter, and if you've got a detailed medical record of your disability sometimes they can't shut it off no matter how you answer the questions, such as in my case. Even if I wrote "I'm cured. You can turn off my disability now," they can't do that because they have guidelines that make you auto-qualify, and if your medical records still show that you meet those guidelines they can't legally shut it off.
if you're able to complete disability paperwork, then you're not disabled...
there's actually a fair amount of lawyers who specialize in getting people their disability rights, rather than let malicious compliance keep disabled people homeless and impoverished
I pulled my down vote after reading further and realizing your were making a joke. The problem is that I've met too many people who actually believe that.
I actually get SSI and a large part of my diagnosis is ADHD.
I had a caseworker bring me in to the office and do that part in person.
I was never able to coherently do doctor visits, but I am very not bound by human norms.
So I faxed the SSA office repeatedly and eventually had typed over 100 pages detailing every little detail of how a frontal lobe injury at age 2 affected me and exactly how I differ from humans. I typed on days where it was just me typing what my day contained and for long enough they got to see my energy go from very wow in one way to very wow in another. The judge eventually approved my case before the hearing. Remember they don't know you. You are just someone like any other unless you somehow let them see who you are. Tons and tons and tons of people with no incomestopping disability at all simply give an attorney a chunk of what they will get and have the attorney make it happen. If you, like me, are not capable of wading through the infinite beauracracy, I believe you have to do something beyond the norm to let them see you can't. Yes the system is set up wrong. Mentally normal people can wade through the muck easy. People the system is meant for cannot.
Really though the government of the place we call home should be something we are proud of
seems it's up to us to make it this way since it starts so bad
when this happened to me, I filled it around 2am the day before my follow up appointment but had no time to print it so I went there hoping I would be able to email it to them.
… there's forms you can fill out yourself? Late 20s, i was sent a 40 page workbook and told to give it to my parents. My parents were dead (and they would've never helped me anyway), so I was rejected before i'd even seen a doctor.
A nurse suggested getting an old teacher to fill it out. They're all dead or retired. On the opposite side of the planet. And they speak a different language. And they wouldn't recognise me or my name. Every single one of them would invariably describe me as violent and lazy, just like my parents did. but apparently i need a neurotypical to vouch for my disability in person, and this neurotypical has to be someone who had power over me as a child. Countless referrals from other psychologists do not count. Partners and friends I've known for decades also do not count, and they matter even less if they are also neurodivergent.