Biden fires head of Social Security Administration, a Trump holdover who drew the ire of Democrats

[Maraya1969]

70. "accused him of an overzealous campaign to make disabled people reestablish

their eligibility for benefits."
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I have a mental illness that caused me to go on SSD in my late 20's. This was after I literally worked my way down from a great job on Wall Street to working in the backroom of a hardware store; I finally admitted defeat and applied for SSD. I got a lawyer right away and had a good doctor and both told me to NOT TALK TO ANYONE AT SOCIAL SECURITY, except when I had to.

But over the years they would call and I could tell they were trying to get me kicked off. I felt like they would make a bonus or something for every person who they got kicked off SSD. I got very little money from them because I couldn't keep a damn job and they used my earnings to decide my benefit but I stayed on because I needed the health insurance.

My point is that being on disability is humiliating enough and to have people call you and say things like, "Well you can just take your medications if you have panic attacks" is fucking infuriating. I'm glad I never engaged with them because I had good people who were on my side, (my doctor and my lawyer) who told me not to.

Even so I do remember a number of times having to fill out forms about my illness or work or something. I remember my mother telling me that I should fill out everything very neatly blah blah blah. But by that time I had already learned the game and would often fill the fucking things out with crayons.

Some things just make you jaded a bit.